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.

tonight's Euro 2025 Top Left Anagram is GITANE

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I'm in this! I've written about Dulwich Hamlet and their relationship with Altona 93, sticker hunting with my daughters, football grounds as nests, and so on

face to face with the oldest question: just how many cassowaries will one man butcher in pursuit of a slightly larger ammo pouch

Congratulations to our former youth team player, Djed Spence. Making history as the first Muslim to represent England #MenaceLifeAintEasy

There are still some copies of this absolute beauty available, only from Admiral ⚽️ limited edition, numbered hardbacks ⚽️ beautiful kit diary by John Devlin ⚽️ interviews with some greats like Lineker, Shearer & Gray ⚽️ perfect Xmas present 🛒 admiralsports.com/products/50-ye…

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

Wonderful tribute to Mao Zedong 👏 👏 👏

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

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

In my return to writing, I wrote about how all our politicians are idiots for London Review of Books lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/febr…

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

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

RIP Starmer 2.0: 21 Feb - 27 Feb 2026.

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

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.

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.

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.