Andrew Lawn

For me, a dragging feels like it should be saved for those much rarer occasion where someone's either been so bad they are removed before HT, or a player who has earlier been subbed on. There might be others, but I can't think of them, and I think they're rare.

Peter Drury described Amad being substituted in the Liverpool v United game as being "dragged off". Given he'd played well for an hour, and was booked - which feels like an added and important justification - the use of "dragged" feels too harsh a description.

2024-25 exam results round-up - MES A round-up of the GCSE and A Level results achieved by MyEdSpace students in 2025, compared to the national average

Recently I started at MyEdSpace and today we're publishing a round-up of the frankly sensational exam results MES students achieved last year.

Can I take any credit? No.

Will that stop me from lumping the two together in a single sentence to imply credit? Also no.

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"I like meat"

Enemies within, enemies without. The FM Classic Everton story continues and an unlikely hero comes to the fore...

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Former Southampton glovesman sees red on La Liga opener Ex-Saints keeper Paulo Gazzaniga endures forgettable season opener for Girona, picking up a red card after a series of errors in the defeat to Rayo Vallecano.

Surely we're not allowing "Glovesman" @footballcliches.bsky.social ?

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What's the Swedish for "Champions"?

Next stop, the Europa League. Ludicrous.

Is it my biggest ever professional achievement? No.

But. Taking 3rd tier Swedish semi professionals to their first ever Swedish Cup Final is wonderful.

I'd be keen too. Same questions as Jonathan - who we used at @glorystudio.bsky.social and I can definitely vouch for.

Archive on 4 - Here We Go! The Art of the Football Chant - BBC Sounds Les Back charts the history of football chants and asks if they’re modern-day folk songs.

The BBC have twice now requested my singing voice for broadcast...

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Walking the cat?

Such an excellent dislike. Bravo.

Help us spread the message: With just 48 hours until the next assisted dying debate, it's crucial to flood social media with support for law change.

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Maybe you could fire it back up and play for fun now? Maybe jot down some thoughts as you go? Maybe pop them on here? Maybe?

“We can and must do both” says Liam McArthur on providing excellent palliative care AND the choice of assisted dying to terminally ill Scots.

#YesToDignity

Sir Geoffrey Boycott on cancer, cricket and why Britain is broken Podcast Episode · The Daily T · 03/05/2025 · Bonus · 32m

In a podcast interview Sir Geoffrey Boycott, having faced cancer twice, makes a very human case for greater choice at the end of life, in support of assisted dying podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

I agree. And I'm childless.

I'm not convinced this copy is quite doing the job the author intended it to. Or, they need a new chef.

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]

(Disclaimer - I love the subsequent massive leap in form completion success rates and what that says about human-first content, more than the words, but don't tell them...)

On the face of it, this is one of the least interesting pieces of copy I have ever written.

But, a decade on, this addition of a real-life object to help people visualise the size of the pothole they're reporting, is right up there as one of my favourites.

In the mid-1980s on a bleak winter’s day in Edinburgh, Scotland were getting hammered in rugby’s Five Nations, yet this formed the start of an unlikely bond between a group of Basque football fans from a tiny town in Northern Spain.

✏️ & 📸 - Michael Sheridan

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... This feels too short a distance for describing the transcendence of a "roar". What's the shortest distance a roar should be proclaimed as being heard? "Across the city" feels ok for a derby, but that's the maximum, minimum for me (Clive)

In the Dundee v Dundee United game on Sky Sports a couple of days ago, Gary Weaver described the celebrations for Dalby's late goal with the words "a roar that can be heard across the road at Tannadice"....

🇦🇷⚽️ Felt compelled to write a piece on the (potential) privatisation of Argentinian football, a battle that raged throughout 2024. Now looking to sell said 2,500-word article to the highest bidder!

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He could of course be right.

Yesterday was a good day.

Ayer fue un buen día.

CD Torrox - Copa de Andalucía campeones ❤️💙

A place in the sun: My coaching journey from England to Spain Getting back on the touchline after moving to Andalucía was a learning curve

"I wondered, how did I get here? A few months earlier, I’d been delivering the same session – in English – to an under-18 team in Norfolk. Admittedly I’d been faced with a few blank faces then too. Now, I was almost 2,000 miles south and well out of my depth"

By @lawnandrew.bsky.social for WSC 448

Really enjoyed writing this and having an opportunity to look back over the last year of coaching in Spain...

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