Craig Foster

Pope Leo XIV: "Artificial needs to be disarmed; freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion, and death." "Troubling voices have reached me about increasingly autonomous weapons systems, partically beyond any human reach to govern them effectively. I hear very troubling accounts of algorithms that block access to healthcare, employment, and security on the basis of data tainted by prejudice and injustice."

The Pope is on🔥

There were celebrations at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium but there was no glory. Today was a hair-breadth escape from the shame of relegation but Spurs owners should be embarrassed, not exultant dailymail.com/sport/football…

The great escape.

Mikel Arteta is a Premier League winner 🏆 And look how much it means to his family 😍 ↳ Premier League. Live & On Demand with 4K on Football’s New Home, Stan Sport. Stream now. #StanSportAU #PremierLeague #Arsenal

Mohamed Salah brings the curtain down on an incredible career at Anfield. The Egyptian became the outright record-holder for assists in the Premier League for Liverpool with 93. He has also scored 257 goals in all competitions - the third highest in the club's history.

Australia is quickly following the US and with hundreds of billions spent on defence (much of it not even guaranteed to materialise), cost of living rising largely due to illegal wars and homelessness growing, attacking the people, not the cause. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Speaker on blast. Champagne in full flow. Best press conference gatecrash EVER 🍾🎉🥳 Safe to say Auckland FC’s title celes are off to an incredible start.

Congrats to Auckland and Steve Corica. One of the greatest contributors as a marvellous player, then coach, in the long history of the Australian game. Great crowd, good end to the season. Plenty of questions remain as to where we go from here, how the game gets to where it deserves to be. Once again, on field, the product has delivered. Off field, needs to get its act together. Literally.

🚨 The lineups for the 2026 Isuzu UTE A-League Grand Final are IN 🚨 Unchanged XIs for both sides as Akol Akon becomes the youngest Grand Final starter in Australian men’s national league HISTORY at 17 🤯 Watch #AKLvSFC live NOW on 10 📺

💬 “It’s the best preparation we could ask for.” Jackson Irvine on our upcoming friendly matches against Mexico and Switzerland before the #FIFAWorldCup 🔜🇲🇽🇨🇭 #Socceroos

Ahead of the release of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, the Vatican hosts an International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, offering a sobering picture of a possible dystopian future for humanity while conveying hope as people of goodwill take up the call to make AI serve the common good. vaticannews.va/en/vatican-cit…

Steve Corica helped build Sydney FC’s winning DNA. Now, he’s standing in the way of it 👀 Can Sydney FC win their 6th Championship or will Auckland FC cap off a remarkable second season with silverware? 🏆 #ALeagues Grand Final | Today live from 5.30pm AEST on 10 and 10 Streaming

A truly great Premier League era comes to an end... ❤️🩵

Reminder that all these managers are graduates from the school of Pep Guardiola 🧠🧑‍🎓

Auckland FC's Steve Corica could become the most successful head coach in A-Leagues history! 🏆 A Grand Final win today will be his sixth trophy as a head coach. It's all on the line 😮‍💨 📺 Watch #AKLvSYD live across Network 10 & Paramount+ at 6:10pm AEST / 8:10pm NZST.

The decision and timing of Pep Guardiola’s announcement is TOTALLY his!! There is not a single person at the club who is happy about him going and, if Khaldoon had found a way to convince him to stay, he would have tried it. Pep has given everything. In year five, in year seven, he wanted to leave but was convinced to stay. Year 10 feels like a rounded ending, leaving behind a new young squad ready to compete. Once he decided to leave — and this is important, because that decision was only taken seven or eight weeks ago — he wanted to keep control of the situation so it would not influence matters on the pitch. He remembers Klopp’s experience and what happened after he announced his departure in January: after the initial positive reaction, Liverpool’s form tailed off badly during the run-in. Pep is an obsessive genius who has sacrificed his life to football. And he has not even truly enjoyed his multiple successes because, after each one, his instinct was always to think again, invent again, go again. Now it is time to rest.

Yes, Guardiola created the most beautiful football in history with Barcelona, and tens of millions of coach devotees. The most influential coach in history given the dissemination of his ideas, without doubt. But increasingly, used his position to speak out for persecuted people, when too many others in football say nothing, pretend not to see. Particularly, today’s greatest players. Guardiola was, and is in a unique position to influence the atrocities perpetrated and funded by the UAE, his employer, where his greatest leverage lay, nonetheless he spoke out on human rights, for an end to conflict, when others would not. That’s far, far too rare in sport today.

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Going to be good. Comes at an another concerning time for the game, when many questions need to be answered. As always, the players and coaches continue to deliver. The football has been excellent. Developing young stars, new generations of players and coaches heading abroad, different styles and approaches helping everyone to improve. While off the field, governance and decision-making at all levels needs to be interrogated, and a vision of alignment and complete integration and unity, developed and articulated. Look forward to the game.