Ian Anderson

@_PhilCosta @YankeeGunner “If you think about it, our opposition were two words, Ever and Ton. Which meant if they played forever against us, they’d score a ton of goals.”

“Here’s what losing four games in a row taught me about B2B sales”

Why AI won’t yet take over my job …

@heyxie @Sportsfreakconz I don't need an alibi, I need a fire escape and an open window

In which we reflect on our 19-year-old selves, before swiftly moving on.

@Lloyd_Cole Quite possibly the best gig I’ve been to in the past decade, among some tremendous contenders. Every song was gorgeous and the guitar and voice were beautiful. Safe travels.

Thanks, New Zealand. I wish I could visit every year. See you soon, I hope.

@mikeburgess99 Nice one Burge, she looks an absolute beauty

Life is beautiful. Extremely blessed that our second daughter has arrived in the world. Came early, but after a few weeks in hospital, is doing great. As is my amazing wife.

@daraokearney Talking to the Taxman about Poker

Little known fact: when Mrs Doke was a teen in Strasbourg, she considered the two sexiest men ever as Beckett, and Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. so it was always a flip whether she'd marry an Irishman or a Russian. Of the two, I think I look more like Mayakovsky (pictured below)

@Lloyd_Cole Aldous is what we refer to as 'taonga' here in Aotearoa ..

No need to wonder what it's 'about'. Only 'Is it awesome?" I say yes. youtube.com/watch?v=vyKaSM…

@aleaguemen Outstanding Tim Tam assist by @andrewvoerman

“Can I have a Tim Tam?”: What an ending to the presser 😆 We’re sure that second one was for your “assistant”, Adam Griffiths 😉

"Hey, Offside Face - you have a face like it's offside!" #TOTCRY

Here’s this week’s cartoon for Guardian Australia. theguardian.com/football/pictu…

@rohan_connolly @YouTube It’s amazing. It’s not quite as brilliant as ‘I Believe’ tho, which tops them all for me.

R.E.M. have a massive catalogue & I love so much of it, but if push comes to shove, THIS is my single favourite song, from IMO their best album "Life's Rich Pageant". Captures everything about them that was great. These Days (2011 Remaster) youtu.be/7vgEWp7Voyk?si… via @YouTube

@Lloyd_Cole Will be there 👍🏼

Solo Electric shows in New Zealand and Australia soon (details here - lloydcole.com/live/) So I must practice! Here are a few 2nd fret capo songs you may or may not recognise. vimeo.com/1166189376/e52…

“By the time he was a junior at HS, everyone knew Jay Gatsby was going to be a very good quarterback. But he had a ferocious inner drive to improve. At breakfast, he would not eat just one egg, but two.”

“I’d been in the driveway, throwing a ball against the garage wall. It was when I’d made catch 22 that I decided to enlist.”

@OcCaldwell And with a broken right leg too!! Incredible, OC 😳

Another splendid run to claim. Long Gully Track up the back of Bannockburn. Could smell wild thyme the whole way. Beautiful.

@AFCWimbledon Two @NCR_fc greats playing for the Dons; @FishendenP and Mark ‘Guppy’ Morris.

#OnThisDay in 1985, Paul Fishenden scored as Wimbledon beat Nottingham Forest to progress to the FA Cup fifth round for the first time in our history 🏆 “We are a blood and guts team. I don’t care if people criticise our play,” said Dave Bassett 🗣️ #AFCW 🟡🔵

@secondzeit Gosh, so hard to choose between Racey and Kamahl

The Velvet Underground

@billycarpy Was incredibly glaring in the last minute v Forest that when Rice had the ball in the centre of the park and Trossard was in ample space to receive, he twice checked back and passed right.

According to Wyscout, the left generated 2 "positional" attacks in the first half for a total of 0.0 xG. Leaning right, especially with Saka on the pitch, is totally fine. Having no coherent mechanism for *originating* threat from the other 67% of the pitch is not.

Was happy with some of the subtext of the Arteta conference. Didn’t feel like they xG-hand-waved the Forest result, and he called out the setup on the left unprompted. I wasn’t frustrated in an existential way. It's just the exact kind of configuration we should be past by now.

In writing this, I'm likely to attract something similar. Fortunate then t have a wrinkled old hide, and few readers.

As with any profession, it's sadly become a job where anonymous online criticism is prevalent and widespread. Female reporters are the vile target of this at a rate almost unmeasurable in comparison to male reporters.

Algorithm-driven, but still a tad surprised to read so much debate over the reporter's actions at the NFL post-game media opp. Very rarely post on here and probably have few readers left, but will offer my thoughts. Firstly, considering what occurs in the world daily, ...

I imagine had there not been some quickly-written criticism of the woman reporter yesterday, she would have become the target of those who then defended her actions - most likely so they could instead turn their attention to a different reporter.