From Rossington Main to Champions League goalscorer in 12 months. Hat tip to 24-year-old Manasse Kianga. Just over a year ago he was playing for the Colliery in the North East Counties League. He’s just come off the bench to score a 94th minute winner for Slovan Bratislava away at Mjallby.

Molyneux has been an undeniably great player for #DRFC, and we broadly wish him well, but this is a disappointing move. We’ll never begrudge a player moving upwards or seeking to challenge themselves. But this isn’t either of those things.

Trying to imagine any point prior to the last five minutes that you could’ve told me England will play out a World Cup semi-final with Dan Burn and Ivan Toney as their front two, and I wouldn’t have had you sectioned.

Mark Pougatch is too intense for pre-8pm television. He has an oddly accusatory tone that doesn't belong next to a knee-height table.

There aren’t enough striped kits in international football. Which it makes it all the more of a shame that Paraguay have made such a mess of theirs

If the title of their second single is anything to go by, mid-1990s German DJ Sash! must be feeling pretty conflicted about now. #WorldCup

I just don't think you should have a signature celebration at the age of 41.

Who likes looking at football grounds? Here’s a picture from every game I watched in 2025/26, from Penrhyndeudraeth to Potsdam…

How I watched football: 2025-26

A photographic look at the 2025-26 football season, from Penrhyndeudraeth to Potsdam.

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First James Husband, now Alfie May. Is any other club as obsessed as Rovers seem to be with getting the band back together? #DRFC

“Hello, is that David Beckham’s agent? Great, just a quick one, I wondered if David would be in anyway interested in appearing in an advert for…” “YES!”

“Chris! Chris! Over here! Chris! I’m open! Chris! Square it! Chris! Chris! Out wide! Chris! Chris! Now! Give it! Chris! I’m still on! Chris! Chris! Give it n… fuck’s sake!” I presume that’s what it’s felt like to play for Portugal at the last few major tournaments.

Who edits the ads for Wayne Rooney’s podcast? Do they hate him? Every one is a suggestion of incomparable insight followed by the emptiest anecdote… ‘I know what it’s like to play in an elite European final and be 2-0 down and in desperate need of a goal… [dramatic music burst] …it’s really hard’

Americans must be pretty confused as to why the weird Trivago guy is now also advertising Budweiser

I consider myself a progressive type, but I’m struggling to get on board with Brazil starting a World Cup with a big bloke from Brentford up top. #WorldCup

You get a red card! You get a red card! You get a red card! #WorldCup

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One half-time in and Mark Pougatch has already lost control #WorldCup

Big day for football today. I've finally pulled together a photo from each of the matches I watched during 2025-26, from Lewisham to Lichtenberg, into one coherent article. And then something is happening in Mexico later. But first, photos.

How I watched football: 2025-26

A photographic look at the 2025-26 football season, from Penrhyndeudraeth to Potsdam.

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Solidarity with me fellow workplace World Cup sweepstake organisers trying to fill all the available slots for a 48 team tournament. How is my participant list so long and yet also so far from target?!

Listening to Palace vs Rayo Vallecano on 5Live and Paul Robinson on co-comms just spoke of “the incredible scenes from the Crystal Palace supporters above, below, in and around us”. Please Paul, tell us more of these fans who are celebrating in you. Or actually… don’t.

Come on now this is getting silly... you can't all support Arsenal.

Gutted thatvl @drfcofficial.bsky.social are no longer apparently posting on here. I know there aren't that many of us on here. But was genuinely chuffed that they gave an alternative to the extreme right wing shit fest that Twitter turned into. Hopefully, they'll reconsider. #DRFC

The use of quote marks in this title make it sound like a euphemism… and a horrible one at that

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

Mikel Arteta was ‘in the garden building a fire’ when Arsenal won Premier League title

My pal Paul points out that the penalty shootout earlier between Rochdale and Boreham Wood pitted Oliver Whatmuff against Ted Curd. “It’s as if I’m playing Football Manager on a ZX Spectrum and I’ve renamed the players myself”

Football, where one man's 'flirt with disaster' is another thousands' 'more than we could ever dream of attaining'.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 3mo ago

Despite flirting with disaster, Arsenal reached its first Champions League final in 20 years on Tuesday and holds a crucial edge in the Premier League title race. on.wsj.com/4tfThCE

Woah! Why are we catching strays from the Leicester City shit show? We were in the division above them not that long back.

Tiago Dias@tiagodf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The players were booed off and Leicester’s fixture list next season will include Doncaster Rovers, Wycombe Wanderers and a Bromley side that have spent 132 of their 134 years in existence playing non-League football

Weird how shots can be blazed over, occasionally blazed wide, but no-one ever blazes a shot on target do they?

Doncaster Rovers@drfcofficial.bsky.social · 4mo ago

⏱️ 54 | Chance for Rovers as Jack Senior blazes over from Elliot Lee's low cross. Rovers 0-1 Lincoln #DRFC

That’ll do. Guaranteed third tier football next season, sitting in mid-table, some good cup ties. Suddenly the whole season looks a lot rosier #DRFC

Doncaster Rovers@drfcofficial.bsky.social · 4mo ago

⏱️ FT | Northampton 1-3 Rovers That's the whistle! We claim three points in Northampton thanks to a second half blitz from Elliott Lee, Hakeeb Adelakun and a late worldie from George Broadbent! Thank you to the 966 travelling supporters this afternoon - see you again on Tuesday! GET IN!!! #DRFC

GET IN THERE!!!!!!!* Big win for #DRFC that, to move us firmly back into ‘more or less there now’ territory. (*didn’t dare post this after the goal)

I see the FA are pissing about with the women’s football pyramid in a way they wouldn’t dare try and do with the men’s, again.

Guardian Sport@sport.theguardian.com · 4mo ago

‘Absolute disgrace’: FA’s plan to restructure Women’s National League criticised

Well, we’ve had better Easter weekends. Two defeats and we’ve gone from being just about safe to being dragged back into the fight to avoid the last relegation spot. Big couple of games ahead #DRFC

Doncaster Rovers@drfcofficial.bsky.social · 4mo ago

⏱️ FT | Defeat in Devon #DRFC