Jack

A few days after returning from Hajj, London mayor Sadiq Khan posts this.

the uk has revoked my visa as well. all at the behest of israel. the west is betraying "liberal values" for a genocidal fascist foreign government. soon we will all become israel.

Stockport County Football Club can confirm that, following long and constructive discussions, we have mutually agreed to part ways with First-Team Manager Dave Challinor. Read more 👇

This is a really grim decision alongside Cenk. People often talk about dangerous road we'd go down under a Reform government - this is another clear warning we're down there already. A Labour government doing everything possible to silence criticism of the Israeli Government.

Anyone who used a computer between 1985-2010. What’s the one game you still think about?

This is obsession of everyone in the the UK wanting PSG to win tonight is peculiar. Being English, you want the English teams to do well?

My view on this: Dyed in the wool football fans well remember the outrage when live, top-flight football first ‘disappeared’ onto Sky Sports in the early 1990s and diehards said it would totally ruin the game. Undeterred, my dear buddies David Hill (Hilly) and Vic Wakeling took TV sports coverage by the scruff of the neck and fundamentally changed football forever. Monday night football, multiple camera angles, even the ubiquitous score and clock bug in the top left corner of the screen, felt revolutionary when the creative disruptor and master builder took to the stage. Suddenly football looked brighter, slicker and much more dramatic. There were even cheerleaders and rock bands on occasion although this was perhaps a Pom Pom too far? Nevertheless, the influx of cash from Sky transformed the sport providing the money for significantly improved stadia for domestic fans and AAA access to eager global audiences tuning in to enjoy the magic of world-class players. This is the awkward truth in the current row over TNT and the Champions League Final. Fans (including the PM) understandably want huge national sporting moments to be free-to-air, especially as the CLF was available free last year. The uncomfortable truth though is that modern football was built on subscription television. It just was. Many nay-sayers will wax lyrical about how much they hate the cost, but surely they must concede that pay TV money fundamentally changed English football from a crumbling domestic sport into the global entertainment giant it is today. In my opinion, the moral panic over TNT putting the ArsenalvPSG match behind a £5 paywall on HBO Max is completely detached from the economic reality of the sport we love. Expecting broadcasters to swallow a multi-billion-pound rights fee to then give away their crown jewel on YouTube for free is frankly for the birds. Someone has to foot the bill. Come on you Gunners. Full disclosure: I was employed by Sky for 36 years.