Jeremy Inson

@90sfootball Is that Jon Bon Jovi top right?

Bayern Munich's summer signings of 1990. How many can you name?

@henrywinter He has played at the Euros, so has played a a major tournament unlike Best or Giggs among others. Cantona played at euro 92

....some of the most talented players in history have missed out. Absent friends have included Alfredo di Stefano, George Weah, Ryan Giggs, Laszlo Kubala, Liam Brady, Eric Cantona, the list goes on… Column 2/2 open.substack.com/pub/henrywinte…

1,104 outfield players will be at the World Cup but not Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. The Georgian left winger will grace the #UCL final for PS-G but will follow the likes of the great George Best in missing out on a World Cup, the grandest stage of all. The Georgian Best. 1/2

I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison. Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours. As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit. After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders. And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it. So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently. Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future. That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city. Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still. The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running. If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.

@007 But he did play Bond, on the radio series, just like Bob Holness of Blockbusters fame.

“I suppose every guy’s dream is to be Bond. But the second best is definitely being a Bond villain, so I’ll make do with that.” Happy birthday to Toby Stephens who played Gustav Graves in DIE ANOTHER DAY.

One of the #RedRoses great players, starting in fine form as a coach #sixnations

@ek_rugby So long as he’s pointed in the right direction. Message sent to Huw Jones. #glavrct

Honestly didn't think Brex could move that fast. What a solo try! Potential upset on here in Glasgow. #GLAvRCT

@gallagherbren58 Read the article. he says he isn’t overly keen and aware of the problems of him blocking a young player. That said, he is eligible and they are the rules. I’m not keen, but so many grey areas around eligibility.

I'm really not OK with somebody with 79 England caps and 9 lions caps suddenly deciding he wants to represent Tonga. Devalues what went b4 Reg changes were clearly aimed at those who had been capped early by one of big nations and then discarded That feels OK, but not this

@XiThice @terrychristian Agree, but the chances of it changing are zero. FA make loads by hosting semis at Wembley but would have to pay out loads to hire stadiums with smaller capacity.

Who else thinks the FA Cup semi-finals shouldn't be at Wembley? They should be played at neutral grounds like Old Trafford, Anfield, Villa Park, or St James' Park, leaving the final as a Wembley exclusive!

@BBCMOTD Was allowed as the defender was behind him. Laughable claims of corruption. Break out the tin foil. Besides Ampadu should have been shown red not yellow. #facup

High foot or not? ⬇️ Do you think Axel Disasi’s equaliser for West Ham should have stood? VAR had a look, goal given ✅

@I_AM_INEV1TABL3 From an Italian/Benetton perspective, it was good to see the first thought was to find space out wide and keep the free ball moving , rather than the big roost down the field that would have been the first instinct one time.

The aftermath/fallout from the Cardiff/Benetton incidents

@ShadrackAmonooC x.com/shadrackamonoo…

I’ve finally found how to copy and paste video link On X: * Open the post * Tap the share icon *Select ‘Copy link’ *Paste it anywhere And There you Goooo!!!

@ajb_79 At the end of the international break, #Spurs still have a week as they aren’t in the Cup. At least he didn’t call for Pichettino to come back (now), he’s not going anywhere before the World Cup

Sheringham is doing what all of the other supposed legends of the club should be doing and using his voice. Would be good if the others followed suit and called the club out for the shambles it is #thfc

Chat galore in the #rugbyunion world this week

Lovely to have #premrugby back

Well now we have the Barbeary Cup sorted, there are 4 other games in the @premrugby this weekend to get excited by. Read more with @JeremyInson: allthingsrugby.com/news/preview-g… #PREMrugby #EnglandRugby #RugbyPreview

Who didn’t love McCloskey’s story? Even the English did #sixnations2026

A good Championship, but a disappointing finish #sixnations2026

On the right track, time to put the throttle down #sixnations2026

So much chat #rugbyunion #sixnations2026

Two from two at home, get the away form right and they’re on their way #sixnations #walvita