Surely people know by now these long posts are fake bollocks 🤷🏻♂️ Please stop sharing them.
🚨Roy Keane on Jayden Bogle’s challenge on Mathys Tel during Leeds against Tottenham:
🗣️ Roy Keane: “I watched that challenge on Tel, and I’m telling you, that was nasty. Really nasty.
Tel has the ball, he knows Bogle is coming, and he tries to shift his body and move the ball gle catches him right on the Achilles, just above the boot.
You can see Tel immediately knows something is wrong.
He goes down in pain, he’s seriously injured and eventually has to leave the pitch.
So I’m sitting there thinking, what exactly are the referee and VAR looking at?
They replay it over ten times.
They slow it down.
They pause it.
They show it from different angles.
And somehow they still come to the conclusion, ‘You know what? There’s no foul.’
That is an absolute joke.
I don’t care how many times you replay it. Look at the contact.
Look at where Bogle catches him.
Look at Tel’s reaction.
You can see the pain on his face immediately.
He’s trying to get away from the challenge and gets caught directly on the Achilles.
Then he has to leave the pitch injured.
And somehow we’re being told it isn’t serious enough?
Seriously?
What more do you need to see before you decide something is serious?
The lad is injured and has gone off.
He’s not pretending.
He’s not rolling around trying to waste time.
He tried to continue and couldn’t.
Maybe we’re waiting until a player dies on the pitch before somebody finally says, ‘Actually, that was dangerous.’
Because apparently a player getting caught on the Achilles, going down in obvious pain and leaving the game injured still isn’t enough.
That is where football has lost its way.
The inconsistency is absolutely abnormal.
One week, you see a similar challenge and everyone screams for a red card.
The next week, a player gets caught like that and the officials basically shrug their shoulders.
How does that make sense?
And don’t tell me they didn’t see it.
They replayed it again and again.
They had every opportunity to look at the contact properly.
They chose not to punish it.
John Brooks and the VAR team looked at that and decided no serious foul had been committed.
I find that incredible.
Because if that isn’t serious, what exactly are we waiting for?
Are we waiting for Tel to be carried off before we decide it was dangerous?
Oh, wait — he already went off injured.
So what more evidence do we need?
Footballers have to be protected.
You cannot allow challenges like that and then act surprised when players get seriously hurt.
For me, that was a shocking decision.
Not a borderline decision.
Not a difficult one.
A shocking one.
And somebody needs to explain why a player can be caught on the Achilles, leave the pitch injured, and still have the officials decide there was nothing serious about it.
Because if this is the standard now, we are asking players to accept dangerous challenges until somebody gets seriously hurt.
And I don’t want to hear excuses afterwards.
The officials had the footage.
They had the time.
They had the angles.
They had everything they needed to make the right decision.
They simply didn’t make it.
And that is what makes it so frustrating.”
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Dan retweeted
John Brooks' last 14 games reffing Spurs ..
Spurs cards 33yellow, 4 red.
Oppo cards 9 yellow, 0 red.
And he sent off Xabi for this and not Bogle for that.
He shouldn't be reffing Spurs (or perhaps anyone)
Spurs cards 33yellow, 4 red.
Oppo cards 9 yellow, 0 red.
And he sent off Xabi for this and not Bogle for that.
He shouldn't be reffing Spurs (or perhaps anyone)
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Absolutely this. Yes we were miles off it today with stinkers all over the pitch but it’s an entirely different game, and likely outcome, if the red rightly gets given. We can’t just overlook that.
Spurs didn't play particularly well but you can't analyse that game without acknowledging Bogle should have been sent off.
Not even picking up a yellow card while Tel went off injured is a very bitter pill to swallow
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Feared the worst when I saw this earlier in the week… we can now add today to the already long list. Club need to be taking all of these examples and kicking off to whoever they need to.
John Brooks, who didn't see Ekitike's push on Romero as a foul, booked him for protesting, then booked him again and sent him off in a game where he didn't commit a single foul
Who was quick to send off Xavi Simons for the tackle on Van Dijk
Who didn't think Delap breaking And who didn't think Palmer hitting Fernandes in the head was a red, or Rogers' ridiculous challange on Gallagher...
Will ref Spurs away to dirty Leeds this weekend
What could possibly go wrong😂
He was also the VAR who upheld the decision to rule out the Muani goal vs Arsenal for the "push" on Gabriel
Thanks @prorefofficial
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John Brooks, who didn't see Ekitike's push on Romero as a foul, booked him for protesting, then booked him again and sent him off in a game where he didn't commit a single foul
Who was quick to send off Xavi Simons for the tackle on Van Dijk
Who didn't think Delap breaking And who didn't think Palmer hitting Fernandes in the head was a red, or Rogers' ridiculous challange on Gallagher...
Will ref Spurs away to dirty Leeds this weekend
What could possibly go wrong😂
He was also the VAR who upheld the decision to rule out the Muani goal vs Arsenal for the "push" on Gabriel
Thanks @prorefofficial
Who was quick to send off Xavi Simons for the tackle on Van Dijk
Who didn't think Delap breaking And who didn't think Palmer hitting Fernandes in the head was a red, or Rogers' ridiculous challange on Gallagher...
Will ref Spurs away to dirty Leeds this weekend
What could possibly go wrong😂
He was also the VAR who upheld the decision to rule out the Muani goal vs Arsenal for the "push" on Gabriel
Thanks @prorefofficial
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We need to go after the officials and VAR after this no matter the outcome. How do they not even send the ref to the screen? It’s a clear red card and the player ends up without even a yellow while our player goes off injured.
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Business groups are sharply criticising John Healey’s budget
“This budget lacks the bold moves that would have made it easier for firms to invest, hire and grow,” CBI boss Rain Newton-Smith says
“There is nothing concrete to provide breathing space for the vast majority of businesses who are already dealing with energy bills a third higher than their European counterparts.”
The budget had “nothing to ease sky-high energy bills and nothing to make hiring someone more affordable,” the Federation of Small Businesses says.
The British Chambers of Commerce says Healey’s package lacks “the big calls that would really shift the economic dial” and that “many firms will have been hoping for a greater impact.”
Make UK says the budget “failed to address any of the fundamental costs holding back investment and growth in manufacturing.”
Via @Joe_Mayes @JacobReid02 @sabahmeddings: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“This budget lacks the bold moves that would have made it easier for firms to invest, hire and grow,” CBI boss Rain Newton-Smith says
“There is nothing concrete to provide breathing space for the vast majority of businesses who are already dealing with energy bills a third higher than their European counterparts.”
The budget had “nothing to ease sky-high energy bills and nothing to make hiring someone more affordable,” the Federation of Small Businesses says.
The British Chambers of Commerce says Healey’s package lacks “the big calls that would really shift the economic dial” and that “many firms will have been hoping for a greater impact.”
Make UK says the budget “failed to address any of the fundamental costs holding back investment and growth in manufacturing.”
Via @Joe_Mayes @JacobReid02 @sabahmeddings: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The best all formats batsman in the world right now. Sensational player. Talent and skill a joy to watch and plenty more to come. 202 batting at 4 🤯 👏🏼
Just take a moment to read these stats...
Highest ODI score for England ✅
First ODI double-century for England ✅
Fastest double-century in ODI cricket ✅
Second hundred off just 39 balls ✅
The highest ODI score at Rawalpindi ✅
First English player to score an ODI century in Rawalpindi ✅
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Dan retweeted
And she remains completely free to write, to publish, and to sell her books. Just not to give the proceeds to a proscribed terrorist organisation. This is not hard to understand.
I signed this open letter in the @NewStatesman.
Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist newstatesman.com/cover-story/20…
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One of the most sickening, depraved, barbaric, evil acts I’ve had the misfortune to witness in my lifetime.
Along with the cretins, some who’ve appeared all too close to home, who’ve felt emboldened to show their true colours in the three years since.
Along with the cretins, some who’ve appeared all too close to home, who’ve felt emboldened to show their true colours in the three years since.
At 6:29 a.m. on October 7, 2023, Palestinian Hamas terrorists invaded Israel.
They stormed communities, murdered families in their homes, raped, burned and kidnapped.
Three years on, Israel remembers the victims and the barbarity of Palestinian jihadist terrorism.
We will TEN
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Disgraceful that the prime minister is doing this. He is applying political pressure on the outcome because it’s his city and reflects his time in office.
Would he do the same if it was Chelsea or Newcastle’s owners?
Would he do the same if it was Chelsea or Newcastle’s owners?
Andy Burnham has said he would be “really concerned” to lose Manchester City’s owners as a result of the club being found guilty of more than 100 breaches of Premier League rules | ✍️
@martynziegler, @Lawton_Times, @_pauljoyce thetimes.com/sport/football…
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He's played his whole career with his boyhood club. He's won two major trophies with them. He's regularly played Europa League and Champions League with them. Hes won the Nations League, Euros and World Cup. A wasted career? Behave.
It’s a shame Oyarzabal has wasted his whole career at Real Sociedad. Top player.
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So much of what Labour have done in the past 2 years seems to have been reflexively envious and redistributive, punishing success wherever they can. Not only is it not increasing our collective wealth and wellbeing, it is actively undermining our future prosperity
IHT and pensions. I don’t think Labour realise just how much damage this is going to do to their reelection chances. I talk to pensions experts, journalists, advisers, they all talk to other people. Consistently, the number 1 issue by a mile is just how bad this is going to be
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The British Left is in a time warp when it comes to Europe. Do they have no idea what’s happening there? Don’t they read the papers? Meloni is PM of Italy. AfD is outpolling CDU and SPD combined in Germany. Le Pen is favourite to be the next president of France. Socialist Sanchez in Spain is finished.
They seem to think the EU we left (for good or ill) in 2016 is the Europe of today. Delusional.
They seem to think the EU we left (for good or ill) in 2016 is the Europe of today. Delusional.
🚨 NEW: David Miliband says Brexit amounted to a "unilateral declaration of political impotence" and has left Britain like a "bobbing cork in the sea".
The former Labour foreign secretary says Britain now needs a new formal relationship with the EU and believes Andy Burnham is tarmer to deliver it.
Burnham recently refused to rule out putting reversing Brexit in Labour's next manifesto, saying it was a question "for another day".
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I remember the time when journalism was a respected profession.
Exclusive: De Zerbi to lose his Tottenham hot seat as club lose their second sponsor in six months...
- plus the latest on Eight Sports Capital and Daniel Levy's stake #thfc
telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…Community noteThe tweet misleadingly implies De Zerbi risks losing his managerial job, but the article states his role may be safe for now and refers literally to losing the sponsor-provided press conference chair as Sidiz ends its deal early.
telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…
football365.com/news/tottenham…
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