Mark Gray
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Mark Gray
@saintlymark
Musings on random things, mostly 🚴🏻 bikes, politics and cricket but all is fair in love and twitter. Why would I RT something I don't endorse?
Northampton, England Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Just watched Louis Theroux Inside the Manosphere on Netflix. Did it really teach us anything we didn't know before? Really not sure it did, to be honest. I really wanted to understand what motivates these so-called Influencers beyond money and notoriety.
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@DanielBugg10 @WG_RumblePants Haines, Carson both not that far away, Robinson if current national leadership wants to swallow its pride. Archer. Coles might get a white ball call up.
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@saintlymark @WG_RumblePants Coles will be our only issue for franchise leagues, I don’t imagine we’ll have many internationals
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With the County Championship now less than TWO WEEKS away, is anyone prepared to nail their colours to the mast and give their prediction about who’s winning it this year?
Actually, let’s make it more difficult. Which teams are going to finish at 1, 2 and 3 in the table?
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@DanielBugg10 @WG_RumblePants 4th last year. 12 points isn’t a lot, (equivalent of 1 win) and it’s a good hungry young squad. Might depend on international call ups and players being involved in franchise leagues.
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@saintlymark @WG_RumblePants We’ll go down, the squad isn’t good enough and we’ve been docked 12 points
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@TomJChicago @JasonLaCanfora The worst thing about Trump isn’t stupidity, it’s ignorance. He doesn’t care to learn, he just goes with what he feels is right, no matter what.
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Trump showing his ignorance about how the global price of oil works. It’s jarring how stupid he is.
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There can be only one
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns - Elizabethtown (after the Queen) - Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline) - Attleeton (after ex-PM) - Athelstan (first King of England) - Seacole (after nurse Mary) [@thetimes]
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@WG_RumblePants So difficult to pick one. Ian Smith, Michael Holding, Michael Atherton, fond memories of Jim Laker very early on for me, Tony Greig easy to underestimate, much more than just a screamer. So many really.
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@AatifNawaz Profound and completely correct thoughts Aatif. Shame on Gavaskar on this one.
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Some thoughts on Mr Sunil Gavaskar's recent comments on the Sunrisers Leeds decision to sign Abrar Ahmed in The Hundred.
youtu.be/SohGZpJMwQo?si…
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@TaipeiValencia I don’t agree. However it may not be a straight line, but 90s lad culture, which spurned fantasy football, is at least a cousin of the manosphere.
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A hill I will die on. Fantasy Football with its "ironic" racism and sexism leading to Soccer Saturday then to blokey football podcasts etc was a key step towards the manosphere.
David Baddiel@Baddiel
Some may be surprised by how all the men in @louistheroux 's Manosphere doc turn out to be antisemites, but it follows from their logic. First, obviously, Jew hatred is clickbait, but more importantly, these men promote versions of themselves as brave mavericks unafraid to stick it to the feminised liberal Establishment - and as such, they need an embodiment of power to kick against - one that they, in their I-don’t-give-a-fuck performance, are smashing through. They need the myth of the Matrix. They begin with women as the control but soon they move on to Jews, who provide a darker mythology of control for them to perform being not-controlled by.
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@jackrussellart @fredfertang Game recognising game as the kids might say!
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@fredfertang Gregg Matthew non striker. Ian Healy was next in and before taking guard shook my hand, nice touch
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This is @jackrussellart's impressive celebration after pulling off a leg side stumping at the SCG in 1991 to dismiss Dean Jones from the bowling of Gladstone Small
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@WG_RumblePants @EssexWomble My sense of the Oval is that there is less space for that kind of thing. Maybe outside the Oval Station? Hard to think of anywhere else public enough where it would t be an impediment? 🤷 but yes a Hobbs statue should get done!!
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@saintlymark @50YearsAgoLive @WorldHistory101 Not so.Ramsay McDonald became PM in January 1924 at the age of 57.
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@CrookedMedia I bet Trump had never even heard of OBL one year out from 9/11
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“I predicted Osama Bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center. I made that prediction a year before he did it...President Clinton actually had a shot at him and he didn’t take it, unfortunately. I’m not blaming him for that, but he didn’t take it.” —Trump
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@oldmanradd @SACricketTeams @NorthantsCCC Do we know yet if McSweeney will be available for the first championship round? Seems a tight turnaround?
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So Nathan McSweeney will have a chance to retain the Sheffield Shield with @SACricketTeams before joining up with @NorthantsCCC. Final starts on March 25 in Melbourne.
cricket.com.au@cricketcomau
South Australia will have a shot at defending their title after their #SheffieldShield final spot was locked in on Sunday: cricketa.us/4sdoM0B
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@WG_RumblePants I just really can’t buy into Key as DoC. Too stubborn, too stuck in his own plans. Doesn’t seem to really want to do one of the major parts of the job and oversee the coach of the national team.
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Thanks to Rob Key for taking the time today to respond to Liam Livingstone’s allegations. Here he is speaking to me from Bexhill Golf Course.
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@WG_RumblePants Seeing the improvements Northants have made in the winter taking shape.
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What are you most looking forward to about the County Championship this season?
The chance to watch at the weekend?
The lack of the Kookaburra ball?
Seeing a particular player?
Catching up with old friends?
Or is it just the natural charm and aesthetic of red ball cricket?
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@GreigNorman2 Bit pedantic but Sobers played with Randall (For Notts), not against.
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A history of cricket in 7 players.
WG Grace debuted in 1864. He played against
Wilfred Rhodes who played against
Sir Donald Bradman who played with
Neil Harvey played against
Sir Garfield Sobers played against
Derek Randall played against
Sir Jimmy Anderson due to play in 2026
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@icelandcricket 2005 Edgbaston Test, 2019 Headingley Test, 1998 Trent Bridge Test, 2000 Eng v WI Lords test, 2025 Oval test probably the best ones I’ve experienced.
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