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a guardian headline that reads: tottenham lacking in attack, midfield, defence and 'brain', says igor tudor'

we could stave off relegation
get ideas above our station
if we only had a brain

you can power the economy of a small country just by asking what fabio borini is up to these days

A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish | Defector If you walked down Colorado Boulevard in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at some point in the past three years, you might have noticed a modest, pueblo-style beige building with “PHOTO” painted above its door. And if you had decided to go in, there was a decent chance you’d know the pers…

This @defector.com story is a good (non-political) example of why it’s not enough to have a bunch of individual reporters with newsletters running around. You need some kind of institution with the resources (and principles) to publish despite legal threats. defector.com/a-complimentar…

tweet by the late Dawn Foster from Sep 4th 2020 "Matt Goodwin once emailed me to accuse him of being racist when I called him a “racist whisperer” and I had to explain to him that horse whisperers aren’t horses."

RIP to a real one

😢

kinda stuff i say when a driver almost hits me in the crosswalk and im simultaneously blood-level livid and slow on the uptake

they're calling it boatmanmaxxing. glgl

Always

I need the highest number of goals you have
No, that’s Tchouameni goals

"Dortmund are in disarray" feels redundant, let me know if they're ever in array

“The people who warned first were not prophets. They were observers. They noticed tone. Pattern. Escalation. They recognized when politics stopped being disagreement and started being elimination.
They were dismissed because they were inconvenient. Because they disrupted comfort.”

John Davidson Gives First Interview and Explains Tourette’s Tics After Shouting N-Word and Other Slurs at BAFTAs: ‘I Felt a Wave of Shame’ (EXCLUSIVE) John Davidson's explains Tourette's tics and the BAFTA N-word incident in his first exclusive interview with Variety.

Fantastic interview. Everyone should read it:

Tottenham opponents Bodo/Glimt fired kit manager as grim struggles of revealed Bodo/Glimt have been on a long journey to reach the league phase of the Champions League for the first time and now face a familiar opponent in the form of Tottenham Hotspur

Bodø/Glimt’s situation is even more impressive when you consider where the club was just a few years back. I spoke to their sporting director Håvard Sakariassen early on in the league phase to get a feel for their journey

You, simple: the new champions league format is bad because there’s less tension
Me, smart: the new champions league format is good because a team can concede three goals a game on average and still be involved in February
You, smart actually: wait why is that good?
Me:

A scoreboard reading ‘NEW 2-0 QAR’ (like ‘new car’, I’m very funny)

One of my favourite smells

Man United and Everton play out a dreadful game the day after Arsenal score four lovely goals

WHY WOULD ARTETA DO THIS??

Doctor goes to see great clown Pagliacci and says “I’m so depressed from seeing all the illness and suffering in the world, but watching you perform has cheered me up” and Pagliacci says “Ah sick man, thanks, it’s good to know the stuff is connecting. Honestly I just try to do the kind of clowning I think I’d want to see, and if anyone else likes it that’s bonus. Although it does help to pay the bills, ahaha”

"In Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz, Arsenal already have a pair of renaissance men who can do it all. What they needed was something rather more medieval."

might be controversial here but you'd have to say a rule which makes the same thing handball in one situation and not handball in the other is probably a bad rule

if arsenal lose to that spurs xi it might prompt the biggest tudor-impacted headloss since 1542

absolute banger of a story this. proper shoe-leather stuff

"is there a technology the left are actually excited about?"

(sea monster bio)

You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

Brentford (H) - West Ham United FC Emirates FA Cup fifth round | London Stadium | Monday 9 March 2026, 7.30pm GMT

oh yeah the initial announcement defaults to 3pm then changes for TV and all the games are televised in this round, 7.30 confirmed www.whufc.com/en/tickets/h...

wait is it not confirmed as the monday 7.30?

Covering my "Democracy dies in the darkness" tattoo with "Journalism is better when it's backed by live markets."

idly browsing the internet used to be fun because you’d check out some websites. but it sucks now because they replaced all of them with Websites.

One of the Italian curling team in Cortina is 19? Well, not 19 forever

Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew The Brazilian has seen this before, football has seen this before, and yet why does it feel like nothing ever changes?

on vinicius, jim ratcliffe and bad immigrants

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