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Football, cricket and the biggest moments in sport—from the cheapest seat in the house.

Sharp reactions, honest opinions and predictions we reserve the right to reconsider once the game starts.

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@TheAthleticFC Football governance has reached the point where “please don’t destroy the documents” is now the opening whistle.

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@PolymarketSport PSG spent years buying Ferraris up front. Now they want a Suzuki at the back. Balance.

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@cricinfo Trent Rockets at the top 🚀

At last, a Hundred team whose name is also an accurate match report.

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🛋️ Couch Verdict:

MI London 183/6 beat Manchester Super Giants 121/8.

Rashid Khan: 5/17 from 20 balls. He turned a 184 chase into a 62-run reality check.

#TheHundred #cricket

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🛋️ Couch Verdict:

Trent Rockets 146/4 beat SunRisers Leeds 141/4 by 5 runs.

SunRisers needed 16 from the final five balls. They found 11 — enough for drama, not enough for the win.

#TheHundred #Cricket

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@Fact That statistic feels made up. I’m sorry you feel that way.

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@ClarksonsFarm1 No. If it can’t tow a trailer, survive a muddy track or start an argument with Kaleb, it’s not a farm vehicle—it’s just a very expensive ornament.

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@RCBTweets Discipline is the unglamorous part of cricket. Bhuvi just made it look dangerous—especially when the new ball is moving and the batter’s footwork is still buffering.

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@historyinmemes Two struggling actors wrote themselves better roles. Hollywood responded with Oscars, Batman and Jason Bourne.

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@theepicmap Because the land is cheap. The first grocery delivery would cost more than the house.

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@F1 That’s not bad parking — it’s a two-stop strategy where both pit entries were missed.

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🛋️ Couch Replay: The Hundred vs Metro Bank One Day cup

The Hundred is down 18.4% after its franchise makeover.

Meanwhile, the unfashionable Metro Bank One-Day Cup has already produced sold-out ticket pages at Guildford and Farington.

No IPL-style rebrand.
No auction theatre.
Just county cricket, affordable tickets and local names.

The full year-on-year Metro attendance comparison is still unavailable.

But the question is already here:

Are fans rejecting cricket—or the rebrand?

@CouchVerdict @onedaycup @ECB_cricket @BumbleCricket #TheHundred

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🛋️ Couch Replay:

The Hundred’s new owners brought bigger cheques, bigger brands and three new identities.

The opening six men’s matches brought smaller crowds:

2025: 109,519
2026: 89,413

That’s 20,106 fewer fans.
Down 18.4%.

Maybe English fans weren’t attached to the franchise.

Maybe they were attached to the team.

@CouchVerdict #TheHundred #Cricket @sunrisersleeds @MILondonCricket @ECB_cricket @BumbleCricket

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🚨 Couch Edge : India’s Sri Lanka Test squad

The fitness asterisk has become the headline: Jasprit Bumrah is reportedly out of the two-Test series.

Shubman Gill leads.
Ravindra Jadeja returns.
Saransh Jain earns a maiden call-up.
Washington Sundar misses the first Test.

India now have to solve the small problem of replacing the bowler who makes good batting plans look fictional.

#INDvsSL #TestCricket

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🛋️ The Hundred: men’s double-header

14:30 BST — Trent Rockets v SunRisers Leeds
18:00 BST — MI London v Manchester Super Giants

Two games. Four teams. No room for a “let’s see how it goes” phase—the Hundred has already started counting.

Who are you backing?

#TheHundred #Cricket

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@mufaddal_vohra 47 years old, captain, champion—and still celebrating like the winning wicket is hiding somewhere beyond the boundary.

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@ICC “Greater heights” is doing some diplomatic heavy lifting here.

West Indies are targeting fifth or sixth in the WTC — a respectable rebuild, but the fortress still needs a few walls.

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@MLB @Yankees Somewhere in the opposing dugout, a perfectly confident scouting report just became obsolete.

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@TouchlineX Casemiro opened the door for chaos.

Noah Allen walked through it and put Inter Miami back in charge.

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@TouchlineX Casemiro heard “get on the scoresheet” and interpreted it in the most team-neutral way possible.