Graham Miller

It's a football ground Jim but not as we know it. More star-struck than Star Trek. Kenilworth Road boldly goes into the @premierleague What a Marvellous time to be a @LutonTown fan. #COYH Here's my piece in the @spectator @love_luton tinyurl.com/48wchvx5

Football is broken. But it can be fixed. Fair Game’s new report sets out a four-pot solution. @GoldbergRadio @MeVu Tom Watt Anjana Gadgil & Mark Thomas explain The £3.2bn broadcast deal must work for the whole pyramid, not just the few. youtu.be/zUUj-jV_J0Y

The Chancellor has just been ‘big footed’ by the Foreign Secretary. Whatever happened to ‘the Grid’? @UKParliament @HouseofCommons @FCDOGovUK

Simple., deduct them the 2,970 points and place them wherever in the Pyramid that puts them - probably somewhere near the bottom of the Combined Counties League.

@henrywinter This has rekindled the forever glowing embers of frustration and football melancholy at Kenilworth Road…

Good result for Chelsea: club fined only £10m and given a suspended transfer ban after Premier League found 36 separate undisclosed payments totalling £47.5m made “to 12 persons or entities on behalf of the club”. Lenient sanctions. No sporting sanctions. Yet these are serious offences, as the sanction agreement between the PL and Chelsea makes clear, stating “they were not only obvious and deliberate breaches of the rules but also because they involved deception and concealment in relation to financial matters”. Yet no points deductions. Just a manageable (if record) fine and a “suspended one-year first-team player transfer ban (suspended for two years)”. Surely they gained a sporting advantage by recruiting such players? So surely a sporting sanction should be in order? And where's the consistency? In 2008, Luton Town received a 10-point deduction for irregularities in dealing with agents (nb from FA). There still could be some further sanctions by the FA following its "ongoing investigation". PL points to mitigating factors: current owners Clearlake/Todd Boehly in May 2022 voluntarily self-reported potential historical breaches from the Roman Abramovich era. Club co-operated extensively and helped provide (with others) 10,000 documents for PL investigation. PL established “that between 2011 and 2018, undisclosed payments by third parties associated with the club were made to players, unregistered agents and other third parties”. Payments related to the purchases of players including Eden Hazard, Willian, Samuel Eto’o, David Luiz, Andre Schurrle and Nemanja Matic - there is no suggestion any were aware of the illicit payments. The detailed work of the investigators – and level of Clearlake’s co-operation – is impressive. The sanctions less so. It is a legitimate debate: should a club be punished for offences under a previous owner? Yes, most fans of other clubs would scream. It's a deterrent. And the value of those players' contribution and subsequent sales arguably still benefits the club. PL also investigated “potential breaches of the Premier League’s Youth Development Rules, committed by a former senior employee, relating to the club’s registration of Academy players between 2019 and 2022”. Again, self-reported by the club, this time in 2025. Chelsea punished with £750,000 fine and immediate nine-month ban from registering academy players from PL and EFL clubs. #CFC

Ed Milliband appears to have done little preparation for his media round. He’s ‘winging’ it presumably because he considers himself sufficiently experienced. Few get away with it. He’s not one of them @TrevorPTweets @SkyNews #communications

He sacrificed himself, his ambitions and potential glory for Arsenal... Always my gaffer 🥰🥰🥰

@BBCNewsnight @MattChorley Luke Sullivan talks about use of language and then says “price gouging.” This is another horrible Americanism we’ve adopted. We’ve always called it ‘profiteering.’ I know it doesn’t affect the debate but someone has to call it out!

“There isn’t any evidence of price-gouging” “That’s frankly ludicrous” Keir Starmer’s former political director Luke Sullivan and The Telegraph’s Anabel Denham clash over allegations of profiteering by petrol retailers. #Newsnight

Why are UK politicians using the Americanism 'price gouging' in relation to the hike in fuel prices? We used to call it 'petrol profiteering'. Which is exactly what it is!

We just heard ‘God Save the Queen’ before England’s #T20WorldCup semi in Mumbai. News travels slowly it seems? #cricketworldcup #Sky #INDvsENG

How I heard an important news story from the only person who already knew it — me. tinyurl.com/4a624z4r #Broadcasting #MediaReflections #NewsEvolution #DigitalCulture #AIandMedia #JournalismMatters #Storytelling

If there’s one thing the Olympics teaches you it’s that resilience is a competitive sport #Olympics #TV #OlympicGames #Sport tinyurl.com/26eukvze

What a farce. An upcoming Women’s World Cup qualifier between Israel and Scotland, the host, is now set to be played abroad. Why? To avoid potential disruption from pro-Palestine thugs here in Britain. This news arrives hot on the heels of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans being unjustly banned from attending a game against Aston Villa in Birmingham. This is what happens when you repeatedly pander to the bullies rather than taking forceful action against them. Instead of outlining a clear plan of action against agitators, the decision appears to be to relocate the match and hope the problem goes away. This sends the dangerous message that intimidation works, and those who threaten peaceful events can successfully dictate public life. Law-abiding citizens should not have to pay the price for the hooliganism of pro-Palestine extremists. @UEFA, @ScottishFA and all relevant bodies involved must ensure that any decisions made are based on principle, not on yielding to the mob.

What is happening to our criminal justice system? It feels like every day, it finds a new way to betray British Jews. When a poster at a protest depicting a Star of David and the words “stop the genocide” was reported to the police, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) reportedly dismissed this concern by claiming that there is a “confirmed genocide in Gaza” and therefore the content was not considered “unlawful”. It argued that the placard was aimed at “the state of Israel for the now confirmed genocide in Gaza, not the race or religion”, and maintained that the blue colouring of the stars — “one of the colours of the Israeli flag” — served to distinguish the symbol from Judaism more broadly. The CPS has since offered an “unreserved apology” for its handling of the incident and the “poor quality of advice” it issued to its officers. It has said that it is “urgently reviewing how this happened”. While an apology is welcome, it is deeply concerning that the institution designed to deliver justice for British citizens so often finds itself mired in scandal over its treatment of matters relating to this country’s Jewish community. Earlier this month, Jews partaking in CPS review panels came forward to say that they do not feel that antisemitism is being taken seriously by the CPS. Are we really surprised that only 7% of British Jews believe the CPS does enough to protect them, according to our polling? The CPS has to demonstrate that it takes antisemitism as seriously as any other form of racism, or it risks irreparably losing the confidence of British Jews. thejc.com/news/uk/cps-ga…

@JeremyJacobs @LiquidFaerie @nicolelampert @NachumZvi @deborahlipstadt @RabbiPoupko @Never_Again2020 @robertbrynin Thank you @JeremyJacobs

I see the Swiss are as bad as other broadcasters. Great piece by @MeVu graham899.substack.com/p/is-the-comme… #antisemitism @LiquidFaerie @nicolelampert @NachumZvi @deborahlipstadt @RabbiPoupko @Never_Again2020 @robertbrynin

Is the TV commentary box turning into a courtroom? When did calling sport become calling out athletes? A moment at the Winter Games has forced the question shorturl.at/gKXHu #Olympics #WinterGames #Bobsleigh #Commentaries #TVSport #Remarkable

“Where’s the money gone?” From eye-watering losses to clubs on the brink of ruin, the financial foundations of the game are cracking. Who’s paying the price? Who’s cashing in? This ‘pod’ you can’t afford to miss!

The latest Fair Game podcast is out! A must listen. Host @MeVu quizzes @GoldbergRadio and @NiallCouper about the state of our National Game. Adrian is a bit of an expert having just published the brilliant book "Where's the Money Gone?". Tune in 👇 fairgameuk.org/podcasts/adria…

Top stories on @BBCNews consist of ‘denials’, ‘not me’ and ‘didn’t see’. Extraordinary!

More chuntering from the back-row Islamist bullies as Sammy Wilson MP spoke during the debate on the non-existent "genocide”. Adnan Hussain MP referenced the UN's Antisemite in Chief, Amnesty and International Association of Genocide Scholars whose members included one Adolf Hitler. Credible.