Stuart Burchett

It’s wonderful watching these rounds when I can. The players have the same aspirations as the pros, win a couple of matches and then a chance of a glamour tie. But instead of Arsenal or Liverpool, it’s dreams of Torquay or Kidderminster.

The UK equivalent is a packet of Salt ‘n Vinegar Discos

Save it for TalkSport at the weekend

You could always ask him on here directly

Don’t eat chips whilst reading a newspaper. The grease gets on the paper and ink gets on the chips.

1976-esque

I think we were all normalised to IRA bombings. It was on the news so frequently that it wasn’t impactful unless you knew the affected areas. I was at college in 1996 and had no recollection of the bomb and the match in Manchester the day after.

Grave marker for George and Fannie Driller

Fannie Driller

EPIC

I’m guessing the NYT make the games a bit more difficult on national holidays as their readers have more time. The 283 target on Spelling Bee today is my sole evidence.

He’s left the back of the trousers CD-less. Which makes me think he wore that outfit for longer than the bare minimum.

Manchester Citg Pep Guardiola expressing incomprehension.

Time to ask the periodic question again. So, what about those 115/129/130 charges faced by Manchester City? Any news?

A verdict was said to be coming "next month" - in February.

I would bring up your recent stay in a hotel. But you might have been ‘keeping it in’ because the home bog is that much more pleasant.

Our long, national nightmare is over.

@lukeaaronmoore.bsky.social Another possible gift for Diggory?

@sickoscommittee.org Any chance you could give the South Africans a bevel for becoming world test cricket champions today?

@sickoscommittee.org Please tell me you’ll be following the World Test Cricket Championship final over the next 5 days. www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-w...

youtu.be/W-gmIG41dGA?...

92 things I learned by visiting all 92 football league clubs this season From remarkable fans to terrible trains and an unrivalled pie, my odyssey to all four corners of this footballing nation has been an exhausting, exhilarating experience

It was all building to this massive, hopefully entertaining (and helpful?) piece:

The 92 things I learned from visiting every Football League club in a season

inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

— Your house, it’s beautiful!

— Wait until you see how much we’ve fucked it up inside.

@sickoscommittee.org BEVEL IT!

@sickoscommittee.org Time to bevel that Napoli badge?

Some of you on here know my mate Baz who I go to the match with. He didn’t go to Wembley because it was his wife’s 40th. Please watch until the end.

IT WAS THE 6 NATIONS! NOT THE RWC!

Would Luke prefer Portsmouth doing the double over Southampton next year or being crowned the Jack’s Encyclopaedia champion and holding the lineal belt?

Oh look, a clean sheet in a crucial last game of the season.

We were in for Rudoni when he was at Wimbledon but he chose Huddersfield.

Lustre

Rylan's face paints a thousand millennial words.

Marlene Lerwick works. Especially as the the Dutch probably spell it Lerwijk.