Mike McCarthy
@mikemccarthy.eurosky.social
Football commentator, sports broadcaster, podcast absorber. As heard on Sky Sports, 5Live, BBC World Service & TalkSPORT.
The Women’s Super League’s first official fantasy app is rethinking the game from the ground up. www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
The women’s soccer league trying to fix fantasy sports
The WSL’s first fantasy app is doing something different.
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I will be living in Animal Crossing. You lot better write!
Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · last mo.You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?
Articles about Newport County might not set algorithms alight, but Hayden Mullins delivered one of the standout coaching performances of the EFL's opening weekend. How Mullins took his second chance to make a first impression. mikejamesmccarthy.substack.com/p/newport-co...
Stoke City. Sometimes maybe good? In their ninth season in the Championship, Stoke might be getting things right.
Stoke City: maybe this year?
Stoke City promise makes first contact with reality
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The guys @ntt20.com are looking for future England internationals in the EFL and asked me to write about Leicester's Louis Page. He could be in for a very interesting year...
NTT20 Scouts: 10 future England internationals in the EFL
Who could follow in the footsteps of Jude, Djed, John and more?
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EXCL: English football agrees trial to eradicate the goalkeeper injury tactical timeout. Coach has 10 seconds to select an outfield player to leave the field for one minute. Applied this season across: Premier League EFL National League WSL 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
English football agrees trial to end goalkeeper tactical timeout
English football is set to implement a radical trial to try to eradicate the goalkeeper tactical timeout this season, BBC Sport can reveal.
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I’ve driven over Snake Pass a few times every week for the last five years. I can’t speak highly enough to the productivity and quality of life benefits this would bring.
Sheffield Tribune@sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 2mo ago“One of the most exciting infrastructure projects in Britain right now,” read a breathless tweet by @tomforth.co.uk. “If we could build tunnels like the Norwegians, we could build new motorways and railways so cheaply that they could be self-funding. “The biggest prize is Sheffield to Manchester.”
I've been vibe coding some apps to make commentary prep more productive, and they might actually work...
Pre-season vibe coding
AI can't do my commentary research, but it's built me better tools
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Great to chat to @danielstorey85.bsky.social and CBS Sport's Lisa Carlin about the things we'll miss from the World Cup, and the things we won't.
More than the Score - World Cup 2026: Messi, the Muppets and hydration breaks - BBC Sounds
A review of the biggest men's World Cup ever
bbc.co.uk
🚨 WORLD CUP SCORIGAMI 🚨 FINAL: France 🇫🇷 (4), England 🏴 (6) 6–4 has NEVER happened in men's World Cup history (1930–present).
Baldrick’s holiday was longer than the highlights edit from that first half.
Feeling old today? You will now… 👴 Today is the day - after 30 seasons - that CM 97/98 saves end. Championship Manager 97/98. ⚽🎮
Some thoughts on pronunciations, and why sometimes being technically correct is not the best kind of correct.
Why no-one in England ever pronounces Ilias Chair correctly
When it comes to names, being right is sometimes wrong
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’Verify your age’ ”Can you get off the internet? I need to use the phone.“
The Merciless Peppers of Quetzlzacatejimbo@redjolt.bsky.social · 2mo ago‘Verify your age’ 01818118181
RBFA are *not* happy about FIFA’s Balogun decision, and quite rightly.
Only five of the England squad were born when Wonderwall was released.
I wrote about the joys of watching football on delay, and why this World Cup has reminded me to do more of it.
Why I'm hitting pause on the World Cup
Watching football can be better when you have to wait
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Oh look! It's the 38th minute Spain attack. Hurry up or we'll have to wait for the 39th minute Spain attack.
When it comes to former referees explaining decisions Christina Unkel is the gold standard. Clear, precise, concise. Just what you want.
Really enjoying the ‘what are we even doing here?’ energy of VAR being able to check incorrectly awarded corners, but not incorrectly awarded goal kicks, and the latter being the only one that happened.
Maybe later in the World Cup we’ll see Messi put his hand in the bag of Walkers and actually remove a crisp and eat it.
Trying to Tell Myself I'm Cultured by Listening to Radio 3 in the Car But Then This Happens
Trying to Tell Myself I'm Cultured by Listening to Radio 3 in the Car But Then This Happens
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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The leaderboard suggests I’m hopeless, but this might be my new favourite word game. puzzmo.com/play/ribbit/...
's finished Ribbit #953
Play the best daily puzzles on Puzzmo
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Can we just take a moment to admire Sunderland finishing 7th with a goal difference of -6.
My Kagi subscription is paying for itself at this point.
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 4mo agoGoogle is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.