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submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

New column for Eurosport (in French) on the exceptional work done by the owners of Chelsea FC Women to convince the owners of Chelsea FC that their club was worth twenty times its annual turnover. www.eurosport.fr/football/pre...

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 48 days ago • 298 comments

Fact Premier League allows clubs to pass own rules is a disaster. The recent Chelsea situation highlights this. Backed by a few clubs thinking they may face similar situation, ban on selling assets to self not imposed. Not a chance Chelsea’s women’s team can be valued at £150m, and yet here we are.

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

Tigres just posted a new angle of Jacquie Ovalle’s goal, and it’s as magical as you’d expect.

submitted 76 days ago • 61 comments

A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

submitted 82 days ago • 142 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 86 days ago • 154 comments

elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

submitted 88 days ago • 252 comments

Drop Site’s Sharif Kouddous reports from the southern Lebanese village of Kfarkela, which is in ruins after Israeli troops withdrew on February 18. Every single structure has been completely destroyed or badly damaged. It is mostly just piles of rubble.

submitted 87 days ago • 6 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 89 days ago • 1011 comments

Senator Mark Warner spills the beans about "the real story" of how the TikTok ban went down. Turns out, its passage had more to do with the Gaza war than China. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/tiktok-ban...

submitted 92 days ago • 142 comments

Arsenal have done the double over Tottenham in the Premier League and the Women's Super League this season.

submitted 92 days ago • 8 comments

In no other context except Palestine could someone make statements like this and have people still reply in a civilized "oh come on Dan" manner.

submitted 98 days ago • 19 comments

Interesting figure: John Fetterman is the last Senate Democrat left who co-led the rail bill spurred by the East Palestine derailment. In the past year, he’s tweeted about it 3 times vs. at least 147 times about Israel. His office didn’t respond to repeated outreach on the bill.

submitted 106 days ago • 7 comments

Pete Marraco, the face of the Dallas HERO propositions that were backed by Republican megadonor Monty Bennett, is the driving force behind the evisceration of USAID. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 106 days ago • 5 comments

That was so much fun. I've waited ages for us to pump that lot and it proved to be immensely satisfying. 57,000 people singing "Stay humble you cunt" off the cuff is truly the stuff of football crowd dreams.

submitted 106 days ago • 16 comments

I really can’t wrap my head around congressional Democrats’ response to the past 12 days of crises. It reeks of pathetic capitulation. Trump is asserting dictatorial powers of absolute control over the entire government and the reaction is “we don’t swing at every pitch”? An appalling abdication.

submitted 107 days ago • 378 comments

Unprecedented level of spending. Almost 2 mil on 2 players. This is exactly why letting Chelsea off the hook for Roman bankrolling them off of stolen blood money was such an awful decision.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

As Trump opens war on government’s ability to provide services, Senate votes 54-45 to advance bill to sanction ICC officials, as court pursues justice against Israeli leaders accused of war crimes. Falls short of 60-vote threshold. John Fetterman joined Republicans.

submitted 111 days ago • 16 comments

submitted 113 days ago • 85 comments

GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE Michael Oliver is corrupt as fuck. That's never a red card.

submitted 114 days ago • 146 comments

A red card? That’s an insane decision

submitted 114 days ago • 7 comments

There is a serious point to be made that when social media platforms wash their hands of any kind of standards or moderation of users, this stuff will only get worse. It's beyond the pale in any circumstances, but the fact it's basically consequence-free can't be right.

submitted 127 days ago • 22 comments

By the rules of the game, that was a "deliberate intention to play the ball" by Maguire and not a deflection, and therefore can't be offside. Unfortunately, the rules of the game don't really apply to Arsenal as PGMOL have made it clear this season. Another game against 12. #ARSMUN

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

Martinez a bullet dodged

submitted 140 days ago • 19 comments

“Cold” has committed another war crime. If you’re curious the piece takes four paragraphs to mention Israel’s role, only vaguely alludes to it once, and makes zero mention of the mounds of evidence starvation and exposure are a deliberate part of Israel’s strategy www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/w...

submitted 140 days ago • 9 comments

Two of the three most comfortable wins were the games with the most xG allowed and there's a lesson there somewhere. People say defence win(s) titles/championships but people are wrong, it's the attacking numbers (sure you need some balance) more often than not.

submitted 143 days ago • 8 comments

Maybe you’ve been too scared to publicly describe Zionism as a racist political ideology. Maybe you’ve been uncomfortable using the word apartheid. Maybe you’ve thought it best to couch criticism of Israeli policies in the safety of a “both sides” equivocation. Maybe it’s time.

submitted 147 days ago • 11 comments

What a brainless, brainless decision. How are we still stuck with Reagnism/ Thatcherism 40 years later. It doesn’t work.

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments