Fred Bojangles

Run the clock down and protect a point.

I'd fly over Sunlun tomorrow

Stay classy, Australia.

So beautiful!

Mate, your part of the world just looks so awesome anyway and I've wanted to visit for such a time. Add in the chance to try some great Canadian malts and I'm already making plans!

Top work! Living close to the Scots border I'm blessed that there's a few decent niche Whiskey stores around who stock some good imports. I'll try and hunt these bad boys out and report back!

If not, I'll persuade the family that Canada is where we're off next!

If (and it's a big if) England bat sensibly today and tomorrow, we could be in for that rarest of things. A 5 day Test match that actually lasts 5 days #ashes

I've heard very good things about them.

Sounds like I need to update my travel plans!

Huge Ardbeg fan. The 10 is great and the Wee Beastie is a lot of fun. The peaty Islays are my favourite and my 'stock' malt is a Laphroaig 10.

It's half five in the morning in the UK. I'm staring down the barrel of a) England's Ashes showing, b) a morning of DIY and c) heading off to SJP to see how badly Newcastle United will play against 2nd bottom of the league.

You think I'm not drinking Scotch right now?

Fairs, but I'm a pacifist and I'll drink you under the table.

Wissa will 100% not start.

This World Cup in North America and Mexico will be the one which kills international football. The game as a spectacle works best in its simplest form and over complicating through greed will suck out the joy. The knock on effect will be breakaway leagues and a fractured game #fifa #epl #uefa

That, or Firestarter by the Prodigy.

Lyrically, it's very defensive as well.

Rule, Britannia! often dismissed as too closely linked with our colonial past (not, necessarily, accurate.) I'd go with it personally, as it's not as arrogant as some say. It's a call to rule the waves, not a statement that we do.

Don't we all?

Drinks for the England side during the 5th and final Test at The Oval in August 1926. No water carrier in a high-vis jacket sprinting on every five minutes, not even a blazered 12th man, but a waiter in full black tie. Standards

I bet they all had a half a pint of mild, or in the case of the quicks, a stout or porter.

I agree, and the likes of Duckett, Brook and, to a certain extent, Jacks shouldn't be playing test cricket. Sensible batting and we could have put 400 on by the end of the first session on day two. #ashes

Correct. I think my point is that with England wickets tumbling around Root, 300+ and stumps seemed a way off and 275 plus the chance to have a few at the Aussies under the lights might have been tactically astute. Hat off to Joff and England for sticking it out. #ashes

I called for it, but to be fair, that was at a stage of the game when every other England batter than Root looked like they were a minor counties rabbit. I defy anyone to have predicted Joff to come in and smash a 50 partnership. Fairs to Stokes that he had a plan. #ashes

Should declare on 275 #ashes

Wot no Pope?

We have to give him more minutes even if one of the big boys misses out, or he ends up being another Anderson - sold for PSR headroom then coveted by the top 4 once he gets a regular start.

Just what the doctor ordered. Next up? A visit to SJP from the Premier League's actual doctor. #nufc

As good as we're playing, T-Rex is having a stinker #nufc

If only the keeper's arms were a little longer...

The club will put something out saying he had a slight strain in this or that muscle. Saves everyone's face (and if Ramsdale has a stinker, we can pivot back to Pope with the least possible fuss.) Privately EH has probably suggested it represents a chance for a bit of a mental reset.

If he huffs after his recent form then he's both more arrogant and thicker than I would have ever thought.

There will probably be a 'slight thigh strain' or some such that the club will say has kept him out. Saves face for everyone.

He doesn't but football clubs. Just big advertising hoardings in front of which some people get excited about lads kicking a ball about. Then he sucks out the joy. #nufc