Steve Barker

@sid_lambert Scored 1st goal on a whole new ball game, aapparently!

On Teddy Sheringham’s birthday, a reminder of his first day at Forest with new boss Brian Clough: 💬”He came walking down the corridor and said: ‘Ah you must be Edward Sheringham’. I told him I was, but I preferred to be called Teddy. He said: ‘OK, welcome to the club, Edward’.”

@VoWalesWren @RDPHistory Well said. I personally know at least 3 of the defenders that morning. They did their duty above & beyond in the face of overwhelming odds. PMPT.

44 years ago today, during the Falklands War, my husband stood on the front line defending our British flag in the South Atlantic. This is him on the left, captured in this moment after the battle, hands on his head, taken as a prisoner of war. He fought with courage alongside his comrades in the bitter cold and harsh conditions, doing what so many young British servicemen did, answering the call to protect British sovereignty. Until ordered to lay down arms by the Governor Rex Hunt! Today we remember the bravery of all who served in the Falklands. The ones who came home, the ones who didn’t, and the families who waited and worried. 🫡🇬🇧 To my husband - I’m so proud of the man you were then, and the man you are now. Thank you for your service. 🫡❤️🇬🇧 It makes me furious to watch spineless traitors like Keir Starmer eagerly handing over our sovereign lands at every opportunity and betraying everything people like my husband and his comrades fought, bled and suffered for 🤬🇬🇧 #FalklandsWar #NP8901 #LestWeForget ❤️#BritishArmedForces

@STVNews I bought 25 old MOD jerry cans in 2017. Got them all full of petrol now & sitting in my garage. Just in case there is panic buying.

Petrol stations forced to close after running out of fuel. news.stv.tv/scotland/petro…

@MbarkCherguia Is it......

Who is he?

@80s_channel Go out to Woolworth & buy "Let's Dance" by David Bowie.

@JustinKuntz1 @dacshunder @AliasLaAntipoda @RDPHistory One man took off into the country & ended up being attached to the Paras.

@dacshunder @AliasLaAntipoda @RDPHistory No, Governor Hunt ordered them to stand down, there was no point in a slaughter. The RM pinched their best weapons leaving them armed with a mixture of SMLE and Bren Guns. I think they were all rather brave to even turn out, they must have known they stood little chance.

April 1st 1982: The Royal Marines of NP8901 raid the FIDF armoury and their own stores, grabbing rifles, ammo, pistols, fragmentation & phosphorous grenades, 66mm LAW rocket launchers, GPMGs and 84mm Carl Gustav anti-tank rifles, loading up with everything they can carry... 1/2

@FabrizioRomano Betc Joe Jordan is laughing his tits off

🚨 Gennaro Gattuso: “We did not deserve this. We show passion, we played with 10 men since minute 40… we are sad, but this is football”. “I’m proud of my team. We are hurt”.

@BBCSport Not the potential England squad players by the looks of last night!!!

The World Cup groups in full 🍿 Who's excited? 🤩

@HFalconerMP @AH_AlSharaa @UKParliament You disgust me. How the ppl of Lincoln can vote for you beggars belief.

Pleasure to welcome @AH_AlSharaa to @UKParliament this morning, on his first official visit to the UK. We’re committed to working with the Syrian Government to support an inclusive political transition and a secure, prosperous future for all Syrians.

@Lea_EFC Think this year's WC will be the dullest ever! Too many teams, too many dull matches.

I normally go into World Cups/Euros believing England can win the tournament, but not this time. Most of these players are overhyped. I genuinely don’t see a “World Class” player in the squad, possibly Kane. 💩 Shit manager 💩 Shit squad 💩 Shit mentality

@leylahamed Bosnia or Bosnian Serbs? Oh, the irony!!!

Today, as Bosnia and Herzegovina faced Israel in a U21 Euro qualifier —played on ‘neutral’ ground in Hungary— most of the Bosnian players refused the pre-match handshake and walked straight to their half as an act of protest.

@topskillsportuk As it should be.

🚨💣 In the heated buildup to the World Cup playoff decider against Italy, Bosnia captain Edin Džeko was asked if the home crowd should boo the Italian anthem tomorrow. 🥹❤️ He immediately shut it down and delivered the complete opposite message: “Everyone should stand up and applaud the Italian anthem because surely many forget, but Italy was the first country to come play here, against us, after the war, in 1996. For this we will always be grateful and we must stand and applaud. After that, in the 90 minutes, on the pitch, it will be a war, but always friends with the Italians. What happens on the pitch stays on the pitch.” Honor to those who respected the homeland. 🇧🇦🇮🇹

@MrPitbull07 Not Speckled Jim is it?

A WWII pigeon died in a chimney with a top secret message still on its leg. In 1982, David Martin and his wife Anne were renovating the fireplace in their 17th century house in Bletchingley, Surrey. As they cleared the chimney, bird bones came down with the debris including a breastbone, skull, and a leg with an aluminium ring. Then the second leg came down and it had a red plastic capsule attached to it. Historians believe the bird was almost certainly dispatched from Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944, during the D-Day Invasions. The British spy pigeon either got lost, disorientated in bad weather, or was simply exhausted after flying for hundreds of miles. Experts speculate the bird attempted to rest on an open chimney but was overcome by fumes from a fire below and died. The message, hand-written on a small sheet of paper headed "Pigeon Service," was found in a small red canister still attached to the pigeon's leg bone. Experts from GCHQ said the message, which has 27 five-letter code groups, is impossible to crack without its codebook. Experts say the red capsule is the type used by the Special Operations Executive, whose agents undertook sabotage missions such as blowing up trains, bridges, and factories in German-occupied territory. World War II experts suspect the message was on its way to Bletchley Park, 80 miles away, which had a classified pigeon loft. The message contained 27 codes, each a combination of five numbers and letters, destined for "X02," the classified designation for Britain's Bomber Command. GCHQ's experts concluded the pigeon-borne message cannot be decoded without access to the original cryptographic material. It is a tribute to the skills of the wartime code-makers that, despite working under severe pressure, they devised a code that was undecipherable both then and now.

@paulafr68963440 They'll be lucky to get out of their group. Stagnant, dull, uninspiring.

England are the 2nd favourites to win the World Cup. Are you laughing yet ?

@FrancisChipp Right after we sign schneider, yeh?

EXCLUSIVE🚨: After failing to attract Newcastle United Captain Bruno Guimaraes and being unable to afford Sandro Tonali Manchester United are set to finally secure long term target Sean Longstaff from Leeds United this summer 🔜✍️

@DaveAtherton20 "And for those stubborn stains............."

One of the funniest & most politically incorrect adverts of all time. Set in Mbongoland it's an ad for SIlk Cut cigarettes. The idea is with a 2 week siege you can change brand from a high tar cigarette to the milder Silk Cut. A satire on Zulu it was only shown in the cinema. Hat tip Beowulf937 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @THE_AGGRO_SAXON fo give him a follow.

@RDPHistory Would they not be the 82/83 Det? Or did they number them a year behind?

March 29th 1982: RRS John Biscoe arrives in Port Stanley bearing 41 Royal Marines of the 81/82 Naval Party 8901 detachment, finally arrived from Montevideo. Now the garrison of the Falklands has effectively doubled, although it isn't much of an army to stop what's coming... 1/2

@Robbie_Reasons Nope

Do you think Boris Johnson returning to lead the Conservative party would help their chances in the next election?

@thinkdefence All very well saying we can buy them back but as it takes decades to get infastructure projects up & running in the UK, any war would be over before it was ready.

Selling off RAF Macrahanish was really rather misguided wasn't it

@FBAwayDays Still offside.......!

4,000 Manchester United fans travelled down to Southampton for a legends match being played at St Mary’s today. Fair play, that’s some journey! 👏