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@maroonajambo I also think (but I hope I’m wrong!)Hearts have won it but I think Charlie Mulgrew is mistaken - I think that Motherwell (a) is a greater challenge for Hearts than Hibs (h) or Rangers (h)

That Charlie Mulgrew is as gutted as Barry Ferguson here tells you everything you need to know about how seismic it’ll be if Hearts can win this league 🤞🏽🇱🇻❤️

@StanCollymore Let’s hope Hearts go into the Motherwell game full of confidence and a sense of invincibility

Is this Hearts result good or bad? ☘️

@Rangers_Spares_ If Kris Boyd says it’s a handball, it’s a handball. You don’t need to watch the replay.

Can clearly see it hits his sleeve/chest then down onto his knee At no point does it touch any skin on his arm or hand No handball

Incredible work 🔥🔥🔥 Thank you 💙🤍

Not many people know this but the symbol on Nottingham Forest's badge is an outline of Martin O'Neil's hair from when he played there. Its often mistaken for a tree 🙄 #NottinghamForestFACTS @moneill31

🥅 "Albert came on with half an hour to go and cemented his place in history" Superscoreboard presents #AlbertKidd: The Heartbreak Season – marking 40 years since Celtic's 1986 league title win. 📻 Listen on @1025Clyde1 or watch on @ClydeSSB's YouTube channel – Sunday from 6pm.

@AsplinKevin Reporters - myself included - have been on this trail ever since Farage rustled up £215k to personally “invest” in Kwasi Kwarteng’s company. Where does a politician find cash like that? The Guardian and other papers have been on the trail for some time. It found the answer.

I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry. Do your thing internet. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7626…

Me flicking through the menu at an Indian restaurant pretending to be open minded when I know full well I’m going to order the chicken tikka masala

@campbellclaret Those pesky disability campaigners! Those terrible suicide-prevention groups! Those Royal Colleges!

The conduct of a tiny minority in the House of Lords who have used every tactic imaginable to make sure the Assisted Dying Bill fails has been awful. I have long believed the Lords is simply not fit for purpose as a second chamber. This has cemented my view hard, and I imagine will make others realise just how ludicrous our legislative systems are. Sad day.

@Dominic2306 “His speeches, blather was so bad…” You were in the DfE, right?

Burnham was our opponent for a while in DfE 2010-14. He was so so rubbish I told the team: just ignore him and focus on our real problems, officials in DfE. His speeches, blather was so bad and irrelevant we didn’t have to spend time thinking about him. So it’s fitting SW1 is treating him like Bill Clinton talent… Sums up flight of elite talent from SW1 over decades. Similarly when Starmer took over in 2020, the Trolley rightly said: this guy is absolutely useless. Tragically he then concluded ‘I don’t have to do anything to win in 24, I can bring in Carries friends have fun I’m invulnerable’… So a historic opportunity to reboot politics was flushed down the bog

@philgordon28 @AmbJapanUK One of the joys of Twitter. 58 years on the planet and it’s only now that I feel like celebrating St George’s Day.

@AmbJapanUK @BeaverWestminst 👏👏👏👏👏

Happy St George's Day!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹

Chicken soup or a hot chocolate, anybody? (Maureen Caputi)

Were you there by any chance @ASMcEwan ?

@philgordon28 Jeez! Remember one of the guys next to us being shocked as we celebrated Rangers defeat (v CSKA Moscow?). Mark Hughes’ goal was a thing of beauty even if it was a mile offside!

We were there @68ron . How can that be 33 years ago. ?

I know there are far more pressing problems in our world but if it’s still 1-0 at 85 minutes I’m not sure my nerves will take it.

@thisguyjack @GAltringham Was going to add this!

Went to a “special” screening here in L.A. right before it came out - small group of us - of this movie (“The Lives of Others”), with the filmmaker, his first feature, named Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, if memory serves. LOVED the movie. (Seen it a couple times since then.) He was a very tall young German fella with the greatest energy, so great. Really tall. Curly sandy blond hair. Bright eyes filled with the wonder of Film. Jawa-de-veev… (however you spell it in French). He said he had been a first assistant (the “body-man”, always “connected at the hip”) to that Director(!!!) Richard Attenborough, on that late movie he’d made about (Hemingway?). Think it was called “In Love and War”. Said he learned very much from the Gentleman. All Good Vibes. He said that Attenborough (who’d much earlier acted in one of my favorite movies, “The Great Escape”), then later went on to direct several great movies, had told him… “If you want to make movies, go WRITE SOMETHING for yourself to make, and DON’T GIVE IT UP, NO MATTER WHAT.” So he said, this fella… von Donnersmarck, that he has a BROTHER who’s a MONK. (Not even joking right now.) And he said his brother allowed him to join him and his “other brothers” inside their monastery, wherever it is, while he wrote THIS MOVIE. And he made clear that he didn’t share ANY belief, religious-wise, of his brother, although he said he does consider himself “spiritual”, not opposed to anybody’s personal beliefs. And so - he said it took him like 5 months or something, through several rewrites and whatnot, and EVERY DAY he had allotted times where he would EAT his meals with the monks at their big common-table. They would chant and pray, and he would listen. He would observe their customs and silences, which he became pretty familiar with pretty quickly… He was ON THE CHORE-ROTATION/LIST just like ALL THE MONKS… And he would garden, and wash dishes, and scrub floors, just as they all did. Apparently… And THEN… When the Monks would go attend to their Monk-Stuff… HE’D GO back into his “cell” (that’s what they call ‘em), and he would write as hard as he could. And he’d imagine, and he would dream, and he would write… and re-write. And re-write. I asked him if he had prayed during his writing-sessions in the cell there, and he said that he had sometimes just sat at his keyboard for hours, “contemplating”, and that he would just “let things come to him”. I don’t know if that’s prayin’, but that sounds to me like Homie was truly gettin’ his shwerve on for real. And mind you, every day, while he was there, he was also scrubbing floors, cookin’, takin’ out the trash, etcetera. And I asked him if he regretted it at all - his austere time spent at the monastery - whether he woulda just been better off to go check into the Château Marmont in Hollywood here, and write while he banged hookers out in the bungalows by the pool and drank old-fashion’s…. (Well, I didn’t put it to him EXACTLY like that, but yeah, ya know… I pretty much did). And he told me that there’s no way he could have made this movie “The Lives of Others” if he had done it any other way. I also asked him if any personal experiences from his young life had “fed into” his movie, ya know, Real Stuff… And he said Yes. Absolutely. The feeling from his childhood that the whole society had, infused with fear and paranoia and the notion that your neighbors were probably spying on you from right across the hall in your own building… This was a very personal movie to him. Very Inspiring. I’ll never forget that screening, and those questions and answers. ——————- Said he went back to Richard Attenborough, who read his script, and that with his help, the whole thing came together very quickly after that. Budget. Casting. Filming. Magic. What a great memory. Thank you for bringing it back to me. Now I have to go visit this movie again.

Name a great German movie that isn't Metropolis or M

@BrettMendoza_ I’d forgotten that aspect of it but definitely annoying to me now!

The objective was promotion. Job done magnificently. Still annoys me we didn't win the league from this. Murray and Houghton both said similar. But it ended an unreal journey to the Premier league, something I didn't think would happen growing up. We did it, and flourished

Good morning Bhoys and Ghirls 🍀💚🍀💚🍀💚🍀💚🍀💚

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