Craig

The day I've been dreading. Determination, Unbridled Passion, Relentless - Man & Machine combined into one. Forever Loved, Forever Welcome. Thanks Mells!

@officialcufc Home - Gillingham Away - Walsall

For the chance of winning a 2024/25 home or away shirt... 🤔 Who do you think we'll face in our first home game and opening away game? Deadline for submissions is 8am, tomorrow morning - good luck, Blues!

Awesome performance by @30SECONDSTOMARS & @JaredLeto absolutely owned it, but this whole VIP standing section has got to stop at gigs. Totally kills the atmosphere cos of the massive space in the middle of the crowd #30secondstomars #ovohydro

@cupcakelinda05 Amazing news! Best result of the season! 👍

He's done it!! The cancer has been Mellished!! 👊🏻 Jack is officially in remission 💙 Check ups of MRI scans and xrays for the next 3 years. So proud of him 💙 He hasn't stopped smiling since he left the consultants office. #cancer #cufc

@joncolman Looking better than in most games this season - definitely feel we should have had a penalty though.

Carlisle trail at the break and Derby are 45 minutes from promotion. It hasn't, though, been a procession, with United finding a spirited response and at least making a decent contest of this, making the hosts work for their big result. Your view? #cufc

The Football Association Challenge Cup. A long read. The World's Oldest Association Football Competition. Let that sink in.Something to be proud of as a part of English football and cultural life. Changes to it? Yes, with one caveat. That every club who takes part in it has an equal vote as to what those changes are. Too simple eh? But no, several high profile managers ( who'll be fucking long gone and won't give a fuck when our beloved competition has finally been finished off) and several owners will be gleeful today, another victory for maybe 6 of 100+ pro clubs, another concession to the greed, while relegating a national instution to an annoyance. I've played for Stafford Rangers in a Cup 1st round against Burnley, hoping desperately to get a replay at Turf Moor. I've played in an FA Cup Final between England's 2 biggest clubs. At Hillsborough, I ran out wearing the yellow of Southend United, with 6000 travelling Shrimpers and what seemed like a million yellow balloons. The game where I felt I belonged in that esteemed company. Playing in the back garden, bewildered as Alan Sunderland scored the winner when Arsenal beat United in a game that epitomised the beguiling spectacle of this famous old trophy. Yeovil, Altrincham, Hereford, Sutton, Blyth Spartans, Chasetown. Names that maybe only ever pop up once in a football lifetime for the nation but to the fans of those clubs, ask them about their Cup memories and see their faces. We're being diddled, had over, fucked about, taken the piss out of. By who? Managers who " desperately need fewer games", by owners bemoaning having to gamble their precious boys against Rochdale instead of resting up for Real Madrid, something understandable if it weren't for the luxury of 30 pros costing a billion pounds plus an academy of cherry picked youth from around the world. How many fucking players do these clubs need to play one replay every 5 years? If the Football Association had any arsehole it would have put any decision that fundementally changes a 153 year old tournament to a vote of all participating clubs. It won't though , because it's scared to say a word to the all conquering Premier League. If you didn't believe before today that the FA wasn't fit for purpose, now you know because the organisation that administers the most professional clubs in the land, the EFL have effectively called them liars. That alone should ensure investigation by an independent regulator, along with any number of other decisions, changes and ideas the all conquering Premier League want implemented. Fuck you to every manager who's come to these shores wanting U-21 teams and B teams playing in the EFL. This isn't Spain where they can't populate more than 2 divisions with quality teams from across the nation, this is England where we have over 100 pro clubs over 5 divisions, where a town of 40,000 like Burnley can proudly compete in the top 2 divisions regularly for over 100 years. Fuck you to the big name managers crying about too many games. Use your fucking 30 man squads better and play the 15 you hardly use but cost more money on wages in a year than clubs competing in the Champions League from other nations operate a whole club on! And that's without the star boys who you steal from clubs for a pittance from clubs in the pyramid and overseas that you love the idea of playing but won't because " they're not ready quite yet". Bullshit! Unless you, reading this, do something, anything by way of protesting this obscene and constant tidal wave of changes to the English game that is ruining the fabric of a delicate pyramid ecosystem, the your children simply will never get to afford to watch what we have. A sport for everyone, not for an elite few. It's time to fight back. Enough changes, enough greed, English football worked well for 150 years, trust it, trust those in it and those who support it.

Too many times recently, decisions made by the football "elite" have caused outrage • VAR - Kills the soul of the game • Blue cards - What even is the point? • Removing away goals in the UCL - Takes away some of the excitement • Adding U21 teams to the EFL Trophy - destroyed the integrity of the competition • Scrapping FA Cup replays - Makes the gap between the top and the bottom of the football pyramid a lot bigger It’s a disgrace how EFL and non-league clubs weren’t consulted about this decision but it’s even more of a disgrace how fans don’t have any input in any of these decisions Football without fans is nothing

If after 90 minutes a team of "top players" has to play a replay against a team in a league multiple levels below them, I'd argue that they aren't quite as good as they like to claim. Hundreds of teams down the leagues play as many (if not more!) games, with no complaints.

Statement from @officialcufc #bbcfootball #carlisleunited #facup

Its true I have cancer for the third time. But we’ve walked through darkness as a family before and we will do it again! I need you all to rise up. All I ask if you can to contribute to gofund.me/afe79b3c Anything received is with heart full of gratitude. Please share 🤍

@parkinsonross With the injuries, either training is too intense or the medical team are not up to scratch. I checked Stockport's injury record and they often had a number of injuries while Jake Simpson was there - is he potentially pushing players too hard? It's not all him but maybe a factor?

It’s gonna need to be a miraculous turnaround for us to challenge in league two next season. Recruitment has to be bang on and whatever is going on in the medical department needs sorted too. You can applaud Simmo for his honesty at times but I don’t think continually…

Since Swindon away last season Played - 57 Won - 9 Drawn - 15 Lost - 33 Clean sheets - 8 Failed to score - 24 times. Scored more than once - 13 times. The stats show we are awful in every area of the pitch. We can’t score and concede far too easily.

@parkinsonross Danny Livesey - I'd quite happily have 36 different doodles of the Legend 👍

One to fill the boredom. Which 36 Carlisle players would folk have on one of these? #cufc

Five-month-old Jensen has spent the majority of his short life in hospital and needs life-saving surgery that isn't available on the NHS. His parents Chris and Stephanie need to raise £65,000 to get Jensen help from a Belgian specialist and the best chance of survival. Please help if you can by donating here 👉 gofund.me/9bd00353 All of our thoughts and wishes are with Jensen, Chris and Stephanie. Keep fighting, Jensen 🤍🖤

They continually find new ways to lower the bar of common decency and compassion.

Just take a step back and realise that this is Reading. Not Millwall, not Leeds etc. We are a club that used to be sponsored by Waitrose, when we play Fulham we call it El Middle Clasico. We are this angry because we are terrified of losing our club. Help us. #readingfc

When Junior Doctors are on £16 an hour and MP's are on £46 an hour. And raising the Junior Doctors pay by £4 an hour is unaffordable, even though they just raised MP's pay by £5 an hour. It's hard not to see the lie. RT if Junior Doctors NEED paying.

What I would give to see Nico, Daley, Matthijs, Frenkie, Donny, Lasse, Hakim, Dusan and all the others, wear the Red & White together just one more time!

5 years today since I went and watched @AFCAjax at the JC Arena dismantle de Graafschap. It's still the only match I've managed to see in person but I still live in hope for more. And it's safe to say that I fell completely in love with that 18/19 squad. #ajax #theajaxway

@wetalkajax Looking very good 👍 It's just a shame it's taken until the last game to show it! Hato just makes it all seem easy. We just need the rest of the defense to match his level. Concerned about some of the decisions by the referee though 🤔

HT: AJAX - AEK ATHENS 2-1 Thoughts so far❓ #ajaaek #UEL #Ajax #Akpom #Taylor #Hato

@joncolman @newsandstar Ridiculous excitement twitter.com/CraigTheReiver…

📢Right, Blues fans - please hit me with your thoughts, feelings and emotions on today's big news, and I'll share as many as I can via @newsandstar... #cufc