italy had 20 confirmed covid-19 cases on february 21st. now it’s almost 6000 and swathes of the country in lockdown/quarantine. ireland has 19 confirmed cases today. everything still going ahead as normal 👍
the surprising thing about this chart is not the delusion of the british, which is to be expected - it’s that the other three countries also give the wrong answer
ronaldo is worse. the most ruinous big club signing since coutinho. highest paid player in the league but wrecked the team and when solskjaer got sacked CR7 was likely the main reason why they didn’t hire conte, a decision which is gonna cost them another £100m+
Unfortunately we live in an age where presenters are paranoid about ex players taking their jobs aligned with the habit of interjecting far too often thinking people are tuning in to watch them!
can’t believe gary neville is talking about a world cup semi final after england just lost to belgium B. colombia so much more dangerous than japan. best of luck with that
reading some of the tweets about roy keane from last night. i don’t think england fans can say it’s coming home mania was all just a big joke, and then fly into a rage when keane greets their elimination with some light trolling
now that matic has joined mcclean, i wonder is poppy rejectionism about to spread rapidly throughout the EPL, like tattoos did a few years ago? nearly all of the foreign players (who make up two-thirds of the league) come from countries that were invaded by britain at some point.
thank you for all the positive comments about the mourinho/napoleon article. it almost makes up for that guy calling me "a bald-denier... the curly gervinho" a couple of days back
uruguay-saudi arabia - what a waste of time. i feel bad for the city of rostov. the 48 team world cup is such a fucking awful idea. they should be cutting it down not making it even bigger and more stupid
EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum campaign.
georgia coach vladimir weiss: "ireland play football, if i can say, like michael flatley dancing... his passion is unbelievable. ireland is nice country, but georgia is also nice country. we have also fantastic dancer. better? we will see tomorrow, OK?"
here’s my sister
@sarahearlys
asking you to help the health service get through the crisis - financial support is badly needed - please donate at or or or whichever hospital is closest to you
@oilysailor
@anirrational
Mourinho famously cited Hegel, but did you know that Hegel also said something else, that is not-really-applicable to Alexis Sanchez?
From Beyonce donning a customised away shirt to Justin Timberlake performing in club-branded merchandise, PSG have become one of Europe's most glamorous clubs. But will it help them gain any fans? My piece for
@brfootball
the fungi story reminds me of christmas eve when they put weather reports from the north pole on the news, only apparently this is directed at adults and is serious
i read a piece in an irish newspaper about the rise of populism, which claimed “fact checking” is a thing in irish papers & radio. it ended by quoting JFK, omitting to mention that JFK was at the time [mis]quoting hitler, with a likely-fake quote more often attributed to goebbels
morocco offered compact geography, TV-friendly time zone, great weather, small carbon footprint, but in the end there were several billion more reasons to vote for the "united" bid
in a hipster coffee place in saint petersburg. exposed lightbulbs, antique wooden dressers, rickety reclaimed wooden furniture. they just told me they're out of coffee
german clubs still don’t have access to sugar daddy billions, which at least means their moral concerns are at a more rarefied level than “am i tacitly endorsing war and slavery”
A curious case from the world of football sponsorship.
Another company, seemingly with no staff, no active products, barely any assets and whose operating company is registered to a mailbox in London, is a longstanding official partner to Manchester City
this is even better than i remember. and i like when david pleat refers to one of the all-time legendary displays of world cup showboating as “what i would call, old-fashioned inside-forward play”
This man who helped me reach wonderful heights during my career, has meant so much to me. Looking forward to joining
@GeoffShreeves
tonight celebrating Arsene Wenger’s career in London
@legendsoffootball
. In aid of Nordoff Robbins.
i wrote a piece on mo salah for slate, & i hear that when ppl read it in ireland it's accompanied by a barrage of vote no ads. when i look at it here in ukraine the only ad is for something called "alkoclean". anyway, if i was home i'd be voting yes. now off to buy some alkoclean
a polish woman was admiring my dog in the park and after making a few compliments about him she asked me “and does he shite?” i said “i… suppose about twice a day?” immediately after that i realised she was saying “shed”
my mate here watching the match “the only thing i can say about our team is we have a player that nobody in their right mind would go in for a 50-50 with. and we’ve got the only player in world football who’d go in for a 50-50 with him. and they’re both from the same village”
I have just finished watching Episode 1 of Chernobyl on
@HBO
. My perspective is that of someone born and raised in the Soviet Union who has vivid memories of 1986, the catastrophe itself and how it was handled by the Soviet politicians and the state media...
france: a cold-blooded armour-plated reptile of a team, bristling with terrifying fangs and spines. they will kill you but at least they’ll destroy your will to live first
i really believed mick mccarthy might manage to guilt trip rice into sticking with ireland, but i guess the other option of playing for the country of his and his parents’ birth in three world cups and earning way more money was difficult to turn down