Alex

Saw them complaining about the local news section on BBC Breakfast this morning. Apparently they mentioned Spennymoor Town playing in the FA Trophy final this weekend but failed to mention Sunderland’s playoff match tonight.

Sportswashed ☝️

It’s their IQs

Too late

I spent a lot of time buying and listening to music. Smoking weed. Doing all sorts, dancing in clubs and fields. But I wasted a lot of time too.

Tbf I’d much rather go to that than see him in concert

Had loads of them as a kid in the 80s and every single one suffered from the badges peeling off I seem to remember

I’ve still got mine. Tempted by a fake maroon / blue hoops away version.

Think I had a score draw Brazil / Pele one as a cliched student wanker back in the 90s

But gutted I never got one of their long sleeved 1970s NUFC hone shirts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20x0peyp2ko

70s easy listening act

All about the movement and timing of his runs

I think Lippi coached them when they reached 3 successive CL finals (but only won the first of those iirc). Zidane played in the two they lost iirc. Preferred them before that particularly that winning side with Vialli and Ravanelli upfront. And I always thought they fucked up letting Vieri go as I think him and Del Piero would’ve been awesome had they played together more. The latter and Inzaghi were a bit lightweight at times. Ancelotti followed Lippi iirc but the fans never really took to him because of his being a former Milan player

Generation Kill reference iirc

Not as good player as his older brother but he seems to be a great manager. I never actually rated ‘Pippo’ that much as a player although it’s difficult to argue with his goalscoring record.

Pool tables plus mini golf I think

Probably worth having a moratorium on predictions at this point

If there’s 10 games left (for example) they are probably more useful from a prediction pov. Because I think the run the possible results through a simulator 1000s of times. Then you get the most likely outcome based on that. Not saying that’s foolproof of course. But when you come down to the wire they obviously veer wildly because a single result changes so much (or can) due to the lack of remaining games. You can also just look at the table now and see exactly what you need to do in about 5 seconds.

Match thread already parsnipped and we didn’t even win. The penalty and subsequent equaliser must’ve gone down well

Why did that take ages to check?

We’ll miss this

Just (genuinely) had a look to see if there was a BBC Archive account on Bluesky. Apparently there is: