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🚨💣 𝐌𝐀𝐉𝐎𝐑 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: UEFA are set to reject any attempts by FIFA president Gianni Infantino to expand the Club World Cup. 😳❌ The tournament has already undergone huge change: — Old format was 7 teams — 2025 edition was 32 teams — Proposed next step: 48 teams for 2029 Infantino also wants it held more often — but UEFA will block both the size increase and any plans to make it biennial.

Athelstan and Seacole already sounds like a constituency name

St George was a Palestinian who never set foot in England.

Rooney was absolutely awful in every single tournament outside of Euro 2004 for England. Somehow gets a complete pass for it.

"Don't siege Leningrad, take it immediately" is so funny. I mean that's exactly the type of shit Hitler would tell his generals and then get mad when it couldn't be done.

The UEFA Conference League is not as bad as people make it out to be. Just look at the quarter-final matchups coming up. These are games we would normally never get to see, even though all these teams have real quality. That’s exactly what makes this competition so interesting. Pro Conference League.

The island of Unst in Shetland is the UK's most northerly. It is so distant from London that of the Norse countries' capitals*, only Reykjavik is farther away. The nearest train station to Unst is very nearly in Bergen, Norway. (* Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Reykjavik)