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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 1h

Recency bias ruins this kind of thing, but he's probably well inside the top 10, isn't he? Still, Geoff Hurst is definitely ahead of him because it's all about peaks, not consistency. Fwiw... Elite tier: Moore, Charlton Legends tier: Hurst, Banks Icons tier: Beckham, Gazza Greats tier: Kane et al.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 21h

An uncanny ability to be wrong in every possible domain.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 13h

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 20h

Nice work, McDonald's, now I'm just annoyed you don't always do paprika fries.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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D @highburydb102.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“The bitch that bore him, is in heat again”

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fucking hell, is there *another* international game this week?

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, sink estates and more shit i the rivers will definitely get the voters onside.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

City commercial revenue by year: 15/16: 177m 16/17: 218m 17/18: 232.3m 18/19: 227m 19/20: 246m 20/21: 271.7m 21/22: 310m 22/23: 341.1m 23/24: 344.7m 24/25: 340.4m The press are currently reporting as if City's inflated commercial income stopped in 2018. Look at these numbers. A thread.

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Linked with Yildiz again in the Italian papers today. Easy to say but I think the summer would've been different if he'd been fit when the window closed. And I'd be unpleasantly surprised if we didn't strengthen at LW in January.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anyway, in happier news, England's in pretty unbelievable shape moving forward, when you consider Kane, Konsa and Pickford are the only players you'd expect us to have lost from the core of the squad by the next World Cup.

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm struggling a little with how the manager that got that performance out of England yesterday is the same guy who monumentally lost his nerve in a World Cup semi-final.

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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gus Fring’s impact: 🍗 Built Los Pollos Hermanos into a success, creating jobs 🤝 Supported local law enforcement & community 📈 Generated millions 💵 🧹 Maintained some of the cleanest restaurant in America 🩺 Helped contributing Walter White's cancer treatment. Legacy bigger than a drug mafia.

Sheikh Mansour's impact on Britain and Manchester goes far beyond football:

Helped rescue Barclays during the financial crisis

Thousands of new homes in

Manchester

Major regeneration of East Manchester

Helped deliver the £365M Co-op Live

arena

New hotels and commercial developments

Thousands of jobs created

Bought City's first FA Cup trophy and

donated it to the National Football

Museum

Transformed #ManCity into a global football powerhouse

A legacy far bigger than football.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bilic will be sacked so quickly here that he might make it into the ITV studio for some post-match punditry.

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Croatia have obviously been told to put themselves about a bit. Which is to say get Bukayo off that pitch.

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Think Croatia would've done better with some of these kids playing.

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Was Anthony Gordon at £70m the actual best move at LW?

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Think this is a fair reflection. Funny how there's no Radiohead, Blur, REM or what have you. Maybe because they're more constants, where as these are waypoints.

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Who remembers how good £71m quid was, eh? Left foot, right foot, headers... could do it all. A fox in the box, a rock at the back AND a midfield General. A real club legend.

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Orbinho @orbinho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oddly this story is not being covered on the BBC.

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Rohan Patel @gunnerohan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! They've totally lost the plot on the blue side of Mani. 🤪 #SheikhSays

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sabre-rattling bullshit. They're not getting involved with this for altruistic purposes. But, again, they are advertising what a pain they'd be to business with if needs be.

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In some ways it feels like Robbie Savage has always been the manager of Peterborough United. Are we sure this is a new arrangement?

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The country most definitely does not need this.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great encapsulation of conservatism. “Well I got mine so who cares what happened to anyone else?” bsky.app/profile/jord...

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A question I haven't seen asked is, when you see the contempt the UAE has for British institutions and the legal frameworks that regulate them, why do we want to be any more entangled with them?

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Favourite bit of the last @arsenalvpodcast.bsky.social was @tim-stillman.bsky.social doing a 7-minute bit on Andy Burnham like he was a new manager getting to grips with a serially dysfunctional football club.

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thinking about this... do you think City intentionally built up this kind of deficit in order to increase the wider risk of taking them behind the woodshed?

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Treeeeeeeeeeeeeeemendous. 🌳 🚹(2️⃣🇪🇸)

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Swiss Ramble's predictable great at breaking the financial down and giving context. He puts a tonne of work in, so I won't share too much, but some stuff really did stand out... (There really is so much more in the piece)

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SwissRamble @swissramble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today's article covers a lot of ground, including commercial growth, disguised equity funding, "sham" agreements, adjusted accounts, PSR breaches, significant spending, competitive balance, potential damages and sanctions, so strap yourselves in #MCFC swissramble.substack.com/p/financial-...

swissramble.substack.com

Financial Implications of the Manchester City Decision

Fake Plastic Trees

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Edd Powell @eddpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's hiding in plain sight, they don't even sell out their stadium for games but they are pulling in one of the highest commercial revenues in football. It's ridiculous.

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RG @geezypeas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Big up Everyday Puzzles on today’s cryptogram - we see you 🫡

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