writer, mostly football • you can order 'Underground, Overground' at the link below • andi dot j dot thomas at gmail dot com

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Joined July 2010
hello everybody, I am once again asking you to click on a Google Form and give me your thoughts. this time I'm looking for "anti-cliches": that is, football phrases that you and your friends use but nobody else would understand. forms.gle/jKvStkBUvo7Gedun9 please RT! thanks!
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tonight's FIFA World Cup 2026 Hydration Break Sponsored by Powerade Top Left Anagram is CAROBS
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This is what I'll remember of Starmer, beyond the indulgence of the far right, the sedulously mournful hounding of refugees & sexual minorities, the excruciating attempts to court reaction: the idea that Palestinian humanity is an indulgent bien-pensant fad to be mocked & derided
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made a site that picks the closest rothko for how the weather feels outside your window
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I bet he sticks around just long enough to get free tickets for the champions league final
🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer says he will not "walk away" and "plunge the country into chaos" "These results reflect voters who don't feel their lives have changed enough. We were elected to do with that - and I'm not going to walk away from that"
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This piece on Gaza by Eyal Weizman of Forensic Architecture has already been widely circulated, and is almost unbearable to read. The very first paragraph lays out in inarguable terms why Gaza was, and is, a genocide. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n07/…
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Today is the day. Eric Cantona's kung-fu kick becomes closer in time to the assassination of JFK than the present day. We are, without any shadow of a doubt, #HurtlingTowardsDeath.
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If people are fighting for an orb you are reading fantasy. If people are fighting for a cube you are reading sci-fi. If it has more sides than that. I dont know. I dont know man.
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Absolutely sensational. This, THIS, is what football is all about. Total confusion, emotional incompleteness, a daunting gnawing sense you've wasted your entire life on something meaningless.
Breaking: Africa Cup of Nations final result overturned in major ruling. Senegal declared to have forfeited the match with Morocco declared 3-0 winners
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It is so maddening that this is so bleedingly and self evidently obvious and has been proven so recently and so painfully and so frequently yet the strategic forgetting and not noticing is so pervasive
Three historical lessons about bombing campaigns and regime change:
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Matt Goodwin once emailed me to accuse him of being racist when I called him a “racist whisperer” and I had to explain to him that horse whisperers aren’t horses.
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RIP Starmer 2.0: 21 Feb - 27 Feb 2026.
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we should abolish the monarchy so extensively that all memory of it is destroyed, leaving Philippa Gregory one of the leading practitioners of a peculiarly gnarly and deranged experiment in alt-history worldbuilding
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Beyond fed-up with the ‘Starmer is a decent man’ hokum. If this whole imbroglio has proved anything beyond doubt, it’s how conspicuously not-decent his passive, principle-free managerialism is in its actual, real-world effects
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this evening's Magic of the FA Cup Top Left Anagram is STATTO
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One calls this playing. I have no boots, no ball, no kit, no team. I am playing into a fluid 4213.
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Wonderful tribute to Mao Zedong 👏 👏 👏
Chelsea fans held up a poignant tifo banner at Stamford Bridge ahead of Remembrance Sunday. 🙏
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even galaxies far far away are troubled by Evil Corbyn and his Empire-Style Hats
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🚨🔜 People will be 'shocked' about the #ballondor winner tonight, reports @marca.
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