‘Fifa trialled Ref Cams at this summer’s Club World Cup in the United States, after which the chair of its refereeing committee, Pierluigi Collina, said the experiment had gone “beyond expectations”.’

All this reveals is just how low their expectations must have been.

1 in 512? Not very good at this sort of thing, but apparently those are the odds of flipping nine heads in a row with a coin toss.

And the river in the background… Caillebotte always thinking like the yachtsman he was.

On Paul’s preseason-as-making-pancakes analogy. Tip: Heat the pan up properly and you won’t have to throw the first pancake away. You’re welcome.

A lot of them will be British expats with American family members (like me). Crazy not to have an exit strategy, even if (fingers crossed) you never have to use it.

So much for the Watts curse….

Couple of reviews from The Guardian/Observer:
Stephen Smith: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Kathryn Hughes: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

"Call me Mrs. Dalloway."

Thomas Rowlandson’s Connoisseurs (1799)

You’re very welcome, Philippe, and thanks for everything you do!

Oh, and that Avant et Après manuscript she mentions is now in London!—at the Courtauld. You can read a facsimile of it here: courtauld.ac.uk/highlights/a...

Stephen Eisenman’s Gauguin’s Skirt (1999) is another nuanced account of the artist’s complex relationship to Polynesian culture, and stresses his oppositional stance to the French colonial administration.