u/jacksonkeir

I don't know why Sandy Lyle is Elis's go-to golfer to reference, but it makes me laugh every time.

Can't quite define the essential elements of a cult hero off the top of my head, but I don't think it can be applied to a £60 million signing with five Champions League medals...

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Playing 9 holes with my wife and six year old son today, and rattling round at a good pace as usual, on the way to an uncharacteristically decent score on my part.

A group of four 30something guys in front waved at us to play through on a short par 4, which was very good of them, as we would have been happy to wait.

They stood aside on the fairway as my son hit three cracking shots in a row to make it onto the green, and then made a fuss of him. Think he walked up to putt feeling like he was Rory McIlroy, and rightly so. Insanely proud of him.

I then hit a pitching wedge from the rough with my second to about six feet from the flag, and got a "great shot, mate" from two of them. Normally I crumble with people watching on and waiting so it felt superb to just nail it.

I don't know, it sometimes feel like the only golf anecdotes you get online are horror stories and moaning about stuff. But I had probably the most life affirming ten minutes I've ever experienced on a golf course today. It's easy to assume everyone is annoying but there are some genuinely lovely people out there.

The Athletic's analysis of the U.S. World Cup squad is, as you'd expect, written in exactly the same style and cadence as all American sportswriting. The obsession with "athleticism" etc., which I'm broadly accepting of as a charming cultural quirk so long as it doesn't bleed into coverage of non-American football.

That said, Brenden Aaronson needing to "show he can be goal dangerous" is a new one for me, and I don't think it's a welcome linguistic innovation:

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Probably been covered before on here but was reminded of it with Semenyo's goal today.

Good finish but surely we have seen it done a thousand times now, it's not *that* hard a skill to pull off in the great scheme of things.

Yet for some reason commentators and pundits treat it like witchcraft...

1. John Filan

2. Gary Charles

3. Danny Granville

4. Graham Hyde

5. Craig Short

6. Rob Ullathorne

7. Robbie Van Der Laan

8. Stephen Hughes

9. Bruce Dyer

10. Michael "Micky" Evans

11. Stewart Casteldine

Yes, I have indeed been clearing out the attic.

Peter Beardsley at Bolton!