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@dthroat @FXMC1957 BBC documentary "Linford" bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

@FXMC1957 He liked a nice cup of herbal tea too.

2 April 1960. Linford Christie was born in St Andrew, Jamaica. He won gold medals in the 100 metres at all 4 major athletics championships: Olympics, World, European and Commonwealth.

Can't believe she wrote this 70 years ago

@AnthonyBraithw7 @StanCollymore WC2026 expanded (48 teams) from WC2022 (32 teams) For WC2026: 54 UEFA teams got 12 winners slots + 4 P/O slots = 16 qualification slots For WC2022: 55 UEFA teams got 10 winners slots + 3 P/O slots = 13 qualification slots UEFA 2026 one less team taking part w/ 3 more slots

@StanCollymore Guess the CL models has not helped ,look at most home nations championship players at best ,biggest teams in Europe and esp England hand pick overseas players from smaller countries making them better.

Watching the World Cup as a kid and thinking there wouldn't be an Italy for 3 editions would have been as absurd as suggesting Brazil would miss 3 editions. Unthinkable. Not sure how deep the rot goes ( coaching, academies, pathways etc) but imagine being a young Italian player or aspiring coach with virtually zero reference points to look at on the international stage.

@itstom_white @Crystal81370907 @bbcoxfordsport @BBCSport ...reading the article; Oxford are uncomfortable because - as relegation rivals to Blackburn - O'Neill could potentially call up 4 players for a FRIENDLY and O'Neill is cited as saying calling up players in the EFL is fine as they have a lot of resilience

@Crystal81370907 @bbcoxfordsport @BBCSport Yeah rugby league international coaches I believe are part time, ice hockey head coaches usually have a club role unless like semi retired.

BREAKING: EFL confirms at least one Championship club has raised concerns over a potential conflict of interest involving Northern Ireland and Blackburn boss Michael O’Neill. #oufc Story with @bbcoxfordsport @BBCSport ⬇️ bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

@JohnRentoul "...In his judgement, Justice Lewis overturned a 2004 law for the islands brought in by Tony Blair’s government to prevent a return to the islands by Chagossians. " Why did Tony Blair not want the Chagossians to return? (Seems Falklanders and Gibraltans have different treatment)

Judge rules Chagossians have right to live on disputed islands independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

@ThePWR Will recent Loughborough Lightning games feature on PWR's youtube video catch-up replays? (Round 15 and Round 16) A new addition, Loughborough's Carmela Morrell has been added to the Red Roses 6-Nations squad #PWR lightningrugby.co.uk/news/carmela-m…

Here are your scores from Round 16 ☺️ #PWR

@LMc31214115 @retrofootballnw @LutonTown @QPR The Oak Road was 'Home' end (until 1991) Kenilworth Road was 'Away' end with open terraces and no roof.

@retrofootballnw @LutonTown @QPR We’re away fans banned back then?

1970s Sunday takes us to Kenilworth Road in November 1979. @LutonTown vs. @QPR met in the old 2nd Division 🎙️Brian Moore

@MigCrew2000 @That_Mr_Raw @LutonNews_LTFC Charles -- it was obvious to most of us at the time that Luton were pants under Bloomfield (and had been under Fraud Edwards) x.com/Run2Swim50/sta…

@That_Mr_Raw @LutonNews_LTFC This is 1 of many examples

That’s the issue with all those dropped points for the Hatters in recent weeks then, as Stockport, Reading and Wycombe all win today. Luton now 6pts off the Royals in 6th, with Stockport 8pts ahead in 5th and out of reach now you’d say.

@AndyBodfish Easily worst ever England kit

30 years ago today. England debut their iconic grey kit against Bulgaria, Les Ferdinand scoring the only goal at Wembley. They wore it only twice more in 1996, in the Euro semi against Germany and Georgia in November.

@CNN_NewsNight Head of State usu. appears on ALL currency denominations in UK, Can, Aus, etc.,

Trump's signature to appear on currency, ending 165-year tradition

JEFF GOLDBLUM impressively reciting George Bernard Shaw.

@orluzze @DannyDrinksWine Alfred Kralik?

@DannyDrinksWine He was the perfect shopkeeper, when the US was still one nation under 'The Great Shopkeeper in the Sky'.

Gary Oldman on the "magic" of James Stewart: "James Stewart is almost too tall to be a star in a strange kind of way. He's too skinny and he's got this really strange voice when he talked and you just think this shouldn't work. He's not Humphrey Bogart, he's not Edward G. Robinson, he's not James Cagney and yet somehow it's magic when the camera is on him." (Interview to BBC, 1997) Clip from: Rope (1948) Director: Alfred Hitchcock

@NewStatesman @Will___lloyd 21st Century Neil Kinnock

A CERTAIN IDEA OF ED MILIBAND by @Will___lloyd The story of the post-Blair Labour party, if it can be contained in one individual, is the story of Ed Miliband. This is not a story about backstabbing brothers, back room deals with “union paymasters”, election promises printed on tomb stones, questionable slogans on mugs, bacon sandwiches, or double kitchens; nor anything as vulgar as retail policies aimed at marginal constituencies. Miliband’s story is really about the exhilaration of ideas: where they come from, why some of us fall in love with them, and what propels those ideas from the fringes of the debate to the fulcrum of an era. This is not an argument about whether those ideas and the policies they eventually become are right or wrong. It’s a story about the long-term political power that commanding those ideas allows an individual to wield. It is about the years of Edward Samuel Miliband - and Milibandism - which might be seen as the latest, or perhaps even the last, attempt to restore a social democratic political economy in Britain. Since July 2024, when Labour returned to government, it has been hard to work out precisely the point of this administration: to spend a bit more here and there, but leave an abject economic settlement largely intact; or to be much more than that, to fundamentally reshape Britain? For the last 20 months, Miliband has stood distinctly apart from those growing doubts. Even his enemies admit that the Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero knows what he is doing. That, in large part, is why he is so hated by his opponents. Miliband is getting social democratic things done at scale: during an era of uncontrollable global conflict, which began with the Ukraine war and is spiralling in Iran, when the direction of energy policy has become the most fiercely disputed issue in British politics. Miliband and his ideas have become a lightning rod for opponents of this government. (“Eco-zealot”; “madman”; “hysterical eco-obsessive”; “muddled climate zealot”; “demented fantasies”; these are Fleet Street editorials’ relentless tribute to his perceived threat.) And yet, as one of those critics, a source who had worked with Miliband during his leadership of the Labour Party between 2010 and 2015, grudgingly admitted: “There is something about Ed that is significant. He is a symbolic figure… the last flickering of social democracy.” Cover art by Mona Eing and Michael Meißner

@ScottJenningsKY bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

There’s been a media blackout on this corruption story. Why? Well, because the alleged perpetrator is a Democrat. If these allegations are true, this is one of the most brazen abuses of tax payer money in recent memory.

@Noirchick1 "Thicker Than Water" 1935, w/Daphne Pollard, Jimmy Finlayson

Circles of confusion with Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy....

@OhNoezzz @Mr_barba97 @Winter_Q @ChemiNorth 1975 June 5th, 18yr-olds vote IN🇪🇺 +41 yrs 2016 June 23rd, 60yr-olds vote OUT🇬🇧

There is no mistake, it's all about sovereignty. The trading bloc we signed up to in 1973 bears no resemblance to the EU today. We did not get a choice on Maastricht in 1992, nor Lisbon in 2004. And the arch federalists will not stop there. Personally I've been eurosceptic my entire adult life, I voted Referendum Party at the 1997 General Election, age 18. I was a brexiteer before the term brexit was invented.

It’s a matter of public record I was Chairman of The Spectator from 2005 till 2024. My most crucial role was to protect the editor’s independence in formulating policy, in which I played no role.

@ScarredForLife2 Sir Michael Young (wrote 1945 Labour manifesto; involved in creating The Open University, and warned against the dangers of a 'meritocracy'⚠️)

One of the classic idents of the Scarred For Life era: the cold, hauntological, and faintly Orwellian parpings of THE OPEN UNIVERSITY.

@lutontownST @kevshat @LutonJournoLTFC Re: Stockport Goal (aka 'Catalogue of Errors') Lonwijk's naive/stupid shove was due to getting burned/pick-pocketed just before nr corner + lack of cover/doubling-up w/ non-defender Jones Jones wants away hence ducks to avoid any potential head knock Keeley - mind the gap COYH

⚽️🚨NEW PODCAST - Two points LOST… But we DON’T agree why! | Luton 1 Stockport 1 🚨⚽️ 📺 youtu.be/w0yq2MCa6Do 🎧 tr.ee/-SbKpciMvg @kevshat & @LutonJournoLTFC disagree about a key part of the game and debate other decisions which altered the match. #LTSTpodcast

@LeagueOne25 Watch the incident in it's FULL context: SKY EFL Highlights👇 youtu.be/_WB_6qMUm8Q?t=… The guy DIVES like a goalkeeper and makes a clearance with his arm

Luton Town got a penalty vs Exeter City for this shove from Devante Cole onto Jack Aitchison How’s the referee given that?🤔😳 #ecfc #LTFC #COYH

@maciej1208 Mid-week games usually get a lower attendance than weekends footballwebpages.co.uk/luton-town/att…

@LutonTown Where were these glory hunters last night against Exeter?

Our initial allocation of 25,340 at Wembley has sold out this morning. Our next allocation will go on sale at midday 🏟️