@footballcliches.bsky.social a sign I've gone too far through the looking glass, is that on reading this in the BBC News article about Mark Townsend's tragic death, I immediately Googled if it was a league or cup game, so as to judge the accuracy of the use of the word "tie"

(It was a league game)

@footballcliches.bsky.social re June MHD… few weeks ago I got cracked on the shin playing 6-a-side with my team. Have an (unfair) rep of “going down easily” due to being lightweight, so my limping was greeted with craws of “she’s fine!!”… imagine my delight when I got to send this to the group chat

@footballcliches.bsky.social not good audio content for the pod, but this “footballers’ names in things” was enough to interrupt my run this morning

#Lionesses

I absolutely cannot fathom the BBC Sport’s rationale behind how the Chelsea starting XI has been ordered. Not formation, not numerical, not alphabetical… what?? A crime against football