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Carragher’s comments are laden with essentialist claims about African football that are Euro-centric and orientalist. www.nytimes.com/athletic/615...

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There is a 'magic money tree' for missiles! Labour plans to spend £13.4 billion a year more on defence. Not on hospitals Not on council housing Not on reducing energy bills But on war. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

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New Labour’s record on international development was far from perfect, but under Blair and Brown especially, it did offer genuine leadership and policies that made a real difference in the global South. Starmer’s cynical slashing of the UK aid budget to appease Trump is a betrayal of Labour values.

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There is an alternative world in which football clubs are owned and controlled by their members. It's called Norway, Sweden, and Germany and people like Jim Ratcliffe wouldn't be allowed anywhere near their football clubs.

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NHS staff are NHS patients too. Wes Streeting often indulges in othering of critical voices from within struggling healthcare systems. Morale needs hope not inferred censure from govt.

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Manchester United remain one of the wealthiest clubs in the world. This latest round of redundancies in the name of belt-tightening is as unnecessary as it is pointless. You can’t cut your way to growth.

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It’s frankly insulting to Slot and Liverpool when journos like Julien Laurens suggest that the quality of the EPL is “poor” when LFC finished top of the UCL league, comfortably beating Real Madrid and Leverkusen.

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So lemme get this straight. After seeing Man City win four titles in a row, this current title race is “boring” because a manager in his debut season in England has taken on one of the hardest jobs in football and led Liverpool Football Club to the brink of a twentieth league title?

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49 - Mo Salah has both scored and assisted a goal in 49 separate league matches in his career in Europe's big-five leagues. Since Opta have this data available (from 2006-07), only Lionel Messi (102) and Cristiano Ronaldo (65) have done so more in those divisions. Greatness.

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“One-season wonder”.

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Zack is spot on here. You can’t have “non-negotiable rules” that are “self-imposed”. Austerity is a political choice. Rather than rehashing broken Tory policies, tax the rich, invest in public services and infrastructure, build decent social housing, and deliver a greener more sustainable future.

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You’d take a point away against a decent Villa side, but with a decent number 9 we’d be leaving Villa Park with three points.

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It continues to baffle me why Salah isn’t routinely in the running for the Ballon D’Or. This has to be his year.

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They won 2-2 We lost 2-2

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Well done lads. You gonna have a trophy parade for a home draw or what?

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This has got a stress-inducing 4-4 written all over it.

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Clear heads here, Liverpool.

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You can never completely rule out Real but it would take quite something for either of these sides to win the Champions League.

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To think, there are those that reckon Ederson is a better keeper than Alisson. 🤡

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Feel like I’ve made the transition from ‘wool’ to Scouser with my very own @merseytravel.bsky.social T-FLOW account.

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The cumulative scale of job losses across the sector is just staggering…but barely a peep from the government. It is an act of social vandalism to allow out-of-their-depth managers to sack academics and cut the degree courses that transform lives and make a meaningful contribution to society.

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Only watching the United-Leicester game only for Keane’s reaction at half-time. How they escaped from Anfield with two points over the last two seasons is beyond me. Abysmal side.

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Ahhh. Because whenever the US takes over any land that always, without fail, goes so swimmingly well. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if that walking Tango ad tried to turn what is left of Gaza into a giant golf course.

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Even with five qualifying spots up for grabs, City, for all sorts of reasons, will be lucky to be playing in the Champions League next season. The fall-off this season has been quite something.

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This: 🎯

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Your now annual reminder that since returning to the top flight of English football in 1962, Liverpool Football Club has never finished a league season lower than eighth position. #LFC #MUFC

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"It is past time to ditch the bugaboo that sports don’t matter, or worse, that they are some spurious diversion from reality" Authoritarians take sport very seriously, it's time for social progressives to do the same. Right now we are not even on the battlefield. 👏 @julesboykoff.bsky.social

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Being referred to as a “stakeholder” (as opposed to an academic, or even - imagine! - ‘colleague’) is a new low even for this neoliberal monstrosity. It’s not even pretending to be a HE institution now.

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Utterly bizarre and borderline deranged behaviour from that so-called ‘football club’.

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