Al Ross

York City have unveiled next season’s shirt, featuring a rune version of the club name, in collaboration with the Jorvik Viking Centre. Unfortunately you don’t want to mess with York’s fanbase when it comes to runes.

This is quite some statement.

I am very (very) aware that being a radio show host and being a compère are two different jobs, linked only by a similar skillset.

Even so, I can't help but feel that the tabloid headline writers have missed a trick today.

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⛳️ Who will win at #QuailHollow? R1 Leader? Top #LIV golfer?

#golf #betting #RoryMcIroy #ScottieScheffler #golftips

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LISTEN: pod.fo/e/2d415c

50 – After this weekend’s results, the Opta Predictor gives Ajax a 50.1 percent chance and PSV a 49.9 percent chance of winning the Eredivisie. Tension.

(Champions League anthem)

🎵 THESE TEAMS ARE DECENT
THEY’RE GOOD AT FOOTBALL
THEY’VE DONE SOME TRAINING
THEY’D LIKE TO WIN THIS

THEY’RE ALL KEEN TO BE
THE CHAMPIONS 🎵

On this day in 1984:

Anderlecht beat Nottingham Forest 3-0 (3-2 on agg) in the UEFA Cup semi-final second leg.

Dodgy refereeing decisions went against Brian Clough’s men, including this penalty award.

In 1997, it was revealed that the ref had received £18,000 to fix the match.

Football match in North Yorkshire abandoned after referee finds poo in his shoe AN investigation has been opened after a match in the York Football League Premier Division was abandoned at half-time – after the referee…

My first News Editor said to me that once you've been doing a journalism job for 3 years, you'll have experience of covering every kind of story there was to cover.

Turns out he was wrong.

www.yorkpress.co.uk/sport/251103...

Vacancy: Freelance audio editors at The Athletic ⤵️ #mediajobs

This is ridiculous.

Ever wanted to be a commentator? Wolves’ commentary partner Alan March Sport Ltd is looking for volunteers to provide audio coverage for supporters inside Molineux on matchdays.

Opportunity for budding commentators: volunteers wanted for audio description commentary at Wolves FC:
www.wolves.co.uk/news/club/20...

Fagan-Walcott agreeing to sign permanently is an excellent Christmas present.

Easily in the Top 10 best Centre Backs in the National League this season. You can make a case for him being in the Top 1.

#ycfc

Vacancies at Ascot Racecourse:
🐎 Social media editor
🐎 Digital marketing executive
🐎 Graphic designer (social media)
www.ascot.com/about/careers #mediajobs

Yorkshire Podcast Studios on LinkedIn: #christmas #yorkshire #westyorkshire #leeds #york #sheffield #bradford… 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝗬𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 We are getting ready for our Christmas Open…

🎄 Simply having a Wonderful Christmastime🎅

We are opening our doors tomorrow for a Christmas Open Day.

If you're in West Yorkshire & would like to have a look at our studios, meet the team, & have some festive snacks, please let us know.

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#Christmas

If you'd have walked me down the York City squad list in 2009 and said one of them would be interim manager of a Premier League side one day, Simon Rusk's name would *not* have been high up my guess list.

That's a difficult decision in the same way that an 8-piece jigsaw is a difficult jigsaw.

Vacancy: Leeds United FC reporter at LeedsLive
uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b... #mediajobs

This is quite astounding #cfc

That means 'Beckham', 'Zoltan', 'Wealth', 'Maxx', 'Major', 'Kolbie', 'Adom' & 'Dusty' are now all more popular boys names than Nigel or Gordon.

My 7-year old asked if we were allowed to say the word "Africa" cos it "has the 'f-word' in it".

He thinks the 'f-word' is "frick".

I hope he stays this age forever.

Vacancy: Media manager at York City FC
yorkcityfootballclub.co.uk/careers #mediajobs

The Leicester hat-trick was NOT a one-off. Those kind of goals came every few games. Best first touch I've ever seen live and like ice in front of goal.

Not got the pace, aerial power or defensive work to be considered the greatest ever but devastating to any defence and joyous to watch.

Massive away win for the little fella.

The 7 year old was narrating a match between 2 fantasy 11s we'd drawn up. Apparently, Ronaldo and George Best were fighting for the ball when Pele missed a tackle, allowing Haaland to score from halfway, because Schmeichel had left his box to play in a defensive midfield role.

Genius and bonkers.

Global: FIFA produces whitewash of Saudi Arabia World Cup bid and ignores own report to provide compensation for migrant workers in Qatar Reacting to FIFA’s evaluation of Saudi Arabia’s bid for the 2034 men’s World Cup, Steve Cockburn, Amnesty International’s Head of Labour Rights and Sport, said: “As expected, FIFA’s evaluation of Saud...

The only football story which matters at the moment. On 11 December, on Zoom, supine federations will designate - by acclamation, no vote, and en bloc - Saudi Arabia to host the 2034 FIFA World Cup. Shame on every single one of those cowards and moral zombies.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

San Marino have won a game more recently than Manchester City. 🙃

I've not even seen it mentioned.

Out of work manager. Club legend. Glittering CV.

Every club thinks they've made the right appointment and every manager backs their own ability, yet almost every managerial appointment ends badly. At the start, no-one focuses on how it could end.

No-one is mentioning Neil Lennon in relation to the Leicester job. Why not? Have I missed something?

(I expunge his record at Bolton given the club was £170m in debt at the time)