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Champions League: we’re going to rejig and become the most infuriating football tournament on earth!
World Cup: hold my beer…
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I like everything I've seen of Ange Postecoglou since I moved to Australia in 2012 and hope that my excitement can withstand the inevitable rash of mulletted Tottenham-shirt wearing dilettantes on my local streets over coming months
Back in Australia, where Ange Postecoglou arrived from Greece as a five-year-old in 1970, there is almost universal acclaim for the man who will become the country’s first coach to take charge of a Premier League team.
By @joeylynchy theguardian.com/football/blo…
I’ve been really enjoying The National’s new record this past week or so.
In other news, I’ve been really nostalgic and sad for the past week or so.
Wow. It’s already that time of year when I briefly consider googling Met Gala before realising I don’t need to know what it is. Comes around quicker every year
“There’s got to be someone else like me who still loves adventure, still wants to go and hurt themselves during the day, but then wants a really good Shiraz at the end of the night.”
I had some fun conversations while writing my latest story
Gourmet meals, foot spas and a "nice, nice coffee": Ultramarathons roll out high-end amenities to tempt runners, confounding traditionalists. on.wsj.com/40N0AU9
I've never taken Ozempic but last night I did dream that Margaret Thatcher had written a very well-received run on The Flash that I was very keen to see collected in hardback
Where have Matthew McConaughey, Clint Eastwood, Oprah Winfrey and Johnny Depp all been seen lately? In the bizarre dreams of Ozempic users. on.wsj.com/3ou5Tuq
“Freddie Mercury’s Tiffany & Co silver moustache comb” sounds like the perfect Christmas present. Or a British racehorse theguardian.com/music/2023/a…
Suede’s debut album is as far away from today as the Beatles’ debut album was when Suede’s debut album came out. This means nothing of course but I’m tickled thinking about how ignorant of time’s elasticity I was in 1993
He had Tottenham playing the best football I've ever seen from the club. He improved inherited players. He trusted youngsters. He knows the club inside out. He was fired before he could finish his painful rebuild. He's available
Odd then that Elvis Costello was more than happy to admit to nicking Dancing Queen’s piano sound for Oliver’s Army (1978)
Bono says pressure to look ‘macho’ made him hide his love of Abba theguardian.com/music/2023/m…
Reading this quite lovely piece made me wonder whether I am unusual in never having had a teacher who made all the difference (I'm very aware that may say more about me than my teachers)
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Serious country
MP Sussan Ley dresses up as Tina Turner in parliament to raise money for cancer care – video theguardian.com/australia-ne…
This week I bought a ticket to see @tmbg perform Flood in Sydney later this year and it led me to reconnect with the person who taped me the album 33 years ago. Nice
I can't help but feel that if I had just a modicum of the chutzpah it takes to launch a $500M share buyback after collecting $2B in government stimulus and 'exiting' 10,000 workers, my life might have worked out quite differently
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I thought Brendan Fraser was brilliant in The Quiet American (2002) and I definitely remember telling someone this. If that person is reading, please feel free to reach out and congratulate me for being super ahead of the curve