@agbutteriss.bsky.social - Alicia

29 Aug 2026 12:03 +0000

Three office workers share a dislike for their boss. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

28 Aug 2026 18:30 +0000

It's, uh, interesting that Southampton's coach is talking openly about the budget cuts (... also that Southampton really do believe that briefing that they would have done this even if the men made it to the PL is something that makes them look good?) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwyz1gv96vzo

26 Aug 2026 19:52 +0000

Okay, Arsenal can probably do well if they actually try (they really were in "it's a friendly" mode from making it 3-1 through to until AshNev hurt KCC). Good to know. #ARSCHA

26 Aug 2026 18:26 +0000

....What the hell was that Arsenal??? Like... just... no one going for that ball??? Really? Just some decision to leave Charlton all the space in the world??? #ARSCHA

23 Aug 2026 19:54 +0000

... It's not an 'insurance goal' if it takes it to 3-2 from 2-2! It feels like they felt Chicago should have just scored and then, uh, the Stars didn't score but they played the lines anyway. #NWSL #CHILOU

23 Aug 2026 19:46 +0000

...I can't tell whether the NWSL+ commentators don't understand 'advantage' (... a strike like that counts as an advantage being realised) or whether they were just assuming the ref might not (worryingly plausible tbh) #NWSL #CHILOU

23 Aug 2026 19:32 +0000

Chicago Stars goals are like buses... Seriously, of the 6 games they've scored in so far this season, they've had multiple goals in 4 of them???? It's wild. #NWSL #CHILOU

23 Aug 2026 18:33 +0000

Man there really are some "separated by a common language" moments with this commentary... (e.g. over here a "foul on [x]" means that x is the player fouled, not the player who did the foul, "crushed it" would 100% not refer to someone absolutely skying a shot) #NWSL #CHILOU

23 Aug 2026 13:07 +0000

... ngl, if Maresca is already pulling stunts like "putting Guehi in midfield for nebulous reasons", uh, I remain pretty sure that Leicester dodged a bullet by letting him go to Chelsea for a tidy sum. Now, admittedly, we did kinda dodge into the path of a hollowpoint, but c'est la vie.

22 Aug 2026 16:13 +0000

Okay, it makes sense that Everton a. get some of the women's team to attend men's matches and b. specifically assigned the two capped players for UK nations behind the PM but boy howdy was there a bit of a jumpscare in the header image here https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/22/andy-burnham-uk-host-mens-world-cup-football-2042?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

22 Aug 2026 12:09 +0000

Good god even through the telly the crowd noise for that goal gave me chills. 2-0 to Hull! #HULMUN

22 Aug 2026 10:08 +0000

Okay, I've downloaded the app to look at this and, alas, she's actually £5m. (which did tip her out of contention) Also Ruby Mace is only £5.5m for a 'defender' who is actually a midfielder, often involved in goals, and also 100% guaranteed minutes so... [contains quote post or other embedded content]

21 Aug 2026 17:39 +0000

So the advice of "well, we know Sam Tierney will play, but otherwise? Yeah don't pick Leicester players" is probably sound, but also... "newcomer" Olivia McLoughlin(?!) and wow it really is the case that nobody else noticed that our old captain left in January? https://www.wslfootball.com/news/your-fantasy-football-club-by-club-guide-leicester-city

20 Aug 2026 19:40 +0000

I haven't seen anyone else bring this up yet, but I think this also puts Sheffield United Women at risk of a 10 point deduction in WSL2, per the competition rules for a Club (or, Group Undertaking) suffering an Insolvency Event (para 18.1.3 of the Competition Rules: www.wslfootball.com/publications) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

14 Aug 2026 12:25 +0000

Huh, I guess with Charlton launching a Player Sponsorship programme, EvE really _is_ now on sale... [contains quote post or other embedded content]

12 Aug 2026 18:39 +0000

Okay, fair play eclipse, I was jumpscared by the sky getting slightly brighter as the peak passed (it is now getting darker again on account of it being sunset).

12 Aug 2026 18:14 +0000

Ngl I wasn't sure there'd be as noticeable a shift in sky colour as the last big partial eclipse (less big than this, but middle of the day, also since memory-holed apparently) given it's sunset, but there is! The low angle of the sun is getting a bit awkward, though.

10 Aug 2026 17:06 +0000

Wow, EvE has fallen out of favour with Charlton quicker than I thought she would.

09 Aug 2026 18:16 +0000

Ngl, this one hurts. I mean, great move for her (let's see, top flight football, living in southern France, probably pays better than WSL2 tbh...) and Les Marseillaises (like, frankly it's weird that Everton, who need a CB, _weren't_ in for her), but still 🥺 https://www.lcfc.com/media-article/lcfc-women-leicester-city-wsl-olympique-de-marseille-transfer-for-julie-thibaud

08 Aug 2026 18:30 +0000

I'm going to be honest, I think Man Utd's own communications will be a factor if people try to read anything into them drawing a reduced-minutes friendly at Leicester's training ground. (hyping it up as a first look at Eva Olid's Man Utd will lead to people reading it as such!)

02 Aug 2026 07:51 +0000

So, uh, a (not actually) funny thing about the lockdowns is that, like, they actually did suck for older people? Like, there was a lot of deconditioning and so on, especially with how clinically vulnerable people were ordered (at least Comms wise) to follow even stricter rules?

01 Aug 2026 08:43 +0000

Y'know, the decision to bring the Casey report forward by a year being a thing Burnham could just do does show how absurd and detached the original 2028 plan was. (If the Starmer administration has one hater, that hater is me. Though it actually has like 30 million+ haters anyway)

30 Jul 2026 04:46 +0000

Catching up on the NWSL and okay I knew that RLou would struggle with the tight turnaround (<72 hours between kick-offs, with NWSL travel distances? Yeah there's a reason Bev Yanez rotated so heavily) but oof.