That’s guy who played Holly on Red Dwarf (RIP)

Hahaha, was walking round Leeds at lunch today, looked up, saw it, immediately heard Chris’ dulcet tones telling me about skyline views and Keralan feasts or whatever it is. IER version of Levi’s? Maybe.

Brewdog failure leaves Lords cricket ground with large debt & West Ham FC with a much smaller one In 2024 Lords Cricket Ground took the perhaps surprising step of announcing Brewdog has their beer partner for the ground in the 2025 season. Reportedly things went well and 750,000 pints were sold…

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A proper game of football, this one, berween a team that should have wrapped up the title already and another which should have been demoted to League One a long time ago.

This makes the scale of Rayner's alleged error - for which Reform hauled her over the coals - look like monopoly money

According to Sky, the Liverpool top scorers in the Merseyside derby now are Steven Gerrard and Mo Salah.

Ian Rush would like a word.

#lufc

I’ll take it!!!

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#LUFC

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Absolutely fantastic stuff.

Phwoar

‘Don’t put me in a box’: Pellegrino Matarazzo’s extraordinary journey from New Jersey to Real Sociedad Real Sociedad’s coach’s career reveals plenty about the man leading the proud Basque club to only their eighth Copa del Rey final

Ahead of an absolutely monster weekend in the relegation zone in the PL, here’s a lovely read on Pelegrino Matterazo ahead of the Copa Del Dey final by @sidlowe.bsky.social Vamos La Real!

If you have a restaurant, there is ZERO reason for you to use AI generated food for your ads.

JUST TAKE PICTURES OF YOUR FOOD.

On Thursday, we received the solemn news that the Queen had died peacefully at Balmoral. To be told this on only my second full day as Prime Minister felt utterly unreal. In a state of shock, I found myself thinking: 'Why me? Why now?'

Two years ago, the first extracts from Liz Truss’ book began to emerge.

Yeah it’s been a bit shonky in the last couple of days

Almodóvar & Kitchens: Julieta (2016) Regional Kitchens as Cinematic Confessionals

…in other news, I discovered today that the Almodóvar Kitchen Universe is a thing:

Current ear worm: that ESPN America guy’s version of Gloria

What a photo. We are all James Justin

Brilliant, thanks! Love her.

Massive ask, but what does the sign say?

FYI I am making my Substack free for everyone again.

Paid subs: Thanks so much for your support. Refunds coming your way

April:

🎙️ Sundays: podcast
✈️ Tuesdays: groundhopping post
🧐 Thursdays: history or culture post

From May, one long-read per week

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Just been for a run and been running this exact thought in my head. I don’t disagree. Tempo with us now and it could be very, very comfortable very very soon…

Massive.

Longstaff, anyone? Just me?

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Still very much in that zone, isn’t it

It was all very quick and if Martinez isn’t there, it’s in. Credit to the team for pressing the fuck out of them in the moment.

There’s a running joke in my house that I, as a coach, would always have my team press *the hell* out of keepers and defenders from goal kicks, shape be damned. If Tanaka scores that, I would have been vindicated for *life* 😢

Martinez did a great job there….

And entirely deserved. Lad’s had a blinder.