Steve Macdonald

I am under attack for saying Labour’s claims about getting immigration under control are fake. Because they are fake. The situation is horrendous, much worse than people know. Hundreds of thousands of rejected illegal migrants are still here. Deportations are a tiny fraction.

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🦁 Jamie Carragher on Thomas Tuchel selecting Marc Guehi over Harry Maguire and who's a real England player between them: 🗣️ “This is like the worst selection I’ve ever seen so far from an England national football team manager. I wouldn’t say TT is biased, I’ll just say he’s not thinking straight.” 🗣️ “I’m surprised and at the same time I’m not. He better do some magic with this team or he’ll go down as one of the worst managers the national team has seen.” 🗣️ " Look I'm goin' say this!!! Harry Maguire, who is English and Northern Irish… … has been demographically replaced in the England World Cup team by an African named ‘Addji Keaninkin Marc-Israel Guéh’ born in Ivory Coast. What’s the point in a ‘national’ football team if someone who is NOT from that nation can join? Maguire should play for England. Guéh should play for Ivory Coast. Common sense. I’m sure Maguire isn’t even allowed to contest this decision because, ‘no room for racism’. See I won’t call out other names, but just because a certain club won the Premier League doesn’t mean all their players should walk straight into your squad.” 🗣️ “Honestly, I’m disappointed with the selections. But Tuchel looks like one of those stubborn managers who believes strongly in what he’s doing, so now he has to prove everybody wrong.”

Massive part of my career and learning curve as a pro. Finishing 3rd in the *second to last season of the old First Division as a 19 year old was very cool too!!

Arsenal won the league less than a week ago and already it’s no longer a story Never known a less relevant league title win than this Literally no one cares.

Harry Maguire, who is English and Northern Irish… … has been demographically replaced in the England World Cup team by an African named ‘Addji Keaninkin Marc-Israel Guéh’ born in Ivory Coast. What’s the point in a ‘national’ football team if someone who is NOT from that nation can join? Maguire should play for England. Guéh should play for Ivory Coast. Common sense. I’m sure Maguire isn’t even allowed to contest this decision because, as his shirt says in the photo below, ‘no room for racism’.

Great thanks… tens of thousands of Arsenal fans gathered together in an outpouring of wondrous love on Tuesday night, including Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, and nobody cared what colour or creed anyone was.

Here's 11 of the BEST England players left out of England's 2026 World Cup squad... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❌ How far would this team go in the World Cup? 👀

Tuchel is insane

I’m biased of course but… WTF

Describe Enzo Maresca as a replacement for Pep Guardiola as Man City manager using ONE word... 👀👇

I don’t know a single person who voted for Brexit who thinks it was a mistake.

German referee Patrick Ittrich has suggested making the following changes to football's rules: 1) "For a tactical foul in midfield, a free-kick should be awarded 17 metres from goal. How often will we see such fouls then?" 2) "If the player rolls on the floor three times and needs a doctor, get him one and make him wait on the sideline for 3 minutes. How quickly do you think the player will stand up?" 3) "If a player insults the referee, send them off for 10 minutes to calm down. Go cycling to warm up before coming back in. We can learn from handball in that respect." 4) "How is a referee surrounded by 10 men after a decision? In my opinion, boom, boom, boom — three red cards. Play seven against ten now. That'd be fine by me."

VAR I enthusiastically welcomed it. Was sold on the higher percentage of right decisions so we could all go home knowing football justice had been done and we could concentrate on which player was crap instead. But I was wrong. Woefully and completely wrong. Waiting 5 minutes for a decision to be made alone means the system isn't fit for purpose. Why? Because I sat with TV producers who said everything would be wrapped up in 10-30 seconds. It has literally taken the spontaneous joy from the most important part of the game. A goal. Then, one thing completely blindsided me and many others. Subjectivity. I thought there would be science and a nailed on guarantee of a successfully and universally accepted decision. How wrong we were. Instead, arbitrary lines are drawn that simply can't with any certainty say whether a player is offside or not. So a human in a portacabin, 200 miles away only does what the referee can do, make a best guess. Likewise handballs, dives, any penalty decision to be honest. A subjective decision decided out of stadium allowing an increasingly small and poor refereeing pool a get out of jail free card. Instead of them making a shit decision and owning it, they just pass it on 200 miles away so 3 men in a portacabin can make a shit decision instead. Lunacy. For the love of the game, let's go back to investing in getting more referees, respecting them so that they join the trade and don't feel constantly abused. In short, treat them like rugby referees. Ultimate respect. Then, fuck VAR off, it's ruined the game, made it petty and chaotic, and taken that one ingredient that you simply can't replace, instantaneous joy. As a player and fan I accepted a referee making a bad decision in a game in the same way I accepted fucking up a shot or pass. We're all human. Let's get back to that, humans doing their best, everyone walks away from the ground accepting that and less unrealistic pressure put on officials to be perfect when perfection doesn't exist in any walk of life. VAR stinks. A system designed to help is a massive hindrance and it's about time pundits, fans, players, referees, clubs put pressure on authorities to get rid of it. We only need goal line tech, the rest can and should be refer refereed by humans making their best judgement. A best judgement that was over 98% right( audited fact pre VAR). Enough is enough, fuck it off.