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@Frencheconomics #tailendersoftheworlduniteandtakeover

Last pre-season warmup at Long Marston, and somewhat incredulously watching the rain satellite….

@Raismango @Paul83608330411 @indykaila @LFC Thats it, it was so bad they sacked him after 6months. Not saying this isn't bad, just those 6months were worse.

@duncs23cherrett @Paul83608330411 @indykaila @LFC Hodgson was like 6 months ffs We’ve been doing this shit for a year

Exclusive 💣 We understand that Liverpool's owners and football operations team will meet on Tuesday to discuss the crisis at the club. Liverpool will ask Xabi Alonso once again whether he is willing to cut short his break from football to manage the club and replace Arne Slot. There are mixed views on bringing Steven Gerrard in as temporary manager until the summer, and it will require convincing certain officials at the club.

@Paul83608330411 @indykaila @LFC You clearly weren't there during the Hodgson shambles. This is bad, but that was a proper low.

@indykaila @LFC I’m seriously had enough of this club. Been by there side since the 80s I’ve never seen us as pathetically shit. With absolutely no idea. Can’t stand slot, as a person and manger. They players need seriously looking at the mentality is shoddy. Buying a player on stick BOTheend

@bbcsport @bbc #bbcolympics Where's your Today at the Games highlights show? Not cool, its was always one of the best ways to catch up in everything we missed during the day 😔

"Jesus saved my life from the beginning" Gabriel Jesus

The Adoration of the Maga. A few thoughts. It all felt a step too far by Gianni Infantino. The award of the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize felt more to do with its president’s desire to please powerful politicians as much as Donald Trump’s love of such glitzy, expensive offerings of loyalty last seen in medieval courts. It felt more about politics than sport, a risky game for Fifa to play whenever it wants to bring a national association into line for perceived interference by government in the future. The Trump trophy weakens Fifa statutes. It also distracted from the real trophy, the World Cup, and the group-stage draw, traditionally a celebration about bringing countries together. Infantino took his eye off the balls. A football draw designed to work out who plays who and (eventually) where and when is not the time or place for such politics. Infantino wasn’t speaking for the world in bestowing the Peace Prize, as he claimed. So presumptuous. So out of touch. Many probably agree that Trump has been a force for good in geopolitics, some might disagree. Most would probably feel such decisions should be left to experienced experts like the Nobel Committee and, please, can we get on with a football draw. It’s spectacularly naïve or simply arrogant for Fifa to enter such non-football areas. It feels more and more that this was as much an Infantino initiative as Fifa’s. Infantino was supposed to drain the swamp when he arrived at Fifa in 2016 in the wake of assorted corruption scandals bedevilling the governing body of world football. How fitting that the nadir of Infantino’s propensity for self-aggrandisement as leader of what’s supposed to be a team game came in Washington. It was there that Trump promised to transform politics with his “drain the swamp” rhetoric, also in 2016. The selfie moment was particularly cringe-worthy. Infantino forgets that football is the star of the show, not a 55-year lawyer. A senior football executive, who’s been at the heart of the English and European game for more than 20 years, messaged me during the drawn-out draw with his verdict on Infantino. “I feel revulsion, anger, shame, disgust – how has our sport been taken over by a Swiss ***** and turned into a total travesty???” He also pointed out that ensuring the leaders of USA, Mexico and Canada each somehow pulled out their own country’s name was not a good look for a draw based on chance. Great for the cameras, though. Flash, bang, wallop, what a picture of Infantino's priorities. And who gets the next FIFA Peace Prize? And wouldn't Infantino have gained more respect had he used the money for the Trump trophy to subsidise excessive ticket costs? He's lost sight of what should be the real priorities for the leader of football. The game. It's sad, really. Many sensible people work at Fifa, passionate about the game not their own ego, but it's alarming what happens to the leadership when they take power there. Even the great football manager Arsene Wenger has changed since becoming Chief of Global Football Development at Fifa. He now campaigns for more games, backing the expanded World Cup, which he would have railed against as a widely-admired, free-thinking club manager, fiercely protective of his players' well-being. "I believe that 48 teams is the right number." Arsene, just listen to yourself. Many fans probably won’t lose much sleep that Wenger dances to Fifa's tune or that Infantino cosies up to Trump, Aramco and co. Some probably think Fifa’s a video game. Most just can’t wait for the football. The game’s about Mbappe and Messi, Haaland and Salah, Kane and Dembele, not Infantino and Trump. The game’s about the Tartan Army, the brilliant Mexican following, the ever-hopeful English, the mobile carnival of Brazilians and the millions of other fans flocking to venue cities next summer, only a third with tickets. The USA is prepared for the party. I covered USA 94 and you couldn’t really tell there was a tournament on, certainly where I was in Detroit, Chicago and DC. You will this time, also in Canada. Mexico's total immersion was never in doubt given their passion for the game. Infantino should remember this. He runs a great football organisation, not a political organisation. He needs to re-focus. Fifa is undeniably a force for good in many countries. The Fifa Foundation runs a new community programme that supports 154,924 people in 54 nations. Its new Digital Education Programme works on computer literacy amongst disadvantaged groups, helping them into the workplace. It’s easy to say it’s all about Infantino (Foundation board president), soft power and ensuring he keeps countries onside, voting for him, but the Foundation undeniably changes lives. Infantino needs to look at his Adoration of the Maga and remember what he should be doing for football: serving it, not himself. #FIFAWorldCup.

@TransferSite Would help if your AI could get the right Gary 🤣🤦

🔥 Exeter City is on FIRE! 🔥 Gary Caldwell's magic touch has led them to 3 wins in 6 games! 🚀 Midfield maestros Brierley & Doyle-Hayes are unstoppable, dominating the pitch! ⚽️ Can they keep this momentum going? 👀 #ExeterCity #GaryCaldwell

@jaybothroyd spot on tonight, you're right Var seems to change its stance week in week out about whether to get the ref to go to a screen or not.The ultimate decision is is it a goal or not,people just want the right decision so they should always go to a screen to make sure.

RT if you agree @SkyNews should have included the clip where Farage gets lambasted!

Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with" JR then demolishes Farage, ending with "You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"

Let's make this video famous. Let's make sure @Nigel_Farage is shown to everyone be the fraud he is. Let's make sure @BBCNews @SkyNews @Channel4News @itvnews allkeep showing this on repeat! Retweet! Retweet! Retweet!

Congress did its homework on Nigel Farage:

Teach you how to shoot high-end photography 🤩💓

Today’s Chelsea Vs Fulham game today is the worst example of VAR getting it completely wrong and ruining the game I have ever seen. #Chelsea #CHEFUL

@fa_pgmol sort your refereeing out, cant work out if its incompetence or deliberate but the decision making from var is an absolute disgrace. You've ruined the game. #scrapvar #CHEFUL

Marco Silva is absolutely being cheated openly, from Chelsea getting a corner after eight minutes of added time, and VAR staying quiet when Bassey got fouled vs Man Utd Enough’s enough. VAR is supposed to help fix the game better not create new ones. #Chelsea #CHEFUL

Nigel Farage: "I have no idea." The Reform leader was across the details on Laura Kuenssberg this morning.

Seems odd what happened on pitch at City Ground given that a blind trust was set up to run Nottingham Forest a couple of weeks ago which removed Marinakis from control. So in theory he had no right to be anywhere near the playing surface.

Staggeringly misleading & irresponsible article by @Daily_Express online. Neither I nor my site've ever said that. It's a perversion of our "earn under £35k & it's worth checking a benefits calc to see if you're missing out on owt" into dangerous, trite clickbait.

$VANRY @Vanarchain solid so far