Dave McGrath-Boyle

Poor show from Liverpool fans to not create an utterly hostile atmosphere. Calling them cheats every time they touched the ball was good, but a shame it had to wait until injury time.

Fernandez there asking for the yellow card within a split second of the foul. A perfect match between a horrible shithead and an awful club he plays for.

A message for Man City, too

"As far as I'm concerned, the first thing you can do for me is to chuck all your medals into the biggest bin you can find, because you've never won any of them fairly."

Gotta love those Lib Dems and their strong sense of supporting communities to build power and put people in control! Oh. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

🥚 You know those days that we're all glad to mostly see the back of, when women had no choices, and we had even less? Those days which governments have been increasingly apologising for? Let's bring those back, yeah, says a Shadow minister in the UK www.neilobrien.co.uk/p/bring-back...

June : it’s hot. buy a fan! Amazon: fan will be with you mid July! June-July: melting but having bought a fan it would be silly to buy another! July: fan will arrive Aug 18th July-Aug : melting but having bought a fan it would be silly to buy another Aug 18th : your order has been cancelled 😡

Infantino's mistress scandal blew up in UEFA in 2011. I remember being told about it by a senior UEFA staffer who I met when they were all in town for the 2011 Champions League Final at Wembley. Good to see it finally get the light of day.

“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa

Finally. Now Mayo only have to deal with the one curse.

C'mon Mayo! In the lead!

This is taking on Marvel universe good vs evil levels of necessity than evil must lose.

I mean they’re really down to 9 given Messi’s involvement

Big 1990 vibes here. Argentina just reduced to pure shithousery, man sent off. Palpably better team struggling to break through.

Watkins is stinking the gaff out. Not international class on this performance

A friend was sent a picture by her mate in Canberra of junction with her names. The nearest I can find (by which I mean after 5 minutes googling) is a part of Mosman in Sydney where David Street and Boyle Street are 1.6km from each other.

Wow. They have plentiful tea and coffee in Whitehall meetings. Such a massive distinguishing feature from every other workplace or meeting room I've ever been in. What utter breathless nonsense. (from www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...)

Thomas Tuchel and Anthony Barry, around 9.25 this evening

The Malvinas probably should be Argentine, but that doesn't change the fact that they're a hateful bunch of racist shithouses.

Andros Townsend calling out MK Dons as ‘Franchise’ during Switzerland - Colombia. Legend.

I'm sure there's lots of reasons Brazil have been shit for a generation, but I can't help think the creeping presence of Bolsanaro whispering evangelical bollocks in the playing cohort is a part of it.

Lord this is tedious. Norway marching up the offensive hill and marching down again, with no desire to put a cross in, nor play through.

Good that the French didn't want to shake their hands of the vile and vicious Paraguay arseholes.

Another wonderful piece from @david-batty.bsky.social, not least for showing how very Enid Blytonesque much of the official narrative on forced adoption has been - and even remains: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

CAno Verde are so, so brave. Their playing out from the back is amazing and terrifying. I think it’s less having enormous balls of steel and more they’re playing without any fear whatsoever

This is a very good, very sincere and full apology from Starmer. In tears here. Thank you.

THEY'RE NOT GOING TO WALK OFF YOU FUCKING BELLEND

There's 4 minutes of time added on to still play yet Matterface, as a matter of fact

Refs have been far more in the way of then play than I'm used to seeing.

A puddle of sweat writes: How the bloody hell is Ancelotti managing to pull off a 3-piece suit in 35 degree heat and 95% humidity and not be a puddle of sweat?

In which I opine on Andy Burnham...

Why, guy Mowbray, why was partey refused a entry visa to Canada? #enggha

I'm not saying that this stadium is full of CR7 fans more concerned with taking bloody pictures than actually watching, you know, the kind of people who football can do well without, but there wasn't a chorus of boos at the hydration break just now.

A rain delay keeping live sport off the screen. Time to show some classics from the Benson and Hedges Trophy from the 1970s. Farouk Engineer and Jack Lord in pitch black Old Trafford and all that

DR Congo are going to be annoyed if they only get a draw against 10-man Portugal.

There's a long history of UK politicians doing absolutely nothing to actively stop loyalist pogroms in Northern Ireland, so Starmer is at least on brand with more than merely his own woeful record of inactivity

Jesus, Everton are as blunt as the knives kitchen in our drawers which we got when we got married 19 years' ago. Fairly solid defensively, but absolutely nothing up front. Are they always this feeble?