Kenny Wastell
@kennywastell
Financial journalist. Failed musician. Football enthusiast. Boyhood St Mirren and Atalanta fan. Keep a close eye on 🏴 players in Serie A. Springsteen disciple. Raised in Milan. Two decades in London. Five years in Edinburgh. Now a migrant in Lisbon 🇵🇹🇪🇺
This lives on the shelf of my home office as a reminder of being 9 or 10 years old and coming face to face with Franco Baresi in the Milan store. I was so star struck that I temporarily lost the power to move or speak. Nobody else had spotted him yet. My mum had to ask him for the autograph. 💔🖤
Am I seeing this correctly? Did that ref not book even a single Paraguay player yesterday?!?!
This is what I think I’d go with tonight, off the back of the warmup games
Or here are those valuations with what I think is the most likely starting XI (5/4)
That’s not about being defensive. It’s about energy preservation. Meanwhile, FotMob’s player valuation estimates definitely highlight the areas opponents will be looking to target. (4/4)
Other options are available, which is very refreshing for Scotland compared to our past two major finals. Crucially these are all systems that have been used over the past couple of years. Feel that with heat and humidity it might be smart to pick moments (ie 5-4-1), rather than higher press (3/4)
Having a play around with FotMob’s team builder and trying to guess at what Scotland starting XI Clarke might go with for Haiti. Increasingly thinking he might veer back to a version of 5-4-1, with main question being whether Gannon-Doak, Curtis or Christie get the nod. (1/4)
I’m in Frankfurt airport waiting for a connecting flight, and I think I have to, don’t I?
I’m a huge fan of the current Cape Verde top. Hoping they don’t change it for the tournament
Moronic nepo-baby totally and completely fucks it, then flails around, throwing threats about to desperately try to mitigate the consequences of his own actions. This one’s on you, Donald.
Straight from this control, they break down the other end of the pitch and – within maybe 10 seconds – score
Rainy February evening in Wolverhampton and Unai Emery looks suitably pleased
Yeah, at some stage you just have to stand up to the spoilt orange bully. Canada, the UK and the EU (and Mercosur) need to all go way deeper in their trading and security relationships, while hugely scaling up investment in their own tech sectors. Make America less dominant again.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.
Well that was definitely worth flying in for! What a performance Saints. Wow!!! 🏁🏆🇾🇪🍾🏁🏆🇾🇪
Is this the same Europe that boasts Lamine Yamal, Ousmane Dembele, Vitinha, Kvaratskhelia, Nuno Mendes and Erling Haaland among its ranks? 🤨
I am not a Celtic supporter, but I have to say this is wonderful. 👏👏👏 (from Bullsquirt on Reddit)
Oh, is he now? Because he should only have been doing this for the past five years, since he became Labour leader.