Simon CP

@Singularity6064 @StanCollymore Dunno. I was at the game and more than happy to miss the parade and leave it to people that couldn’t be there

@Singularity6064 @StanCollymore Just because you went to Istanbul, does not make you more dedicated. You’ve already had your chance to celebrate with the team. Get over yourself

Villa Parade. 4.30pm tomorrow starting at the Jewellery Quarter, 5km long.

@BiteYourBrum The number of fans in Istanbul goes up by 5K with every tweet I read. It’ll be the population of Birmingham next

I’m all for this but, there’s about 25K fans over in Istanbul that won’t be back in time for this. Wouldn’t it have made sense to do this on bank holiday Monday, when more people are back/others off work?

@walshcat1 @ImCryptoNutsack It’s about constantly needing to moan even when we achieve something fantastic

@ImCryptoNutsack Usually a trophy parade is a few days after a final so that people can plan. This is less than 24 hours later and 20,000 are still here in Istanbul. It’s not about one set got to celebrate. It’s about celebrating as a collective fan base IMO….

Crazy decision. 15000 fans are still in Istanbul. This win is for the fans. Madness

@weisschwarzblau @Nevindrivr @StanCollymore They stayed to clap their own players not us 😂

@Nevindrivr @StanCollymore have some respect mate, theyve been nothing but positive yesterday even after losing they stayed to clap for Villa.

Liebe Freiburger Fans, ihr habt heute Abend eurem Verein, eurer Stadt und eurem Land alle Ehre gemacht. Dass Fans nach dem Spiel bleiben, um den Gewinnern zu applaudieren, ist im Fußball mittlerweile eine echte Seltenheit. Ihr habt genau das getan, und es war ein wunderbarer Anblick. Eine großartige Mannschaft, die nur von einem großartigen Team besiegt wurde, das drei Jahre lang aufgebaut wurde. Bis wir uns wiedersehen: Vielen Dank!

@KatharineMerry Ozzy Osborne did not give a fuck about football

Gary would have loved this … Ozzy would have loved this … #UTV

@coys_e08 @HotspurLane

@HotspurLane Honestly just watching this now I said to myself “don’t go too crazy lads”, why are they being so casual🤣. Our win felt much more special.

Might be strange to say, but I actually think winning it by a one goal margin, hanging on in added time like #THFC did is actually a better moment. 🤷‍♂️ Villa fans and players knew they had won for half an hour before the final whistle, which showed at FT, whilst Spurs players all collapsed to the ground and tears flooding. That moment when Casemiro’s overhead kick went wide will live with me forever and I personally think is a better single moment than winning 3-0…

@Bengr01 @FootballCliches Dunno if it was caught on camera but Martinez went and asked the delegation for a medal for one of the squad players. Tinpot

@FootballCliches Thoughts on the UEFA Presidents handshakes, all seemed a bit too casual for me. Can’t be dapping players up whilst handing them their medals

And that's an acceptable score graphic for a European final, is it

@avfcbreaking @loi_sellis Who still says “banter”?! Grow up

@loi_sellis Don't cry it's a little light hearted banter 🤣 She's going to Istanbul remember 😉 Not everything is an attack on women,had it been a bloke he would also have been on that image. No need to be so sensitive

At least she kept her word 😭🤣 #NFFC #AVFC

@wthirskgaskill @JamesHa78131584 @prodnose Because no one watches it

@JamesHa78131584 @prodnose I don’t mind it. I think the decisions are reasonable. And in comparison to soccer, it gets hardly any flak from pundits.

Sweden got rid of VAR. They heard what everyone connected with the sport had to say about it and ruled, "OK. It's gone." That will NEVER happen here because the bureaucratic ruling football hierarchy pretend they can't hear what paying public think. We don't matter. Bravo Sweden

@theavfcfaithful Please add me. Travelling Tues morning

I’ve created a group for Istanbul, if you want to join just comment here or DM. It can be for solo travellers or if you just wanna join up to you. #avfc

@prodnose Another dinosaur from yesteryear spouting games gonnery because they know it gets clicks from reform voters

No not a time to "change the law". Law says if you handle the ball intentionally you have committed an offence. It's that simple. VAR has decided, like every other aspect of football, to over complicate and confuse what the rules are. Bunches of jobsworths justifying their jobs.

@hehatemefrisbee @philmcnulty They apply the laws correctly according to what the rules are and usually arrive at the correct decision. Fans, managers and pundits hammered refs for mistakes before and now they hammer them when correct decisions don’t go the way they want them to.

@SimonInDrinks @philmcnulty Ok, can you tell me what you like? I'm genuinely interested

I give up. The game is being ruined.

@philmcnulty I find it so depressing that the chief wrote for BBC Sport is doing games gonery stuff for likes and engagement

@KevBrow56382158 @philmcnulty Highest attendances ever but ok mate

@philmcnulty Grass roots will end up having better following. Game is done

@hehatemefrisbee @philmcnulty I know we’ve not met, but I like it

@philmcnulty I've never met anyone who likes VAR. Why is it still in the game?

@philmcnulty Time to retire dino 🦖

@ThomasTParker @AlyssonSZN They’re vague posting for engagement, that’s what happened. It’s an absolute plague

@AlyssonSZN Hold on, what's happened?!

Still trying to work out why Martinez and Grealish hate each other Someone must know #AVFC

Coming up on Monday: @GaryLineker and @alanshearer moaning about VAR because results didn’t go the way they wanted or something. “Not for me” etc. Games haven’t even played yet but guarantee they’ll be focussing on refs for some reason, rather than football

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I know the news Andy Burnham has a route back to Westminster will divide opinion. So, before anything else, I want to speak plainly – to Labour members and voters, to those who have left us, and to anyone on the centre-left, whether you vote Green, Lib Dem, or are simply looking for a politics that hasn't given up on you. Last week's local election results were, for many of us, existential. Not disappointing. Not a setback. Existential. Look across Europe and beyond at what happens to social democratic parties that refuse to step outside the economic orthodoxy of the last forty years – the one that hollowed out our public services, privatised what was ours, drove inequality to indecent levels, and cleared the ground for the authoritarian right to march into. That is the path we are on. Keir Starmer has refused to see it, and the country cannot afford another general election spent finding out the hard way. So let me be direct. The Prime Minister should set out a timeline for an orderly transition. I have said this before. I say it again now because the stakes have changed. Reform is not a protest – it is a project. And it will not be beaten by a Labour Party that mistakes managerial caution for strategy. As regards Andy, I want to set down here that I do not see him as some kind of messiah. Far from it. As someone who has been around frontline politics for more than twenty years, he has made his fair share of mistakes. But for the last ten years he has been a serious, grounded, and effective Mayor of Greater Manchester. The party and the country need their strongest players on the pitch, and he has a great deal to offer at a moment when the national stage has rarely mattered more. I hope the NEC will listen to the overwhelming view of the Cabinet, the PLP, the membership, and the unions, and let Andy stand. And I hope and believe the people of Makerfield will send him back to Parliament. But that is not a given. We know Reform will throw everything at this by-election. We must do the same and then some. Reform have spent a year being told they are inevitable. Makerfield is where we find out whether that is true. Every advance has a limit. This is where we set it. Millions of people, including my constituents in Norwich South, need this government to succeed. They need housing, working public services, secure jobs, water and energy that serves them rather than extracts from them. That work is not finished. But the honest truth is that stopping Reform and rebuilding the country is bigger than any one party. It will take a progressive politics willing to listen, willing to cooperate where the public interest demands it, and willing to drop the tribal habits that got us here. The country is ahead of us on this. It is time we caught up. Makerfield is one of many places where Labour has lost trust. It is an area Andy knows and has lived in for many years. If selected, he will work hard to win that trust back and make the case for a Labour Party worth voting for again. That case has to be made not only to people who once voted Labour, but to everyone who believes the answer to Reform is a serious, democratic, social alternative – not a paler imitation of the politics that created the problem. This by-election is not about one seat. It is a test of whether Labour understands the moment we are in. No single party is going to stop Reform on its own. The progressive majority in this country is real – but it is scattered across Labour, the Greens, the Lib Dems, nationalists, independents, and millions of people who have stopped voting altogether. Our job is not to demand they all come back to us. It is to earn the right to work with them, on shared ground, for a shared future. To former Labour voters: come and talk to us again. To Green and Lib Dem voters: we are not enemies. To Labour members and MPs: this is the fight. Let's get on with it. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…