Not knowing what the worst people in the world were thinking every fucking day

At our first home league match as a fan-owned club, 256 fans came down to the "Stray Dog" pitch round the back of Wadham Lodge.

1712 at the @oldspotteddog.bsky.social is unreal.

Oh good. I was genuinely wondering where that had gone!

#floodlightfriday
#austriasalzburg

* Sunday's Women's First Team game postponed *

Sadly our opponents have informed us they can't raise a team and are forfeiting Sunday's league game 😢😢

That means our first ever Dogs Day is off too 🐶 💔

Apologies to all - this has never happened to us before.

www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/02/28/m...

Fans and players with a 'welcome home Finn' sign

Best result of the year - welcome home Finn

⚽ Home international friendly ⚽

Clapton CFC Men’s First Team will host New York Internationsl FC in pre-season at the Old Spotted Dog Ground 🔥

It's the Josh Adejokun derby as he brings his current side @nyintfc.bsky.social over to play his former team.

www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/02/21/c...

Was really great to meet you!

We're looking for more information on this mystery shirt donated to the Old Spotted Dog Ground clubhouse collection...

✊️ National Union of Mineworks crest
✊️ 'Sandinista' instead of a sponsor

www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/02/07/s...

Quite funny that Starmer's allies are waking up to this point now …

Cuts to Winter Fuel… not in the manifesto
Disability benefit cuts… not in there either
Cutting jury trials… also not there
Digital ID… no mention
Raising employers NI… nope
Freezing tax threholds… nah
Contracts with Palantir… no

Levante 0-0 Villarreal: Post-match review, Stats, Key moments Bwin’s post-match review of Levante 0-0 Villarreal in the La Liga on Sunday, 14 December 2025, with stats, key moments and our take on the match.

What happens when you let AI write match reports? You end up with reports for games that never happened. Levante v Villarreal was postponed due to bad weather but according to this site it was played, finished 0-0 and was very dull. They even awarded a man of the match! www.bwin.com/en/news/post...

Happy New Year! The CCFC end-of-year review for 2025 - Clapton Community FC By whatever standard you judge it, 2025 has been a hell of a year for all of us. However, I think I speak for most of us when I say that our little fan-owned football club has been a beacon…

Happy New Year!

From promotions and paths to Billy Bragg and toilet blocks, here's an end-of-year review for Clapton CFC's 2025

www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/01/01/c...

Ffs Orient. At least #floodlightfriday was good

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Just realised where I’d seen the redevelopment plan for Old Trafford before

This - finally - is the definitive musical history Sheffield so richly deserves.

GROOVY, LAIDBACK AND NASTY is @danieldylanwray.bsky.social's authoritative and hugely entertaining story of the city, told through its independent artists, scenes and spirit.

Coming May 2026 geni.us/GroovyLaidba...

"If you don't let me punch you in the face, the other guy will kick you in the nuts" doesn't seem like a sustainable political message.

Update for the UK politicians who hadn't heard of Maccabi Tel Aviv before this week and decided they could be a useful stick with which to beat British Muslims.

Ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans is a terrible decision – and a depressing one | Barney Ronay The idea that barring the Israeli club’s supporters from Villa Park will de-escalate a volatile situation just doesn’t stand up

A thread on Barney Ronay's article criticising the decision Birmingham City Council and supported by West Midlands police to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from traveling to Birmingham. It might be a depressing decision but it's not a terrible one. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Made it here

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Student visas crackdown and new levies to cause ‘£1.8bn loss’ to UK economy The Government has proposed a 6 per cent tax on international student tuition fees and a reduction in graduate visas

I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs.

This tax will kill us.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

How the simmering freedom of speech row reached boiling point How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?

BBC journalist Nick Robinson’s “in-depth” article on “free speech” makes no mention of the 1500 people arrested for holding cardboard signs in recent months…

Why would it? It’s only the best UK example of state oppression on rights & freedoms in modern times…

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s called The Beautiful Game for the effortless way it brings people together.

Josh Adejokun, a @claptoncfc.co.uk legend, launches himself into @nyintfc.bsky.social history books, with one foot in East LDN, the other in NYC, by scoring NYIFC’s first APSL (semi pro) goal with this monster header.

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

The image shows the 17th century painting “Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem” by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael.

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

Having a whale of a time, etc.

Let us know visiting hours when you get a chance