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Croatia might have to start putting their faith in youth. Suker and Boban have barely had a touch, Prosinecki's throwing up on the halfway line.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 02/10/2026

'former Premier League winner'. Going to be a comedy goldmine for who knows how long?

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 01/10/2026

Maya should just assume Richard's toast at this point and choose who she wants to hang out with most.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 01/10/2026

All that hard talk from Amol in his dad's flying jacket. #CelebrityTraitors

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 01/10/2026

WHO'S IN THE GLASTONBURY QUEUE?! LOL only joking boomers

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 01/10/2026

Yeah, it's good I don't want to be promoted any further.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 01/10/2026

I did it on a team building day in the bleedin' 90s and ended up with a huge bruise on my spine. Even then there was nothing officially competitive about it. These days I'd just refuse, but I check myself and know that's the advantage of being a middle-aged middle-management white guy.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 01/10/2026

Find all this absolutely astonishing. Don't know the OP, but I work for a big company with good policies and that wooden spoon business would not fly for one second. It'd go up the chain or to HR at the very least. It's obvious bullying. And I say this as someone with a sense of humour, honest.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 30/09/2026

Baked potato! I've been such a fool.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 30/09/2026

Thought I'd sent her off with foolproof bolognese, stir fry and meat/two veg suggestions, but nothing's moved the dial.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 30/09/2026

Anyone got any nutritious, easy recipe suggestions for a cuisinally inexperienced 18-year-old who's been at university for a couple of weeks but appears to have been too embarrassed to cook in front of her flatmates?

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 30/09/2026

My parents had a few. I was given No Highway and A Town Like Alice to read at school when I was 13 and loved them both – No Highway a kind of quiet thriller? – so bought On The Beach for myself and, um, never read it. Also have a hardback of So Disdained here, provenance unknown.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026

They couldn't make the one about Deee-Lite stick. City insisted Groove Is In The Heart should've been No.1 instead of The Steve Miller Band's The Joker, while the Premier League said The Joker had jumped more chart places and met the tie conditions. The independent panel found it inconclusive.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026

2-1. TOP OF THE LEAGUE. (For all of you following along).

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026

And what's not to like – Erling, Antoine – proper fully costed football under the lights.

Dartford and Whitehawk football players on a floodlit pitch.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026

Yes, it's 30% off all 33 1/3 titles in the #BackToSchool sale until 4 Oct. An unmissable opportunity to build up a collection of Faiths to rival mine. @3313books.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/33...

Several copies of Matthew Horton's 33 1/3 book on George Michael's Faith, in a pile.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026

Not really! I'm actually going to Princes Park to watch Dartford play Whitehawk in the Isthmian Premier League, which is coincidentally where City will end up next season.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026

Think I'll watch this tonight, misty-eyed, reflecting on the fairytale magic of their 'meteoric' rise.

A Sky Sports documentary called Drink It In: The Rise of Man City (2022). The blurb goes: Manchester City's rise has been nothing short of meteoric; from an 8-1 humbling in 2008, to five-time Premier League winners. Follow the record breaking journey of the noisy neighbours.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026

New Channel 5 cosy crime strawberry-blond amateur detective just dropped.

M&S packet of dry cured ham boasting a Marmalade Glaze.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026

Rightly so. I've just listened to it all and am now looking at EXCHANGING CASH.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026

LOL didn't get that far. I have now. Yes, fair enough. I'm also a born-again RAYE fan.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026

Wasn't even aware of its existence. Thank you.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026

Less is more, guys – except you, Sombr, maybe more is more.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026

Caught some of the VMAs tribute and have to say Sombr, Adam Lambert and Teddy Swims did a sterling job reminding us what a great singer George Michael was.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 28/09/2026

That and the time Nellee was in Dexys Mk II, of course.

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Arguably the greatest UK top 70 single based on a gospel-infused jazz funk record by avant garde saxophonist Archie Shepp which was inspired by a prison riot in upstate New York which resulted in 43 deaths including 10 correctional officers, 9 of whom were killed by their own colleagues

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 28/09/2026

I can identify a Blue Source sleeve at a thousand paces.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 28/09/2026

Oh please oh please oh please

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 28/09/2026

Mad choices all. Everyone's putty in Hesmondhalgh and Fry's hands.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 28/09/2026

Same. Then I can loudly dislike it with integrity. (Quite like the song in this case though, without feeling the need to actively play it. I leave that to the pervasive reach of the airwaves/fibre).

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very gingerly dipping a toe into the stagnant pond of The Discourse I think it’s obviously fine to not hear popular songs but my reaction to learning “a song I don’t know has broken loads of popularity records“ is “oh I should hear it, maybe I’ll like it”, why would it not be that?

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 27/09/2026

Accidentally happened across a Friends episodes starring both Tom Selleck and Elliott Gould, and that's way more ham than anyone can be expected to eat.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I find it strange that some people refuse to believe this is the way our decentralised culture works now, that it's possible to be completely ignorant of hugely popular things that don't match your tastes and interests. People aren't lying about that because they think it makes them look cool.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 27/09/2026

If you're googling something you've heard of it, or you wouldn't be googling it because you wouldn't be aware of the juxtaposition of words to type. So, at the point of declaration, you can't be blamed for not having heard of it as you haven't had a chance to google it yet (Aristotle, 331 BC).

An excerpt from a Rolling Stone article about Ella Langley's song Choosin' Texas.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 26/09/2026

It's always been hard to tell us apart.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 26/09/2026

The Arse should've come in for him a year ago.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 26/09/2026

Bit jealous of that. Bring On The Night's a cracker, but I came to it late because a double cassette was too expensive for me in 1986. Always had ...Nothing Like The Sun and love big emotional songs like All This Time, When We Dance, If I Ever Lose My Faith, but you probs know all those already.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 26/09/2026

Rodri claiming that whatever the judicial panels say, nothing can take away the Manchester City players' achievements, as if their glittering squads were assembled by magic.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 25/09/2026

Amazingly, it's on Qello Concerts tomorrow night. Unfortunately at 11pm, an unrecordable channel, I'd be shocked if I managed that.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 25/09/2026

Really must some day. The album's one of my favourite "I'm middle-aged now so might as well try those albums I always felt too young for" purchases of the last few years.

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 25/09/2026

You can sling Brand New Day though. And whatever he did with Pato Banton. And most of The Soul Cages. #notTOTP

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 25/09/2026

Seeing a lot of "I actually like this one". Sting has made loads of great records. His being a nob doesn't change that. Maybe enhances it. #notTOTP

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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 25/09/2026

"Can't think why The Police split up" as Copeland drops his drumstick for a third time and Summers shreds out a searing solo on an acoustic guitar. #notTOTP

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