Andrew McCarthy

Seeing Harry Kane win the Ballon d’Or only reinforces my belief that Mohammed Salah should have at LEAST 1, possibly 2. Especially when you compare what Kane has done this season vs what Mo did.

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Ronald Araujo Liverpool's best player today. Not sure how Sky have given MOTM to Gakpo.

Araujo is football Araujo is life

You know.. if you have an issue with someone’s writing.. you don’t have to read it? That’s a choice available to you. Another one would be qouting it and then complaining about it.. which makes me think less of you than the piece itself.

Wins the ball. Gives a free kick.

Why EU free movement is an opportunity, not a threat – as Burnham makes the case, read @johnspringford.bsky.social for Arguably. “It is strange to reject one of the few policies that we know would raise growth and improve our fiscal position.” www.arguably.uk/p/eu-free-mo...

They should call it ‘snide-sky’

You don’t fight fascists by pretending their ‘concerns’ are ‘legitimate’.

‘Owning’ GB News presenters still involves being on GB News. Hate views are still views. Hate clicks are still clicks. Analytics don’t show your moral position.

*Adds to list of bad faith takes on BlueSky*.. a rapidly growing list.

This is tough watch, and a reminder, if anyone needed it, that sports people are actual people. Hope Mark has a good support structure around him and sincerely wish him all the best. youtu.be/XgJTmnKIFT8?...

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

My mute/block list on this site is reaching what I used to have over on twitter. Has made scrolling to keep up with things a lot more palatable.

Couple of things here: 1) Xbox doesn’t want this price, just like PlayStation doesn’t want a ~$1k PS6. NAND/semiconductor pricing/manufacturing is set by functional cartels, which makes costs sticky. 2) the PS5 and Series X/S aren’t going away for years. Handheld spec limits keep them relevant.

Finally got around to seeing an episode of SNLUK…and oooofff SNL US is excellent. The UK version. Less so.

The coolest dude that has or ever will live in the world.

Thank god for ‘hide this post for me’ feature.

Jon is left head in his hands at ITV News' investigation exposing Reform standing by councillor registered on a white supremacist dating site. “You might as well have 'Nazi dating website'". “It reveals a complete lack of understanding about what racism is.”

Shocking undercover footage of Reform!

Extraordinary undercover reporting in Reform by ITV, uncovering what many of its councillors and activists are really like, when they think the cameras are off. A racist party which attracts racist people. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

*taps sign…

Popular consumer electronics company.. makes components for things other than consumer electronics.. Some of those components are used by governments/regimes which are particular unpopular…

From Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the 2024 Oscar-winning directors of No Other Land, comes NAZA, a film examining the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. UK premiere on 15 October. In UK cinemas from 16 October. Visit www.naza.film

Dudes I am deleting so many draft posts right now. Nope. Not worth it.

They should call it ‘snide-sky’

Far less racism/misogyny.. but just as much bullying/snide and pile ons.

A big win for them at Anfield, sure. They showed no humility in a difficult moment though. They don’t care at all. And that will turn off a lot of other fans. Or I wonder if TV audiences will plummet for their games at least? I’ve no interest in watching them. It’s all such a mess.

Reflecting on yesterday… the City stuff is still raw and Liverpool suffered from their cheating more than most. But given the reaction, I suspect that if they get away without being severely punished then that will be it for a lot of fans. Finished. Why invest time and money in a rigged game?

Liverpool were missing their top scorer from this season, their current top scorer for the club and their reigning player of the season. For an an hour they were the better side. Munoz continues to impress. Plenty to build on. Up the Reds.

Congratulations to Liverpool for winning today's match next year.

Hard to devise a better metaphor for the past decade and a half of Premier League football than Man City winning while playing with an extra man.

If the ref (from greater Manchester) doesn’t wrongly send off Gravenberch then that’s likely a draw. Cheating off the pitch, cheating on it. A sham.

As disappointed as I am, this is probably the perfect result to sum up the sorry state of the Premier League as it stands. We’re watching a sham. The cheats still prosper.

Manchester City should be made to sign Frimpong and him every game for the next 5 years as suitable punishment for 115 charges of fraud

Seriously though. How has he been allowed to ref a game with any of the Manchester sides is beyond me.

Chris Kavanagh (born 4 September 1985) is an English professional football referee from Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester.

I guess cheaters ‘do’ prosper…

Sham ref, sham club.

Cheats.

City’s cheating continues then. Never ever ever a red. We’re gonna get robbed by these cheating bastards.

Boss from Ryan that.

All won without cheating

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

The Room Next Door - Kemi Badenoch

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

2TRILLION ISK😱 I remember losing 150 million isk and being so mad 🤣

Just completed the first act on Gears E-Day. Simply stunning. And tons of fun!

I don't know how many times it needs to be said. Your football club isn't hurt if people criticise it. Honour doesn't require that you defend it and attack its perceived enemies. And if you find yourself doing this, you've probably had a serious loss of perspective and identity.

Does sportswashing get any more powerful than if it leads a football fan to declare that "I don't care if we get relegated or if we don't win another trophy for the next ten years" provided the owners of the club seek to persecute the people who exposed their monumental cheating?