David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Well, this is new. I can't access BBC news articles unless I pay for a subscription (services such as BBC Persian appear to be unaffected by the paywall). 000
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hehe. Though this is much closer to what actually constitutes Opta's "super computer". 010
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 04/09/2026In the history of Jose Mourinho's career, this has to go down as one of the funniest defeats ever. 020
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Finally, what's missing from Will's flippant post entirely is what erratic behaviour does to economic views. The Economists Baker, Bloom, and Davis built the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index by tracking news coverage of policy uncertainty going back to the 1980s. 100
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 18/08/2026From "Teaching the Holocaust: Educational Dimensions, Principles and Practice", edited by Ian Davies. 1433
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Bond producer Amy Pascal saying the next film has "got to be something really different" hits different now. Bond goes up against big oil, presumably. (Reskeeted user doesn't allow quote posts). 020
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I wholly endorse this subtitling from the original Japanese in The Ninth Jedi (and the beautiful animation of a black hole in some of the subsequent frames). 082
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Core to @ezraklein.bsky.social's argument, and total codswallop. Ptahhotep, Herodotus, Confucius and others had varying statements of the Golden Rule at wholly unrelated periods in history. To say he's deliberately inserting Judeo-Christian tradition into the film is simply Klein's own trickery. 000
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 31/07/2026When Carlos Cordeiro issues a statement like this, you wonder if Infantino can actually survive. 095
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Article 18 of the FIFA statutes technically means that no member association would be able to resign from FIFA before 31 December 2027. As a more general clarification point (not in response to Philippe), confederations themselves aren't able to withdraw from FIFA. bsky.app/profile/phil... 220
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 27/07/2026post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains. bsky.app/profile/asel... 020
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Far too many bangers in the responses, frankly. It can only be this. bsky.app/profile/beck... 010
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Argentina with one of the all time worst performances of any team in any sport in history. 231
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Moreover, it becomes more onerous to ask member associations and confederations to "respect the Laws of the Game" if you fail to comply with your own obligations. 010
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 18/07/2026If British people ever find out about Akira Kurosawa ... bsky.app/profile/adam... 000
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Applying to register a (UK) trade mark called "Football's come home" on the very day England were knocked out of the World Cup by Argentina might be the greatest example of hubris I've ever seen. Bravo, football gods. 000
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 15/07/2026A new addition to the game of "Will this be successfully registered as a trade mark?" (A trade mark application in Spain in NICE class 25 - merchandise). 000
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 09/07/2026My tactical advice to Morocco during this break would be "take some shots". 110
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Fairly sure I saw this on The Athletic as well. 110
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Just no reason to delay that pass for so long. bsky.app/profile/davi... 010
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The cross was already coming in by that point. 200
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Seems @moderation.bsky.app is sore over the US losing against Belgium. 022
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Donald Trump confirming that not only did he interfere in the process, but he also calls into question the integrity of the match official. Doubtless there will be silence from FIFA on the latter issue. 010
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This is not in any way an appropriate possible process/possible outcome for a judicial organ.. 110
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Ah yes, Caceres - Tantashev was looking right at it. VAR presumably chose not to suggest a review for violent conduct. 100
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 03/07/2026If I were IFAB, this is the next thing I would clamp down on. Players deliberately positioning themselves three or four yards from the ball, not retreating, and referees not demanding they retreat. 030
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Hany was allowed to continue despite appearing to have been knocked out. I'm not saying scoring an own goal is linked, but the earlier injury was precisely the sort of scenario why IFAB was right to introduce permanent concussion subs and why it should consider introducing the temporary version. 121
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The most "Ah hell I've left the oven on" face I've ever seen. 010
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I had the same suspicion, but on review I'm not sure it's true. Appears the ball was released in time. 120
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The most interesting part of this article to me is what FIFPro chose *not* to do - preferring to decline to comment, rather than say e.g. "We refer you to previous statements regarding heat stress" - "declined to comment" is rather different to "didn't respond". www.theguardian.com/football/202... 000
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Also clear that even had the keeper remained on his line, the kick would have been required to have been retaken due to encroachment - because the encroaching defender was the one who played the ball after the kick had been saved. 000
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The angles used to display that a retake was required. 200
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 17/06/2026This looks extremely tight to me. There must be a better angle. 200
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 13/06/2026FIFA's official highlights are posted to their YouTube channel with a day's delay - it's incomprehensible to me that they haven't taken the time to edit/add (the automated) subtitling so player and team names are displayed correctly. 020
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Likewise the commitment to human rights, which is a separate part of the bidding documentation. 121
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Part of the guarantees that the United States were required to provide FIFA as a condition of being able to bid for the 2026 World Cup included " ... any visa procedures must be applied in a non-discriminatory manner." Arguably the United States is in breach of that guarantee. 141
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The We Rate Dogs guy was good again this week. 0140
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 02/06/2026FIFA has applied to register the trade mark "FIFA Youth World Cup" across several classes (SUI), as well as a (unrelated?) visual mark (EU). I can't tell if this is simply IP protection, a re-name or an umbrella for (some of) its youth comps, or the name for the newly announced U-15 "Festival". 001
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Worth reading in full. images.gc.eflservices.co.uk/4863abd0-5dc... 000
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 31/05/2026IFAB taking the first step on the road to the de-Arsenalification of set pieces. 063
David Phillips @davidphillips.bsky.social · 26/05/2026This is the letter, and there's (rightly) no claim to consensus here - instead there's confirmation that work / research is instead being done. 000