Lovely stuff. So basically football is now the sporting home of 'spurious correlations' like this classic connecting Nicholas Cage with swimming pool drownings

Wait til they hear about the public service cuts

But the best bit of that interview is when the PM said he's creating economic..."rolling thunder'!!!

It sounds like the sort of thing Ted Lasso would tell a team of schoolkids. But on reflection it's maybe just the noise of his support crashing through the floor? #rofl #nzpol

Sadly I think this might be a failure by Labour to learn the lessons from income insurance - wasting tons on political capital on something really narrow and with so many carve-outs its impact is meaningless. But it hurts them in the polls.

I mean, why exclude farms when farmers hate them?

no cheesecake?

Mirror, know thyself

@footballcliches.bsky.social the BBC has an article about Liverpool's new signings, and their formation grids are just plain wrong. Took me a minute, but it's because they're effectively upside down, so left-sided players are on the right.

Will the adjudication panel disallow this monstrosity?

Thomas Müller
a) he's played 500 games and scored 150 goals for Bayern
b) he's been around for about 18 seasons and
c) it's Germany and by law you have to include someone with the surname Müller [probably]

Also gives you a chance to discuss which one gave us the phrase 'absolutely mullered it'

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Bluey!?

And this is an even meatier shower. Sorry. #dadjokes