Stirs

Not sure how energy prices are going up next year when the energy being generated by Bob Willis spinning in his grave would be enough to power the commonwealth for the foreseeable future

69 ball hundred

Somehow England have been worse than the TNT team

Mines fallen off now. Worst ashes themed thing of the morning for me and I’m scattering my grandmother in laws at 11:30am

So soft hahahah

An incredible amount of self-appointed mental disintegration on show today. Gonna be heads fallen off by the end of the series

Stone Roses forever ❤️

Bloody hell. One of THE greats of Manchester & UK music. He drove the sound of that band which grew to influence so many and are still one of my favourites now. Some of the best nights of my life watching him and the other three. He just seemed like he fucking loved it. RIP mate ❤️🍋

I’ll tell you about it sometime

Life is Beautiful (La vita è bella) (1997)

4.5/5. It’s an extremely brave choice to do a half-comedy film set during the holocaust but fuck me this was incredible. No spoilers but the opening scene was one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while and the ending nearly had me in tears.

#filmsky

But this year I decided to. Fuck them, fuck fascism and fuck hatred. We will remember them.

in order to political point score because they don’t like brown people shows how much they’ve actually read into what happened or what they were fighting for. It’s grim. I haven’t worn a poppy for a few years because it’s been used as a tool by the right and by nationalists.

The amount of posts I’ve seen on other socials that say “they’d be spinning in their graves at the state of this country” etc is fucking disgusting. They all bang on about respect but to disrespect those who were coerced into giving their lives for this country and those that fought against fascism

My great-granduncle on my other side of the family, William Pye also died in Belgium on 24th December 1914, a day before the famous Christmas truce football match. His body was never found. He is one of 54,000 members of "The Missing" represented on the Menin Gate in Ypres.

My family now have a book that was made in remembrance of Eric by his parents, including letters from the front, which I was fortunate enough to read this weekend, including stories of his channel crossing and his gratitude for some silk socks which had been sent over. They were an emotional read.

Eric decided he would enter the army from entry level along with 35 other riflemen in the 1/28th London Regiment, first going to France in November 1917. By the time the armistice was signed a year later, 12 of the 36 of his regiment were dead and another 12 had been sent home injured.

Eric had turned down the place he had been offered at University of Oxford in order to join the army. Due to his academic achievements to that point and due to his class he was given the option to enter the forces at Officer level, which he turned down. A decision which probably cost him his life.

In the leadup to this remembrance day, I've been researching the personal stories of my family, and today I'm in particular thinking of my great-granduncle, Eric Faulkner (pictured). This weekend, I learned more about the story of Eric, who aged just 19 in June 1918 after wounds received in action.

Dread to think how bad Connor Bradley’s calves feel

The sportswashing discourse is inevitably tiring now, but what I will say is that as someone who avoids the news for the sake of my sanity, I learnt about what was going on in Sudan by going the match yesterday. Sorry if that doesn’t go along with the narrative Barney

Class today. Doku’s best in a city shirt. Dias, Nunes, Nico Gonzalez in particular outstanding

Is lovely this

Not saying we’ve played well since Dortmund scored but that is exactly the sort of situation we shit ourselves in at various points last season. Progress

Dortmund’s left back giving Savinho more freedom than a British prison guard

Haaland not bad TBF.

Been some fantastic work from the camera operators on specimen watch tonight

He’s stupidly good isn’t he

Can’t remember price. Probably a tenner. WH Smiths Exeter, 2004