Andrew Thomas

writer, mostly football • you can order 'Underground, Overground' at the link below • andi dot j dot thomas at gmail dot com

[Andrew Thomas @andi_thomas]

hello everybody, I am once again asking you to click on a Google Form and give me your thoughts.

this time I'm looking for "anti-cliches": that is, football phrases that you and your friends use but nobody else would understand.

https://t.co/jCdnNukBjA

please RT! thanks!

[Andrew Thomas @andi_thomas]

@janhopi he's still going! he's maybe got at another World Cup in him after this one! or two! and in every preview photo his eyes are begging for the sweet release of death

[Joonas Virtanen @joonasvirtanen]

made a site that picks the closest rothko for how the weather feels outside your window

[Terry Fuck @terryfuck45]

I bet he sticks around just long enough to get free tickets for the champions league final

[Elvis Buñuelo @Mr_Considerate]

This piece on Gaza by Eyal Weizman of Forensic Architecture has already been widely circulated, and is almost unbearable to read. The very first paragraph lays out in inarguable terms why Gaza was, and is, a genocide. https://t.co/GXFFm1euBZ

[Samplo Corvodina of Streatham @TreborRhurbarb]

Today is the day. Eric Cantona's kung-fu kick becomes closer in time to the assassination of JFK than the present day. We are, without any shadow of a doubt, #HurtlingTowardsDeath.

[madoka magicock @rifflexielian]

If people are fighting for an orb you are reading fantasy. If people are fighting for a cube you are reading sci-fi. If it has more sides than that. I dont know. I dont know man.

[Samplo Corvodina of Streatham @TreborRhurbarb]

Absolutely sensational. This, THIS, is what football is all about. Total confusion, emotional incompleteness, a daunting gnawing sense you've wasted your entire life on something meaningless.

[Fred Carver @FredericHCarver]

It is so maddening that this is so bleedingly and self evidently obvious and has been proven so recently and so painfully and so frequently yet the strategic forgetting and not noticing is so pervasive

[The Poisonous Euros Atmosphere Fan @DawnHFoster]

Matt Goodwin once emailed me to accuse him of being racist when I called him a “racist whisperer” and I had to explain to him that horse whisperers aren’t horses.

[Elvis Buñuelo @Mr_Considerate]

RIP Starmer 2.0: 21 Feb - 27 Feb 2026.

[Andrew Thomas @andi_thomas]

@Archie_V my favourite example of this came in a book about FC Barcelona: the accents had been copied and pasted in later, leading to the one-man club "OlymPiqué Lyonnais"

[Andrew Thomas @andi_thomas]

we should abolish the monarchy so extensively that all memory of it is destroyed, leaving Philippa Gregory one of the leading practitioners of a peculiarly gnarly and deranged experiment in alt-history worldbuilding

[Alex Niven @Alex_Niven]

Beyond fed-up with the ‘Starmer is a decent man’ hokum. If this whole imbroglio has proved anything beyond doubt, it’s how conspicuously not-decent his passive, principle-free managerialism is in its actual, real-world effects

[Congolesa Rice @judeinlondon]

In my return to writing, I wrote about how all our politicians are idiots for @LRB

https://t.co/wVB2TitgF4

[Andrew Thomas @andi_thomas]

this evening's Magic of the FA Cup Top Left Anagram is STATTO

[Andrew Thomas @andi_thomas]

@FredericHCarver Muppet Maltese Falcon please... body count is possibly an issue, but Miss Piggy was born (stitched? stuffed?) to play Brigid O'Shaughnessy

[Andrew Thomas @andi_thomas]

One calls this playing. I have no boots, no ball, no kit, no team. I am playing into a fluid 4213.

[Football365 @F365]

Nico Schlotterbeck is emerging as a serious transfer target for Liverpool, who can't afford to wait until the end of the season to sign him. #LFC

@jbsoutar
https://t.co/swrLMt4jqL

[Elvis Buñuelo @Mr_Considerate]

Wonderful tribute to Mao Zedong 👏 👏 👏

[Andrew Thomas @andi_thomas]

even galaxies far far away are troubled by Evil Corbyn and his Empire-Style Hats