Andrew Thomas

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Andrew Thomas

@andi_thomas

writer, mostly football • you can order 'Underground, Overground' at the link below • andi dot j dot thomas at gmail dot com

south London Joined Temmuz 2010

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Andrew Thomas@andi_thomas·13 Mar

hello everybody, I am once again asking you to click on a Google Form and give me your thoughts. this time I'm looking for "anti-cliches": that is, football phrases that you and your friends use but nobody else would understand. forms.gle/jKvStkBUvo7Ged… please RT! thanks!

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Andrew Thomas@andi_thomas·25 May

Joonas Virtanen@joonasvirtanen

made a site that picks the closest rothko for how the weather feels outside your window

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Terry Fuck@terryfuck45·8 May

I bet he sticks around just long enough to get free tickets for the champions league final

Politics UK@PolitlcsUK

🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer says he will not "walk away" and "plunge the country into chaos" "These results reflect voters who don't feel their lives have changed enough. We were elected to do with that - and I'm not going to walk away from that"

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Elvis Buñuelo@Mr_Considerate·17 Nis

This piece on Gaza by Eyal Weizman of Forensic Architecture has already been widely circulated, and is almost unbearable to read. The very first paragraph lays out in inarguable terms why Gaza was, and is, a genocide. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/…

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Samplo Corvodina of Streatham@TreborRhurbarb·28 Mar

Today is the day. Eric Cantona's kung-fu kick becomes closer in time to the assassination of JFK than the present day. We are, without any shadow of a doubt, #HurtlingTowardsDeath.

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madoka magicock@rifflexielian·24 Mar

If people are fighting for an orb you are reading fantasy. If people are fighting for a cube you are reading sci-fi. If it has more sides than that. I dont know. I dont know man.

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Samplo Corvodina of Streatham@TreborRhurbarb·18 Mar

Absolutely sensational. This, THIS, is what football is all about. Total confusion, emotional incompleteness, a daunting gnawing sense you've wasted your entire life on something meaningless.

Rob Harris@RobHarris

Breaking: Africa Cup of Nations final result overturned in major ruling. Senegal declared to have forfeited the match with Morocco declared 3-0 winners

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Fred Carver@FredericHCarver·28 Şub

It is so maddening that this is so bleedingly and self evidently obvious and has been proven so recently and so painfully and so frequently yet the strategic forgetting and not noticing is so pervasive

Robert A. Pape@ProfessorPape

Three historical lessons about bombing campaigns and regime change:

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The Poisonous Euros Atmosphere Fan@DawnHFoster·4 Eyl

Matt Goodwin once emailed me to accuse him of being racist when I called him a “racist whisperer” and I had to explain to him that horse whisperers aren’t horses.

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Elvis Buñuelo@Mr_Considerate·27 Şub

RIP Starmer 2.0: 21 Feb - 27 Feb 2026.

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Andrew Thomas@andi_thomas·26 Şub

@Archie_V my favourite example of this came in a book about FC Barcelona: the accents had been copied and pasted in later, leading to the one-man club "OlymPiqué Lyonnais"

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Archie Valparaiso@Archie_V·26 Şub

I'm reading a book with text that has clearly been adapted to British spelling from the original American edit. Unfortunately, the search-and-replace process used for this was, er, sub-optimal: The research team, in collabouration with a Swedish labouratory... #SaveOurSubs

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Andrew Thomas@andi_thomas·24 Şub

we should abolish the monarchy so extensively that all memory of it is destroyed, leaving Philippa Gregory one of the leading practitioners of a peculiarly gnarly and deranged experiment in alt-history worldbuilding

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Alex Niven@Alex_Niven·6 Şub

Beyond fed-up with the ‘Starmer is a decent man’ hokum. If this whole imbroglio has proved anything beyond doubt, it’s how conspicuously not-decent his passive, principle-free managerialism is in its actual, real-world effects

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Congolesa Rice@judeinlondon·5 Şub

In my return to writing, I wrote about how all our politicians are idiots for @LRB lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/febr…

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Andrew Thomas@andi_thomas·10 Oca

this evening's Magic of the FA Cup Top Left Anagram is STATTO

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Andrew Thomas@andi_thomas·2 Oca

@FredericHCarver Muppet Maltese Falcon please... body count is possibly an issue, but Miss Piggy was born (stitched? stuffed?) to play Brigid O'Shaughnessy

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Fred Carver@FredericHCarver·2 Oca

We may soon get Muppet As I Lay Dying

Sami Gold@souljagoyteller

Happy Public Domain Day! An extensive of what notable works are entering the public domain in the USA today! 🧵

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Andrew Thomas@andi_thomas·18 Kas

One calls this playing. I have no boots, no ball, no kit, no team. I am playing into a fluid 4213.

Football365@F365

Nico Schlotterbeck is emerging as a serious transfer target for Liverpool, who can't afford to wait until the end of the season to sign him. #LFC @jbsoutar football365.com/news/liverpool…

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Elvis Buñuelo@Mr_Considerate·8 Kas

Wonderful tribute to Mao Zedong 👏 👏 👏

Match of the Day@BBCMOTD

Chelsea fans held up a poignant tifo banner at Stamford Bridge ahead of Remembrance Sunday. 🙏

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Andrew Thomas@andi_thomas·26 Eyl

even galaxies far far away are troubled by Evil Corbyn and his Empire-Style Hats

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Jonny Sharples@JonnyGabriel·22 Eyl

EuroFoot@eurofootcom

🚨🔜 People will be 'shocked' about the #ballondor winner tonight, reports @marca.

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Halcyon Publishing@HalcyonPublish1·10 Eyl

There are still some copies of this absolute beauty available, only from Admiral ⚽️ limited edition, numbered hardbacks ⚽️ beautiful kit diary by @TrueColoursKits ⚽️ interviews with some greats like Lineker, Shearer & Gray ⚽️ perfect Xmas present 🛒 admiralsports.com/products/50-ye…

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