Ben Charles 🇬🇧

@ToshMovie Agree … Let’s be honest, Tosh has done enough to warrant naming one of the stands after him.

Me and my Dad on our maiden visit to the new bar in town. Like it, but very disappointed there doesn't appear to be any picture of Tosh in the whole place. He should have a booth surely? 🦢🦢🦢⚽️⚽️⚽️

Scarlets fans blaming the ref, TMO, gravity, weather patterns and lunar alignment instead of accepting the Loss

@anishmoonka Motion controls emotion

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

@buddyforengland @AledSCFC 👏

@AledSCFC They support Swansea city who gives a fuck what flag they’ve got as long as they are Swansea City fans which quite clearly they are ffs

Ashamed to say that I sit very close to this nasty piece of rag. I'm probably in this photo as well 😔

@ToshMovie The irony is, that land they’re developing would’ve been perfect for a new stadium.

First glance looks like Beirut but look a little closer...

@henrywinter Henry, your sounding like a spokesman for the BBC

End of Football Focus. End of an era. No great surprise. Clashed with games, fixtures all over the place and people consume football content differently in a digital era. The Hand of Pod everywhere. Worth remembering that FF showcased plenty of great interviews, insight & talent over past 52 years 📺🙌

@fearon1964 @henrywinter Omg so true! I’ve said the same for so long !

@henrywinter BBC killed it by turning it into saturday version of loose women

@scfccarwyn @RhodriStraners Agree but it’s the same at every club now tbf

I think we need to end this culture of calling for managers’ heads over nothing. Fed up of people who can “see the signs”. Until it happens, I don’t care anymore. We need stability. We can’t continue this revolving door culture, or we’ll become a joke.

@JacotheNorth @WelshRugbyUnion @Plaid_Cymru Ahh at last the start of a proper conversation…it’s time to challenge the status quo

It's time to confront the serious problem of Jackism, the irrational fear of or hatred for Swansea people. We've seen it with 27 years of devolution favouring Cardiff; it reared its ugly head again with @WelshRugbyUnion plans; and this poison is present in @Plaid_Cymru Challenge the candidates standing in Senedd elections; ask if they'll make Jackism an offence.

@JordanWebber96 Who will ever forget that Burnley goal. Class on and off the field 👏

Fernando Llorente on Swansea City: “I haven’t been back since I left and I’d love to. It’s a place where I felt very loved. I hope Snoop Dogg helps them build a great team and great group so they can get promoted. For the club and the city, it would be incredible.” YJB. 🦢🇪🇸

@Briggsy1867 @gillyglasto Now that’s a shout!

@gillyglasto Would it not have been a better idea to have built on where St Helens is? Loads of space, by the sea and near where the old vetch was

#SwanseaCity fans. This is from a TikTok page called Visualabs. They do CGI mock ups of new stadia. Obviously won’t happen but imagine this where the civic centre is. Glass backed stands overlooking the sea. More or less opposite the old Vetch. Oof yes please #Jacks #Swans

@JacotheNorth @LesleyClar28715 @GlamCricket @WelshGovernment @WelshRugbyUnion @ospreys @SwanseaRFC I remember Brendan Hanrahan , then acting editor of the south wales Evening Post was very vocal too … Didn’t they give us the national pool as a consolation prize?

There was a 'contest', which Swansea Guildhall won. Then Ron Davies said, 'Having the Welsh Assembly in Swansea would undermine Cardiff's status as capital city'! So why have a contest? The decision had been made that the Assembly would go to the Bay, as a consolation prize for Nick Edwards and Associated British Ports, who'd lost out on the Opera House and the new national stadium. Here's something I wrote at the time. drive.google.com/file/d/0B4K4SZ…

For 30 years or more Swansea has been losing out to Cardiff-based and Cardiff-centric bodies. @GlamCricket, @WelshGovernment, now @WelshRugbyUnion. To the point where I would be quite happy to see @ospreys or @SwanseaRFC join the English system.

A city’s identity isn’t built on one team alone take away diversity in sport, and you take away its heartbeat. #swansea

@ospreylian3 Yes, I’m guessing until we get assurances from the WRU regarding our long term future, it will be a phased approach.

By the sounds of it St Helen’s next season won’t be like the one we were expecting. There’s no mention of covering the terrace or no mention of the pitch being moved. Just a 4G pitch and one stand is mentioned - presumably the Worcester one. It’s still great news though.

Fair play to Rob Stewart this feels like a “take control of our own future” moment. The uncertainty around rugby hasn’t gone away, but instead of sitting in limbo, they’re building something that works for the city regardless. Risky? Yes. Needed? Also yes. #Ospreys

@jackjiffy @ianroberts52 That’s great news! Hopefully the catalyst for more redevelopment

Westminster government pledging £20 million towards the Civic Centre redevelopment. Good news 🦢🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

@CelticWarrior_3 @AledSCFC Tbf Tony, Rob Stewart is very pro active in developing the City unlike previous regimes

@AledSCFC Unfortunately we’ve Swansea council to deal with 🧐

This will do wonders for the city. The money and the exposure this will bring will be mental

@henrywinter Hopefully common sense prevails

Sheffield Wednesday are one of the oldest football clubs in the world, their famous name woven into the tapestry of the game. Formed in 1867, elected to the Football League in 1892, founder members of the Premier League, four times champions of England, three times winners of the FA Cup, and the League Cup once. Such honours may be far back in history but Wednesday remain a powerful force in many lives, in families, communities, in Sheffield and beyond. It would be devastating to Wednesday supporters and deeply damaging to the reputation of English football if Wednesday lost their membership of the EFL because of the behaviour of an owner in Dejphon Chansiri who passed initial EFL ownership tests, was welcomed (let’s not forget), but turned out to be shamelessly irresponsible. Wednesday fans fear the club's existence might be at risk if the EFL imposes further punishments and restrictions that deter potential buyers. Stronger oversight of owners is clearly required and the EFL and PL did tighten their rules in 2023. The new Independent Football Regulator will introduce a proper licensing system for clubs and better oversight of owners. Unfortunately, the IFR did not come into force early enough to prevent Wednesday's downward slide under Chansiri. Wednesday are currently in administration and threatened with further EFL sanctions – a 15-point deduction for next season. This season's 18-point deduction all but guaranteed relegation from the Championship (confirmed on Feb 22). The League applies sanctions as punishment for debts and also as a deterrent to other clubs/owners. The EFL emphasises it is working with all parties to “try and find a solution that can see Sheffield Wednesday continue as a member of the League....but ultimately we have to also apply the terms of the League’s insolvency policy…which seeks to balance the interests, not only of Sheffield Wednesday, but also of the other 71 clubs”. Sheffield Wednesday Supporters' Trust, fighting hard for their club’s survival, has now released a copy of the EFL’s insolvency policy and argues that it gives the League, in the Trust’s words, “absolute discretion when determining how to deal with clubs experiencing an insolvency event”. The Trust argues that “…further punitive sanctions risk undermining the very factors the EFL states it must consider - including the effect on supporters, the impact on the local community and the wider credibility of the league itself. “Sheffield Wednesday supporters are not seeking advantage over other clubs. It is entirely right that all EFL clubs should be treated fairly and consistently. That principle must include Sheffield Wednesday that has already suffered enormously during a decade in which the EFL’s own regulatory oversight failed to prevent the damage that unfolded. “We urge the EFL to apply its own guidance responsibly and ensure that the focus now is on allowing the club to recover, stabilise and move forward under new ownership. Sheffield Wednesday supporters have suffered enough.” #SWFC #EFL @SWFCTrust

@JordanWebber96 Voice of reason again Jordan 👏

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course, but I do think it’s very reactionary from those to be questioning Vitor Matos after last night. We were relegation threatened when he arrived. Yesterday, there was talk about fighting for a play-off spot and going 7th. Done brilliant since he’s come in. Give him a full pre-season, and to put his own stamp on the squad in the summer window, and we’ll be good to go under him. Vitor Matos’ barmy army. 🦢🇵🇹

And we were singing…🎶