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Mafalda

A statue in Buenos Aires of popular Argentinian comic strip character Mafalda. Source.

Knives and Ramona

Bryan Lee O'Malley comes up with the best ending for Scott Pilgrim, ten years after it opened. Source.

Sue Marsden

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Alphonso Davies

Canadian phenom Alphonso Davies, who plays for Bayern Munich, is the German league's rookie of the year. Source.

Developments:

Hearts, Partick and the SPFL were in court this week. The judge sent their dispute on to an arbitration tribunal.

The 2020-21 Premiership schedule will be out Monday.

Participation in the Scottish League Cup is optional this year.

The League Two clubs have voted for an October start.

Having lost the spring and probably the summer months too Scottish women's football might convert to a winter league.

Nicky Cadden has signed with Forest Green Rovers of the English League Two.

Nicky Cadden's goals for Morton:

2019/7/23    33'    Galabank     Annan      Avci          League Cup

2019/7/23    43'    Galabank     Annan      Avci          League Cup

2019/7/27    45'    Cappielow    QoS      McCrorie     League Cup

2019/7/27    SO    Cappielow    QoS      McCrorie    League Cup

2019/8/3      79'    Somerset     Ayr Utd    Doohan     league

2019/8/23    72'    Cappielow    Partick    Rogers       league

2019/12/3    49'    Dudgeon      Brora       Malin         Scottish Cup

2019/12/3    53'    Dudgeon      Brora       Malin         Scottish Cup

2019/12/21  64'    Recreation    Alloa    MacDonald   league

2020/2/25    72'    Somerset     Ayr Utd    Doohan      league

Matches happening:

DFB Pokal final: Bayer Levekusen [2 - 4] Bayern Munich

K League: Seongnam FC [0 - 4] Pohang Steelers (tomorrow)

Round Three of the Korean FA Cup went July 1st:

Pohang Steelers 1 - 0 Gyeongju Citizen

Faroes: AB [0 - 4] B36

Iceland: ÍBV 2 - 0 Vikingur Olafsvik (July 3)

Allsvenskan: Malmö 1 - 0 Djurgården (July 1)

Elfsborg [1 - 0] Malmö (tomorrow)

J2: Mito HollyHock [0 - 3] JEF United Chiba

JEF haven't been in J1 since 2009 but I still think of them as a big club.

J3: Blaublitz Akita [2 - 0] Fukushima United (today)

Vanraure Hachinohe [2 - 0] Iwate Grulla Morioka (tomorrow)

J1 restarts today.

The 2019-20 Swiss Challenge League restarted while I wasn't paying attention. Games involving FC Winterthur:

Vaduz 4 - 1 Winterthur (June 19)

Winterthur 1 - 1 Grasshoppers (June 23)

Wil 3 - 1 Wintherthur (June 26)

Winterthus 5 - 2 Aarau (June 30)

Lausanne Ouchy 2 - 2 Winterthur (July 3)

The German word for "closed door match" is Geisterspiel (ghost game).

Matches not happening:

CPL: Edmonton vs Wanderers

Historical matches:

JFL 1999: Mito HollyHock 2 - 1 Honda FC

B36 in the 1970s:

1979    14    4    4    6    21    30      -9    12    4th

1978    12    1    3    8    12    27    -15      5    7th

1977    12    2    4    6    12    28    -16      8    6th

1976    12    3    3    6    15    25    -10      9    5th 

1975    10    3    0    7    11    14      -3      6    4th

1974    10    3    2    5    14    21      -7      8    5th

1973    10    2    1    7    12    25    -13      5    5th

1972    10    5    2    3    17    10     +7    12    3rd

1971    10    2    1    7    12    32    -20      5    5th

1970      8    1    2    5      9    17      -8      4    5th

ÍBV in the 2010s:

2019    22      2    4    16    23    52    -29    10    12th (I)

2018    22      8    5      9    29    31      -2    29      6th (I)

2017    22      7    4    11    32    38      -6    25      9th (I)    Cup

2016    22      6    5    11    23    27      -4    23      9th (I)

2015    22      5    4    13    26    37    -11    19    10th (I)

2014    22      5    7    10    28    38    -10    22    10th (I)

2013    22      8    5      9    26    28      -2    29      6th (I)

2012    22    10    5      7    36    21   +15    35      3rd (I)

2011    22    12    4      6    37    27   +10    40      3rd (I)

2010    22    13    3      6    36    27     +9    42      3rd (I)

Golden Kamuy Consadole Sapporo crossover merch. Source.

Kilmarnock F.C.'s Canadian Experiences

    The players and officials of Kilmarnock Football Club, who have been touring in Canada and the United States for the past six weeks, returned home by the Canadian Pacific liner Duchess of Richmond, which reached the Tail of the Bank yesterday. The party landed at Princes Pier, Greenock, and joined a waiting motor 'bus for Kilmarnock. Mr A. S. M'Culloch, president of the club, was in charge of the tourists and was accompanied by Mr Douglas Dick, vice-president; Mr T. Wylie, director; Mr Hugh Spence and 17 players and the trainer. The players, who were all fit and well, expressed their delight with the tour.

    Mr Spence told a representative of "The Glasgow Herald," who went on board the liner at the Tail of the Bank, that the standard of football in Canada was not nearly so good as in the Second Division of the Scottish League. Football was not likely to become a national game in the Dominion, due mainly to the long distances between the centres of population. It was being kept alive principally by men from the Old Country, who were fired with the greatest enthusiasm for the game and who worked hard to keep it going. Throughout the tour of Canada, Mr Spence added, kindnesses were lavished on the party.

    Referring to the part of the tour in the United States, Mr Spence declared that the American football followers were bad sportsmen and that the standard of refereeing was terrible.

    The Kilmarnock officials have brought home with them a silver telephone presented to the club by the Burns Club at Brantford, and the instrument is to be installed in the manager's office at Rugby Park.

(Glasgow Herald, July 5, 1930, p. 13.)

Corona Maison

European BDistes have been answering the Corona Maison Challenge, drawing their versions of the coronavirus lockdown using a template of a room with a window and a staircase. See more here.

Finnish Classics Illustrated Comics

Classics Illustrated Comics were published in Finnish too. Again, most of them were translations of the American versions. But there were also a few based on the writings of Zachris Topelius, the 19th-century Finnish nationalist. Source. See here for a discussion in Finnish.

Golden Kamuy Last Supper

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Golden Kamuy Snow Globe

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Adrenaline and Butter

Indian butter producer Amul cheerfully breaks copyright to reference the newest Asterix character, Adrenaline, in one of its ads. Source.

Danbo and Class Struggle

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