It is completely on-brand for me that I write something saying I'm taking a bit of a break and then get such lovely support from you guys that it enthuses me to write. So there'll be something up on UD today and then I PROMISE that I'm taking a couple of days out.

The recent news stories about Rebecca Cheptegui and Gisèle Pélicot are just *so* distressing. Really new depths being plumbed in the global culture of misogyny. I'm horrified beyond horrified, to a point that it feels shaming.

The United Way these days really is giving your manager a contract extension because he won the FA Cup and then three months later.....

Deduct it from everyone's TV money.

Here we go then, my annual optimistic piece about Sunderland which usually precedes some sort of fall or other, this time for FotMob. But heavens to Murgatroyd, they've been pretty good so far :-) fotmob.com/en-GB/topnews/…

"So it's about this detective, right... Lads, LADS. COME BACK."

A little bit about dynamic pricing, and how far football clubs can push fans before they just say, "Yanno, this ain't value for money" and move on to do somethig else. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/at-what-poin…

Yeah you better be praying, pal

A fundamentally unserious newspaper for a fundamentally unserious country

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