Hazel

Always come to East London for a nice ballon d’Or.

I couldn't imagine handing over a massive chunk of the club, as well as operational control, to a tech investor with no ties to the club and, as part of it, bringing a hedge fund founder on to the board. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Trieste also loves a squat toilet. I don’t mind them tbf in an old school way.

Every bar in Trieste and Muggia has an 80s playlist.

In a Trieste bar. Plastic Bertrand is playing. Apt for this week.

Everyone at AFC Wimbledon was immensely sad to hear of the passing of our dear friend and colleague Michael ‘Mikey T’ Taliadoros. Our thoughts are with Mikey’s family and friends at this difficult time. Rest in peace Mikey, a Wimbledon legend in every sense. www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/news/2026/oc...

Hrre, at the Abbey Stadium, and across the Lower leagues: We’re coming for you, we’re coming for you, Manchester City, we’re coming for you.

Theres a lot of bad singing on the tube tonight. But it’s Friday and I have probably done it myself in the past. But better tunes, obvs.

On the Today Programme Lisa Nandy's response to the Piddington racists was to say that a village in her constituency would vote the same way, giving credence the far right agitator line about dangers to women and girls as justification. 🤦‍♀️

Happy birthday Morden Extension! #NorrhernLine #Tube #100yearsoftheMordenextension

Genuinely love this. If a player got hit when not being able to see the ball properly the same people would complain.Complain about Reform being on your board instead.

Azure Laura Ashley

Even by Premier League standards Fulham fans are abysmal. I’m sure they used to be a bit better than polite clapping of goals and leaving after an hour?

Nice to be in a venue that pushed a Dolly playlist minutes after the news tonight. Singing along is a good tribute.

Every so often I say this but Puff the Magic Dragon is the saddest song ever.

Clearly they are better today,but how long before this lot are in administration again? # HUDWIM

Happy EFL Day to all who celebrate. Welcome back to the corner shop bags of cans for the train, the snide Stone Island badges sewn onto shit gear over the summer, the lads queuing for the traps for a sniff of cheap coke. We love it all, right?

There’s a drought, the countryside is on fire and this Northern Train has the heating on.

Hackney teddy bears overdid the ket on their picnic.

Gloucestershire v Northants on another glorious day #metrobankfever #cheltenham

Syd will be smiling tonight. #MND #GlosCCC #metrobankfever

Had dinner next to some hideous landlords. They wanted to evict their tenants and tear the solar panels off the house. Thought themselves posh but they lived in Radstock and couldn’t pronounce delice. I mean I’m from the worst edges of Horfield and I can say delice properly.

Charlton fans on the train to Cheltenham are having a ‘mare. Two of them tried using the wrong tickets while the bloke across the aisle opened a can that exploded all over the table and the immaculately dressed woman opposite him. She is now making a swift departure to another seat.

Kemi Badenoch on Today defending the neo-Nazi council candidate by saying that it is right to give those who have previously been radicalised a chance. Badenoch on Shamima Begum, whom was groomed by Islamic State when a child, "Citizenship is a privilege, she forfeited it." 🤔

Tomorrow, Lord Walney, who was responsible in part for the proscription of Palestine Action, will publish an article in The Times arguing that BASH BACK be proscribed as a terrorist organisation. We will not be intimidated. Neither should you. xoxo BASH BACK

Yes! 🇪🇸🏆

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Just a farce.

No between full time and extra time show? Amateurs.

Correct decision. Chuck anyone complaining off too.

Fuck this shit. Just go for a piss and it’s the second half lads.

Just imagine how good the World Cup final at the Azteca would have been. And weep.

Touching Messi a foul now? Good grief. I have worse contact than that in the pool.

That’s not a tackle. It’s a really bad foul. And every commentator and official knows it.

Finally, football. Not for the first time I am so glad to live in Europe and watch sport here.

Never heard a referee tell a TMO that he thinks he’s completely wrong before and then argue his point for all to hear. Referee will get beers for life in Argentina, TMO will need an escort out of the ground (he was also correct IMO.) #ARGENG

I’d ask why Gérard López is still allowed to be out there killing football clubs, but the answer is just football. Depressing nonetheless.

More drilling is it? That didn’t take long. Still, only a planet, isnt it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m exhausted and I didn’t even watch the game. Heard everyone in the pub though and the church bells every hour. I was up just after five as usual though and have to work so…

Booing at Lord’s a rarity but on this occasion it was absolutely bang on. A terrible decision by the third umpire to overturn a clear Ecclestone catch. It won’t change the result but it was a very poor decision. #WT20WC

Australia have been the best team in this tournament by sone distance and how it shows. #WT20WC

Dear commentators, hydration breaks in an air con stadium don’t become good because of a goal just after one.

Naturally I was asleep for all of the penalties drama last night and early morning. A German friend passed me in his van, stopped and gave me a lift to the lido and he was asleep through the game too. Not seen any Dutch people yet, but it is only 6am.

My own World Cup warm up ended in a predictable sloping off to bed 10pm. Not sure I’ll see that much of the tournament, early mornings are so much better than late nights.

It seems very wring when Serie A releases fixtures in early June. I'm pining a little for the days of not even knowing whjen the season would start, let alone when the fixtures would come out. Back then Italia qualified for World Cups too.

Thought the train was busy this morning, had completely missed there being a tube strike today until a colleague in the office mentioned it just now.