Live your life in such a way that your death won't be greeted by hundreds of people posting the Jeremy Clarkson "oh no! anyway" gif

Just finished Letter To Brezhnev on the iPlayer. God, what a film, and what a brilliant way to spend a Friday night.

This is starting to feel less like "will Infantino's plan go through?" and more like "will UEFA keep their foot on FIFA's throat long enough to properly get rid of him?"

Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 6d ago

UEFA plans to boycott World Cups if FIFA plans go ahead www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Watched Shabaz Ali's new BBC Three documentary Are Billionaires Bad? last night on iPlayer and the autoplayed 'watch next' suggestion was Professor John Kenneth Galbraith's 1977 series on the history of economics, The Age of Uncertainty. A genuinely wonderful platform.

Last night I had the first night of temperature sleep in ages and I genuinely feel like I'm on performance enhancing drugs today

Now the World Cup's over, this feels like it would be the perfect time to launch a cricket competition that isn't unwatchable dogtod

Congratulations to Andy Burnham for being the UK's first ever Dulwich Hamlet supporting Prime Minister

WOAH, SWEET CHILD OF MINE

You know what they say, you either die a hero or live long enough to be knocked out of the world cup by a child you once bathed seriously though what the fuck

It's not been a *great* couple of weeks for Argentina PR wise, it has to be said

We're very much in the "man chasing after Lance Armstrong with a giant syringe" era of this Argentina team

If Argentina win this, it really will have an asterisk next to it forever. This tournament has turned into a total farce

Messi trying to get Cucurella sent off for covering his mouth is the cherry on the cake for a tournament that's needlessly dented his reputation. I'll be glad when he retires tbh

This game is really struggling from the crap atmosphere that comes with so few real fans there

There's something darkly funny about the modern football superpowers being France and Spain, probably the two countries in Europe where people get the least excited about their national football team

It feels very important for the health of football that Argentina don't win this

Has Janan Ganesh left the FT?

I enjoyed the FT article where Gideon Rachman says that there is no conspiracy to help Argentina, and literally all of the comments are saying that FIFA is very much in the tank for Argentina

We really don't make a big enough deal about how the US president is just openly corrupt now. Trump Media pitched $100,000 monthly fee for fast feed of president’s posts - www.ft.com/content/e466... via @FT

Trump Media pitched $100,000 monthly fee for fast feed of president’s posts

Family company has quoted six-figure sum for high-speed access to Truth Social platform

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Absolutely credibility-shredding stuff from Preston on X

Now to depart from my World Cup fantasyland and see how things are going in the real world...

You know who might've been useful to bring on when holding a lead? Kobbie Mainoo

You know how Spain hold a lead by dominating midfield and denying the opposition possession? I would like us to learn how to do that please

Very glad England got rid of a manager who parked the bus whenever they went ahead and replaced him with a master tactician who parked the bus whenever they went ahead

I probably shouldn't admit this, but I'm quite enjoying England fans' Falklands cuntiness, as it's a direct response to equal levels of Argentine Falklands cuntiness. A totally different dynamic to England fans goading friendly and apologetic Germans

I just had a horrible premonition that an England player is going to get sent off tonight for trying to have a friendly chat while covering their mouth

Lee Dixon is genuinely a much better commentator with Ally McCoist next to him

Adding Ally McCoist to the ITV commentary booth feels like an acknowledgement that viewers hate Lee Dixon

I am enjoying the England football team's unexpected face-turn

Falklands Football Discourse is better than WW2 Football Discourse, because at least it's not us starting it for once