Alec Hudson

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We bizarrely might have become the best United side defensively of the post-Fergie era out of nowhere

This squad hasn't heard the concept of "ball retention" in about 5 years.

Diogo Dalot forgetting how to pass the football today is the only thing keeping this at 2-1

Dunno if we turn it around but I think a goal comes from somewhere as Palace tires.

Luke Shaw - the spice that makes the sauce Manchester United's left back doesn't always stand out, but his impact is felt when he's not around

Numbers don't lie. If this Shaw injury is serious there's suddenly a really good chance United fall out of the Champions League places kwestthoughts.substack.com/p/luke-shaw-...

No Licha and no Shaw and we have 0 progression from deep.

The only positive is Palace are clearly tiring as the half goes on

And now Kobbie can't keep the ball, this game is a complete wash

Dalot killing every attack stone dead right now

This is dire

Yeah Palace are in complete control here

Vibes have been off from kickoff

We need a serious long-term approach to dealing with the far-right and rising authoritarianism that looks not just as electoral success but as bolstering our institutions and properly addressing the crisis in our media.

But instead, we get the Home Secretary trying to out-racist Nigel Farage.

One thing I have learned: you have to attack far-right/anti-democratic voices in the places and on the issues where they appear to be the strongest. You have to remove their assumption that they have *any* easy wins. The more pointless the battle feels, the more important it is to fight it.

It is great to see some MPs finally standing up against the xenophobia and division which Starmer and Mahmood are promoting, but it will take a lot more than that to get this government to change course. It is going to take all Labour MPs actively challenging lies about marginalised groups. 5/

The maddest part (well besides the actual content) is that these posts are almost assuredly ghost-written.

this cures what ails me every time

When the fascists began to set up their news networks, people understandably laughed at the amateurish nature of their initial efforts: they should also have spent much more time thinking what fascists could achieve with the near-limitless funds at their disposal.

Almost point-to-point identical to the porpoising TD that ruined the last regs

The NFF is an oddity in world football: it is a genuinely democratic emanation of its football. Should those motions be passed (which is likely), its president Lise Klaveness will be duty-bound to espouse them and confront Fifa - as she has done before.

More NFFs = no Infantino, simple as that.

Anecdotally, Fellaini never felt as good at heading the ball as you'd expect for someone of his size.

He'd definitely be great at causing meatwall chaos though.

Hell yeah, brother

We must remind ourselves of what the Ancient Greek knew, but the US forgot: those who would destroy democracy cannot be allowed to participate in it.

The government must urgently address political financing and close Twitter and other engines of disinformation and radicalisation.

more like GOATon and Denton

The response to the fascists hoovering up the Tory vote isn't to become the Tories but red, guys.

I want the Greens to be a legitimate party but they shouldn't be getting 60% of the left vote if Labour were acting remotely seriously

Cast "Blue Labour" into the gates of hell

good shit

oh is adopting racist right wing talking points on immigration unhelpful for the supposed left wing major party because your own voters get turned off and your opponent’s voters want to vote for even harsher language? do tell