Chris Carver

This is a younger me

This applies to all clubs- fans are the club

@Chris7717364468 And the cushions

Early sixties Peter Swan and Barry Bridges of Chelsea in action at Hillsborough Renember those lovely wooden seats in the North and also when prices for centre stand were more expensive than the wings

@RebelHQ @afneil The original straw in the wind

@afneil Is he a Blairite or a Corbynite? He sat on both front benches so it's hard to know. Appointing Josh Simmons as policy adviser when he gets to No.10 as he has offered Josh, probably says a lot though - he used to be policy adviser to Corbyn.

Nice to hear from you, Andy. Thanks for the by election. We live for such things. I’m in no doubt life is tough for lots of folk in Makerfield. But it’s hardly a poster child for urban squalor/deprivation. Thatcher left power in 1990. She was followed by seven years of unThatcher Major and 13 years of Labour government, of which you were a part. So it’s quite a stretch to blame her for any continuing woes. Unless we blame Labour for failing to put anything right. On the other hand the houses you were walking past were bought by the tenants under Thatcher’s right to buy scheme, which has given them some pride in place and some wealth they once could only have dreamt of accumulating. I assume your pledge to ‘renationalise housing’ does not include taking these homes back into public ownership ... even if that would constitute a proper, radical reversal of the Thatcherism you’re (some what bizarrely) campaigning against.

Our 5 day cycle trip across Korea curtailed because of forecast bad weather. We squeezed 4 planned days into 3, 160 km covered, not bad for 77yo! Luxury bus back to Seoul very welcome, only £8.50 for a 130 mile journey.

@HACKETTREF And still we don’t have a clear pathway for ex pros to become refs

Henry we Refs had to attend meetings and were given a very clear message of the challenges that were unacceptable

@Pott_Shrigley_ Our next door neighbour worked there when I was a kid in the 50s and 60s. Each Friday she would come home with a big jar of liquorice allsorts and invite my brother and I in to have one each!

Working at George Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts Factory at Hillsborough in 1967. #Sheffield

@swfc_1867 @Dunsbyowl Torrential rain is understating it!

Paging @Dunsbyowl 15 Oct 1983. My first ever away game. Do you know if Mark Hately played for #pompey? Dad and my uncle can not remember. I remember the torrential rain and Gary Megson scoring the winner.

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.

@henrywinter I went there for a national league play off final a few years ago and hated it. I was shocked how dilapidated it was then. This week I have been to 4 World Cup stadiums in Korea and they are all still in excellent nick, although one had the dreaded running track!

Karren Brady’s promise of “a world-class team in a world-class stadium” rings even more hollow now. West Ham United should never have moved to a soulless public athletics track. Great move for the board but not for the fans. Leaving Upton Park made sense for commercial reasons but not sporting/atmosphere. Daniel Levy was right. The Olympic Stadium should have been knocked down and a proper football stadium built there. It is a good site. But the Olympic lobby and politicians got all protective and precious about the 2012 legacy. How often does this country need a huge athletics arena anyway? Yes, West Ham won a European trophy since they’ve left Upton Park. But London Stadium was always a problem, always a passion-killer, fans distant from the ones they love, the players, and limited potential for increased revenue streams. Other reasons behind club’s demise. Lack of leadership in the boardroom. Recruitment an issue, too. What a mess. Record losses, fears over future of Fernandes, Summerville and Nuno, intensified protests against chairman Sullivan.   Relegation likely. Two points adrift of safety following 3-1 defeat to Newcastle. Wretched goal difference (-22) compared to Spurs’ (-9). Spurs need only a point from Chelsea away (hard) or David Moyes’ Everton at home to guarantee survival and condemn West Ham. Can Moyes do West Ham a favour? The club who let him go. West Ham need to beat ex-Spur Joe Rodon and Leeds at home anyway. West Ham look doomed to the drop. They will return but need better ownership. And many of their fans have been warning of this perfect storm for some time. #WHUFC

@nig_L @wedwarehouse1 More likely 1950s

@wedwarehouse1 Didn't look like that in 1986!!!

Framed image of Hillsborough in 1986 versus 1996 after its upgrade ⭐️💙🦉 #SheffieldWednesday #football #museum #Kelhamisland wednesdaywarehouse.com

@Pott_Shrigley_ Bell street?

Looks familiar, but where?

@richardrccrooks It’s a big fat pay cheque for the refs!

Television are the only beneficiaries of VAR…they would be the big losers if it went….they pay the money…..the fans at the ground who want rid of VAR are secondary at best

Made to feel my age tonight: a young lady offered me her seat on the Seoul metro

@ivormorson Yes

@caistorowl Is this game in the top tier?

Final stop on mini #swfc tour of Korea, Daejon Hanacitizen v FC Seoul. My 12th Korean ground

Yes a d Seoul are top

There won’t be many of these in S Korea

@Dunsbyowl You’re just giving him his inheritance early and they can’t tax it now

Just renewed mine & my son's #swfc season tickets - I wonder when he will start paying for it himself ?😉still treasure one of my first, for a season 50 years ago with my old Dad in the Upper West Stand - was £16.00 for the season🤣 #UTO

@YesWeCrann Status of Club 1867 members?