Norwich City signed Christos Tzolis in 2021 for about £8m. He was 19, billed as a Greek wonderkid, and within a year he’d played barely any Premier League football and been shipped off to Germany on loan. That’s the part of the story most people forget. Arsenal are now paying roughly £32m to bring him…

Ronaldo went out of the World Cup on Monday, crying, at 41, beaten by a goal in the 91st minute (MIKEL MERINO!). I kinda felt bad for him for about a day and then spent the rest of the week stuck on something else, which is that I have never worked out whether a player…

I built a second brain out of text files and I have some notes. A couple of weeks ago Google released something called the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) – Version 0.1, dated 12 June 2026. No big launch event, no hype. Which is exactly why it’s worth understanding now, before someone turns it into a…

I’ve tried pretending it’s just rivalry. It isn’t. There’s something about Arsenal Football Club that presses on people in a specific way. Not just opponents. Neutrals too. You can see it in the replies. In the quote tweets. In the way a harmless celebration clip turns into a 3,000-comment courtroom drama where someone from Manchester…

I was standing in an elevator about twenty minutes ago listening to the Black Eyed Peas. 22nd floor going down. And I had this thought: what if this thing just… stops working? What if right now, mid-descent, something snaps? It wasn’t panic, exactly. More like this sudden, sharp awareness that I’m basically trusting my entire…

I am not a smoker. This matters, because it places me permanently on the inside of buildings, staring through glass doors like a house cat while an entire parallel society flourishes just outside. Over time, I’ve noticed something that may be obvious to everyone except people who don’t smoke: smokers appear to have a remarkably…