🇩🇪 Wunderbare Geste bei der Pressekonferenz vor dem WM-Start gegen Curaçao: Julian Nagelsmann gratuliert Reporter-Legende Hartmut Scherzer, der heute seinen 88. Geburtstag feiert und seine 17. (!) WM als Journalist begleitet. „Trinken Sie heute ein Bierchen“, sagt Nagelsmann. Scherzers Antwort: „Neee, ich konzentrier‘ mich aufs Spiel morgen!“ @SkySportDE

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The journey continues! Ralf Rangnick > 2028! ⚽️🇦🇹 #ATeamOneFamily #GemeinsamÖSTERREICH

RIP Grant Wahl. ❤️ Wish he were still here, especially for this World Cup.

This really is Two-Tier Britain. Those who know how to respect a grieving family’s wishes, and those who don’t.

It’s is a really dark day when a talk about the history of ancient Israel and Judah is cancelled by the British Museum because of ‘security concerns’. Is this what we do now? We cave in?

Double. @FCBayern

not the point really but the creeping use of "could of" instead of "could have" in quasi-official social media statements is a shocking decline in popular literacy

“I think we have a decent squad, not a brilliant one.” @honigstein reacts to Germany’s World Cup squad list 🇩🇪

🚨 Squad announcement! 🚨 Meet the BBC's line-up for the 2026 Fifa World Cup!

The level of personal hostility directed at Keir Starmer over the last week deserves scrutiny in its own right. Not because he should be immune from criticism, but because the tone and intensity of the attacks tell us something unhealthy about the state of democratic politics. 1. Starmer is a conventional political figure. Cautious, legalistic, incremental. He frustrates people precisely because he is managerial rather than messianic. Yet the reaction to him often goes far beyond disagreement, tipping into visceral hatred more commonly reserved for authoritarians or demagogues. 2. Much of this hostility is disconnected from concrete policy. It is not about specific votes, proposals or outcomes, but about projection. A belief that Starmer embodies betrayal, bad faith or hidden malice. That kind of politics runs on suspicion rather than evidence. 3. This matters because democracy depends on the assumption of good faith among opponents. You can think a leader is wrong, timid, or misguided without believing they are fundamentally illegitimate. Once politics becomes moralised to the point of demonisation, compromise is reframed as treachery and pluralism as weakness. 4. The pattern is familiar. In fragmented, polarised systems, anger concentrates not on extremists, whose intentions are clear, but on moderates, who disappoint maximalists on all sides. The centre becomes the lightning rod precisely because it resists totalising narratives. 5. There is also a media and online dynamic at work. Incentives reward outrage, not proportionality. Algorithms favour contempt over analysis. Over time, this creates a political culture in which relentless personal attack feels normal, even virtuous, rather than disgusting. 6. None of this is a defence of Starmer’s decisions, instincts or record. Those should be argued over robustly as you do in a democracy. The problem is the substitution of critique with hostility and the quiet erosion of democratic norms that follows when political opponents are treated as enemies rather than rivals. 7. A democracy cannot function if every election is framed as an existential struggle against internal evil. At some point, the target may change, but the damage to trust, restraint and culture remains.

An exclusive interview with Bernardo Silva as he prepares to say goodbye to Manchester City. 🏆#MCFC memories 🧠 Pep’s genius 💫 Bruno F 💔Jota 🏉 set pieces 🥊 tunnel clash with #MUFC 😒snubbing #LFC 💣 why “it was about time Arsenal began to man up” nytimes.com/athletic/7280461…

The latest Euro Leagues is here. We discuss all the semifinal action from UCL, José Mourinho’s potential return to Real Madrid and more. Listen to the latest Euro Leagues here ⤵️ bbc.com/audio/play/p0nhm9hz

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What a team @FCBayern.

Back 2 Back. @FCBayern

Always read Nick Ames theguardian.com/football/202…

Just found out about recency bias, it's gotta be the best and most interesting kind of bias

"A game for the ages!" @honigstein tries to make sense of an incredible game in Munich 🤯

Just watched Fickle Eulogy by the amazing Nikol Kollars at Circle and Star Theatre in Hampstead. Very moving and darkly funny. Go if you have a chance, Sunday is the last night. tickettailor.com/events/circ…