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Liverpool’s hierarchy will have no qualms about parting ways with Arne Slot if they ultimately decide a change is needed, @TEAMtalk understands.
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⚽️⚽️⚽️ VIKTOR GYOKERES SCORES THE EQUALIZER AGAINST SOUTHAMPTON MINUTES AFTER COMING ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE IS HERE TO RESCUE ARSENAL!!!!!!!!!!!
1:1 ARSENAL 🏴 x.com/Trendyqyr/stat…
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🚨 It’s not the best time to talk about, but it worth to be shared, Egypt legend Mohamed Aboutrika, Salah’s former teammate, idol, and close friend, confirmed that he spoke with Mohamed Salah after he announced his decision to leave Liverpool, and confirmed what we exclusively reported on @winwinallsports on March 25: Arne Slot is the reason behind Mohamed Salah’s departure.
Aboutrika said: “One of the reasons behind Mohamed Salah leaving Liverpool is the presence of Arne Slot, because we’ve seen issues in the recent period… You, Slot, pushed the man away. Salah only had a two-year contract with Liverpool… Salah wants to work with peace of mind and enjoy the next phase of his career. Salah doesn’t need any validation from Slot or anyone else.”
All of Aboutrika’s comments on Salah’s decision can be read here. winwin.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D…
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Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one.
A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it.
The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link.
General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.”
Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon.
Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to.
The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone.
Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody?
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@Ladbrokes I think it was when they stopped getting away with bribing everyone for success ? 🧐🧐
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@MrDomSmith @standardsport Is this the ”Chelsea find out what happens when players want to leave whilst on 9 year contracts” moment ?
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Quotes from Liam Rosenior as he bans Enzo Fernandez from Chelsea's next two games and holds 30-minute meeting with Marc Cucurella to tell him off, too. Fernandez sanctioned after disrespecting #CFC with Real Madrid comments:
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@anass_elghazi @spiritofshankly @_lfcsb Why is a LFC arguing for price increases ? Why is someone who doesn’t go to a match - care or even count. Everything that is wrong with our fan base these days. The e-reds.
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@spiritofshankly @_lfcsb so you want the prices of 1950 to stay forever , no inflation in your dictionary
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The direction of travel is worrying - they said after the European Super League debacle they would listen to fans and they set up the @_lfcsb but sadly there was no ‘meaningful’ dialogue as promised, just a diktat from Boston!
Michael Bennett@Bennett__Music
@spiritofshankly Not renewing my membership. They’re taking the piss
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Bit of a bell end here, isn’t he?
Josh@joshpearson180
The incident for anyone that didn’t see it
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@MackaBoy67 Yes I do see your point and you may well be right
I’m just a hopeless old romantic - I think West Ham can win the Cup this year!!
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Tiger Woods needs help and he looks like he knows that.
I hope he comes back a stronger person from his period away from the public limelight.
Whether it will be too late to be USA captain at 2027 Ryder Cup in Ireland remains to be seen #golf
Tiger Woods@TigerWoods
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@HonestFrank The latter I think. Every time there is a mea culpa…& yes he’s had a few chances for rehab. Make an example of him will perhaps help others more (not to do the same).
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@MackaBoy67 All is true - and he should face justice
But do we give people a chance at rehabilitation? (And yes I know he’s had chances before)
Maybe he could help others as well as himself. Maybe I’m too much of an optimist right now 🤷🏻♂️
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Tin hat on and retreating to a safe distance. Here's my 26-man England World Cup squad. Not who I think Thomas Tuchel will pick, who I would pick. Plenty of points for civilised discussion & disagreement - and a chance to pick yours. bbc.co.uk/sport/football…
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With all 48 nations now confirmed for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, here are the latest outright odds ⬇️
Spain - 9/2
England - 11/2
France - 6/1
Brazil - 8/1
Argentina - 8/1
Germany - 11/1
Portugal - 11/1
Netherlands - 18/1
Norway - 22/1
Belgium - 28/1
Reply below with the country that will lift the World Cup on 19th July 🏆 18+ T&Cs
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@Iandennisbbc Complete waste of time these 2 matches. Nothing gained at all by anyone.
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After Uruguay wouldn’t agree to 11 substitutes or water breaks, “they didn’t agree to a lot of stuff” according to Thomas Tuchel. We will have a 1 minute water break in each half to help with WC preparations plus the 11 subs tonight.
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📈 GAMBLE ALERT
14:45 Bangor - COUMEENOOLE
15:50 Bangor - PALAMON
16:20 Bangor - THREE ZAMBEZIS
16:50 Bangor - SERVICE MINIMUM
17:00 Newcastle - TYSON
There’s a smell of a good old fashioned coup in the air, all 5 runners have been smashed up, is today the day?
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