Football – the dim pause

Posted on July 12, 2026

Argentina 🇦🇷 0-1 🇪🇬 Egypt so far … ⚽️🏆

Messi doesn’t score a penalty

So having a glass of Argentinian Malbec 🍷

Two World Cups ⚽️🏏

A television on a wooden stand is displaying a split screen with a soccer match on the left and a cricket match on the right.

But this is not ideal – can’t really see either properly unless I sit really close! Need to choose …

Apophenia was a very nice beer for the Belgium match tonight. Game still in the balance 🇧🇪

Brazil 🇧🇷 v 🇭🇹 Haiti 🏆⚽️

Neither side in home colours, even though yellow-blue wouldn’t clash. Weird and disappointing 🤷‍♂️

And it finishes Spain 🇪🇸 0-0 🇨🇻 Cape Verde. That was a tense finish, excellent for Cape Verde 👏⚽️

Half-time. Spain 🇪🇸 0-0 🇨🇻 Cape Verde 😮

Cape Verde keeper Vozinha has made that so!

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Six Nations starts tonight with France 🇫🇷 v 🇮🇪 Ireland. Then England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales on Saturday 🏉

ICC Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup Final is tomorrow – England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🇮🇳 India in Harare 🏏

The Winter Olympics has started – but the opening ceremony in Milan is tomorrow evening.

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup starts in India and Sri Lanka early Saturday 🏏

Plus Premier League ⚽️

Seventh straight Premiership win for Aston Villa – against Manchester United. Two great goals for Morgan Rogers 🦁⚽️

Great pressure, great goal from Villa to take the last minute win. Fantastic game 👏⚽️