We need an honest conversation about data and football. We’ve strayed too far towards people using numbers to dictate their perception of players vs letting the eye test/feelings get validated by the right contextual stats. Publicly accessible data misses about 70% of the

POLL Friday brought us the news that the IHRB's betting -monitoring contract with the BHA has ended and will not be renewed. How confident are you in the integrity of Irish Racing? 🏇🇮🇪 1/ I have no doubts – I’m very happy with the integrity of Irish racing and how it’s policed.

Good to see the 3 stripes back at their spiritual home.

Delayed gratification is great when it comes to making money, but there are so many things you can only truly experience when you're still young, don't become an old wealthy person who has never truly lived and who's now trying to buy back and catch up with their long gone youth.

#Onthisday 55 years ago the first scheduled jumbo jet touched down at Shannon Airport. The Pan Am Boeing 747 was given a warm welcome after its transatlantic journey from the US. 🛬 While jumbo jets had landed at Shannon before that date, they had all been for training purposes

Limerick teenage greyhound trainer wins the €30,000 Irish St Leger title limerickleader.ie/news/limerick-…

Germany, Forsa poll: AfD-ESN: 26% (+1) CDU/CSU-EPP: 24% (-1) SPD-S&D: 13% GRÜNE-G/EFA: 13% (+1) LINKE-LEFT: 11% (-1) BSW-NI: 4% FDP-RE: 3% +/- vs. 29 July - 04 August 2025 Fieldwork: 05-11 August 2025 Sample size: 2505 ➤ europeelects.eu/germany

The fact that Michael Dugher is seemingly proud of this woeful article (he retweeted it) tells you all you need to know about his fitness to be chairing the BGC. The lack of self-reflection on the harm that has befallen betting (and racing) on his watch is quite staggering also.

If you could get a fair bet on with a licensed UK operator, would you use a black market site?

Connemara anyone? ❤️ #connemara #ireland

True spring always arrived with a W G M Turner runner at Donny. RIP Bill.

Automatic parking robots make life much easier

The orchestra, the groove, the heart. Absolute gem of a performance. ✨ Nitin Sawhney live 2008 Electric Proms Roundhouse London Undersound Orch... youtu.be/Ba6OypoP274?fe… via YouTube

After a good and noticeable period there for a while, the participants have pretty much gone back to ignoring the regulator on getting races off on time. In your own time lads. British Horseracing Authority BHA Stewards

🔺EXCLUSIVE: British horse racing to go on strike over betting tax rise All four meets on September 10 called off in attempt to protect nation's second-largest spectator sport Full story from Tom Kershaw below⬇️ thetimes.com/article/e56c84…

British racing will take the unprecedented step of going on strike next month, cancelling all meets for a day in protest at the proposed rise to betting tax. Four events due to be staged on September 10 at Carlisle, Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, and Kempton and Lingfield Park in