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@ashestoarchive @philtufnell What an England XI that was!

Wishing former England spinner @philtufnell a very happy 60th birthday 🎂🥳Here, in just his second Test, Tuffers nearly spins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿to victory with a brilliant spell on the last day of the 3rd Test at the SCG in January 1991 🤩🤩

Remember when Ollie Hassell Collins was Noah Caluori

@Halcruttenden @Saracens Nah - bad day at the office, I'm afraid. It happens! I suspect we now need 9 points off Sale and Chiefs to be sure of top 4.

@AncientKeeper @Saracens Forgive them. They were just looking for a word to rhyme with ruthless. 😉 I thought you were definitely going to nick it at the end!

Tigers toothless. Sarries ruthless 💫

@CharlieFelix Hmmm.....I thought everyone disliked Tigers!?

Harlequins-Sale is a limp for eighth, really, with not much else on it. BUT… there does seem to be a significant amount of mutual dislike between the clubs and there probably isn’t enough of that about in the Prem.

@bagshaw2112 Hylda Baker - "she knows, y'know!"

Part of my childhood TV , can you remember this lady and what her famous catchphrase was ? A very funny lady #nostalgic #memories

@CharlieFelix I've heard [checks furtively over both shoulders] that he sleeps all night and he works all day!

Perfect snapshot of how aligned the Bath system has become, with big “headteacher on non-uniform day” vibes in the bottom right.

@CharlieFelix Love that!🤣

… plus there’s always a bit of fuck-you about Leicester, so they’re probably very happy with everyone talking up Saints, Bath (and to a lesser extent Exeter)

Article on Leicester Tigers, who have something good going. 👑 Billy Searle flying 🕛 Orlando Bailey finds best position 🇦🇷 Form Argentinian in the Prem 🇦🇺 Hewat’s influence obvious 🤼‍♂️ …but best scrum pen differential 🚛 …and most maul metres thetimes.com/sport/rugby-un…

@TomMay1 Agreed - MotM for me👏

Again, Orlando Bailey showing he’s go all the skills and awareness. He was so good yesterday. Weighting a kick like that in this space is hard & he executes it perfectly. Influential in everything for Leicester yesterday.

@tds122 My first choice: Tom Graveney - a fine cricketer and a true gentleman.

Who would make a true Gentlemen of cricket XI ? i'll start - Kane Williamson

@TheBarmyArmy The baby-faced assassin - I remember it!

In 1968, England were set to beat Australia on Day Five and draw the series 1-1. But after a flood at the Oval that spectators helped clear up, there was just 75 minutes left and five wickets required. Step forward a certain D Underwood ❤️

@FrankRGardner @ukipstera A variation on Hanlon’s razor. Very grateful for your 'take' on this situation, Mr G !

@ukipstera Rude.

I’m just going to say it, re the ceasefire in the #IranWar‌ - neither side has ‘won’. Iran’s military and its command structure is decimated and yet it has emerged strategically stronger. It now effectively controls the Strait of Hormuz. Which it didn’t before this war.

@reporterboy Listen, Antonio - you may have a spare pound of "sturdy" flesh but unless you know of a Venetian moneylender who doubles as someone of importance in the Artemis programme, I think you should plan on staying on this lump of rock!

There are bits of my body I am more than just literally “attached to” that I’d give, now, to fly past the moon. I’m not joking

This...

@Microinteracti1 "...never quite managed."??? Never even got close. Not even once.

The French President Just Reminded The World What Class Looks Like Donald Trump stood in front of a camera and did what Donald Trump does. He mocked Emmanuel Macron’s wife. He put on a fake French accent. He told the world that Brigitte Macron “treats him extremely badly” and that the French president was “still recovering from a right hook to the jaw.” It was the geopolitical equivalent of a man shouting at clouds. Macron was in South Korea when someone asked him about it. He paused. He considered the question with the expression of a man who has just been informed that a golden retriever has urinated on his Bentley. Then he said this: “Neither elegant nor up to standard.” Seven words. That was it. Seven words delivered with the quiet, devastating calm of someone who genuinely does not need to raise their voice because the staff will handle it. It was the verbal equivalent of a single raised eyebrow from a man in a perfectly fitted suit, looking down at someone who has just spilled red wine on the carpet at Versailles. Consider the man on the other end of that eyebrow. A man who wears a red baseball cap to diplomatic meetings and a white one to funerals. A man who arrives at the most solemn occasions in the world looking like he has just wandered in from a golf buggy. A man whose morning routine apparently involves industrial quantities of spray tan applied to a face that has, at various medical estimations, the cardiovascular profile of a blocked Manhattan sewer. A man whose idea of a state dinner is a quarter pounder eaten alone in a motorcade. This is the man who decided to lecture the world about Emmanuel Macron’s marriage. Trump called NATO a “paper tiger.” He mocked a head of state’s wife. He uploaded the whole embarrassing performance to the White House YouTube channel, briefly, before someone in the building apparently remembered that diplomacy exists and pulled the plug. Macron’s response landed like a white glove placed gently on a table. Not thrown. Placed. “Neither elegant nor up to standard.” In French diplomatic circles, that sentence is a declaration of war. In English, it translates roughly to: I have noticed your behavior, and I find it beneath comment, which is why I am commenting on it once, quietly, before returning to matters of actual importance. There is a man in this story who has spent eighty years on this earth and still cannot find a suit that fits, a tie that stops at his belt, or a shade of foundation that occurs anywhere in nature. And there is a man who responded to being publicly humiliated by the most powerful person on earth with seven words and a expression that could freeze the Seine. Macron has something Trump has spent his entire life trying to purchase and never quite managed. Class. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@reporterboy @ValaAfshar @HackBlackburn Agreed but, as my live-TV producing youngest daughter would say - "Good though, innit!?"

@ValaAfshar @HackBlackburn I love this of course I do, and credit to him, always, for pulling it off ….but technically not as hard to pull off as you think. Just takes reall balls, focus, and a lot of practice in the hour before hand

James Burke's perfectly timed shot on television in 1978 is hailed as one of “The Greatest Shot In Television History”

@Acyn Dear @SecRubio Attack: take aggressive military action with weapons or armed force. Defense: the action of defending from or resisting attack. NATO: a defensive alliance - its mission is to defend its member countries and their one billion citizens. Hope that helps!

Rubio: If now we've reached a point where the NATO alliance means that we can't use those bases to defend America's interests, then NATO is a one-way street…then why are we NATO? We’re going to have to reexamine that relationship. That’s a decision for the president.

@TheMiddleStump @graynics @David215Gower I had a single scoop in those days. The lightest of pick-ups and the sweetest 'sweet spot'. Apparently.

Talking of bats. The @graynics four scoop as used by @David215Gower in 1978 was the one I loved. The single scoop was still popular in club cricket in the 80s as was the twin scoop but the four scoop was a thing of beauty. Shame I never timed it like Gower.

@AndyGoode10 When a ball is kicked unexpectedly into a group of his players pre-match, he has every right to be aggrieved. Let's imagine one of the players was injured - what then? The TNT producer rightly apologised.

Geoff Parling had a stinker today pushing Craig Doyle, no need for acting like that when the TV broadcasters fund the game

@BritAthletics @TeamGB Remembering '64 when Mary Rand won the women's long jump gold and Lynn Davies won the men's. Thanks for the memories, rest in peace.

The first woman to win an athletics medal for @TeamGB was Mary Rand, who completed the 🥇🥈 and 🥉 sweep at the 1964 Games in Tokyo. #1YearToGo

It's #1YearToGo to @Paris2024 No sport has won more medals for @TeamGB than @BritAthletics 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 + 83🥈and 72🥉 A thread 🧵on our trailblazers ⤵️