I have a theory on why Man Utd have such a mid group of ex-players as coaches…and it’s all down to Sir Alex.

I totally get bringing in Carrick/Fletcher til the end of the season, instant respect and Ole at the wheel was a great ride until he peaked below the elite.

But look at the Fergie Alumni…

My worst footballing opinion of the last few years is being unconvinced by Reece James.

Thought his hamstrings were made of cotton wool.

This year he’s been unquestionably world class. Guys a beast.

That AJ-Jake Paul fight was so much worse than I expected it to be.

Pretty sure I could last a few rounds if the ring covered three postcodes and I could just run away from him.

There’s fighting on the outside but you could’ve driven a London bus between the two of them for most of the fight.

Thatchersim — still the basis of so much of our economy — worked by making us buy things we already owned, using money we borrowed from our grandkids, and then cancelling the maintenance and calling it "savings".

And now everything is broken.

My current explanation of Test Cricket being the purest form of sport is as follows…

Football, Rugby etc are like watching a film. 90 odd minutes, gripping, sometimes a big twist at the end. Whole narrative in and out in an afternoon. Lovely.

The ebbs and flows of test cricket make it difficult to say who ‘won’ the day.

But any England fan hearing we won the toss and were still batting at the end of the day, with Root unbeaten on 135, would be pretty fucking pleased after the first two days waking up to Perth.

@footballcliches.bsky.social my footballing irritation is referees not adding on time wasting.

He’s allowed Villa to score beyond added time in the first half. Then books the keeper in ‘94 for being slow. Keeper takes another 40 seconds to restart, ref blows up as soon as the ball is in play.

Football twitter hasn’t really migrated over to BlueSky since Musk became a Nazi, so time to be the change you want to see in the world and start posting more.

I really think Baleba has looked back to his best in the first half v Villa

#bhafc

Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right.

Let's tackle those lies:

37 year old centre backs scoring an injury time equaliser whilst going up as an emergency centre forward is great drama at Sunday league level, never mind the semi final of the Champions League

I didnt have the orange man Liz Trussing the world economy on my 2025 bingo card

So the US has just turned full heel in the last week or so then

If you showed somebody both Usyk-Fury fights back to back, and told them one was a split decision and the other a unanimous 8-4...not a single person would guess correctly.