So. That was unexpected. But nice.

A long read on how Ireland got to this point, why we look like malfunctioning robots and why the new rugby looks so far out of our natural game.

www.patreon.com/posts/150197...

Prescient thread

Trying to make sense of the nonsensical decision to drop the Chinese spying prosecutions 15th October 2025 How the positions of neither the CPS nor the government stand up to scrutiny *   Usually when one reads up about a confusing-looking case the less confusing it becomes. The i…

Non-Substack version here davidallengreen.com/2025/10/tryi...

Diogo Jota on watching Everton growing up. #EFC

My favourite time of year. Summer starts today.

The bottle job is on, lads.

A lot of criticism of Sam Prendergast's performances lately, which confuses me slightly because he's not playing radically different from earlier this season, when he was being unironically compared to Dan Carter and other all time greats.

Everton are the real Scousers

I didn’t expect to find such an affectionate piece about #Everton and the glories of Goodison on @unherd.bsky.social unherd.com/2025/05/ever...

I feel like I’d run through brick walls for him and I’ve never even met the fella. Imagine what it must be like sharing a dressing room with him.

Keir Starmer this morning #LocalElections

The lineout. Dear god in heaven, the lineout.

Luttnik: US beef is beautiful!

CAS: One teriyaki bowl of the stuff is enough to get you pinged, and it’s so awful we accept it as a doping defence.

www.sportsintegrityinitiative.com/wp-content/u...

imagine being accidentally added to a second, slightly smaller group chat where they're talking about how to handle this scandal

Ireland Win: Fantastic system. Player production is key and the envy of the world. Ireland's depth is the key.

Ireland Lose: How can we ever hope to compete? We're just a small country. Lucky to even be here.

A 🧵on this article (£) and its connection to the University of Oxford Modern History: World History 1941-73 module’s finals exam paper in the year 1996.

Bear with me 1/

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...

We've been saying we want quality overlapping full backs all season.

Tonight we'll have two of them! But, erm, "taking charge of first team affairs on an interim basis".

#EFC

Maybe they’re trying (not v well) to distinguish the holdco chair from the chairman of the board at club level?

Either Danny Healy Rae has announced a major policy shift or the automatic captions programme misheard "and we're proud of Kilgarvin"

It’s so amicable on here. What we need is something nefarious, oppressive and divisive. Something to loathe. A dark cloud to resist and battle against.

So when do Everton play next?