Chris Lamb

A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do in your life. Miss my boy xx

Just a reminder: if you’re planning on attending the Everton coach meet & greet tomorrow, please remember that pyros and smoke canisters are dangerous, illegal to set off, and can cause breathing difficulties for other supporters. #EFC #nopyrobutparty @The1878s @EFC_FanAdvisory

@stevejamesLFC @RBMersey Has he been living rent free in your head since lol

@RBMersey @chocoranges You lot should have been kicked out of the league for bribing Hans Segars in 1994. One of the most disgraceful examples of match fixing ever seen.

This is the punishment for 36 undisclosed payments worth £47.5m over 11 years relating to player transfers. Reminder: the Premier League wanted Everton deducted 12 points for a £19.5m FFP overspend and didn’t think a fine was a suitable punishment

In 1969, eight men launched a lifeboat into a storm and never came home. But the price they paid changed maritime history forever.... It was the evening of 17 March, a south-easterly gale had been battering Scotland’s coast for days. Waves were reaching 60 feet. Then the call came. The SS Irene, a 2,600-ton cargo ship, was powerless and drifting towards the jagged rocks off the Caithness coast. She needed help. Immediately. At 7:29pm, the first warning reached Longhope, Orkney. The maroons were fired at 7:40pm. Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick did not hesitate. At 59 years old, he had been with the Longhope lifeboat since 1940 and was one of the RNLI’s most decorated lifeboatmen, already honoured for multiple rescues before that final launch. He knew the Pentland Firth was one of the most dangerous stretches of water in the world. He knew the conditions that night were completely lethal. But someone needed help. He made the call: they were launching. And he would take an extra crew member, eight men instead of the usual seven. At 8pm, the lifeboat T.G.B. slid down the slipway at Brims on Hoy and headed out into the roaring darkness. Among the crew were: • Daniel Kirkpatrick (Coxswain) and his two sons, John and Ray • Robert Johnston (Mechanic) and his two sons, James and Robert • James Swanson (Assistant Mechanic) • Eric McFadyen (just 24 years old) Three families. Eight volunteers. At 9:28pm, they radioed their position. They were making agonising progress through the monstrous swells towards the Irene. It was the last time anyone ever heard from them. The next morning, Orkney woke to a suffocating silence. Word arrived that the Irene had been driven onto the rocks, but her entire crew had been miraculously pulled to safety by the Coastguard using ropes from the cliffs. But there was no word from Longhope. Massive search parties were launched. RAF helicopters scoured the water. Lifeboats from Stronsay, Stromness, Kirkwall and Thurso joined the hunt. Then, at 1:40pm on 18 March, the Thurso lifeboat found something. The T.G.B. Capsized. Four miles south-east of Tor Ness. When they finally towed her into Scrabster Harbour that evening, they discovered the horrifying truth. Seven of the eight men were still strapped into their seats inside the upturned hull. All had drowned. James Swanson’s body was swept away and never found. The official inquiry concluded they had been hit by a freak wave, possibly 100 feet high, which overwhelmed the vessel. The community lost a third of its population in one night. The men left behind seven widows, one widowed mother and eight children. But in moments like this, the UK showed what it was made of. A massive radio appeal raised the modern equivalent of millions of pounds. Six hundred miles away, deep in the English countryside of Gloucestershire, a village heard the news on the radio. Its name was also Longhope. Bound by nothing but a shared name on a map, the English village immediately mobilised, sending money, support and toys for the children, forging a bond that remains unbroken today. And within a week, even before the funerals had taken place, local Orkney men stepped forward to form a completely new crew. Because the lifeboat station was never going to close. The disaster helped change lifeboat design forever. T.G.B. was a 47-foot Watson-class lifeboat, and she could not self-right after capsizing. In the years that followed, self-righting designs became central to the RNLI’s newer lifeboats. Salvaged and refurbished, T.G.B. later returned to service in Arranmore, Donegal, rescuing more lives before retiring in 1979. Today, she is preserved at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine. Kevin Kirkpatrick, who lost his father, uncle and grandfather in the disaster, later became coxswain himself. He has since retired, and today the station is led by Scott Johnston, grandson of James Johnston. © Scottish Banter #archaeohistories

PSR breaches get significant sporting sanctions. Undisclosed payments that involve “deception and concealment” get insignificant fines. Why? Column. open.substack.com/pub/henrywinte…

How does a firm which has charged extortionate fees for parking, for years go into administration? I think that's a rhetorical question really.

I think any progressive and ambitious Premier League club should now spend whatever they like and push the boundaries way past compliance. Because if you only receive a paltry fine for adding players who materially helped you win trophies then it's worth it. Was massively pro spending rules but clubs illegal spending prior to PSR isn't being punished at all and I bet those clubs are pissing themselves, all while clubs with the money to compete with them today are having to audit every fucking toilet roll, with promising home grown players being horsetraded like meat in order to comply with PSR. Clubs and supporters should always support rules which protect our clubs from themselves at times, but dishing out fines that some clubs can find from the back of the boardroom sofa while directly profiting from the players "illegally" purchased makes a mockery of the system.

Points Deductions: Everton 10 Leicester 6 Notts Forest 4 Juventus 15 Sheffield Wed 12 Reading 18 Rangers FC 10 Portsmouth 10 Chelsea £10m fine… 🥴

@gjl78 @leedsrhinos @Wakefield @OfficialBullsRL @WiganWarriorsRL Crazy

@leedsrhinos and @wakefield currently on hold due to a power cut.

We have been made aware of a distressing image doing the rounds today, suggesting Tottenham have beaten us 3-1. This has clearly been photoshopped, and we will be taking this up with the relevant authorities. Even we'd beat Spurs...

Jordan Pickford. That is outrageous 😍 #NEWEVE

@Lea_EFC Shibblywibbly

Describe Everton in ONE WORD or GIF

@stuartpykesport I thought it was a great pairing last night. Despite you both being massive Saints fans it never came across that way and it was very well balanced. Long may it continue.

It was me and her! Super League thriller as Saints beat Leigh on Sky Sports. It has been a terrific start to the new season 🏉

@ClarksonsFarm1 Good plan

When asked about the current state of the BBC, Clarkson said: “Bring all of the nation’s broadcasters together under one massive Union flag umbrella. Make fewer, more expensively produced shows and put them on the Beeb’s iPlayer, which remains one of the best bits of tech in the business. ‘And then people can watch them whenever they want.’” He also wants traditional scheduled television scrapped and the licence fee slashed to just a “tenner”, so viewers only pay for BBC News and Radio 4.

@Rod_Studd And Mr Clegg. He facilitated it.

If you happen to see Mr Cameron or Mr Farage thank him ever so much for that won’t you??!

What will be will be.

@MegWellensX He's brilliant and would fit into any team. Gutted he is going if he is. Hearing lots of rumours and hoping they're not true about what's happened. Very very disappointing if they are true. Mark is a Saints legend and that will never change.

The whole Mark Percival saga is quite the intriguing one to watch unfold and I find this debate about him being injury ridden a slight myth. Yes he has had injuries, no getting away from that, but over the past 3 seasons he has averaged 22 appearances for Saints. And on his age: He and Nene McDonald are the same age (31) and McDonald is on a two-year deal.

@grale22 @LivEchoEFC Looks that way. I like him. Why have a left back not playing when you've dropped your consistent choice for left back. What statement is that sending to Aznou. Not aware that he is injured. Doesn't make any sense that.

@LivEchoEFC Going out on loan?.

The summer signing is not in today's squad despite Vitalli Mykolenko's absence liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football…

@ClarksonsFarm1 Tea

Settle an argument for us, Coffee or Tea?☕️