🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 john beardsworth

@henrywinter Maybe it would have helped if the blue and white criss- cross pattern had been replicated inside the stadium? Not just in the brickwork somewhere. It just screamed out this is Goodison/Everton.

Interesting meeting of Everton supporters and their Fan Advisory Board last night. One point of discussion was how do you make a new stadium a home? Statement performances and results, atmosphere. Also making it obviously your home with signage, murals, statues... #EFC 1/2

@henrywinter Agree 100% about Bellingam and these nonsensical Fleet Street headlines - they're just using his name and hard-earned profile for their clickbait. At least in your day the daily papers were useful to keep your fish n chips warm.

Jude Bellingham, some thoughts. Crazy that this has to be emphasised again but here we go again. Bellingham will be a vital player for England at the World Cup. Mad that this has to be spelled out again. Bellingham is England’s reigning Player of the Year, voted Player of the Match in their last game, in their five-man leadership group, rescued England at Euro 2024, closes on a half-century of caps at 22 and will soon pass Colin ‘Nijinsky’ Bell, Sir Geoff Hurst and Glenn Hoddle on the England appearance list. While a teenager, Bellingham was named Bundesliga Player of the Season at Borussia Dortmund. He now starts for Real Madrid with Kylian Mbappe, has won La Liga and the Champions League and been named La Liga Player of the Year. We should be proud that English football has produced a special talent (hat tip to Birmingham City) who’s gone abroad and now stars for the biggest club in the world. Bellingham shines in a Real spotlight that can feel like a real searchlight to some. For clubs and country, Bellingham embraces pressure in challenging games. He’s going to be a hugely important player for England at the World Cup because he’s gifted, possesses a big-game mentality, and, also like Harry Kane, will have enjoyed a winter break so should be fresher. I’ve been fortunate to cover England at 15 tournaments. I’ve seen pile-ons on Barnes, Gascoigne, Beckham, Rooney, Sterling and Rashford, when objective criticism crosses the line into hounding. It’s happening with Bellingham. It’s a myth that Bellingham is simply about himself. Any fair-minded observer can see the work he does out of possession, tracking back, tackling, covering for others. He contributes to the collective. I’ve never spoken to Bellingham. He avoids the England writers but broadcast colleagues speak highly of his helpfulness. I don’t know his family or advisers but I do know that he’s 22, still maturing, that everything he does gets scrutinised and he will inevitably learn it’s pointless arguing with officials but that’s also part of his desperation to win. Bellingham demands high standards of himself and others. That has to be good if England are to progress far at the World Cup. He has a competitive edge that England need. It’s one of his great strengths, that mindset. So, some perspective and balance is required here. Bellingham wants to play. He expressed momentary frustration when realising he was being subbed against Albania. He showed respect to the assist-makers and goalscorers (as Kane emphasised by posting a post-goal pic of the pair), to the man replacing him (his friend Morgan Rogers) and to Thomas Tuchel, who calls him “a special talent”. Rogers has done well for Tuchel but doesn’t have the track record of dominating big games like Bellingham. Respected media colleagues from other countries think it’s madness there’s even a debate about possibly leaving Bellingham behind. Tuchel has a key role to play here, as I’m sure experienced heads at the FA will be quietly mentioning. He’s surely aware that Bellingham must be feeling hounded by some headlines, and that is not a healthy situation for him, for England or Tuchel himself. What Tuchel, England and the FA don’t need is tension festering for four months, seeping into the March camp, and Bellingham reporting feeling like there’s a target on his back. Anyone with any experience of following England knows that such situations harm the team’s prospects. Tuchel needs to go to Madrid and speak with Bellingham. Speak with, not to. Be supportive. And then publicly remind the doubters how important Bellingham is to England, perhaps through a few words via the FA website, reflecting on 2025, and looking forward to what could be a momentous 2026. Because for England to have a momentous 2026, they need Jude Bellingham. It’s foolish to think otherwise. #ENG

@terryleewhite @Lightroom Making the Caption box multi-line

If you had one wish/feature request for the @Lightroom team to prioritize, what would it be?

@lauriewhitwell Love the way Steel With Style is on the ad screens the Sheffield-born winner.

Lots going on here. A memorable, chaotic celebration. #MUFC

@PS_Waverley leaves London through Tower Bridge and sets off for home after its 2025 Thames season.

@terrybnd No doubt a pint of Gold lies at the end of that Cumbrian rainbow!

Nice eh? Gotta love Cumbrian weather! 😊❤️🌈

Brexit isn’t working, and the British people know it. They're fed up with the damage caused by the deal forced on us by Conservative party. Keir Starmer must show some courage and set Britain on a clear path to a new customs union with the EU by 2030.

@amolrajan do remember the Balfour Declaration continues: “it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine”

@snb19692 Russia, very doubtful. But N Korea? Even then, there's little evidence of nuclear-armed states transferring them. Other than the elephant in the room of the US-UK relationship.

Are we that stupid in the West? If Iran really wanted nuclear weapons... they could have purchased them from their ally Russia, as they still can! It was just a bargaining chip after Trump ended a deal in 2018 and brought back sanctions!

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@mark_lj Commentator was far worse. How gives a fk that it's 28 years since a French team won the European Cup, even the first time he says it, or Munich happens to be where some clubs won it for the first time?

It would be nice if TNT had a ‘specific’ mute button. Just to save me from Rio Ferdinand’s inane drivel. Barry Glendinning from the Guardian has him pegged fecking perfectly.

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@snb19692 Though it seems to say bans you from using amps there, not from being there?

The Police wanted me banned from Westminster for 5 years if they won the case…. after the next General Election.

@snb19692 is innocent!

@henrywinter He should care, yes, but I don't think Keane is saying much different from what Amorim has said all along, especially about lack of physicality and mobility.

Ruben Amorim should care what Roy Keane says #MUFC. A look at the weekend’s talking points, including Pereira, points and pints #WWFC, key Cullen #twitterclarets, eminent Malen #AVFC, Mills boon for #PUFC and Virgil delivers #LFC. henrywinter.football/p/amorim-shoul…

@Beatlejase OK, Adobe reflects wider confusion and variation of video formats, but I wish someone there would implement one mechanism to pass video metadata between its apps. Maybe cut through lack of standards by consistently using xmp files just like raw photos? 2/2

@Beatlejase They don't *need* metadata in them? Well, that's great as it's hard to get metadata into videos anyway. Bridge no longer can write, Lightroom Classic never could, Lightroom Desktop uses xmp files that no other Adobe app reads... 1/2

Premiere's getting an update today with Media Intelligence + a new search panel. The analysis looks at the content in your clip, any transcription info, as well as metadata to make searching and finding clips way faster than before. Did I mention your clips*don't need* metadata in them for this to work? It's pretty awesome. Check it out. #communityxadobe

@snb19692 And some kid picking his nose

Is there anything more terrifying for democracy than President Musk and his side kick Donny Trump giving a media conference from the Oval Office! #TheLunaticsHaveTakenOverTheAsylum

@tonero_me @RogerProtzBeer @batemansbrewery @ShepherdNeame @ChilternBrewery @HornesBrewery @greeneking @Harveys1790 @royaloakborough I preferred this year's - well-rounded was my feeling - but there's plenty of time to check it again.

A preamble to my full review of Xmas beers: a quintet of absolute classics for the dining table @batemansbrewery Rosey Nosey @ShepherdNeame Christmas Ale @ChilternBrewery Bodgers Barley Wine @HornesBrewery Triple Goat Chocolate Orange Porter @greeneking Rocking Rudolph