J_Stewart

Even Tierney’s singing. These English boys are away to get absolutely fucked

They're actually ok. Anthony Edwards is their best player (or certainly about to be), he plays Kermit in the Adam Sandler basketball film Hustle, and is tremendous to watch, but he's also playing for the US team in the world cup just now, so might be on holiday the first wee while of pre-season, hopefully plays though, amazing dunker. Karl Anthony Towns is also very good, big guy that can shoot, and Rudy Gobert is a 7' 2" Frenchman who's not particularly exciting, but a monster defensively. Knicks have some good players too, Jalen Brunson is class, but is also at the World Cup, not many exciting players, but some very good ones, and they're dogged as f**k. Did well in the playoffs last year, so would imagine there'll be a decent crowd there. The Garden is absolute class. Been to a knicks game before and boxing, sporting mecca.

Who're they playing against? I'd say it'll be somewhere close to football equivalent, although they'll be playing against the teams they'll play in the season, so a little more competitive, just with slightly less defending. In saying that, for someone that's not much of a fan, that might be better entertainment wise anyway as they'll have a bit more freedom for trying flashier dribbles, shots, dunks, etc.

Such is their staunchness and commitment to the crown, fans of the blue bigots have started modelling their heads on King Charlie’s fingers. Commendable.

That defending Blue bigots will be raging...

Joe Hart approaching that "clearance" like a middle aged woman dipping her toe in the sea before going paddling. A fucking woeful goalkeeper, and genuine comedy in every remotely big game.

No matter how well it was struck, the 27 inch circumference ball making it's way through the 3 inch gap between Joe Hart's hands is absolutely peak Joe Hart. Really good first half an hour. Arse cheeks games last few years have been turgid shite, but this has been entertaining, and both teams very, very lucky not to have conceded as that VAR call was really weak, and Kyogo's missed sitters.

One of my favourite running parts in the fight was big Vic calling break, realising he couldn't be arsed separating them properly, so just letting them both stay in the pocket and fire off immediately. Great laugh. This card tonight being PPV is also a great laugh. Must be one of the weakest in history. Will not be watching.

Fight is surprisingly enjoyable, even if Burns is levels above. His jab is still as good as it ever was. In saying that, it’s somewhat dampened by being treated to some of the worst between rounds music in boxing history.

Don’t think Willie is lasting too long if Burns is treating this as a proper fight. Shaken a couple of times with nice combinations and eye already a bit puffy.

At no point did I think that was anything other than an absolutely blatant penalty. Bizarre initial decision from the ref.

Obviously inherently biased being Scottish, but can someone please at least try to explain to me how it is that Tomiyasu is constantly ahead of Tierney in this arsenal team? It doesn’t appear to make any sense.

In terms of accuracy, Ederson might genuinely have the second best left foot in football right now after Lionel Messi. It’s insane.

Every non-Irish actor that has ever played a Northern Irishman in an ITV drama

You should tell that to, em, every single footballer, at every single level, and every single age group, that has played a game of organised football with a referee, across the globe, over the last 30+ years, because they are very definitely not aware.

Far from pretty on the whole, but job done, money in the bank, now needs to go home, delete Eddie’s number, hang up his gloves and forget that he ever heard the name Deontay Wilder. I always thought Wilder would be too much for him, even pre-Ruiz. Now, with the tentativeness coupled his never improved poor footwork, I’d genuinely be concerned for his health taking that fight. A very good career, especially considering how late he started. Taking on an elite fighter - especially one of the biggest punching heavyweights ever - would be a massive mistake, IMO.

Just watched that in awe. By every metric pre-fight that was a 50/50 fight. Granted Spence has only fought once since 2019, and had the car crash, etc, and that likely played a part, but predominantly, that was just an elite boxer being outclassed by a generational talent. He doesn’t do anything particularly flashy, but he literally does everything at 8 or 9/10. His footwork, head movement and jab are excellent, his accuracy is elite, but the real differential is his decision making. Nothing is ever wasted, the correct punch is almost always chosen, his understanding of when to get out of range and back in are incredible. Unreal fighter. What most surprised me most though was how they looked in there. General wisdom - which I assumed would be the case - was that Spence would be the bigger man, but Crawford looked huge. His shoulders, back, legs and wrists all looked massive, even more so than Spence (who may need to move up if he continues), and I wouldn’t be surprised if Crawford has a defence or two and tries to clear out light-middle as well. You can argue the position, but Crawford and Inoue are the two best fighters on the planet. A treat to get both of them box in the same week.

Yes, of course, because there's no location on earth that advertises and markets itself as a possible holiday destination to try and entice tourists and have them choose one location over the other, and travel agents certainly don't develop discounted package deals to try to tempt potential customers. That absolutely does not happen.

You can be an arsehole and good and people won’t care. You can be shite, and sound, and people with give you a degree of sympathy, but I’m afraid you can’t be both, Lee. One of our teams getting absolutely embarrassed on a Thursday night in July though? Scottish football, we are so back, baby!

This is the tories “useful idiot” dream statement.

I’ve got Harman on at 100/1 (Bob and Hatton not fairing so well) after watching him last week, so all you hoping for an arse collapse can, respectfully, get fucked. M’on the Bri man

Bob is flying, great to see. One of the soundest guys in professional golf, even if he wasn’t Scottish., that he’s one of us makes it all the better. Really hope he holds out.

I was standing across the road at the front of the Stag, pint of T in hand, howling with laughter as this happened. Crab had claimed he could climb it from the lane, we called bullshit, he went straight out. It was about 3 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon in the summer after a very heavy Saturday. There were a lot of bemused tourists about. Thankfully he didn't actually do a shit, and there was no new "black pudding" for Jimmy the Butcher to package.