Mark CE
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@PahlaviReza As a European I am ashamed of my leaders and journalists, thank you for this message.
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@JotaBelieveIt No I think all the way back to last summer they've given him a free pass for this season because of Jota, but he hasn't done enough to merit a new contract. I wonder if they've told him, convince us by December.
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@RealTimVine so you arent allowed near kids to get them to show you google maps?
type in the address and look
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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar recently called for Keir Starmer to resign. With five weeks until the Scottish Parliament elections, does he stand by what he said?
@michaelgove | @AnasSarwar
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I don’t blow my own trumpet as it’s not my style or the style for people from the city of Liverpool, but we are allowed to defend ourselves!
There has only been three CB’s from LFC to make the PFA TOTY in the PL era, VVD, Sami & me!!
The year was 2005/6 when the PL CB’s were…….
Parted Beard@PartedBeard
Carragher was Henderson of his time. A loud leader that pushed teammates to be better. Overall he was an average CB with outstanding moments like Istanbul after 1st half. Because he is a famous pundit and a local lad he is overrated by local fans. PFA Team Of The Year once.
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@SimonBrundish Interesting if true but where's the data needed to prove the key point?
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@davidlynchlfc Slot's only tactic is try to draw the other team out, then play through them. Last night's opposition didn't need inviting.
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@Livin_Liverpool It's the colour of the kit. None of the players can see where any of the other players are.
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Anyone understands the tactics behind this style of play?
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My monologue on what the new world order means for Britain, from @TimesRadio today:
For those of you who’ve not yet copped that we’re at a watershed in global politics I suggest you have a read of Mark Carney’s speech in Davos yesterday. It’s not often a Canadian prime minister charts a seminal change in world politics. But Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England, has.
This is the key passage:
“Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. And as a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions—that they must develop greater strategic autonomy: in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains. And this impulse is understandable. A country that can’t feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself.”
Coming from a fully-paid up member of the liberal global elite, this is dynamite. Carney says the era of global integration is over and that what he calls ‘middle powers’, like Canada and the UK, who benefitted from it and got used to working through global institutions — like the WTO, the UN, COP, NATO, the EU — need to realise the game is up.
If you can’t feed, fuel and defend yourself in this new world of rupture you’re finished. So these are his priorities for Canada. He’s junked a lot of his net zero baggage to increase Canada’s energy security. He’s moving from multilateral to bilateral deals he thinks will benefit Canada, most recently with China. And he’s doubling spending on defence.
The British government should take stock. Carney’s world of rupture has been brought about by Donald Trump’s wrecking ball approach to the rules-based world order that has served us so well these past 80 years.
It’s played into the hands of the autocrats of Moscow, Beijing and elsewhere who want to replace that world order with a system far more attuned to their interests. Trump is obliging them.
Food. Fuel. Defence. These are Carney’s watchwords for a scary new world in which middle powers need to seek strategic autonomy when old alliances and multinational institutions no longer work. They should guide British policy too.
We need to be able to feed ourselves better. To be able to count on cheap, secure sources of energy. And to be able to defend ourselves from multiple and growing threats. At the moment the Starmer government is doing none of the above.
Instead it is lumbering business with the most expensive energy costs in the world and households with the second or third most expensive domestic energy in the world.
It is pursuing a multi-billion pound dash to net zero while adding only a few crumbs to the defence budget.
And it’s covering good farming land with solar panels.
It would be hard to think of a set of policies less designed to give us the strategic autonomy Carney thinks middle powers must strive for.
Britain needs a step change in its energy, food and defence policies. The billions earmarked for net zero need to be diverted to rearming the nation.
We need an energy policy that couples secure supplies with lower prices so that we can start to rebuild some of our heavy industry, essential to defence.
And we need a farm policy that champions growing food once more rather than prioritising various fashionable environmental wheezes.
None of this is likely to happen under the Starmer government. The PM has no vision or aptitude for such a strategy. His party is a prisoner to old 20th century ways of thinking, as is much of British politics on the left and right.
But unless the Carney challenge is recognised and policy changed in radical ways to meet it, we risk not only further economic decline in the rest of this decade but growing vulnerability to the evil intent of our enemies. And without America at our back to protect us.
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‼️ If standards matter, Liverpool cannot pretend much longer
So Manchester United have sacked Ruben Amorim this morning and Chelsea have already torn up their latest plan, both clubs reacting to performances and results they judged unworthy of their status. Chaos, yes, but also conviction. They have decided that what they are watching is not good enough and acted accordingly.
I believe Liverpool should already have done the same with Arne Slot, and I know many do not agree, even now. That disagreement does not change the standard Liverpool set for themselves last season. They were champions. Not hopefuls, not rebuilders, champions. That matters.
There is a lazy comfort in pointing at Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge and telling ourselves that Liverpool are nothing like them. It misses the point. Big clubs do not measure themselves against disorder elsewhere. They measure themselves against what they know they can be. Liverpool proved what they can be only months ago.
Slot did not inherit a broken side or a fractured dressing room. He inherited momentum, authority and belief. This season’s output has drained all three. The football has dulled, the edge has softened, and too often the explanation arrives quicker than the solution. At Liverpool, that has never been enough.
United and Chelsea look chaotic, but their actions reveal something Liverpool once understood instinctively. Titles raise expectations, they do not buy time. When performances slip, sentiment becomes a luxury.
This is not about copying rivals or embracing their instability. It is about refusing to let lowered expectations creep in unnoticed. Liverpool did not win the league last season to become patient observers of decline.
If others choose to tolerate the present, that is their right. Liverpool’s history suggests they should know better.

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"Liverpool produced 10.4 xG through set pieces in their 38 Premier League matches in 2025 while Leeds have amassed 9.2 in their 18. That makes you feel better ahead of Thursday, doesn’t it?"
Aaron Briggs is out. Assessing Liverpool's Slot era set plays: andrewbeasleyfootball.com/p/aaron-briggs…

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