Mark GJ
@brokentv
IN COLOUR Current project: Auntie's Favourites - The stories behind the BBC's 200, um, 250 Most-Broadcast Programmes. Current progress: 248 down, 2 to go
Let's face it, it's what his character from Bottle Boys would be doing nowadays.
For me, my brain has about as little capacity for storing names as a 1990s SIM card, so they'd be similarly useful. Maybe they should make some that look so notable it's clear you need them and aren't trying to pass by unnoticed. Oh, hang on.
If the World Cup Final is going to be more like the Superbowl I hope there's a special one-off advert from these two
A nicely Viz-style panel from short-lived DC Thomson comic Buzz!, via the lovely write-up on the publication by @cwickham.bsky.social - cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/07/buzz...
I mean, there WILL be one match where I can do my "the worst Jude performance since this" post, but tonight isn't it.
The time when Luis Suarez was so well known, there was a Beano strip portraying him as a flesh-eating zombie.
A fun in-house game of "ooh, why have they pulled the scheduled ep of Pointless Celebrities?" ended with learning that it's because Wimbledon coverage overran instead of anything more exciting.
UPDATE: I've found the original spreadsheet I'd used for this, so here are some updated figures. First table: All international tournaments since 1996. Second table: All World Cups since 1998. Despite ITV being a #HappyHuntingGround for England so far this World Cup, omens are looming. #CurseOfITV
Hailing from Wrexham, I'm now used to the marketing rollercoaster now associated with the football team. But even with that in mind, their new shirt sponsor is a surprising one. A far cry from Marsdens Ales.
TFW when you're managing Morocco at 9 but support act to Fischerspooner at 10
When you've got a World Cup quarter-final at 9 but your day job as LCD Soundsystem's tour manager at 10.
Trying to order a well-known brand of Bluetooth controller off Amazon be like
I like that, despite losing it from their badge, Canada have retained the Science Report font for the backs of their shirts.
Food scientists have successfully combined a popular Gallic condiment with a 1980s John Sullivan sitcom. They're calling it Dear John Mustard.
Speaking as someone worried about going the same way as Alex Mitchell, the man who laughed himself to death at The Goodies' Kung Fu Kapers, I'm doing this for the good of my health.
Someone phone Miss Marple. We need to unravel the mystery of how the England team were tracked down at their hotel.
Moving the England-Mexico match to 7pm is going to ruin my planned "these England matches can't be doing very well in the ratings if they've moved them to 1am" joke.