Brian O'Flaherty
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Brian O'Flaherty
@Flatsy1
BOF #AVFC, #FPL, #Sumo, #DenverBroncos, #F1 #F2 #F3. Sweary misanthrope. Occasional outbursts. Possible humour.
Dublin, Ireland Se unió Mayıs 2011
746 Siguiendo422 Seguidores
Bro your hairline is fine you just have an Irish head
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@pearsontombo @villareport I want to live in your simple world where logic doesn't apply. Training versus a summer holiday.
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@villareport to those complaining about the friendly: Buendia did his ACL in training, so I guess by that logic we shouldn't train either?
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🚨 Jadon Sancho has left the pitch in a sling after a shoulder injury. #avfc
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@HowfireTww @wearetherace @XPBImages Yeah that does add some context, and I don't even blame Hamilton for enjoying it more this season than last. At least he's competitive. It's just that whatever that is on track at the moment. It ain't racing, and it's barely worth watching tbh. And I'm 40 years watching.
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@Flatsy1 @wearetherace @XPBImages “Do I love the power deployment? Absolutely not, I actually really dislike that. Do I love the straight-line mode? Not particularly. But as a whole I think it's exciting for the sport, in a time where the sport is the highest.”
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NEWS: INDYCAR Officiating has issued a penalty to the No. 8 entry of Chip Ganassi Racing for avoidable contact in Arlington.
The car has been moved to the back of the lead-lap field, resulting in a one-position penalty to P20 in the final results.
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@F1 May as well look back at some, because there'll certainly be none this year.
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@AVFCStatto The last person to score double figures for Villa in six consecutive seasons was Peter McParland from the 56/57 season through the 61/62 season (19, 18, 16, 25, 15, 13).
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Most consecutive seasons in the Premier League with 10+ goal involvements for Aston Villa ⤵️
6 - Ollie Watkins 🆕
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4 - Gabriel Agbonlahor. Ashley Young, Dwight Yorke
3 - Christian Benteke
#AVFC
Aston Villa@AVFCOfficial
Double digits for Ollie in all comps this season 🔟
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@SBrogarth @GiuliaBould We keep abiding by the penalties. In other words selling major players in every window, and not spending. The rules are pretty transparent in their aims. We won't get a pionts deduction, but we won't be there for long. Eventually we'll have nothing left to sell.
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@Flatsy1 @GiuliaBould If Liverpool drop to 6th it's hard not to see a Villa points deduction coming that will be back dated so Liverpool get Champions League. It's a wild conspiracy but genuinely would anyone be shocked if it happened?
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£47.5m is more than double Everton's breach that led to a Premier League record sanction of 10 points being deducted (it was recalculated to 6 on appeal)
While this is a different charge, the commission said EFC "gained no sporting advantage" but still agreed a deduction.
Martyn Ziegler@martynziegler
Updated: Chelsea receive £10.75m fine from Premier League for secret payments to players + unlicensed agents during Abramovich era. £47.5m spent off the books to sign Hazard, Ramires, David Luiz, Willian, Eto'o, Schurrle, Matic. thetimes.com/sport/football…
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@AFC_Monty_ @HLTCO @afc_N7k Absolutely, everyone should start doing it. You only get away with it if you're big 6 though. See Everton & Forest for proof. So Arsenal should definitely start. Don't hate the player. Hate the game.
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In what world is a £10.75m fine going to make the slightest bit of difference? They’re worth multiple billions of £s. It’s not an active deterrent in the slightest.
Martyn Ziegler@martynziegler
Breaking - Chelsea given £10.75m fine and transfer sanctions by Premier League. 74 FA charges still outstanding.
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@SBrogarth @GiuliaBould Watching how Villa are trying to succeed in a ridiculous environment but being hamstrung at every turn to protect the status quo (and being punished at every opportunity) has me switching off because it just seems pointless to even try. They can keep their hegemony.
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@GiuliaBould It's hard to not view the Premier League as a sports entertainment business now rather than a true sport. It seems to be edging closer to WWE than true football. Favoritism of some clubs over others to keep the money coming in. PGMOL have 0 integrity. Sad times.
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@formularacers_ @BBCSport This twat drives for a team who ignored the warning a year ago that this would happen, and now he possesses a car that has practically every other advantage on the grid, and is now complaining that they want this one removed. With all due respect, shut the f*ck up George.
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🚨 | NEW: George Russell on race starts
"The FIA was looking to adjust that. But as you can imagine, some teams who were making good starts didn't want it - which I think is a bit silly...
"Some people have selfish views and want to do what's best for themselves."
[@BBCSport]
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@wearetherace It was like 2 people trying to figure out how to play scalextric.
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FPL managers - I need your help.
I’m working with researchers on a project into the psychology of FPL managers.
We’re first developing a measure of FPL motivations and need responses.
⏰ 5-10 mins
✅ No writing required
Please complete & QT/share!
mmu.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1T…
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@walshcat1 @TheVillaHome While this does look like the form book result. I can't help shake the feeling we'll put in a performance tonight. I don't think we lose. I think we might even scrape the win.
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@snurosnare @AerLingus Well if they don't fix it in my lifetime, I too will die a critic.
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@TotalVilla_ I agree. I thought we were buying a rough Yaya Toure. We ended up with more of a Yaya Wanchope. Good, but not what I thought he was.
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If we could get the £50m we spent on Amadou Onana back for him in the summer, I’d take it.
He isn’t a bad player but I think he’s been underwhelming for the price and for a player with his size, he doesn’t impose himself on game enough and is far to weak for me 🇧🇪 #avfc
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 The New York Times — not a Telegram channel, not a Russian state broadcaster, the New York Times — has published satellite imagery confirming what Iran said it was doing while Washington was busy telling you it wasn’t working. Every major US base across the Gulf. Systematically and methodically.
Bahrain, Fifth Fleet headquarters, the nerve centre of American naval power in the region. Al Udeid Qatar — already missing its $1.1 billion AN/TPY-2 radar. Camp Arifjan Kuwait. Ali Al Salem. Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia. UAE facilities. SATCOM terminals destroyed. Radomes cracked open. Satellite dishes gone. Missile tracking infrastructure — the AN/TPY-2 radar systems that coordinate every Patriot and THAAD battery in theater — targeted with what the imagery confirms was not luck but architecture.
Iran didn’t just strike US bases. It mapped the communication and coordination layer that makes American missile defense function as a unified system and then it peeled it apart, base by base, across five countries simultaneously.
This is not retaliation but doctrine. Thirty years of studying exactly how the American military machine sees, communicates, and coordinates and then, when the moment came, going straight for the eyes. The interceptors are blind. The magazines are depleted. The Navy can’t guarantee escorts in the Strait. Raytheon is being summoned to emergency meetings. South Korea is sitting exposed. And the New York Times just put the satellite pictures on the front page.
Washington built the most expensive military architecture in human history. Iran just showed you the blueprint for how to dismantle it. This is not going according to plan.
THE ISLANDER@IslanderWORLD
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran just destroyed the AN/FPS-132 radar at Al Udeid with a single missile. One missile. That radar was not just a target. It was the nervous system of every Patriot battery, every THAAD launcher, every layered air defense architecture the United States has spent four decades and several trillion dollars constructing across the Gulf. Every interceptor in theater just went partially blind. The backbone of American missile defense in the most fortified US base in the Middle East — taken out by a single Iranian strike while they were busy stripping South Korea’s defenses, summoning Raytheon to the White House, and requesting $50 billion in emergency funds to restock magazines that were already hollow before this war began. The Air Defense shortage is worse than most imagined. Qatar claims to have intercepted 101 missiles during this conflict (likely inflated). Qatar claims two got through. One hit the only target that mattered. That is asymmetric warfare distilled to its purest form. Iran has to succeed once. The United States has to be perfect every time. And of course they weren’t. And now the US Navy — the force Trump promised would escort Gulf shipping through the Strait — has announced it cannot provide escorts in the Strait of Hormuz. No escorts. No timeline. But even if they do they're sitting ducks for Iran's coastal defence forces, no Iranian Navy presence required. The petrodollar runs through a chokepoint the United States can no longer credibly protect, defended by interceptor systems now operating without their primary radar, restocked by a Raytheon production line that makes 37 THAAD interceptors a year. 3,200 ships are sitting idle. European gas is up 50% and climbing fast. A global recession is no longer a forecast — it’s a Wednesday. The Gulf monarchs who rented their soil to Washington are watching their ports burn and their pipelines get threatened while the Navy says it needs more time. One missile just changed everything. This timeline is insane and cannot be distilled in a single post. History will need several volumes.
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