Alex Wilson
@adjwilson
London agency strategy person. Bearded non-league football hipster. Previously 上海 ＆北京.
This is really starting to spiral. When FIFA are openly corrupt to favour certain players (Ronaldo, Balogun), it throws fuel on the fire of every conspiracy theory going
What on earth is all this shit on the pitch? Absolutely tinpot presentation from an increasingly tinpot sport #RSAvEng
Absolutely brutal paragraph from @jonathanliew.bsky.social on destruction the ECB has wrought on English cricket
Glancing the current As It Stands schedule, and very excited by the prospect of the USA getting knocked out in the Round of 32 by Cabo Verde
If the reddit Simpsons memes are anything to go buy, it's going to be a weird three weeks
They don't rehearse and it's not about musical ability, apparently. It's a shame Hemmingham hasn't responded to the terrace telling him to stick his trumpet up his arse
Incredible paragraph in this profile of England band leader John Hemmingham (who apparently lacks the self-awareness to realise he's been getting the mood wrong for 30 years)
I continue to be obsessed with verified Eurogrifters on X pandering to USians by pretending to be awestruck at everyday things
The design of the Lidl spill-proof (eyeroll) shirt is a particularly striking bit of legal-skirting design. (Three Lidls On A Shirt is a better gag than the actual gag imo)
The far-rights's increasingly prevalent "actually white Europeans are our kinda guys" view has some potentially very significant long-term consequences for the UK's relationship with the EU and Rejoin imo
I see the rich kid from the Isle of Wight has been doing ghetto cosplay on our estate again
"I know no greater victory than to be with you in defeat". Just gorgeous.
Crystal Palace fans ordered to leave Leipzig* *city centre Appalling clickbait journalism from a BBC title. Is it any wonder trust in the BBC has plummeted?
I'm almost certainly showing my biases, but between this and the FA Cup, it does feel like neutrals are broadly losing interest in the Plastic 6
@jim.londoncentric.media I don't know if anyone's sent you this already, but undoubtedly the biggest story in London this week
This was the Riverside an hour ago. There's a growing trend (fad?) for fans to do a spectacular bus welcome before big games, to get the pyro moment they can't do inside (it's still illegal outside, but rarely enforced). Hopefully something to be managed rather than squished
It's striking how many of Reform's policies seem to be inspired by the Chinese Communist Party
The final humiliation for the Tories: not even the Communists see the point of being mean to them
As a world-class skiver, I am going to stake my claim as the originator of Work From Oval, because I mentioned the idea to @jim.londoncentric.media on the last day of the SA test in 2022, and then he went on the Surrey podcast and talked about it, and now it's an officially sanctioned thing