Laugh at Libero all you want but recording each episode in one continuous take featuring actors with no previous theatrical experience is an amazing achievement.

It was the final fixtures in the inaugural Dice Football season today - an entirely fictional football newsletter diceftbl.substack.com

Four teams had a chance of winning the title, and two teams were basically playing off to avoid relegation.

I have been playing @cricketcaptain.bsky.social 2020 for a few year now, and this morning - on my train to London - I got the news that I'd been dreading for months.

England's all-time leading run scorer in Tests, Gary Cliff, retired from all forms of cricket at the age of 38.

It's the penultimate matchday of Dice Football this week - diceftbl.substack.com/p/dice-footb...

Permutations aplenty with opportunities for the title to be won or relegation to be done and dusted

It's week 20 of Dice Football.

Crowned Eagles need a positive result against East Riverside to avoid relegation.

And the five title chasers are all in action (too hard to summarise here)

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Four games to go in the first season of Dice Football.

The long time leaders are throwing their season away.

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Back to work today. Christmas notes emailed to myself to review in December. The big headline being 'Mash potato - unnecessary'.

Been to three shops looking for chipolatas in blankets in the last 24 hours. All sold out.
RAG status on Christmas dinner 'accompanying meats' has been marked 'Red' - meaning the whole project is now tracking as 'Amber'.
We'll regroup in the morning and propose the path back to green after lunch.

Well this is very nice. We're very proud of how WAT has come along over our first year and very thankful to everyone who has supported us along the way

As decreed in ancient Football Fives by laws, we all can't appear in an article together - so you get Dan, Steven, Dave and Chris in this one.

Week 17 of Dice Football

The bottom two face off - Crowned Eagles hosting Dundice Athletic
Free scoring Red Dune Rovers travel to take on Cavendish Snow - who are in wretched form
Thunder Bay host Latham United - both sides sit two points behind the leaders

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Lampard and Gerrard still haven't learned that when one goes, the other has to remain disciplined and bed in.
Both have bombed on, got themselves jobs and left Rio all by himself in the BT Sport studio next season.

If you have at least a passing interest in football and quite like the idea of reading about an entirely fictional football league created in my mind, you'll probably enjoy this - diceftbl.substack.com/p/dice-footb...

Wotcha.

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A 'skeet' is it

With Brodie Spencer, Conor Bradley, Shea Charles, and Isaac Price all 20 or 21 - I feel a little excited about the next 3-4 qualifying campaigns for Northern Ireland.
Need all four playing regularly in good quality leagues, and get a sprinkling of form from others.

Anyone got a 'writer of fictional football matches' starter pack?

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