Robert Rea

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Robert Rea

@robertrea

Journalist, formerly BBC News for many years, now writer/producer for hire. Chelsea fan, reluctant runner (see blog below), celebrity queue-er. Went viral once

London Katılım Nisan 2009
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Robert Rea
Robert Rea@robertrea·
@Aviationist10 @Footballtweet Robotic reliance on set-pieces WAS an “old style”. It’s easier to coach than trying to educate players to play quick, flowing attacking football. But it doesn’t make it better. Look at how PSG play. You seriously think Arsenal, say, play better football?
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The Aviationist.@Aviationist10·
@robertrea @Footballtweet So let teams that want to adapt that old style of football adapt it. No one is forcing anyone to play the modern way. If the old style was that great vs the current style then wouldn’t most managers be using it? It clearly shows that the old style flaws / weaknesses were exposed
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Football Tweet ⚽@Footballtweet·
🇦🇷🗣️ Marcelo Bielsa back in 2024: "I am sure that football is in a process of decline. It is becoming less and less attractive because what made it the best game in the world is not there anymore." "If you let a lot of people watch football, but you don't protect the pleasure of what they watch, that favours business, because the business is that a lot of people watch football." "For me, the introduction of technology (like VAR) does a lot of harm to football. This sport has a particularity: when it becomes completely predictable, it loses its appeal." "As time passes, as fewer and fewer footballers are worth watching and as the game produced is less and less enjoyable, this artificial increase in the number of spectators will be interrupted." Do you agree with Marcelo? 😳
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Robert Rea@robertrea·
@Osint613 Trump’s going to give the money back to the Iranian people. LOL. Nice one. You here all week?
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Open Source Intel@Osint613·
Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent on Iran: "We are seeing the defections at all levels. They sense what's going on...we've seen where they wired their money out. We're coming for that, and will get it back to the Iranian people!"
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Kaitlan Collins
Kaitlan Collins@kaitlancollins·
Asked why he didn't coordinate with allies before going to war with Iran, Trump says, "We didn't tell anyone about it. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?"
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Robert Rea
Robert Rea@robertrea·
@wallaceme To give a non-algebraic example for this: Say the distance travelled was 300 miles each way (I know it’s not but it makes the maths simpler) Red car does 600m round trip in 10 hrs. Blue car does outward in 6 hrs but can only do 280m in the remaining 4
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Mark Wallace@wallaceme·
Help settle something for me: Two cars are travelling from London to Cardiff and back using the same route at the same time. The red car does the entire journey at 60mph. The blue car does the first leg to Cardiff at 50mph then speeds up and completes the return leg at 70mph. Which car arrives back in London first?
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Robert Rea
Robert Rea@robertrea·
@BarakRavid @jaketapper Trump is not “changing course”. He is lying to save face. Again. This is what he does, every time he makes a dumb decision and it blows up in his face
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Barak Ravid@BarakRavid·
Contrary to Trump’s statements, senior Israeli and U.S. officials said that the United States had prior knowledge of the Israeli strike and even approved it in an attempt to pressure Iran. After the Iranians retaliated against Qatar’s gas fields, Trump is now changing course
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid

🚨🚨🚨Trump on Truth Social: Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. The United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen. Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility. NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar - In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before. I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so

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Nizaar Kinsella@NizaarKinsella·
Rosenior: "I can understand fans are frustrated. I want to make them happy and give them the results they deserve. Today was a tough one to take."
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Robert Rea
Robert Rea@robertrea·
@paddyjim And then brought them back and finished the game. If the referee had abandoned the game, then fair enough. But he didn’t. You cant - or shouldn’t - overturn a decision as final as that months afterwards
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Robert Rea
Robert Rea@robertrea·
@CarefreeJonty Caicedo is usually class. Rosenior is an untried, inexperienced novice
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Jonty@CarefreeJonty·
Don’t blame Rosenior. This ain’t on him. Sarr makes a mistake. Caicedo and Santos kick the ball against each other. Hardly the managers fault. Blame the directors. They’re at fault for recruiting these dribbles
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Robert Rea@robertrea·
Well, why did you ask for it then? #post" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2l…
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Robert Rea@robertrea·
@atrupar Like he actually watches the BBC. They use long words
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar·
Trump: "We have decimated that country, and if you watch BBC it's almost like they're fighting us to a draw. They're not fighting us to a draw."
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Samantha Waldenberg@Sam_Waldenberg·
All four living former US presidents have not talked to President Trump about Iran, aides tell @jeffzeleny and I, raising questions about about whether such a conversation actually took place. #cmmtp9kkj00003b6ugy51zcow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cnn.com/world/live-new…
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Acyn@Acyn·
Doocy: You said: they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait nobody expected that. We were shocked. Are you surprised that nobody briefed you ahead of time that that might be their retaliation? Trump: Nobody. Nobody. No no no no. The greatest experts—nobody thought they were going hit…
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Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish·
US President Donald ⁠Trump, in an interview with the Financial ‌Times (FT), has warned that NATO faces a “very bad future” if allies fail to assist in opening the Strait of Hormuz. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/s2q1rc?update=…
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Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish·
US and Israeli forces strike Iranian cities, as Iran retaliates, with damage reported in Israeli cities; Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi rejects Donald Trump’s claim Tehran wants truce talks. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.news/s2q1rc
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