Andy

Whatever God wants, wherever, whatever cost. Tweets on football (fantasy & otherwise) & why Scotland should make its own political decisions. RTs = mostly jokes

[Andy @andypenman]

Pinned tweet of my #FPL and #FFScotland season threads:

[Andy @andypenman]

@ForestOfWhales @QuietPineTrees Get slashin’ 🗡️

[Team GB @TeamGB]

Meet your new world record holder 👑

Josh Kerr smashed the mile world record at the London Diamond League.

[Andy @andypenman]

Some of you have forgotten Rule Zero.

[Doctor Who Production News @DoctorWhoPN]

Steven Moffat on Doctor Who: "it will be back and it will be good." See replies for the rationale for his assessment.

[milo edwards @Milo_Edwards]

delphic oracle: if you intervene the us team will be at full strength against a weak belgian squad and a devastating victory will be won

trump: tremendous, no further questions

[Andy @andypenman]

@bazashc @FootballCliches @Refsplaining Very much so - to the point where at first I genuinely couldn’t see that it was a goal from the camera angle

[Michael Cox @Zonal_Marking]

Usual routine for Brazil now. Win the group, get past non-European sides, lose to the first European side they face in the knockouts. Six in a row. Three of the usual powers (France, Netherlands & Germany) then three "outsiders" with a great generation (Belgium, Croatia, Norway).

[Andy @andypenman]

@naebD Would-be ‘daily active users’ instead think “I have nothing else to add to this; they’ve summed it all up concisely”.

[Andy @andypenman]

@FootballCliches November 2014. And now, this. Sensational stuff Adam.

[Stuart Milne @SGMilne]

Scotland fans ahead of the other groups playing their final game…

[Gerry Samuels @GerrySamuels12]

Lots of Boomers seem to be remembering the summer of 1976 with rose tinted spectacles, & think that they ‘just got in with it’

Let’s have a look at what the newspapers of the day had to say in 1976….

🧵

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

The only possibly result of two teams playing on the 0 degree longitude line was 0-0.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

England v Ghana is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries' capitals sit right on the Prime Meridian

England has London, where the Prime Meridian was fixed. Ghana has Accra, the only other world capital to sit on the zero degree longitude line.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[Andy @andypenman]

@ForestOfWhales @QuietPineTrees What if the magi return? Cant help but feel that’s a twist we could do without.

[Adam Aaronson @aaaronson]

WIZARD is the longest word that's rotationally symmetrical in the alphabet (if you turn this graph upside down, it remains the same)

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

609 - Scotland's starting XI tonight contains players with a combined 609 caps for their country, their most ever for a match in their history.

Experienced.

[Andy @andypenman]

STOP THE COUNT

[Aaron Warburton @AaronWar_]

Group I now the least likely to send a 3rd place team to the World Cup knockouts…

[Andy @andypenman]

@BetweenThePosts Really like these new improved graphics, btw. Great job.

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

3 - Scotland have won their opening match at the FIFA World Cup for the third time (1974, 1982). They led their group after the first matchday each time with Brazil featuring in all three groups.

Atop.

[Sam @FPLSportScience]

Watching football highlights without seeing the result in the video title or thumbnail will be an issue during the World Cup. ▶️

I've built a website to try and solve this issue. It isn't perfect yet and just a fun project! Any feedback appreciated. ⚽️

https://t.co/HFlyQB6A8A

[Andy @andypenman]

@ForestOfWhales @QuietPineTrees