Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 13hJames Blunt looks more like Alan Partridge than Alan Partridge. #CelebrityTraitors 010
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 13hMomentarily thought we were getting a: "I have to tell you guys, I'm absolutely desperate for a shit" there. #CelebrityTraitors 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 14hRichard breathes a huge sigh of relief that Richard didn't vote for Richard. #CelebrityTraitors 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 16hMy new (and so far most effective) strategy for dealing with the charity muggers outside London stations: telling them that I am actually pro-knife crime, unfortunately. 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My personal 'Summer's over!' indicator is that I begin to regularly watch - and actually quite look forward to - Location, Location, Location. 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The whole thing has been handled dismally by Saints. Closed ranks early and doubled down on it. Really poor. 110
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Maybe I need to embrace "football bants" (I won't), but I am not sure an official club account should essentially be glorifying this. Eckert has got off very lightly, so just keep your head down and show a bit of dignity. I'm sure most Southampton fans will love it, but it is just a bit... unseemly? 120
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Oh, no. I can assure you that we absolutely do understand. 100
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Despite that, some positives from the four games - especially the two away performances. I suppose tonight might at least make clearer why Clarke made some of the decisions he did, and why he should be remembered as a very good Scotland manager. Time will tell whether Pocognoli reaches his level. 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026No need to lose the head, of course - and some of the reactions have been too much. It's a new manager, new system, some new players. It will take time. But it is a bad result. Probably our worst competitive result since Kazakhstan under McLeish. Hopefully Pocognoli can learn and adapt. 100
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Tough night for Pocognoli and Scotland. Not sure the players have that system in them against any half-competent team. CBs overaggressive, high line exposed, press disjointed. I think that system only really works when you are possession-dominant and have rapid CBs, neither of which apply just now. 100
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It looked to me, as an intelligent and entirely objective observer, that Scotland really missed big Scott McKenna out there tonight. 010
Reposted by Andrew MackenzieRandom Brighton goals @randombhagoals.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Sébastien Pocognoli vs QPR | 7th April 2017 | #BHAFC 1204
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The mediocre player who used to play for my favourite team's rivals was terrible tonight and must never play for Scotland again. The player of basically the same standard who used to play for my favourite team would have completely changed the game and must start every game going forward. 120
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It likely doesn't help that we have had the midweek evening kick-offs at home, and the players need to give the fans something to feed off, but the Hampden atmosphere is largely a myth these days. 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Maybe not a surprise given he got a £30m move to the Premier League in the summer, but whenever I watch Northern Ireland, Shea Charles just looks head and shoulders above everybody else on the park. 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Danny Ward increasingly feels like one of these players who has spent almost his entire career on loan at his national side from his club side. 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm sure this had nothing to do with people in Dundee not knowing how to use self-service checkouts in 2026. (No offence, Dundonians.) 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026God help the minimum wage student, nursing a hangover on about an hour's sleep, who had to deal with Spence's honking patter here. 100
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not an icon of the Banter Years, for me. Bilel Mohsni obviously a bit over the hill, at the grand age of 39. 010
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I haven't been following it too closely, but have seen some of Ferguson's interviews and he seems to be taking it about as seriously as you would expect Barry Ferguson to take being Rangers manager in a thing like this. 100
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026That's not even the worst of it - Halliday is 34! 100
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Great to see your partner has had their letter published in the Sunday Times today. 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A truly humbling aura loss, as I walked into the Zara menswear section, realised I was almost certainly the oldest there, walked back out in under twenty seconds, and made a beeline for M&S. It might actually be over. I might actually be cooked. 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Absolutely. Same for Aberdeen, in fairness, although we have at least had some success stories over the last decade. But under Thelin we seemed to basically block out academy graduates in favour of mediocre loanees. Marshall was on his way out of the door until a last minute U-turn, by all accounts. 100
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Clubs like Celtic need to be braver, though. Fans being unreasonable, or a bit dismissive of homegrown players, isn't likely to change. If there is no clear pathway, or they aren't producing talent capable of stepping up, that is a structural (and possibly cultural) issue as much as a personnel one. 101
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026To that, I raise the staying power of Liam Scales. 100
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026North Macedonia fielded more Scotland-based players tonight (1) than Scotland did (0). Must be the first time that has happened. 030
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It is quite a bad reflection on Celtic, and perhaps how they view homegrown players, that they couldn't back themselves to get a tune out of Stephen Welsh. 200
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Remarkable, given they had such a long look at (and overturned) two on-field decisions that could have been defended, that they haven't intervened on the one that can't really be defended. An extremely harsh red card for McKenna. 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I thought this was a cruel McGinn-based joke for a few seconds before the penny dropped. 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One of the worst VAR interventions of all time in North Macedonia v Scotland there. Just ludicrous. 110
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Joanne, if you are reading this, please message me as I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I think you might be interested in purchasing. 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You either banish a Traitor, or someone who is going to be an absolute liability as a Faithful. There is almost no downside. 110
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Anyone who doesn't vote for Richard here is a massive fucking idiot, frankly. #CelebrityTraitors 210
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think the one who answered "Traitor" to being asked "Are you a Faithful or a Traitor?" might be one to probe a bit further, folks. Just putting it out there. #CelebrityTraitors 020
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026POPPADOMS OR BREAD, AMOL RAJAN. POPPADOMS OR BREAD. #CelebrityTraitors 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026James can't go now because we deserve at least one "POPPADOMS OR BREAD?" during a particularly tense roundtable. #CelebrityTraitors 061
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Richard E. Grant being asked if he is a Traitor on #CelebrityTraitors: 020
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Deeply sad that - once again - they have not taken up my idea of throwing in a completely random member of the public, getting them to make up a story about being a celebrity, and seeing how many of them go along with it. #CelebrityTraitors 010
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Very good questioning. He was maybe a touch prickly at points, but I am perhaps being unfair (or he just anticipated a succession of softballs on rowies and whether he knows ACC leadership is evil incarnate). 100
Reposted by Andrew MackenzieThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/10/2026From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Head coach Jurgen Klopp has derided accusations that his German national team is “not white enough” as “complete nonsense.” He added: “There is absolutely no reason to pay attention to these people.”nyti.msJurgen Klopp brands accusation that Germany team is ‘not white enough’ as ‘complete nonsense’"I have little time in everyday life for idiocy," the former Liverpool manager added during a press conference. 1128861
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026On balance, he might just be the greatest to ever do it. 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Mid-afternoon annual leave pints brutally mog most other pint types, I reckon. 010
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Now that I have endured almost two full episodes, I can safely conclude that The Wargame on Sky is predictably terrible and deeply, deeply cringe. Everyone involved should be banned from public life indefinitely. 000
Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Lord Pannick is finished, by the way. His reputation lies in tatters. A complete fraud, exposed. He will simply have to suffer the UAE equivalent of Siberian exile for the rest of his sorry existence. 000
