NEW DAILY QUIZ … Can you answer this … #dailyquiz #Thursday

“NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!” - President Donald J. Trump

🗿 It's that time of year when social media feeds fill with maps and stories about one of the most curious islands in the world: Easter Island, or #RapaNui in the local language. We know that the island was named by Dutch explorer Jakob Roggeveen in honor of the day he sighted it, Easter Sunday 1722. We know that it belongs politically to Chile, and that its most distinctive feature is the Moai heads that make it a unique destination. Here I show my map of Rapa Nui football with all the teams that participate and have participated in the recent past. But how much do we know about football on Easter Island? Here are some fun facts: 🗿 As Chileans see it, it's the most popular sport locally. In 2009, the local team played the opening match of the Copa de Chile against the historic and multiple champion team from Santiago, Colo-Colo, losing 4-0 at the Hanga Roa football complex. 🗿 There is a very active championship, organized by Fútbol Rapanui, divided into Apertura and Clausura like many other leagues in South America. Each year, 8-10 teams meet, with some historic teams like Fc Moeroa and Hanga Roa FC competing for the "Superclasico de Rapa Nui." 🗿 The Rapa Nui team is currently part of @CONIFAOfficial América Latina and has participated in the indigenous football tournaments of South America, the Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol de Pueblos Originarios, winning the 2012 edition.

10 years without @JohanCruyff, but part of us forever 🧡♾

HB won 30-0 (yes, 30) against EB/Streymur-Hoyvík this evening in the top Faroese women's tier..

In some cultures, women get down on all fours & twerk while throwing up gang signs. In Irish culture, women dance through the forest like angels. WE. ARE. NOT. THE. SAME.

The CAF Appeal Board decided that in application of Article 84 of the Regulations of the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), the Senegal National Team is declared to have forfeited the Final Match of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Morocco 2025 (“the Match”), with the result of the Match being recorded as 3–0 in favour of the Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football (FRMF). cafonline.com/news/caf-appea…

A Catholic priest used a vast underground network to save thousands of Jews, Allied prisoners, and anti-fascists from Nazi persecution during World War II. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (1898–1963) was an Irish Catholic priest and Vatican diplomat born in Kiskeam, Cork, and raised in Kerry. He rose through Vatican ranks, becoming a senior official in the Holy See. When Mussolini’s Italy fell in 1943 and the Nazis occupied Rome, he refused to stand by as they rounded up Jews and escaped Allied POWs. Using his Vatican connections and diplomatic status, he arranged safe houses, forged documents, and smuggled people to safety using a network of priests, nuns, diplomats, and ordinary Italians. His dangerous efforts helped save about 6,500 people. During this heroic mission he played a lethal game of a cat and mouse with the ruthless SS chief in Rome, Herbert Kappler. There was even a bounty on Irishmans head, forcing him to use clever disguises, secret signals, and Vatican immunity to evade capture. The Nazis even painted a white line at St. Peter’s Square to mark where they could arrest him...he never crossed it! After the war, in an extraordinary act of forgiveness, O’Flaherty visited Kappler in prison and eventually converted him to Catholicism. He returned to Ireland in his later years and died in 1963. He is commemorated across the world, including a bronze statue in Killarney and the US Congressional Medal of Freedom. His heroism was immortalised in the Gregory Peck movie "The Scarlet and the Black" (1983) Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublintime…

I’m gonna solve football. How about the champions of each top division all into a competition just for champions and we call it the European cup. The cup winners from each league go into a competition called the cup winners cup. 2nd 3rd and 4th go into a competition called the uefa cup. In division 2 we have a new play off format where the 24 teams all play each other home and away and the 3 teams with the most points get promoted and the 3 teams with the least points get relegated. I think this may take off #millwall #EFL @secondtierpod