Russell Packford

@TrentAA Best of luck! You’ll be missed but you deserve the chance to find new experiences.

After 20 years at Liverpool Football Club, now is the time for me to confirm that I will be leaving at the end of the season. This is easily the hardest decision I’ve ever made in my life. I know many of you have wondered why or been frustrated that I haven’t spoken about this yet, but it was always my intention to keep my full focus on the team’s best interests, which was securing No.20. This club has been my whole life – my whole world - for 20 years. From the Academy right through until now, the support and love I have felt from everyone inside and outside of the club will stay with me forever. I will forever be in debt to you all. But, I have never known anything else and this decision is about experiencing a new challenge, taking myself out of my comfort zone and pushing myself both professionally and personally. I’ve given my all every single day I’ve been at this club, and I hope you feel like I’ve given back to you during my time here. From the bottom of my heart, I thank everybody – my coaches, my managers, my teammates, the staff and our incredible supporters - for the last 20 years. I’ve been blessed enough to live out my dreams here and I will never, ever take for granted the special moments I’ve been fortunate enough to have lived through with you all. My love for this club will never die.

@BBCNewsPR @BBCVickiYoung Congratulations @BBCVickiYoung !

Congratulations to @BBCVickiYoung who is the new presenter of Politics Live! She’ll start the role in June. Read more here⬇️ bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

@FabrizioRomano Looks an awful lot like a €uropean $uper £eague to me!

📊🇪🇺 New Champions League table after Matchday 1.

@MarcusSimmons54 re ‘Opportunity blocks’ - damn right - well said!

@StephenJardine Stephen what a wonderful tribute! As one of those ‘boys up from London’ I remember that night vividly, it was a heady mix of joy, laughter, inebriation and fear for my life!

Rae Stewart - A life well lived but too short. scotsman.com/news/opinion/c…

I can only echo @StephenJardine words. Rae was a beloved friend who will be hugely missed.

My best friend Rae Stewart has died after an illness. He was just 56. Rae was a proud son of Tain and a brilliant journalist, author, husband, father and friend. All my thoughts today are with him and his beloved family.

@campbellclaret Fabricant?

Free signed copy new book for the first person correctly to identify the owner of this blonde hair a couple of rows in front of me on flight Marseille-London. Clue - can’t believe he is not in Parliament standing up for his friend in his hour of need

@ManhattanManc @msloobylou 🤣

@msloobylou At first I thought The Mail was describing its readership and thought, oh, that makes sense.

Nah, we go out shopping, running and clean the house all day so will stay trim.

@CompassionTory @rickygervais @rickygervais that feels a bit harsh on Derek to be honest.

Anyone else see Derek? @rickygervais

@ManhattanManc There’s life in the old dog! 😁

I haven’t kicked a ball in earnest for at least twenty years. Tonight was my first game of Walking Football and I loved every minute of it. Big thank you to all the lads here in Falmouth that made me welcome. Looking forward to doing it all again next week. #walkingfootball

We headed to the hills again. It was good. And I was also reminded why I don't camp with them. youtube.com/watch?v=j4QBL9…

@StephenJardine @MrRaeStewart 🤣

@MrRaeStewart @russpack More like Punch.

“An absolute page turner, brimming with atmosphere, dark humour and menace. Thoroughly recommended.” - Stephen Jardine Murder, mayhem, monsters - get your fill from Smoke on the Water, out now on Amazon. amzn.to/3FGQ2ye

@ManhattanManc Touché!

Just felt a tremor down here in Cornwall. Apparently it was just Liverpool coming back down to earth with a bump. #MUFC

@NoContextBrits Pat Butcher got back. 😳

@rickygervais 1. My tummy feels funny. 2. Should I go for a poo? 3. Too late! 4. Why didn’t I bring spare pants!?!

Acting masterclass. 1. Seeing an old lady get crushed by a tank. 2. Worried about only having 2 minutes to diffuse a bloody nuclear bomb. 3. Sad about genocide. 4. Watching a magnificent condor carry off someone’s baby.

@alexfolkes Lettuce? Where are they getting that? Bacon, cabbage and turnip?

There’s got to be some hipster cafe that already does a bacon, lettuce and turnip sandwich, hasn’t there

@david_belcher @MrRaeStewart @seanhannam Any it all ends with The Cure - nice!

Halfway way through The Gold - really enjoying it but in one scene Depeche Mode’s Never Let Me Down Again is being played in someone’s house - the song came out in 1987, but the series is set in the early-mid ‘80s… 🧐