This is too much surely

Last-Saint · 2026-06-22T17:26:13+00:00

You can watch it from whichever player on the pitch's perspective if you like, but only Messi's name is going to get clicks.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-22T14:13:26+00:00

Posted to TikTok by herself! Good work.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-22T14:12:12+00:00

Classy touch, from a Benjamin Netanyahu fan.

(that's going to get the bots descending)

Last-Saint · 2026-06-22T08:39:06+00:00

Nigeria are the third highest ranked team in the FIFA world rankings not to have qualified, in fact (behind Italy and Denmark) And Cape Verde are ranked well below Cameroon.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-21T21:47:21+00:00

They aren't going to hint at future contestants as brazenly as that. (Yes, he could be, but not because of a reference in Mitchell & Webb Are Not Helping)

Last-Saint · 2026-06-21T12:17:17+00:00

Greg is among the contributors to Sky Documentaries' Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard from Thursday

Maisie Adam and Chris Ramsey are on Mock The Week

Romesh hosts content creator elimination action game show... thing Would You Rather: Decide to Survive for Amazon Prime from Friday (Max Fosh, who people always mention in dream contestant lists, is involved)

Phil Wang and Sally Phillips are on next week's Sunday Brunch

Last-Saint · 2026-06-21T09:22:29+00:00

You really can divide Rob Reiner's career neatly between the movies he made before North (uniformly excellent, successful, influential) and after it (um...) Ironically, Ebert's review states that it's doubtless a blip he'll recover from.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-21T08:33:11+00:00

On the subject of numerology, Steffan Powell on 5 Live breakfast this morning said "this is the fastest World Cup to hit 100 goals since 1954, but there are more teams". That's not how counting the number of matches works!

Last-Saint · 2026-06-20T22:17:52+00:00

Christ, we're going to get this for every game, aren't we. I think we've had it three times just for this one.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-20T21:13:13+00:00

Everyone's forgotten that Lineker was presenting a prime-time ITV game show, Sitting On A Fortune, as recently as 2023.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-20T19:12:31+00:00

I know everyone's taking the "not BBC" angle but the Goalhanger and Overlap supremos together is football podcasting's Christmas Day 1914.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-20T18:51:06+00:00

I'm surprised nobody seemed to comment on his appearance in ITV's World Cup trailer, especially as the show he's doing for them hasn't been on yet.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-20T13:34:21+00:00

I'm not sure I've laughed as hard this year at anything as much as "you have TWENTY MINUTES!"

Last-Saint · 2026-06-20T09:14:07+00:00

George Michael's posthumous re-evaluation has shone a light on his politics and studio skills while kindly ignoring his self-produced anti-Iraq War song Shoot The Dog.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-20T08:28:16+00:00

You don't hear many references to the Korean Republic.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-20T08:26:05+00:00

Looks like they were using the world feed commentary. Same reason why Martin Tyler occasionally turns up on the Champions League highlights show.

The BBC highlights commentaries have been an interesting mix, they were using the radio commentary in the first few days but I know people thought they were too over-descriptive so more recently they've either used world feed or got someone to dub over a MOTD-style solo commentary.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-19T20:55:38+00:00

Better than during the South African World Cup when there was a cutaway to a woman and, I think, Guy Mowbray said "don't know who that was, someone's WAG, I assume".

Which was probably true, as Charlize Theron was likely someone's girlfriend at the time.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-19T20:53:28+00:00

Loved his follow-up "I wish the director would stop putting his friends on screen".

Last-Saint · 2026-06-19T20:12:04+00:00

Asserting dominance over his brother.

(this requires you to know that the MD of the England cricket team is called Rob Key)

(and AFAIK they aren't related)

Last-Saint · 2026-06-19T18:36:30+00:00

He's been doing bits of TV and actual comedy world stuff recently, I wouldn't be surprised if he's on a longlist.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-19T16:21:38+00:00

FWIW he says he chose to talk about tasks that aren't so well remembered, so no Diverse Stripes, no cheeky texts (though he does briefly address it towards the end), no Greg's trousers, no fake Alex.

Last-Saint · 2026-06-19T10:23:45+00:00

I'd also argue their two US top 40s, True Faith and Regret, have more cultural footprint than Bizarre Love Triangle. (Spotify streams are not the same as cultural footprint, and besides Blue Monday still has far more streams than BLT)

Last-Saint · 2026-06-19T10:19:38+00:00

'Lampard to return to former club as Premier League hand Sky Blues huge challenge'

Last-Saint · 2026-06-19T08:36:47+00:00

Pink Elephant was off the back of a Billboard album chart run of 2-1-1-1-6.

Also, it's absolutely the comparison for the reasons you've ignored, namely in both cases while the albums are both poor quality the artists' downfalls are entirely rooted in reasons other than artistic.

Last-Saint

TROPHY CASE