The Grown Up Police.

@MikeCanning7 @IndyBallNation Hardly any has an issue with LGB part. It's all the other letters who've hijacked the whole thing.

@IndyBallNation What I learn every June is, straight men are a bunch of whiny babies who throw a tantrum every time they don't want to do something, but expect everyone to cater to them. I am gay, and you guys are worse than the biggest queens.

The York Revolution have made changes to their scheduled Pride Night after “a number of [their] players have refused to wear the scheduled Pride Night jersey.”

@joerichlaw And you know who is paying the brood.

BREAKING: Stoke on Trent rioter Mohammed Iqbal threw rocks at Southport protestors, boasting on social media of his involvement and posted photo of a wounded victim - but dodges jail for violent disorder convictions as he is a father of 7 children birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

@EKaht His biggest problem is he thinks it's a debate. There is no debate. Males out of female sports.

People who cheat in sports do, in fact, deserve to be called out for it. This boy is an unsufferable crybully. 🧵

@afgavinstan Love this

This is what it's all about, unreal

Watching these interviews and the way the 2 of them couldn’t give a single shit about what they’ve done makes me so angry. Not the slightest bit of remorse for what they put that poor baby through

@BBCMOTD What a dick

Marcelo Bielsa refused to engage with his World Cup photoshoot ❌

Getting dragged hard on this post, but I'll tell you a quick story. Was watching a soccer match back in 1999 or so, and one team scored two minutes into the game. The announcer says, "They're not going to be able to come back from that!" Fuck soccer.

@YossiBenYakar Thank fuck the Irish didn't make it.

Antisemitism at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. During World Cup matches, security at the stadium demanded that a fan remove his Israeli flag. When he asked why, they simply said they had “orders from above.” Meanwhile, numerous fans waving Palestinian flags were left completely undisturbed. This is selective discrimination against Israel and Jews. Double standards at the World Cup, enforced by FIFA and stadium officials. Shameful.

FIFA World Rankings - Italy #12 - Denmark #20 - Nigeria #26 - Poland #35 All of these teams didn’t qualify. There are 48 teams in the World Cup Having the best teams in the biggest tournament makes sense. The qualifying process is dumb

BBC just claimed this is Norway’s first World Cup finals goal since Rekdal scored against Brazil in 1998. This is of course incorrect, their last World Cup goal was Guro Reiten against Japan in 2023.

Interesting story developing about Stephen Flynn and why he’s not gone to the World Cup in America. There’s a suggestion that he’s been told his ESTA has been revoked. The Skull claims he decided to stay in Scotland to help fight the by-election in Aberdeen that’s very close. This excuse doesn’t make sense to me because the by-election that he’s not running in has been on the go for a little while. Is he really telling us he’d miss the World Cup for a WM by- election that he’s not running for 🤔 He took two weeks off and was going only to change his mind at the last minute doesn’t make sense.

@Docstockk Sometimes it's best to stay quiet

Have come back from weekend away, to find a load of people telling I'm despicable for an Unherd piece I wrote a while back on "Sophie of Dundee". Will link it below so you can read it/ more people can misunderstand it and tell me I'm a sneering disgrace, etc. Lat week the young girl's Bulgarian attackers were found guilty of assaulting her and pulling her hair, and I'm glad they were convicted. I hope they get sentenced accordingly. I'm now supposed to apologise for showing contempt for working class girls in my article - but I didn't. I know I didn't because I don't feel anything like that, never have, and never will. What I did do was (stupidly, I agree) believe Police Scotland when they said there was a lack of evidence to show any crime. What I also did in my article was to take the piss out of onlookers putting out Braveheart memes about the girl - that is a fair cop. That is: I mocked and criticised people - mostly uninformed Americans, I thought - who watched a 3 second viral video of a young girl with large knives, and tried to turn her into Mary Queen of Scots, or William Wallace. My general writing style is mocking and acerbic, and this piece was no different - but I was not mocking the girls (sorry but it is true) - I was mocking the perception of them in the US imagination at the time. (Yes, even the line about machetes and Irn Bru.) If you think it is a good idea to give a small girl carrying large knives loads of money and make a folk hero out of her, based on a three second video about which you know nothing else, I can tell you definitively (because I have asked some of them since) that plenty of Dundonians would disagree with you. And I still think the way the video was used was not in the girls' best interests. I obviously have regrets about how I wrote the article, in that it seems plenty of readers did not get what I was trying to do or say - but that is the peril of writing in public, and I take it on the chin. I realise this is not the apology some want, but its all I got. I hate fake apologies - and anyway, if I had to apologise to anyone, it would be to the girls, in private, for writing about the situation prematurely, not strangers on here who don't know me or my intentions, having the time of their lives ganging up. Muting this and every other thread now, as let's face it, there is not a lot more I can learn about what a disgrace I am - and if that applies to you, tbh I am not that fond of you either. Very happy if you unfollow me and continue to be deeply disappointed from a distance.

@AlastairMarti16 @MaxJLHardy Can't start an anthem with hark!

@MaxJLHardy Personally I cannot understand why The Scots don't use 'Scotland the Brave' - much more stirring than the flower one, flower.

Every time I hear Flower of Scotland I think that there is not a Scot born who doesn’t know exactly who proud Edward was and there is probably not one Englishman in a thousand who could name which Edward and which battle.

@cmcdownie @DKingTelegraph

@DKingTelegraph Maybe we could give them Eurovision trophy for singing a song. They were awful on the pitch.

Scotland should win the World Cup just for this alone.

@murdo_fraser I've been there.

Germany currently losing to a country I had never heard of. Love the World Cup.

@ScotlandNTGoals They inability to sway together.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I awoke in the night with a fever and the sky was the darkest blue 2️⃣4️⃣Hours to Go!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@PulpLibrarian Intro mission?

The perils of masturbation as explained through the medium of obelisks.* (1942) (*it's the only language kids understand nowadays)

@EIjezie56261 Dirtiest team I've ever seen.

The fastest red card in the World Cup happened 40 years ago in the Scotland vs Uruguay game, but how reckless can you be to make that kind of tackle less than 1 minute in 🤦🏽‍♂️

@terryschappert Hasn't changed a bit since OJ.

Take a moment to read this - it's from someone I regularly interact with on here. Someone who consistently has funny and thoughtful takes. Oh, and she's a black woman.

@terryschappert Justice as a team sport is bang on.