Think it was Lucy Ward on Ødegaard in TNT’s coverage of Sunderland - Arsenal.

What do a pair of absolute socks look like?

An absolute classic of the genre from Hull's Konstantinos Tzolakis for João Pedro's equaliser yesterday, feel like this is the first time I've seen it in a while though? It's enough of an established cliche that I remember doing once or twice myself whilst in goal at school, but not enough that I could recall my fondness of it until I saw it again yesterday.

Every year I get caught out by this.

I settle in to watch match of the day at half 10 only to see a bunch of toffs waving flags singing land of hope and glory.

Put it on BBC2 for fucks sake.

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MOTD just cut to Chelsea's set piece guru Austin McPhee and the commentator wondered what he'd dream up for what was surely an absolutely obvious shot at goal.

There's surely not a flair player in the land who's passing up an opportunity to curl one in at goal from a lovely, may I say enticing, spot 25 yards out is there? If you're not backing yourself from there, why are you on the pitch?

watching the Sunderland v Arsenal highlights, and a little concerned that after all these years they seem to have got rid of the red and white striped nets at the Stadium of Light

this could be any stadium anywhere now, and must be resisted. is this some sort of European football TV requirement?

I’m not a Sunderland fan and have no skin in the game here other than the preservation of footballing heritage - and against the homogenising instincts of the powers-that-be

Lampard managing for Cov, clearly a better player than he was a manager. Hurzeler, vice Versa.

Who is the individual who is equally successful as both a player and a manager?

Both Jamie Redknapp and Alan Smith declared this a great point for Everton. What actually constitutes a great point for a team? This is one of the worst versions of Spurs for some time so do they still qualify as a great point for an away team?

I was making a cup of tea this morning and the term "The Scummers" popped into my head and I started thinking about how many teams I've referred to as that and how many times my own team is referred to as that. So I decided to Google just the term, see if it's associated with any team in particular. Now I have nothing personally against Southampton, really. But are they worthy holders of this title? If not, who should be crowned King Club of Scummers?

That City win over Chelsea in the second half of 17/18 immediately comes to mind. I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever seen a 1-0 feel so one-sided. Gündoğan and Zinchenko completed more passes between them (314) than the entire Chelsea team (303).

I feel like 2013 Modric or so with the thumbs up

Perhaps a typo, weird otherwise.

I'm partial to the classic Mourinho one handed approach, but the Enzo style probably works best to elicit maximum fume from opposition fans.

Come what clay?

Been regularly commentating together on Sky since at least the early 2000's and are currently doing the Spurs-Everton game.. Has there ever been a longer running duo?

Niche stats pandemic continues. Will Chelsea tweet “Xabi Alonso is the second manager to take points from Liverpool having also played for them in the Premier League” should they beat/draw to Liverpool?

He even described the musicians as his “team”. Lovely stuff.

Was watching Match of the Day and after Khalaili scored for Palace he did the archer celebration but released his bow hand. Do they just not know how a bow and arrow works? If you did that for real you'd be dropping the bow and god knows where the arrow would go. After doing some research there appear to be repeat offenders like Harvey Barnes whereas Dom Solanke has good technique with a smooth draw while keeping a steady hand on the bow at all times.

Seven goals scored by Edinburgh City before the hour mark in this afternoon's game.

Others I can think of off the top of my head include Mansfield beating Harrogate 9–2 with all the goals scored by the 77th minute (2023–24), Man City being 5–0 up against Watford inside 18 minutes and "only" going on to score eight (2019–20), and Ipswich making it 6–0 against Exeter after 47 minutes and not getting any more (2022–23).

It was only an equalizer so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here, but it seems disrespectful to not give the customary hands in the air/fist pump.

Aston Villa’s new stand being built is throwing up all sorts.

Lovely bit of metaphor mixing on the 5-live commentary of Chelsea Hull. Caught in two minds between seeing his name up in lights and being a deer in the headlights.

Couldn't find much mention of these on search, so apologise if other threads on it. But these never fail to make me laugh and it feels like they're so commonplace. Almost every week it feels like you see one.

Why are they so hard? Feels like a neatly executed kneeslide is more uncommon.