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In the summer I was lucky to be part of a small event looking at increasing women's participation in industries that are traditionally male dominated. Among the people in the room and sharing their stories was the woman from the FA responsible for building grassroots football for women and...

I always thought this must feel like winning the school Sports Day sack race for the sportspeople involved but saw an interview with Nigel Mansell recently where he said winning it was one of the proudest moments in his entire career. It wasn't even a puff piece for the event, it was him talking...

Weevils will typically only eat damp or decaying wood so it's quite unusual for them to be tucking into your furniture. I'd suggest that weevil did you a favour by illustrating potential structural damp issues with your house but certainly by showing you that your furniture is in need of...

A joke that only works out loud: How did Darth Vader know what Luke had got him for Christmas? He felt his presents

Marine flares burn at 1,600 C and remain hot for a long time after dropping. Horrendous if they touch skin or are trodden on and a major fire risk. That's what Marseille were mostly using. It's so dangerous in a crowded environment even the pyro nutters with high tolerance for danger that blow...

A lovely article https://www.football365.com/news/opinion-gilmour-brighton-shts-caicedo-chelsea-everyone-saw-coming

Love seeing the photos from different parts of the ground. Something about feeling more of that collective experience we had as individuals from our own perspective.

I didn't realise he'd worked with Omid Scobie before. Looking back at the highly personal and critical way he speaks about Scobie when discussing Scobie's relationship with Harry and Meghan now makes a lot more sense. I thought it was just generalised bias and hatred alongside jealousy and a...

If Labour could make laws to enable a massive - but socially benign - Trumpesque purge of the self-serving Tories bloating the Lords and also prevent future Tory governments being so corrupt and immoral that'd be good. Otherwise whatever they do while in power nothing will ever really change.

So from Chelsea, entitled fans and a legacy of Conte, Mourinho, Ancelotti, Hiddink, Benitez, Ranieri, Scolari, Tuchel and club legend Lampard not being good enough... ...to Man Utd with possibly even more entitled fans and a legacy of van Gaal, Mourinho, Ten Hag, Moyes and club legend...

I need to read that series of books again. One of them has a description of following England abroad, I think Spain 86 maybe, and from memory the protagonist gets on a train to escape the police and ends up travelling away from the city and other fans and football. Not an experience I ever had...

It's been a few years since I read it but in the Secret Footballer book he talks about making a big money move for the wrong reasons and regretting it. It's thought the author was Dave Kitson, and he was referring to breaking the transfer record at Stoke in 2008. I might be misremembering it but...

I go home and also a few games a season away on my own. Sometimes meet up with mates at half time but not often. I wouldn't have it any other way at the moment simply because between work and family going to a game is the only time I get my own space without needing to be somewhere for anyone...

Nightmare Before Christmas

After Anthony Taylor at Forest I thought I'd pulled my BOOOOOO muscle. Definitely felt a twinge with that sudden change of direction to cheering when RDZ ran on. Gutted to miss Chelsea but not sure I would have been able to make a meaningful BOOOOOO contribution and didn't want to let the lads...

There's something about requiring polarity, every action causing an equal and opposite reaction in behaviour as much as physics, and evil needing to exist for good to flourish: for every Jacob Rees-Mogg there are many more quietly going about doing good and charitable work to mitigate the...

An absolute throbber of an 11. I can't believe how even going behind we still come back, how injuries seem surmountable and how everything is just a joy. Also the two blokes who sat near me last season and spent every match talking about the traffic (first half traffic in, second half wondering...

I've no strong opinion on commentary and would love the option to turn it off and just have crowd noise, but I agree Sam Matterface is good. I heard him recently hosting a sports radio show rather than doing commentary, which I don't know if he does frequently or not, but he was better than 99%...

Jill Scott and Gary Neville swapped profiles a while ago as an experiment https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/14/get-back-into-the-kitchen-what-happened-when-jill-scott-and-gary-neville-swapped-social-media-accounts

I know lots of people like to cite the statistic of consecutive games with goals scored and conceded, but I can't remember the last time there wasn't a rendition of "hark now hear..." which considering we're in December is even more jarring Or did I just not erm...hear it?