Just back after a holiday. Hoooway are things gaanin?
Barry Glendenning
@barryglendenning.bsky.social
Journalist and broadcaster. Brixton via Birr. https://t.crdtg2.com/331727/5165?aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
And what a gift to receive… Still one of the finest moments of sports TV. youtu.be/Prep4trYNj4?...
Eamonn Dunphy rant
YouTube video by Piaras Kelly
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Happy birthday, Eamon Dunphy! 81 today - no longer a young wan! 🎉🎂🎂
It's getting towards that time of year again 🙄
I didn't hate the World Cup final half-time show as much as Wayne Rooney and others (it had Animal from The Muppet Show!), but it presumably prevented a pitch that was quite obviously far too dry for purpose from being watered.
They got there in the end ... and so did Guardian Football Weekly. Thanks for listening 🥰 www.theguardian.com/football/aud...
Spain are world champions - World Cup Daily
Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, John Brewin, Jonathan Wilson and Sid Lowe as Spain win the 2026 World Cup.
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The Ramones backstage at New York's Bowery Ballroom on July 16, 2026. Feel the hate!
Made a couple of new BFFs today: (l-r) Lionel, Baz, Diego.
If you build it, Barry will come. And so will Roy Keane (not pictured), who was also present to see the NY Mets snatch improbable defeat from the jaws of victory #baseball #superjohnmcginn
Should obviously have been brandished. Even the Limerick bannisteoir and his maors were expecting it. 😂
Damien Mac Conchoille@bohola4.bsky.social · last mo.Nothing on the non black card for Nicky Quaid in the Limerick /Clare game today.
No, but this is shaping up to be one of the biggest scandals in Fifa/World Cup history (which is saying something). USA should try to distance themselves from it in any way they can.
Tomato Szn@bskylife.bsky.social · last mo.Is this baby's first sports controversy?
As huge and unpopular a call as it would be, the USA should leave Folarin Balogun on the bench for the entire Belgium game to avoid being tainted by any sort of association with Trump and Fifa's chicanery and machiavellianism.
After Hours with James Cordon on Fox TV. Featuring a prop pretend pint and top, top banter with Declan Rice.
My new happy place - a pub that shows round-the-clock Law & Order: SVU and the World Cup on adjacent screens.
These Hollywood food delivery trundle-gizmos are exactly the droids I was looking for. They all have names and a Henry Hoover face. You'd put their life expectency in London or Dublin at about three minutes. If that.
I won't lie - I was kind of hoping for at least one day off 😂
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago33 days. 33 episodes. Join Max Rushden and Barry Glendenning every day of the World Cup, for their unique (and occasionally on target) take on the tournament. Listen daily wherever you get your podcasts theguardian.com/wcdailybsky
Nearly 55 years after Jim Morrison's death, another "Poet, Artist, Legend" (and fellow tedious, self-indulgent bore) takes his rightful place on the great man's barstool 🫡🫡🫡
My own colleagues are trolling me now! Rice is not "in line to win his 74th cap when England face Croatia in Group L", he is in line to win his 77th cap.
Guardian Sport@sport.theguardian.com · 2mo ago‘I thought – gosh, he’s going to be some player’: the making of England’s Declan Rice
No, I was wrong. Similarly dismal. #uselessspurs
Barry Glendenning@barryglendenning.bsky.social · 2mo agoBarstool in Barney's (not Ronay) for Knicks v Spurs with a queue a mile long down the street full of people *begging* to get in. Not sure what is going on but a lot of excitement and main take-out so far: basketball Spurs much better than football Spurs.
Barry, I’m afraid to tell you your information may be in the eye of the beholder only. I believe a good majority of the basketball watching audience would agree the Arsenal of the basketball would be the Oklahoma City Thunder.
I'm unreliably informed the Knicks are the Arsenal of basketball - fouling, timewasting, corner specialist, opposite-of-entertainers. Are there corners in basketball? Can Gabriel head one in?
I have been outside it. 10am. No sign of Johnny Depp
Mark Coale@markcoale.bsky.social · 2mo agoHave you been to the Viper Rom yet?
Barstool in Barney's (not Ronay) for Knicks v Spurs with a queue a mile long down the street full of people *begging* to get in. Not sure what is going on but a lot of excitement and main take-out so far: basketball Spurs much better than football Spurs.
It was a real pleasure to sit down with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and fill out a World Cup bracket. www.theguardian.com/football/vid...
Zohran Mamdani plays the Guardian's Bracketology to predict World Cup winner – video
See how New York's mayor maps out the world’s biggest tournament
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If mine goes down, it's an absolute disaster. Plenty more where both of them came from.
Barry Glendenning@barryglendenning.bsky.social · 2mo agoMax, Producer Joel and I are all travelling on different planes from three different countries - so three Air Force Ones. Mine obviously the most AF One-ish
Max, Producer Joel and I are all travelling on different planes from three different countries - so three Air Force Ones. Mine obviously the most AF One-ish
Alexander Abnos@anabnos.com · 2mo agoThis is like when the president gets on some other plane and then that other plane becomes Air Force One.
