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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 26/09/2026

I turned on exactly as England crossed the halfway line for their first goal, so from my view this has been a dominant performance from England

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 19/09/2026

Two similar Tottenham games this week. Looked the better team for long spells, can't catch a break in finishing, decent shot volume, too many shots the other way, and some opposition worldies. Much if this is how it will be but some weeks we will score more than the opponent ha

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 13/09/2026

Josh Kerr slightly outran his predicted finish of 13th there. This Ultimate Champs has been good, they just need to tighten up the data stuff on the broadcast. Lost count of the amount of times sport drops the ball on this, seriously: hire experts

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 12/09/2026

Wouldn't say he's been massively impactful yet, but it's legit reassuring to have Robertson in at left back just for the decisions he makes in buildup / attack, as a guy who knows the role inside out

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 11/09/2026

World Athletics Ultimate Championships and to the shock of nobody another huge L for "probability in sports broadcasts", with Werro (fastest in event since early 80s) given a 73% chance of qualifying, sure enough she eased through, let me bet those odds please

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 31/08/2026

"Let's take time to salute Lionel Messi who has today retired from intern...MUdrYK LOAN InCOmING."

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 25/08/2026

Aw not Dolly, everyone liked Dolly :(

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 23/08/2026

7/9 home wins so far, a strong front runner for this year's Faulty Narrative In Early Weeks Of Season award

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 22/08/2026

Torching your xG in week one ouch

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 21/08/2026

Happy with Savinho. He's ranked 2nd in the league behind Doku for Dribble and Carry OBV since arriving at City, and is young still. End product could improve but there's time for that.

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 17/08/2026

I will trade you an evening of attempting to chase up collection for a match :)

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 17/08/2026

Depends if I *were* editing it or not? idk it's been a while

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 17/08/2026

Depends if I was editing it or not :)

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 15/08/2026

Farewell Djed Spence, can't recall a player go from seemingly massive flop on the outs to really reliable contributor, but he was never quite first choice so can understand him moving on. Still one of the few success stories of last couple of years

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 14/08/2026

Dominant from Karsten Warholm. In my mind the way he runs and strides, idk my brain has decided he's the double of Elon Musk, and then you see him actually and he doesn't look like him at all. #analysis

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 06/08/2026

From a BBC article about a 17yo playing Robert Plant at chess and well... something of a wild early pawn move from Plant here 😬

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 31/07/2026

Aw sad about Baresi. Consensus world's best defender throughout my childhood, and few sportspeople carry that kind of kudos for any period of time. RIP

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 27/07/2026

Maybe maybe not but I like the idea that every team should have 1 veteran goalgetter in the squad

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 27/07/2026

Is mid 30s league trained English striker with back-class the new 40yo league trained 3rd string English keeper? It's the hottest trend of the season.

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 20/07/2026

RIP Kevin Keegan, you always got the sense he was a good guy, and just a guy who created moments both brilliant or absurd, but regardless we are poorer for him no longer being with us www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Oz...

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Kevin Keegan falls off his bike during BBC Superstars 1976

YouTube video by Southstandred

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 18/07/2026

Someone is gonna say England should have played like this before and well, no that's not how it works

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 16/07/2026

Yeah, I thought England did ok with this but no doubt the core was the core and they played all the time, and that's gotta have had impact too

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 16/07/2026

Mexico without air, 120 mins in a furnace then go again lads, easy. to win a world cup is brutal, you need to survive the schedule somehow

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 16/07/2026

Mexico then 120 mins then a gimme vs Argentina in the semis aye

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 16/07/2026

Just to pile into the discourse, 3rd game in a week kinda relevant, when you consider idk Man City limping past an idk promoted team one Sunday after a midweek flight to idk Holland for an idk Wednesday match

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 16/07/2026

Good job everyone knows there's a lot of randomness in one football match, so no need to litigate all the decisions, just move on; live, laugh, love as the quote on this chalet wall says

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 15/07/2026

Messi sticks that on a plate with his off foot, what can you do

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 15/07/2026

England being all "we can defend more than you can attack" is the absolute football heritage of this country, terrifying to watch so it is

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 15/07/2026

Would rather we didn't go for the "Dan Burn half hour" here to see it out, but so far so good

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 15/07/2026

Saka on late might be the answer to this tbqh

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 15/07/2026

Have felt England have played quiet periods in halves before, felt it strategic and expected better from them later. Didn't really happen v Norway, guess we find out if they have any gears now

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 15/07/2026

This is the first World Cup ever where I have been entirely fine with the match by match personnel adjustments of an England manager

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 15/07/2026

Ok every Argentinian player looks twice as hyped as England, this is done

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 15/07/2026

I'm in the "slightly bored on holiday, waiting for the game" segment of my day, my apologies

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 15/07/2026

...standing player of his generation, no doubt, great player

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 15/07/2026

at least we appear to have progressed from Sweet Caroline which ye gods is some kinda dirge

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 15/07/2026

headline on BBC site saying "celebrities sing Wonderwall before semi-final" with a picture of Michael Macintyre in an England shirt exactly represents the diversity of feelings I have about the success of this England team, whom I would like to win the World Cup but fear the aftermath

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 13/07/2026

Just walked past Bradley Walsh in a sand dune AMA

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 12/07/2026

Literally none of the post game chatter here on ITV has mentioned the game being played in a furnace - which may have affected a lot of what happened - at direct odds with all the altitude chat from the Mexico game

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 11/07/2026

Also typically [he states using vague memory as evidence] quarter finals are where World Cups peak, and we haven't had a really good one yet, so surely one of these two is chaos

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 11/07/2026

I'd got used to the random kick off times but am now confused that there are two quarter finals on the same day

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 07/07/2026

Oldest man take here, but bring back the side view for penalties.

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 06/07/2026

"...and he asked if I ever played and I said, sure. Believe me I scored a lotta goals when I played. Huge goals. I could take a penalty right now and no goalkeeper could save it, they know this. Many people are asking if I could play today but I won't..."

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 06/07/2026

Core message got through though ha "defend"

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 06/07/2026

I reckon England don't win that game without the hydration break. Comes right after the Mexico goal to go 3-2 and Tuchel has 3 minutes he'd never normally have to tee up what to do. Sure they'd have ended up in a low block anyway, but that additional time to get the message across likely key.

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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 06/07/2026

Kane can't speak, Henderson getting air on a stretcher what the hell is going on

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