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Writer of books, most recently: No Questions Asked - How Football Joined the Crypto Con (amzn.to/42aKE0w). Investigative pieces at http://theuglygame.wordpress.com/
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Have they considered doing - and then running on having done - a really good job so that people actually want more?

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Complete breakdown of parking discipline here in South London. @yplac.bsky.social

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

on the triumph of tribalism. the club lens has consumed the way we watch and talk and write about football these days. punditry, social media, even journalism. to the point where performative tribalism has become the only acceptable way of "enjoying" football www.theguardian.com/football/202...

submitted 22 hours ago • 20 comments

This is a fundamental betrayal of Labour values and the stench of it will linger with progressive voters long after any imagined benefit from proving the party's toughness to voters on the right. A total failure to see the wood for the trees. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Devastating news for Morecambe fans and another infamous day in football's history of failing its clubs. The relegation is a blow, but the worst may still be to come because Jason Whittingham is still there, still letting the club collapse as he tries to make an unsuitable sale.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Continually looking from one member of my family to another and addressing them gravely as "Cardinale."

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Your regular reminder that Elly De La Cruz is the most exciting young sportstar in the world.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

He's not suing her for saying untrue things about him, just for not keeping quiet about what happened. Utterly contemptible.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

What an absolute piece of filth Neil Gaiman is.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Give it to the Bobson Dugnutt of the Catholic Church.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Anyway, who called it a Conclave instead of a Popelarity contest

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Regular reminder that incompetence and negligence are an inextricable part of fascism.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Genuinely think this is the best crime drama of all time.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Delighted to report that someone I once worked for and didn't hold in high esteem has a book out and it has received at best mixed reviews.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Dinosaurs fail to spot approaching asteroid.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Condition: new.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Pilot: "We'll be flying into a 100 mile an hour headwind today, so if we take off on time, we're already late. And so to try and get us there on time, I'm gonna fly the aircraft like I stole it."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating football pod with Dan Davies, one of Britain's best public intellectuals from the finance sphere. If you enjoy this, I'd recommend both his most recent book on cybernetics, which is discussed here, and Lying For Money, his fantastic book on fraud. www.buzzsprout.com/819853/episo...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

You see this all around the wealthy suburbs of South London and the Surrey commuter towns: all the money in the world, zero imagination, a total rejection of contemporary architecture and a weird demand for symmetry such that it looks like it was designed by a 5yo using duplo.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments