🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.
Sam Dodgin
@samdodgin.bsky.social
Arsenal fan, solicitor in training. I (occasionally) write "Law & Sport" on Substack
If Saliba is a Rolls Royce, Merino is a Volvo (complimentary). Just a sensible car for sensible people.
I've finally cracked why I've always thought Infantino felt like a villain to me. I was raised on Gerry Anderson and the man looks exactly like The Hood from Thunderbirds
Jerry Seinfeld in a sensory deprivation tank, forced to turn his observations inward
Aleksander Čeferin has been elected Leader of the Avignon FIFA and taken the regnal name Clement VII.
Host the anti-world cup in Avignon, you cowards.
Sky News@news.sky.com · 2mo agoEuropean nations agree to boycott World Cup if FIFA goes ahead with World Cup sell-off
as a society we are well past due in establishing No Content Zones where making shit for tiktok is explicitly forbidden
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · 2mo agoEvangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
All the people moaning about meat walls and blah blah blah got that goal disallowed
Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 3mo ago“Automatic” in the FIFA regs/code just means that there’s no need for additional process—i.e., an investigation or disciplinary proceeding—to determine the applicable sanction. It does not mean the sanction is unreviewable. It does not mean that Article 27 cannot be invoked to suspend the sanction.
saw a truck for a company called Absolute Chimneys and I can’t stop saying that to myself as if I’m an English soccer announcer calling a free kick that sailed over the crossbar
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The silver lining here is that they're likely to just as terrible next season and they'll all still be miserable
Ref has lost control because he's allowed them to go flying in to challenges without any punishment. They're turning up the temperature as a tactic and he's letting them
Looking forward to seeing which 115 player inherits Bernardo's invisibility cloak next seasom
Distract yourself by just reflecting on the fact that City aren’t very good and they have better opponents to come.
SoFi Stadium workers threaten to strike if ICE isn't banned from World Cup games
SoFi Stadium workers threaten to strike if ICE isn't banned from World Cup games
Protestors marched to local FIFA organizing offices in Los Angeles on Friday calling for ICE to be banned from SoFi Stadium during World Cup games.
latimes.com
Henry VIII turning in his grave right now
Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social · 6mo agoPope Leo in audience with the Archbishop of Canterbury: “As my beloved predecessor, Pope Francis, said to the Primates of the Anglican Communion in 2024, ‘it would be a scandal if, due to our divisions, we did not fulfil our common vocation to make Christ known.’
This (derogatory) is going to be my abiding memory of what I hope we will get to call "That one Gyokeres Season"
One of my petty bugbears about modern life. Seeing Big Thief tonight at Brixton Academy. Will have my backpack with me after work. The nearest "partner" storage that will be open post 9pm is a mile and a half away in the wrong direction for the train station I need. I can't leave my backpack at work
today once again makes it clear. to win big trophies, you need proven winners who've done it over and over again, like harry kane.
Stefan Bienkowski@sbienkowski.bsky.social · 6mo agoOh btw Bayern Munich won the Bundesliga. But you already knew that back in November.
A proper game of football, this one, berween a team that should have wrapped up the title already and another which should have been demoted to League One a long time ago.
I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing