gingerjon

A fun video for border enthusiasts - in particular the bit about the Belgian border that runs through Germany for reasons that no longer mean anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vennbahn

They were. That's Lancashire County League (top division) which, assuming the northwest follows the same pattern as here, is tier 6. (As an aside, I think you need to define your Wigan Athletic women's teams as, rather like Cardiff City for many years, there now appear to be two. One that is under the umbrella of the men's side of the same name, and one that didn't merge into it but kept the name anyway. The other Wigan also had a game at the weekend, not at the RL ground.)

In most cases, non league football is doing pretty well for attendances but I've just seen that Rayners Layne v Moneyfields in the Isthmian South Central on Saturday drew a 'crowd' of 30. The lowest official crowd I've been in is 22 for Amersham Town a while back and I do remember a club called Tokyngton Manor who went a little loopy and ended up drawing an official crowd of 2 one week.

It's the twofold dishonesty of saying *you*, you peasant, can't possibly consider selling your ticket for more than face value. However, we, your betters, can tell you that a ticket will be an eye watering £150 but that after you've degraded yourself multiple times over, it is now only available at £400. An algorithm we didn't tell you about, nor can you question, is the reason for this. And you have five minutes to decide. I not only judge harshly anyone who does this(*) but also anyone who defends it. (* = I did see someone going, "Oh, so it's fine when the Orange Tree in Richmond does it but not fine when working class northerners do. To which the only response is: when the Orange Tree does it, it essentially raises the price by £10 and they tell you well in advance that that's their model - you take a punt on a play before the reviews in versus buying a ticket knowing you should see something decent that now other people want to see. It's a bit different to tripling an already expensive ticket without warning.)

It works well on the radio when they cut around the games and that's obviously replicated by Soccer Saturday. "There's been a red card but for who, Chris Kamara?"

It didn't look like they were. I didn't stick around to see if they replayed as I had some important swearing at their incompetence to do.

And now joined by Super League Basketball to go with Netball Super League.

Every other sport is too reactive for it to work - you’d be going there after something I’d happened or with no guarantee of the moment reaching a conclusion.

Arkansas may be the dumbest football team I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen plenty of the Chicago Bears.

Be more visible on French TV and it would probably happen. Until then ...

That turned into quite the game. Meanwhile, Notre Dame paid NIU $1.4m to come to South Bend ... and then NIU pulled off one of the biggest shocks by beating them 16-14. Not sure the Fighting Irish will keep their #5 ranking after that.

There are CONCACAF Nations League games too! YouTube has just recommended me Turks & Caicos v Belize. These are countries so small and unfootball that FIFA often has special rules in place just so they can get enough players. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADeI3cYIF94

Arkansas 21:21 Oklahoma State with 9:37 remaining ...

RL shirts are always over designed - feels that way anyway - to the extent that this is pretty restrained compared to some. The nod to 1982 England is obvious enough that I think I’ve seen about 20 people think they’re the first to notice it without being a needless copy. Again, by RL design standards, it’s almost subtle. If I bought shirts, I’d buy this one.

See my other point that you can’t sell what isn’t there.