17 April 2024 | 7:48 pm

The Guardian football landing page. The first area is split into two cards, one linking to Man City v Real Madrid, the other Bayern Munich v Arsenal/

A landing page that doesn’t have a hero image linking to one thing at the top. How will the readers cope 😱?

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Link: Andrés’ first gen SE
17 April 2024 | 7:20 pm

The iPhone SE (first generation) was also my favourite phone – tiny and no camera bump – but I didn’t try and get a new one when the battery failed. I should have. Also, SEcore should be a genre.


Link: The Voyeur
17 April 2024 | 7:10 am

This is great on what we like to call the “business end of the season”.

Avid readers may be aware that I’m an Ipswich Town fan, and the team is – after nearly 20 years of utter mediocrity – on the verge of promotion to English football’s Premier League (the one with Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal in it).

Here’s the current table. There are 46 games in a season. The top two are automatically promoted, while the next four enter a series of play-off games. The play-off winner joins the top two in promotion.

Position Team Played Points
1 Ipswich Town 43 89
2 Leicester City 42 88
3 Leeds United 43 87
4 Southampton 42 84

Some context… Leicester, Leeds and Southampton were relegated from the Premier League last season, and therefore enjoy what are called “parachute payments”, which means they’ve been able to retain squads that have cost hundreds of millions of pounds. Ipswich Town’s squad cost a total of £11 million – we are firmly the underdogs. We also play an insanely attacking form of football, and have become renowned for coming from behind in the last few minutes of games. There is a lot to like about us.

Some more immediate context: we, Leicester and Leeds have stumbled a bit in the last few games, while Southampton are in red hot form. We haven’t played badly, just not quite as well as earlier in the season.

If we win our remaining three games, we’ll be promoted. But the permutations… Southampton have Leeds and Leicester to play in their last three games; Southampton meet Leeds on the final day of the season.

The best way to follow other teams? Just find the match on the BBC’s Championship fixtures page and keep hitting the refresh button.

COYB.



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