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A stubborn optimist, would-be drummer, and sometime lawyer

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Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

06.03.2026 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 20745    πŸ” 6021    πŸ’¬ 462    πŸ“Œ 366

#lfc

Rio Ngumoha. He’s quite good.

06.03.2026 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Poetic justice just now, tho

01.03.2026 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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VAR errors increase - every mistake so far in 2025-26 Premier League The Premier League's KMI Panel makes judgements on every key decisions. Here's what they say the VAR has got wrong.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

01.03.2026 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn’t get where I am today by…

22.02.2026 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#lfc

Glasses cleaned courtesy of Specsavers

22.02.2026 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#lfc

VAR brought to you by Specsavers

Breathtaking

22.02.2026 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, well, well

The demise of Welsh rugby has, in fact, not happened. 😊

#6Nations

21.02.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She does indeed.

13.02.2026 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maya Angelou once said β€œwhen someone shows you they are, believe them the first time.”

We’ve already seen what Mr Ratcliffe really thinks. Nothing he says now can walk back from that.

Odious views. Odious words.

12.02.2026 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Never mind

08.02.2026 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But competitors will always compete. And we’d criticise if they did not

08.02.2026 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I noticed that too

08.02.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think that tallies with what we’ve been seeing.

It’s an intentional approach and reflects the reality of the squad. Today it didn’t work out, but not by much.

08.02.2026 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

#lfc

What a damaging thing VAR can be.

Almost makes me want to stop watching altogether.

And if that is a view others have then VAR undermines the game it’s meant to support and enable.

πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

08.02.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#lfc

Woof!

08.02.2026 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#winterolympics

At a time when everything looks bleak, the smiles on the faces of the athletes at the Winter Olympics are a tonic

06.02.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

25.01.2026 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 28794    πŸ” 10724    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 981

#lfc

πŸ˜”

24.01.2026 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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The commentary from All Red was almost unlistenable.

I get that the commentators are partisan.

But, I gained no real picture in my head of what was happening.

What I got instead was noise, and little to no insight.

17.01.2026 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#lfc

Why only a yellow for Martinelli?

Awful behaviour, deserving suspension

08.01.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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Flat-footed, achieving occasional pedestrian speeds

04.01.2026 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#lfc

There’s some misty-eyed comments about #lfc this morning and how we used to play

But, let’s not forget no team ever stands still, including opposing teams, and it can take time to adjust

And, no team is entitled to win just because they used to win

02.01.2026 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧡

01.01.2026 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1350    πŸ” 698    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 216

#lfc

Watching a game and reading others’ comments is an object lesson in perspective

I frequently wonder whether I’m watching a completely different match

01.01.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am watching the game with my MIL.

Decisions like this are making it hard for me to restrict the use of asterisks

01.01.2026 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#LFC

I have never seen such an agricultural display by a Tottenham team. Deliberately and repeatedly ugly stuff

#LFC still need to close down games far better, but at the moment I’m just glad we don’t lose any more players to injury 🀞

20.12.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unusually so.

20.12.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is ugly football now what teams aspire to?

It’s really difficult to watch.

You’d have thought clubs would see that it’s not a good thing in the long term.

It turns out fans off.

And fewer fans mean less money

20.12.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But we’d miss Scott Parker’s elegance

13.12.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0