@EnolaJon It's odd to me that the whole tournament started in May! Was it something to do with monsoon season?
I think for the other two group games the school put on bacon sandwiches etc etc and gathered everyone in the hall otherwise there was no chance of attendance
Listen to this story about Gordon Strachan.
How on earth did we keep this guy for a full YEAR as manager and sign every player in the SPL too! Hahaha #boro
@Shuttsapalooza Not quite the same but a while ago there was an interview in the Times with Ella Toone (scored in a winning European Championship final for England
And her partner (who plays in the seventh tier)
They were both suggesting she was picking up a few things from him!
Andoni Iraola and Richard Hughes must be best buddies. Wow. Talking "informally", as friends, and never mentioning football not once not ever no siree
Get the two of them a podcast!
How Andoni Iraola became Liverpool’s head coach - and why his bond with Richard Hughes was crucial.
▪️ Hughes and Iraola stayed close socially and chatted in last week of season
▪️ Spaniard held talks with Milan, Chelsea & Leverkusen
▪️ Friends advised him to bide time amid Palace interest
▪️ Liverpool never in for Enrique or Klopp
▪️ Players excited by arrival
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Our rail ticket costs are going on Nick Mohammed and Joe Wilkinson remembering Celebrity Traitors (which happened a year ago and was broadcast eight months ago)
Who does this help? Who watches this and thought 'I'd forgotten there were trains actually'
The GBR rebrand seems quite well thought through but the current British Rail ad campaign makes zero sense.
The ad about the grandma in Italy is just awful
there's a british rail advert at the moment which centres around a group of young people being embarrassed that their friend is wearing socks and sandals, and calls it "the mullet of shoes". which is not what i believe the kids currently feel about s+s or mullets
@FootballCliches@Ankaman616 How many of them have we actually seen on UK TV? Have either broadcaster ever plumped for the international feed scoreboard design?
It has been suggested to me that Southampton played for a 0-0 in the first leg of the playoffs as a way to avoid scrutiny from the commission.
I obviously thought this was rubbish. Still seems a stretch
However, it does seem to have formed a large part of their defence.....
🚨 In #SaintsFC's Spygate appeal, Lord Pannick and Ms Gallafent conducted a detailed forensic exercise on the evidence of Middlesbrough’s Head of Football Kieran Scott who suggested ways in which a sporting advantage may have been gained, namely:
◉ "Anyone observing the early part of the training session would have seen that Middlesbrough were planning to use a formation with Luke Ayling operating in a more advanced man marking role."
However, Mr Eckert said that Southampton were already aware that Middlesbrough might deploy Mr Ayling in a more advanced role, as they had done so against Southampton in the second half of their league match in January 2026 and against Fulham Football Club in an FA Cup match earlier in the season.
◉ "A most important advantage was that Southampton would have known that a particular Middlesbrough player, Hayden Hackney, would not be starting the match."
However, (a) from the videos’ obtained, the Junior Analyst Intern/Analyst 1 (wrongly) surmised that Mr Hackney would be playing whereas, in the event, he did not; and (ii) on 7 May 2026, the press had reported that Mr Hackney would not be playing, and Middlesbrough’s Head Coach confirmed that he would not be playing at a press conference on the same day as the observation.
◉ Middlesbrough’s HoF noted that Southampton made four changes from their previous match and, in the first half of their first leg match with Middlesbrough, they sat very deep and did not press, which was a tactic he assumed was the result of their observing Middlesbrough’s formation.
However, Mr Eckert’s evidence was that (a) to make four changes was not unusual, (b) video evidence showed that the Southampton formation did not change between their training session on the Wednesday of that week and the match, and (iii) as Mr Eckert said, sitting deep and not pressing did not work well and Middlesbrough were dominant in the first half of the first leg of the Play-Off Semi-Final match.
@acunilicali One last dance? Bring five of yours back from Vegas, versus five of our lawyers and five of Alan Shearer's Baller League Ballers
This does not stop here!
One team refused to take responsibility for the result of a match they agreed to play in and lost.
One team refused the result of a match that didn't exist yet, then magically changed their minds when they won
And the other team refused responsibility for EVERYTHING ELSE