Simon L. Read

In completely unrelated news, Premier League 'big six' darlings, Spurs, are on the brink of relegation...

Aston Villa's week - 19/01/2026 ~ 22/01/2026

@TheGennadiy @creepydotorg The impressive thing about Independence Day is how little CGI was used. A lot of it (ex: the city explosions) were done with models & the city-destroyer ships were done by photographing models and layering them into the shots. On the making-of doc, they said it was about 5% CGI.

@creepydotorg This and Independence Day impress to this day!

I can't get over the fact that these visual effects are 29 years old 🤯

The worst thing about PSR is they've tricked lower-table/league clubs into believing it's in-place to protect them against spending beyond their means, so they're unlikely to vote against it, handing the clubs it 'truly' protects the majority vote any time it comes up for review.

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@TransWorldSport My absolute favourite thing as a kid was watching this on Channel 4 and seeing the weekly top 10 tennis rankings. Then they'd show sumo/kabaddi and Football Italia. Good times.

After 38 years, Trans World Sport signs off for the final time at the end of 2025. Thank you for every story, every athlete, every viewer. It’s been an honour to share the world of sport with you. 🌍❤️ #TransWorldSport #EndOfAnEra

I feel like I've watched this several times an hour, every hour, since about 2:20pm this past Saturday. UTV.

My story, Glass Womb, has been published by the good people at Blood+Honey! Give it a look! It's loosely based on a short poem I once wrote called 'I am a vending machine, pregnant with a human-shaped man'. Make of this information what you will...

Pulp delivering the performance of the weekend at Glastonbury (although Four Tet was incredible last night). They sound incredible and the fact they're not headlining is nothing short of negligent booking.

I wrote some absurdist satire. Robot Butt gave it a home. Stock Market Speedrunning: robotbutt.com/2025/06/05/sto…

The good people at Kinpaurak published a flash fiction piece I wrote. I initially wanted to write it as a play because I think it would be dead funny as a play, but I have no experience in such matters so, if you produce plays, please do be in touch. kinpaurak.com/2025/04/08/bax…

@SenseiCarl_ FA Singles or FA Doubles. '3-&-In' and 'Koola' were the other two main football ones in the street.

You’re playing football with the boys when you were a kid. If you score, you go through to the next “round”. If you didn’t score, you were out. What did you call it?

Drove all the way to work today only to realise I'd forgotten my laptop, so drove home to get it, only to then realise I'd left the house key in my coat draped over the chair at work, so drove back to work to get the key, and then decided to drive home to work from home...

@Durre_Shahwar More support helping those from working class backgrounds obtain industry experience, while being sufficiently paid to do so.

To me, one of the best lessons we could learn from David Lynch is to stop demanding explanations of every piece of art from the artist who made it and instead let the art talk and decide what it means individually to you. What a richer way to experience the world.

@LilyOlivah @cardiffmet Cheers!

@SimonLRead @cardiffmet Amazing mate! Well done!

What a wild, yet enriching, ride. Began one month before the pandemic lockdowns and, at times, I was not certain we would ever get to this point... yet, here we are! I can't recommend @cardiffmet and its fantastic staff enough.

Compliance/non-compliance are terms I'd love to see removed from workplace culture. Feels like such authoritarian terminology.

We're not the same

@CFC_Janty Jorge Campos. What a legend. Designed his own kits, too.

Alright let’s settle it Who’s the best goalkeeper of all time ?