Steve Ward

@Aman06072302 @sambillings Then delete it.

@sambillings Okay sir! Sorry I trusted an unreliable source and posted! Apologies from my side

🚨BIG STATEMENT BY BILLINGS🤯🚨 England cricketer Sam Billings has revealed in a press conference that playing in the PSL has affected his mental health. He claimed that his team's captain Mohammad Rizwan and other players start offering Namaz right in the dressing room.

@Cricket_TS Yep.

🤷 "I'd rather put pressure of the young players who are going to potentially take that spot than people keep trying to ridicule Zak Crawley. 😠 "I've had enough of that now, it's starting to annoy me." Steve Harmison is fed up with the constant noise surrounding Zak Crawley

@cricket_badger Staggering isn’t it?

Best of love and luck to them both but judging by the replies this world has a long way to go before everyone looks after each other and wants to see love everywhere ❤️

@abdullah9149 @imfemalecricket They don’t worship Allah, so they don’t care.

@imfemalecricket Allah created only 2 genders, male and female idk what type of attraction they feel towards same gender.

England's Amy Jones & Australia's Piepa Cleary tied the knot on April 4 ❤️ Best wishes to the couple for this new chapter 🙌 #CricketTwitter

@WG_RumblePants I agree with the sentiment, but one innings, one spell, doesn’t make a test place. It’s just the beginning.

I hope Rob Key is taking notes on this round of Championship matches — you know, given that Baz is in New Zealand and given that we still don’t have a Selector… Div 1 batters who have scored 100s far: Critchley (173) Foakes (128) Mousley (112*) Abell (108) Clark (101) Div 1 bowlers who have taken a 5fer: Robinson (5-42) Pennington (5-65) Also, a certain Sir James Anderson has taken 5-64 in Div 2.

@WG_RumblePants Robinson didn’t criticise. He talked about his determination to get back in the team. Good attitude. There’s also some sour grapes from some quarters too, and the media has been seeking out the potential disgruntled characters, let’s be honest.

So, by my count, the list of players who have gone on record to criticise the Key/McCullum leadership regime is: Anderson Bairstow Livingstone Robinson Foakes Topley

@StanCollymore You’d think these lads would be busting a gut to take their chance. Garner excellent, Livramento too, and Rashford. Aside of that… very average.

Your erudite and informative thoughts on the first half, please. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@MikeC50507771 @BroadcastMoose It’s ok he’s been replaced by Wharton. Also passing the ball backwards

@BroadcastMoose Henderson is running the show (backwards as usual) 🤣🤣

I missed the 1st half as I was reporting on the U21’s. Have I missed much?

@BroadcastMoose No. Probably best sticking with the u21s

@Anders64M Hardly the authority, is he?

"President Donald Trump says Tiger Woods will not play in 2026 Masters" - Golfweek #SmartNews Trump says he won’t play in Masters then he has a car accident. l.smartnews.com/p-7pTnaESZ/Gtd…

@DominicKing_DM Maybe we could just laugh about it? 🤷🏼‍♂️

Everything about this is absolutely absurd. The huddle, it’s so obvious it’s a directive from the coaching team. Why doesn’t Tierney push them away or move out of the way? Well, for a starters, he’s got a camera on him.

@OllieHolt22 Surely we can just laugh about it. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I'm sorry but Chelsea make themselves look absurd with this kind of behaviour. Someone needs to get hold of these players. Their level of entitlement is off the scale.

@AskVirginMoney I did your job for you it’s ok. I checked out the website for reasons why it might not work, fixed it using one of the options. and now it’s working. Thanks for your service.

@SteveWardrec I understand. We aren't aware of any outages with our App at the moment, but I apologise for any inconvenience caused by this happening. If you can give our Mobile App team a call, they'll take a closer look and help to get you back into the App. ^MD

@AskVirginMoney I cannot access the app at the point of sign in. (New customer) Is the app down?

@AskVirginMoney Kind of defeats the object of the app. It’s 2026. We are all done with waiting on hold music for customer service people in Outer Mongolia. So you have NO IDEA why this is happening? It’s not happening to anyone else? You aren’t given ANY service issues to report??

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@AskVirginMoney It’s a credit card account. When I go online it says to use the app I’m using the app, but it says you have a problem. Tried again today. And it’s still not working. That’s without logging in any details.

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@sambillings Gets my vote. I’ve fallen out of love with 50 over cricket in every format, but it would have some sense and purpose through April. The only counter, is that I like that the current 50 over tournament bloods youth in August, and exposes some useful talent.

Well aware I’ll get heat for this but just my opinion… Play 50 over cricket at the start of the summer. Allows everyone to play it unless in IPL etc. Best format of the game to develop young players and physically prepare people for champ cricket… 10 over spells, batsmanship,

@legsidelizzy Yeah it’s not so flat after all!!

Both Cook and Swann were saying before play that 550 is what England should be getting on this pitch……

@ScotlandNT In theory it was a sacrilege that he only played 28 times, but it was a hell of a Scotland team

Our thoughts are with the family and friends of John Robertson, following his passing today. Capped 28 times, Robertson was also a double European Cup winner with Nottingham Forest.

@henrywinter Thank you Henry. Great tribute. It’s been a sad Xmas day remembering my hero growing up. He won’t go down as one of the greats, but his skill and achievement over a ripe 4-5 year period was remarkable. Clough will always get plaudits, but Robbo had to do it, and he did. ❤️

John Robertson: A tribute. The Nottingham Forest legend, who has passed away aged 72, was a joyous, skilful winger who made kids fall in love with the game and reminded adults what the game was really about: beating an opponent with skill and delivering. Above all, Robertson made the game look easy and made it fun to watch. Whatever the occasion. The Forest fans’ banner hanging from a fence at the Bernabeu at the 1980 European Cup final read simply: “Robbo Eats Hamburgers”. Forest’s opponents, Hamburg, boasted many talents, including Kevin Keegan, Felix Magath and also Manny Kaltz, the right wing-back who’d be up against the feared, two-footed winger “Robbo”. Asked about the celebrated Kaltz on the eve of the final, Brian Clough replied, “We’ve got a little fat guy that will turn him inside out – a very talented, highly skilled, unbelievable outside-left.” Robertson needed only 20 minutes to turn Kaltz and waltz through, exchange passes with Garry Birtles, and score the final’s only goal. Even a defender as good as Kaltz couldn’t handle Robertson. The “Picasso of our game” Clough called Robertson. His colourful brushstrokes vivified the green canvas of match-day. His distinctive flourishes in possession helped define the previous European Cup final against Malmo in Munich. Robertson picked up the ball on the left touchline, and nudged it forward with his right, feinting to go inside, confusing Malmo’s right-back, Roland Andersson. Robertson then drove for the line, catching out Andersson and also Robert Prytz, the midfielder racing back. At the last second, as the white of the goal-line loomed, Robertson lifted the ball across for a stooping Trevor Francis to head Forest to that 1979 victory. Andersson had represented Sweden at the World Cup the previous year. Within four weeks of succumbing to Robertson, Kaltz was winning Euro 1980 with West Germany. These were experienced, elite defenders. The joy of John Robertson was not simply the effortless way he eluded defenders of their calibre but that he delivered in major moments. Nothing fazed him. He took pressure, as well as the ball, in his stride. Robertson’s goal against Hamburg was one of 73 he scored in his career. The Scot delighted Forest fans with his trickery and the thrills he gave them but also because he brought trophies: those two European Cups, one League title, and two League Cups. It is no exaggeration to claim that if Robertson had been at a more fashionable club he’d have featured in European Footballer of the Year voting. He wasn’t even in the top 30 in 1979 (won by Keegan) or 1980 (won by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge). Kaltz came fourth and 10th. Robertson deserved some recognition, certainly in the top 10. He may not have been the greatest Nottingham Forest player of all time – but he was in the top one. Apologies for the reworking of Clough’s famous assessment of himself but it applies well to Robertson, one of his favourite players. It brings humour and fact. It also reflects his close association with Clough, who believed in Robertson and helped lift him to great heights. A 2015 fans’ poll by the Nottingham Post confirmed his place as Forest's greatest ever player. Robertson finished ahead of second-placed Stuart Pearce, then Des Walker, John McGovern and Peter Shilton. In the modern era where wingers are often considered a luxury not a staple, and all about speed as much as skill (and often inverted), it feels even more poignant to lament the sad passing of Robertson. He was two-footed for a start, so full-backs didn’t know which side he would go. He could go outside as Andersson learned to his cost in 1979 or come inside on his right, as Kaltz discovered painfully in 1980. Robertson was described as “scruffy, unfit”, not looking like a professional athlete, not least by Clough. “When you get the ball, just give it to the fat lad on the left,” Clough would tell the team. He was stocky more than fat. You don’t turn out for Forest on 243 consecutive occasions between 1976 and 1980 without fitness, fortitude and ability. But even with the occasional cigarette supplementing his diet, Robertson had more than enough to defeat a full-back, he had strength, trickery, enough of a dart to beat his man outside or on the inside as well as applying his game craft. He was a roving puzzle for opponents. It’s fitting to see many of the tributes coming in from Liverpool fans of a certain vintage who remember how Robertson so often took the game to their accomplished right-back, the experienced Phil Neal, of that great Liverpool side. One famous European Cup tie, the first leg against Liverpool in 1978, Robertson didn’t assist or score but those who were there at the City Ground remember one particular storming run down the left before cutting the ball back for Colin Barrett’s shot saved by Ray Clemence. Robertson made things happen. He was another from the dream factory of Drumchapel Amateurs that helped shape Sir Alex Ferguson, Eddie McCreadie, Archie Gemmill and John Wark. He represented Scotland in an era stocked with talent. Jock Stein’s 1982 World Cup squad included Kenny Dalglish, Gordon Strachan, Graeme Souness, Davie Provan and Robertson, amongst others. They didn't always see the best of him but he scored eight times in 28 internationals, including a penalty winner past Joe Corrigan to defeat England at Wembley in 1981. Humility was a word long associated with Robertson. Loyalty, too. Loyalty to Forest, and also loyalty to Martin O’Neill, who he played with at Forest and assisted everywhere from Wycombe Wanderers to Norwich City and Leicester City, from Celtic to Aston Villa - providing stellar service. What a player and coach John Robertson was, and what a wonderful character who will be much missed. RIP.