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One screenshot to sum up how sportswashing works.

Her expressionless face.. The tapping of her ear How lost she looks Her little feet on the rubble Is she, as Netanyahu puts it: “A murderous Islamist terrorist organization”? Can we be real about this FFS?

I am proud of what immigrants like my mum and those across Luton North have given to our country. Many serve in our NHS, open biz, enrich culture/arts & much more. The best way to avoid becoming an ‘island of strangers’ is investing in communities to thrive - not pitting people against each other.

football fans in general have just become too obsessed with other clubs

One of these teams will be in the Champions League next season, three of them the Championship.

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.

Honestly just does my head in. Serious foul play is one of the few flawless and totally acceptable ways to use VAR and they just don’t bother. Player safety a total non issue for PGMOL but trivial nonsense is fussed over endlessly. Really badly just want Webb to go.

People in the USA & beyond are being punished, fired, defunded, deported, disciplined & silenced by Trump’s administration for their opinions & beliefs. In unprecedented numbers. I thought the ‘anti-woke’ warriors really hated this stuff? They all seem to have disappeared…

Andrew Neil now.... and exactly four months ago. A great example of the British Right finally catching up. Their primary objective of 'owning the libs' has hit brutal reality.

They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

The Premier League Injury and suspension situation heading into this weekend

Here's how the Conservatives managed to spend £715 million of taxpayers' money on the failed, inhumane Rwanda scheme. https://buff.ly/41bZLrx

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

Brilliantly put by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Thoughts and prayers with Jason Ayto #havertz #arsenal

Season basically over, and whilst the Martinelli injury came out of the blue, this one didn’t. We all saw Havertz collapse to the ground after Wolves, when the window was still open. And we said “get up, you’re playing 200 minutes of the next three games”.

This place still feels a bit small, not football focused, but maybe we could try and connect Arsenal fans at least. If you are an Arsenal fan, leave a reply, people can follow, also please repost or whatever it's called her and hopefully it can spread. #arsenal

The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on

I'm sick of officials unfit to officiate and pundits incapable of analysing football, gaslighting fans who have played and watched football all their lives and spend thousands of pounds following their teams, that what we all know is wrong is actually right. #PGMOL

When the concept of VAR was first mooted I liked the idea of experts with technology to advise on terrible decisions. It seemed unfair to refs that they had a split second and maybe a bad angle, while millions at home saw instant replays. But how can VAR, and assistant VARS, be this bad/mad? 🧵