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What I took from that is that Adam and Eve are part of the Game of Thrones religious canon.

I'm quite surprised about that. I thought they'd keep everything under wraps until the game released.

Conte has gone. Who saw that coming?

Good stuff at Meadow Lane today. Over 16,000 people were in attendance as Notts beat Scunthorpe 4-0, with Macaulay Langstaff scoring his 39th league goal of the season. He's only one goal behind the National League record now, which is even more impressive when you consider that none of them have been penalties. It's funny how things turn out. Paul Mullin was the top scorer in League Two the season before Wrexham picked him up, and yet he's being outscored by someone Notts signed from Gateshead.

Regardless of the performance, that's a good result for England.

This will be quite a disaster for Italy if they don't get at least a draw.

England can't complain about the score here.

As an outsider, I think it's more the case that if you're supporting a smaller club, there's a very real chance that nobody will do anything to save them. There was just no way most people could have seen Liverpool not getting a buyer. Leeds paid the price for overspending and didn't have the international reputation and fanbase to keep them going amidst poor management. Rangers, despite their status in the Scottish game, also didn't have the benefit of the big television deals the Premier League clubs were benefiting from. Liverpool going into anything like those kinds of crises would have been another level entirely. That's not to say that Liverpool fans had no right to worry, of course. Local community support from football clubs is an often understated boon of the game, so to have that threatened is always concerning, especially if you're being run by owners who don't care about it.

I can sympathise when a club is close to administration, but it's also worth remembering that, outside the top few Premier League teams, there are very few clubs who haven't been in that position this century. In their cases, their existences were on the line in very serious ways, whereas I can't ever envisage a scenario in which Liverpool would have come close to going out of business. I'm not meaning to totally dismiss the fans' bad memories. As said, it's all relative. With that said, Liverpool's worst era would have been a golden age for the vast majority of clubs.

Because I'm not a supporter of a top club, I feel as though I come from another world sometimes. I'm not aiming this at anyone here, but when your club's darkest age of the last fifty years still involves finishing in the top half of the highest division, I can't really feel much sympathy.

Ben Foster has come out of retirement to join Wrexham. Sounds like more of an opportunity to shill his podcast than anything else. The end of this season is going to be a bit unusual. Notts are virtually numerically guaranteed not to finish lower than second, but I also don't see much chance of them catching Wrexham to win the league. Potentially not having anything to play for until the playoffs is going to be interesting. I have a bad feeling about the playoffs, in no small part because Notts have lost in them for the last three seasons. The prospect of getting over 100 points and still not getting promoted would be a real kick in the teeth.

I know Liverpool fans won't like to hear it, but I've always quite liked Hodgson. He did great work at Fulham, West Brom and Crystal Palace in the Premier League, as well as Malmo and the Swiss national team. I always found it refreshing to see an English manager working in several different countries and learning the languages.

I doubt it will make a difference to the final table as Wigan probably wouldn't avoid relegation anyway. I hope they get back on a stable footing.

I used to quite like playing Universe Mode back on WWE '12 because of how it would work a bit like an old-style season mode. In more recent entries, I've noticed that it has options to choose who wins and it makes me wonder if it's possible to just let things play out according to the whim of the AI. Is it just EWR without any management gameplay now?

Aerys looks like that baddie from Pirates of the Caribbean.

It was quite an even game before that. Ireland ought to breeze to victory now.

If Ireland play like they did against France and England also play like they did against France, this will be a thoroughly one-sided match today.

Real Madrid v Chelsea Inter v Benfica Man City v Bayern Milan v Napoli I'd like to see Benfica v Napoli in the semi-finals. I reckon Napoli ought to be the favourites to reach the final in that half of the draw.

There's a Steam sale going on right now. Interestingly, the Steam Deck is part of it, selling at a 10% discount.

It's odd that there's a trophy that counts your steps. Inventory space might be limited, but Claire and Leon clearly think a Fitbit is the most important tool to bring to a zombie apocalypse.

I congratulate Max Verstappen on winning the next race by a huge margin, then.

Ghostwire: Tokyo will come to Xbox and Game Pass in April. It will coincide with the launch of a big update for the game, which will be available on PC and PS5 as well.

I think that's the case for most university sports here. The American collegiate sports system seems so strange by comparison. The idea that 80,000 people in the UK would watch a university football match is utterly laughable.

Now the problem is that we have to go through all the myriad permutations of which teams face each other in the first knockout round. The group stages always used to be my favourite part of major tournaments, but with this format, they feel more like a tedious process to get out of the way before anything meaningful happens. That's not to say that the three-team groups were good either.

The reviews are starting to come out. It seems as though most things from last year have been built upon, which is a good sign.