Philippe Auclair
Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
- December 2024.
- This is the first time I see this game. Was is the Dutch equivalent of subbuteo, or something quite different?
- Very impressed to see fellow cricket tragic and member of the Lockdown Long Hops Duncan Powrie committing himself to running the 2026 London marathon in order to raise funds for the Ruth Strauss foundation. Please support him if you can. Power to you, Duncan! www.justgiving.com/page/duncan-...
- Bull's eye by @pbsportswriter.bsky.social for @playthegame-org.bsky.social. In private, many football and finance executives will agree that a disaster is brewing. But no-one dares speak out - yet - for fear of precipitating a crisis which will come to pass anyway.
- Is football at the frontline of the next financial crisis? Private Equity firms are using complex offshore arrangements to channel insurance money into football. This Bermuda Triangle strategy ended badly for 777 Partners, but could be a preview of the future. www.playthegame.org/news/investm...
- And when I say "disaster', I do not mean "for football". This is a far, far bigger story.
- "Infantino is controversial but consistent - the FIFA boss places football above politics". I'm sure Yalda Hakim is a fine and capable journalist, but her understanding of football politics and of what drives Infantino is worse than my grasp of Boolean algebra. news.sky.com/story/infant...
- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (breathes) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- The poor dear, who is on £480,000 *a day*, must be upset that Ivan Toney has outscored him this season. www.thetimes.com/article/4c58...
- From our special correspondent in Hades.
- City 1-0 up. It's rare to see a whole team looking as if they were *expecting* (not fearing, expecting) to concede like Spurs in the first 10 minutes of this bizarre game. No conviction in anything they've been doing, just waiting for the ineluctable, which duly came to pass.
- The FA looking hard, as per usual, at finding new ways to desecrate the world's oldest cup competition. Not "music", no, "fresh and modern" "sonic branding" elaborated by a corporate giant as it is well-known that there are no decent composers in this country. www.thetimes.com/article/4062...
