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@SorcererLazaro @GrahamSmyth @LeeSobotYEP Sunderland had a weird advantage on PSR this season due to not really spending in EFL, so could also bypass the punitive "promoted clubs" limits. The SCR limit should even it out a bit in our favour IMO

@GrahamSmyth @LeeSobotYEP Not sure this matches the ambition Farke was demanding. Why should it take Leeds three years to establish themselves at this level, meanwhile Sunderland are playing in Europe next season?

Leeds United chair Paraag Marathe has written a letter to fans. - job done - promise kept - 'strategic and disciplined' 2026 recruitment - now in a three-year fight #lufc yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football…

Am on a @SW_Help train back from London and am as usual surrounded by people loudly discussing how they didn't have to buy a ticket. But not loudly enough to wake the guard who is gently snoozing at the back of the carriage.

@British_Airways Thanks. Would have replied earlier but here's what I've had on your pay-to-play wifi for the last 25 mins or so. By the way - "stream"? Lol.

@markwatson Hi there, we're sorry to hear what happened and apologise for the inconvenience caused. We've logged your comments as feedback to help us make improvements in the future. Milika

on @British_Airways flight, trying to use their free executive club wifi. Requires login, try web and requires completing a captcha which doesn't display on phone. If you try app it locks you out and sends an email to unlock - which requires non-free wifi 😐

@fife1975 @GlosGuildhall @watsoncomedian think this is for you

@markwatson any chance you could swing by @GlosGuildhall on your tour next year. I know 3rd times a charm but in Monmouth anything goes!!!

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@MoscowhiteTSB Why do you write Daniel as David?

⭑彡 #LUFC HT | One minute added mostly in hope that something might happen. It didn't. Leeds might be good when they get going! At least Aaronson is awake

@hugorifkind @PaulConnolly10 tbf nobody's ever started a barbecue near me in a pub garden. But I'd be up for banning people talking into mobile phones with the speaker on. And strangers trying to start conversations (Southern England only).

@PaulConnolly10 The evidence for secondary smoking harms outdoors is not strong. Might as well ban barbecues.

If they want to sell the outdoor smoking ban, they should do it on the basis of smoking killing people, and only that. Not on people sitting nearby finding the smell annoying. Your voice is also annoying. We cope.

@arrroberts First time I read this (and only time I intend to) I was a bit disappointed that Lord Daha's battlecry wasn't "Take on me". This thought kept me going through the first 400 or so pages, I powered through the rest by force of sheer bloody mindedness

Eddison's ‘The Worm Ouroboros’ (1922) medium.com/adams-notebook…

@jonsmith_lufc @GREATBr69197702 @MLufc02 Not that i know anything on the specifics of this deal but typically these clauses demand all the money come up front whereas the buyer prefers to stage payments. So there is leverage.

@GREATBr69197702 @MLufc02 Won’t be part of Georginio deal, why would it ? He had a clause and gives us no leverage to ask for a player as part of the deal 🤔

Apparently #lufc are about to sign a Brighton player #bhafc for £7m. Don’t normally do football chat but my mate works in their analytics team and mentioned it earlier. Part of the deal for a Leeds player coming the other way but waiting for personal terms to be agreed

@HalcyonPublish1 @watsoncomedian Not quite that often. Btw the link on your tweet doesn't work

@markwatson @GaryLineker @alanshearer @Peter_Shilton @LouMacari10 @suesmith8 @MaisieAdam @watsoncomedian Sorry Mark. I imagine this happens 150 times a day.

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@thomashurst They were saying 3 before the departures (Anthony replacement, Roberts replacement, number 10). So not sure how that came to be 4 given Kamara/Rutter/Gray/Summerville also now gone and only Bogle fits that list. But it's just spin anyhow.

@twlldun As I remember in Star Wars the resistance exists because an autocrat has grabbed power with the help of a self-interested corporate cabal. In the prequels the heroes are the authority figures and you're meant to side with them. And the resistance leader is a princess.

And obviously not every source of authority is bad or every rebellion virtuous. And often rebellions contradict each other! But that’s how it’s coded in our head. I wonder why.

Ignoring the terrible Facebook boomer energy of this meme for a moment, there is something really psychologically interesting about how rebel is coded virtuous and authority is coded bad across almost all cultures.

@AdamCrafton_ on one hand I think this is spot on, on the other Marsch had an real style of play and it was godawful

@LUFCMOTcom Good commercial revenue and PSR compliance 🙄

Sum up our first half performance ⚽️

This is a very unusual tagging of me where it actually intends to refer to me, not to top entertainer Mark Watson currently appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe (tickets available). Thanks to @glawton of @diginomica for a very enjoyable chat about engineering productivity and AI.

Many people have been (rightly) worried for a long time about monolithic dependencies on monolithic tech providers. If you want a great perspective on/extrapolation of it go read @doctorow's brilliant short story, "Unauthorized Bread" from his book Radicalized

Looking at the news today (or trying to: in many cases it's down) I'm reminded of a panel I was on many years ago with Bill Coleman (the B in BEA) who said re Microsoft: "never trust a vendor you wouldn't trust to run your pacemaker. four words: blue face of death"