Justin Campbell

@martynware The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin sums it up beautifully 😊

When I was little in the cubs in Sheffield, Whit Monday was a day of a big parade with banners and brass bands from all over the city ending up in Weston Park It was a very big deal for the community…

@rv_southern @AnthonyTeasdale It’s in the small bar in between the main bar and the “lounge” bar. Look above the bar 😊 share.google/images/K8ixZxz…

@jnc71 @AnthonyTeasdale Do they really? Never knew that

This, as you can see, is the greatest map in the history of the world. At Manchester Victoria station.

@ALANMYERSMEDIA And he was punched in the face as he connected with the ball!

Talking the other day about this goal and Rideout’s header is so underrated, to get that power from a standing position, unexpected off the bar, places it precisely, deserves more credit than it gets 👏👏

@prodnose Port holes

These are the spies identified from the Southampton scandal. They have not been seen since Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - and they dragged the plot of that down too.

@PolitlcsUK What a fantastic top 👏

🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham goes for a run after announcing his plans to return to Parliament

@For_Film_Fans Great but flawed

Prime Connery, Caine & Huston — with added Plummer & Kipling. If you haven’t yet, you bloody well should. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975)

@prodnose @PaulHeatonSolo Aka you got it wrong

@PaulHeatonSolo Your choice of ancient album title has always fixed a certain Tiger-ishness in my mind. I know you haunt Bramall Lane but its is like knowing Joey Ramone is from Oregon.

40 years ago today- my very first recorded album- London 0 Hull 4 was finished and here in the diary I wrote a rough idea for the track order

@Mike_Batt Matching glasses

With one’s daughter Hayley Jane before she plays (bass) at the O2 with Conan Gray! (Hooray)

@henrywinter Not sure about that Henry. I think it’s more to do with slanted mindset from the fans.

Liverpool fans’ success in getting the club to re-think elements of their ticketing strategy will resonate across football. Most clubs have done their ticketing announcements but will note Liverpool’s climbdown. Fans of other clubs will see that well-organised protests work, especially those designed for maximum exposure and embarrassment. Others already have: West Ham fans conducted a successful campaign over the club’s attack on concessions. Some boards’ behaviour, treating crowds as cash cows, is offensive and counter-productive. It’s wrong for boards to ignore that many fans are hurting given the cost-of-living crisis. It’s wrong to go for multi-year increases. It’s morally wrong and commercially naïve to alienate your most loyal fans. Respect them and they will spend more in the store. Think. It’s hypocritical when clubs emerged from lockdown, and the soulless, soundless games behind closed doors, promising to appreciate fans more. They did - for a while. It’s also stupid of boards to price out fans who generate the backdrop in sound and vision that TV pays fortunes for. Fans are part of the Premier League spectacle. Tourists are good for the club shop but not for atmosphere. Fans should lobby broadcasters to make clubs see sense. Clubs brief that hikes are required to cover fees and wages of the stars that fans crave, to improve facilities in the stadium and to guard against PSR breaches. It’s spin. Liverpool would be generating only a reported £1.5m to £2m extra a year from the original planned increases at a club which spent £33m on agents’ fees in a year. That raked in £174.9m from Premier League prize money. That had revenue of £703m last year. Liverpool fans, ably organised and mobilised by Spirit of Shankly, firmly made their point to club owners Fenway Sports Group with banners “FSG GR££D” and “NO TO TICKET PRICE INCREASES” along the bottom of the Kop during the recent Crystal Palace game. Fans held up yellow cards (75,000 were printed apparently) carrying messages about Fenway. Pictures were immediately posted on social media and beamed by TV around the world. Messaging is instant nowadays. The campaign was sophisticated. Organisers also targeted club coffers with their “not a pound in the ground” campaign to encourage fans to spend their match-day money away from Anfield. During games, they chanted “you greedy b*st*rds, enough is enough”. It was a PR disaster for FSG and the club. And probably expensive financially given fans’ snubbing of in-stadium outlets. A club historically celebrated for its bond with fans looked unthinking and unfeeling. It needs acknowledging that, overall, John W Henry and FSG have proved good owners – they’ve redeveloped Anfield, added to the squad and to the trophy cabinet. But they occasionally fail to read the room. They fail to listen to good advice. They have made this mistake fairly spectacularly before – on the high ticket prices in the redeveloped Main Stand in 2016, seeing 12,000 fans walk out during a game in protest, and backing the European Super League in 2021, bringing a backlash from fans (and players). They backtracked on both. Now they have spoken to fans, heard the concerns and made a U-turn. GA prices will rise 3% for 26/27, but are frozen for 27/28, instead of three seasons fixed to inflation. Clubs have to understand that many fans are feeling the pinch, that even the movement of a kick-off time has a knock-on effect to travel plans and costs, that even geo-politics affects those driving to games with petrol more expensive. Fans are also having to pay for more subscription channels. A club’s own costs would be slightly more manageable if they were collectively more sensible in resisting wage inflation – make salaries even more performance-related - and more clubs made the pathway easier from academy to first team. And listen to fans’ groups before risking own goals. You’re on the same side. #LFC

@For_Film_Fans Wordsworth called them “spots in time”

The late great JAMES STEWART tells Michael Parkinson in 1973 why IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) was the favourite of all of his Films.

@Jacob_A_Webb Superb film

I’ve never seen this film. I am about to correct that mistake.

@ATRightMovies Master and Commander

@Claire_journo @HookyP

The Pier... Wigan How amazing is this??? Incredible model of the iconic nightclub. It was demolished 12 years ago, nothing of it remains... but thanks to Mike Mahoney, who made this from looking at photos... you can still see what it was like 😎 #wigan #history

@GAltringham I don’t recognise this crap AI image

Contact (1997) - A coworker recommended this movie. Should I watch it? 🤔

@KubrickPoint Other than the strobe sequence the film is amazing

Every sci-fi film is trying to be this. None have come close.

@markpougatch 🙄

Football reporters should never ever, ever, ever use the word ‘disaster’ in relation to giving a goal away. We’ve just marked the Hillsborough tragedy. Check your language. Do much better.

@LiverpoolVista I don’t want it to “drop” or deviate from the original version

The new Z-Cars theme that's dropping tomorrow at the Everton v Liverpool Derby game is a surprise. #EFC #LFC

@RealEmirHan Midsommar is inferior in so many ways

The Wicker Man (1973) is simply the more haunting version of Midsommar. Sergeant Howie is lured in, trapped, and becomes the final sacrifice by pagans, his last words: “Jesus Christ.” Studio once proposed a rain rescue ending but it was rejected.

@Mike_Batt @DianeHaywood71 Can we hear the song?

I was asked by the producers to write a signature song for this series (it was the next thing made by the same producers as the Wombles) but before hearing my song, the writer, Michael Bond told them he didn’t want there to be a Paddington song. The series was lovely without it, directed by Wombles director, Ivor Wood.

Such a lovely part of my childhood