If you're after a light-hearted, heart-warming, and genuinely funny show, get on Colin From Accounts. I'd not come across it before, but it has a couple of cast members from A Moody Christmas, and it's a similar vibe. Really, really good. Would recommend.

This is why you don’t allow authoritarian foreign states to put you in a position where blackmail is an option.

Premier League News@plnews.bsky.social · yesterday

UAE warns Andy Burnham it may pull billions in investment for the UK's proposed Oxford-Cambridge tech hub—dubbed the UK's Silicon Valley—in retaliation over Manchester City's guilty verdict, per The Telegraph.

"UAE officials caution that a negative outcome could damage improved relations with the UK, according to two people familiar with the matter." Man City's owners continue to make the case for preventing countries, heads of state or their proxies from owning clubs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Manchester City Verdict Hangs Over UK’s Relations With Emiratis

Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces an awkward moment when a commission finally rules on the Premier League club’s legal saga.

bloomberg.com

One of the things that gets me most in the reaction to the Manchester City verdict and subsequent statements, is the people who have switched their position on the Abu Dhabi ownership based on the cheating, as if the horrific human rights record and flagrant sportswashing wasn't enough alone.

It's very important to make the argument City shouldn't be relegated but should be expelled. The EFL should get to choose whether it takes them and at what tier. The bad faith dealings have impacted many sides that are currently EFL teams.

Not even into #AFL, but fuck me. Freo Dockers 17 points clear with 4 minutes to play, and find a way to be 7 points down by the final whistle. Have to credit Brisbane's mentality - very evident that they'd won the last two Grand Finals. Freo will never have a better chance than that, though.

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

Kevin Thurston@del-boy.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is fascism. It needs to be called fascism by the papers & by the politicians. These are fascists who are putting the lives of volunteers in danger after having been legitimised by everyone on the political spectrum in the UK. Fuck the fascists & everyone who has enabled them.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 2w ago

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

I mean, how the fuck has it come to this? Might be an idea to try and educate your kid about the reasons these poor bastards are fleeing their homes and risking everything to get a slim chance in life. Nah, I hope they drown. Fucking hell.

Kevin Thurston@del-boy.bsky.social · 2w ago

International break sticking around for 3 weeks.

Agree with this, on Araujo. I was one of the people instinctively suspicious of the context around the loan as well, for the record, which already looks like a great piece of business by #LFC (and actually, a positive example of the kind of market opportunism Hughes had previously spoken about).

ChocoholicRed@chocoholicred.bsky.social · 2w ago

He seems to be an instant cult hero, but that does him a disservice, as he's far beyond the usual levels of someone given that name. This only happened because the expectation of getting a cheap-ass loan deal is only because they're crap & unwanted, but he lifted the La Liga trophy as Barca Captain

In the away end for Isak’s winner 😍 #TeamPixel

Was doing 'best' and 'worst' #LFC XI's over the weekend. Got thinking about a 'I Liked The Most/Cult Hero' XI: Staunton Heggem Can Krygiokos Aurelio Henderson Hamann Allen Berger Camara Origi Shout out (inexplicably) for Leonhardsen, and also the concept of an Alonso > Barry swap in 2018.

Nice writing from @knoxharrington.bsky.social, as ever. #LFC

The Anfield Wrap @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social · 2w ago

'The goalkeeper was ethereal. The goalkeeper had an air of the occult. The goalkeeper was all that is seen and unseen. It makes everything else seem somewhat unfair.' ✍️ @knoxharrington.bsky.social's review… 👉 Read here: mailchi.mp/theanfieldwr...

Low key one of my favourite things in football at the moment is when the ball loops up in the air anywhere (and I mean anywhere) down our right side, because you know Big Ron is coming and taking absolutely everything. Build a big wall if you like. He's coming through it. #LFC

At the airport this morning. Got out the taxi and managed to shut the door on my thumb. Thumb trapped. Me standing in the drop-off lane, attached to the car. Handleless doors. Knocked and, surprisingly calmly, asked driver to open door. Thumb looks like over-boiled beetroot. How's your morning.

Jacquet is the complete package. Phenomenal 1vs1, dominant in the air and duels, a fantastic progressing passer, and leadership traits (Captained multiple France youth teams). Even positionally he looks strong and ussually that's something CBs take time to learn, saved Virgil a few times.

The Anfield Wrap @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Jacquet was tremendous - he wins his battles, uses the ball really well...he pops up in areas, wins the ball and gets you on the front foot early." "He's the version of Konate we hoped we'd signed...he was really good for Liverpool, but this lad's unbelievable." 🎥 Ratings

Was nervous all week listening to people talk about the advantage #LFC had thanks to additional rest. Sure I've seen us be flat more often than good with anything more than 3 or 4 days between games.

My manager. #LFC www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Jürgen Klopp wants his Germany team to reclaim national pride from ‘the wrong people’

Jürgen Klopp has said Germany’s football team can help ensure ‘national pride is not entrusted to the wrong people’ after a recent far-right AfD election victory

theguardian.com

So happy for him - and really enjoying watching the energy and intensity he brings. #LFC

Guardian Sport@sport.theguardian.com · 3w ago

Lewis Koumas on playing ‘the Liverpool way’, showing hunger and hopes for the future

Football porn... #LFC

Pod from last night. theliverpoolway.podbean.com/e/liverpool-...

Liverpool 2 Tottenham Hotspur 1 - Match Reaction | The Liverpool Way Podcast

Three brilliant goals sent the Reds through to the next round of the Carabao Cup on a night when Andoni Iraola shuffled his pack and gave some of his youngsters their first significant minutes of the ...

theliverpoolway.podbean.com

Had a bit of a think on this and there's probably one or two i'd change, given where we are: GK Mama RB Frimpong CB Araujo CB Gomez LB Tsimikas CM Gravenberch CM Nyoni AM Mac Allister LW Rio RW Koumas CF Gakpo Chambers, Endo, McConnell, Danns, Munoz - maybe even Wirtz/Barcola off the bench. #LFC

Grobbelrevell@grobbelrevell.bsky.social · last mo.

Let's have a go at what we think a League Cup XI looks like for #LFC then. GK: Mama RB: Endo CB: Araujo CB: Chambers LB: Tsimikas CM: McConnell CM: Nyoni AM: Koumas RW: Munoz LW: Rio CF: Chiesa (Danns if fit) Something like that, I'd guess. Tells an obvious story of squad depth, I would suggest.

liverpool hired an obsessive pressing philosophy coach for a side that hadn't done anything like that in two years, with known holes in the squad. of course it was going to have some teething problems. stress out if there hasn't been clear progress by the end of the season.

So, is Gakpo starting today then? What do we reckon? I've not heard any leaks since the manager's comments yesterday, and quite frankly, this has put my #FPL selection in serious peril. #LFC

Coaching the local U6 team this evening. Had some woman being aggressive to the kids for (apparently) kicking the ball at her dog. Turns out she called one of them a wimp. Another coach went to ask what was happening, and she told him to "go back where you came from".

Night Reds x

Just watched the #LFC game back. ● Lovely to see Danns make the bench ● The off ball structure is improving game by game. Much more effective here ● Macca was excellent for 60. More compact unit around him helping ● The quick vertical passing is noticeably increasing ● Araujo can play!