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Charlie Walsham @CharlieWalsham_

12 hours ago

I admitted last week that I’ve stopped enjoying Match of the Day. And this week’s programme illustrated exactly why. Just look at the way Mark Chapman opens the show. Flat. Lifeless. Almost uninterested. Football is about passion, enthusiasm, banter, anger, love, joy and despair. Yet the BBC has somehow managed to package its highlights into a programme almost entirely devoid of emotion. Chappers, as he’s affectionately known, comes across well on the radio. But on Match of the Day, he looks bored rigid. Like the last person on earth you’d want to sit down with for a conversation about football. To be fair, Steph Houghton and Martin Keown did a reasonable job. But as somebody pointed out in response to my previous post, where’s the humour? Where’s the fun? Where’s the sheer joy of football? Everything is so painfully serious. The pundits deliver their analysis within such tight parameters that the whole thing feels sterile. Bill Shankly famously said football wasn’t a matter of life and death. It was more important than that. But the real point is that people love football because it makes them feel alive. Watching Match of the Day these days is like observing a post-mortem conducted by a forensic pathologist who regretted his career choice years ago and is now just counting down the days until he can collect his pension. Surely, in the post-Lineker era, there must be a better way of presenting football highlights? Give us people who love the game. People who can laugh, joke, argue and get carried away. Give us proper analysis, certainly, but make it feel like the conversations we have with our mates down the pub. And for those chauvinistic throwbacks who complained about women presenting men’s football, let me say this: of Match of the Day’s three presenters, Chapman is comfortably the worst. Give me Kelly Cates or Gabby Logan any day of the week. Someone needs to have a word in Chappers’ ear. Tell him to bring some of his radio personality to the television studio. Because his dry, bored, dead-eyed delivery is sucking the life out of a programme devoted to a sport that should be anything but lifeless. Football is supposed to be fun. For God’s sake, can somebody tell Match of the Day?

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ariaclast @ariaclast

2 days ago

Sigh.

Shabana Mahmood MP @ShabanaMahmood

3 days ago

Some chatter on social media would have you believe that crime is out of control. The facts tell a different story. As @FraserNelson has shown in his Substack today: Violence is at its lowest level since the crime survey began in 1981. Robbery is at a record low.

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Nic Barker @nicbarkeragain

5 days ago

Guy on one of the aus subreddits asks why his "high growth" retirement account has been stuck at the same number for 5 months despite regularly putting money in, and gets this response:

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Matt @RustyRoyal

a week ago

Fair to say that Simon Jordan and Dale Vince don’t get on. No shock but Vince is one bizarre character and Jordan is bang on yet again.

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Tereak @tereaktalks

2 weeks ago

City fans are choosing to be dumb by not understanding this analogy.

Overlap Daily @ThatsFootballTV

2 weeks ago

"I didn't see that analogy Kelly!" 😂 Joe Hart was left speechless after Kelly Cates' Manchester City analogy. Watch the latest Overlap Daily episode now on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts 🙌⚽️ #overlapdaily

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Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley

2 weeks ago

Interesting stats in light of the “£35B black hole” announced today. One to add, after WW2 less than 3% of people were deemed too sick to work (including those injured in war and with an inferior health service) …

Charlie @charliecolecc

2 weeks ago

Excellent article in the Wall Street Journal on Britain's unsustainable welfare spending: — 7 million people (over 10% of the UK population) now claim at least one or more sickness or disability benefit. This is up 60% in the past 6 years. — The UK will spend over £100 billion

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2 weeks ago

Roy Keane came with his machine gun on that segment. I lowkey felt sad for Richards 😂

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End Wokeness @EndWokeness

2 weeks ago

Charlie Kirk is publicly executed over his views Leftists: 👏😂🥳👏 Trump orders the public execution of a literal Jihadi terrorist that killed 12 US soldiers, one civilian, and injured 32 Leftists: 😡🥺😭😡

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🫩. @Nasblankok

2 weeks ago

La vitesse et la prise de balle... Ten Hag que dieu te pardonne jamais

Cristiano Ronaldo News @CRonaldoNews

2 weeks ago

🔙 4 years ago today, Cristiano Ronaldo scored his last Premier League goal against Everton. It was also his 700th career club goal. 🥹

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GeorgeWeahsCousin @WeahsCousin

3 weeks ago

Brutal disease. Really impactful advert this, gives you a glimpse of what it must be like to live with it.

MND Association @mndassoc

3 weeks ago

Motor Neurone Disease traps you inside your body, stripping away the life you love. Help us stop it.

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Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh

2 weeks ago

Andy Burnham @andyburnham

2 weeks ago

I know people are worried about fuel prices. And I get it. You get to the pump, watch the numbers climb, and wonder why it's costing so much more than it used to. The reality is that global events are pushing up costs, and families here at home are feeling the impact. But I

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Alex @AXSW0543

3 weeks ago

Mental that Tucker has made Jacob Rees-Mogg look moderate and likeable

Alix D 🌹🇬🇧 @BriturnTruther

3 weeks ago

His “WHAAAT” is taking me out

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Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall

4 weeks ago

Possibly the greatest moment of all television, of all time.

Matthew Lumby @MatthewLumby

4 weeks ago

Goodbye to Dame Esther Rantzen. Thanks for this all time great TV moment…

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Yakob @yakobper90

4 weeks ago

He’s without doubt the most self destructive athlete I’ve ever seen. He’s completely nuked his legacy these last 4 years with his antics. Dude went from being in the top 3 to ever play the game to being told he’s not better than Neymar. He has no one to blame but himself.

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Joseph Gellman @joseph_gellman

4 weeks ago

The WASPI women are going to be apoplectic when they hear about this in 20 years time

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Dan Neidle @DanNeidle

4 weeks ago

@DarrenRJones Completely invented nonsense. Nobody has ever been contributing to their own pension.

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AA⚽️ @AATalksBall

4 weeks ago

Nah this is peak journalism I can’t breathe 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sky News @SkyNews

4 weeks ago

"Do you apologise to football fans? The Premier League says 'sham' contracts, is this a 'sham' club?" @RobHarris questions Man City chief executive Ferran Soriano after the club was found guilty of all charges related to Premier League's financial rules trib.al/YimvoPJ

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Politics For You @PoliticoForYou

4 weeks ago

BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 Pensioners concerned with Labour’s threat to remove the state pension triple lock are urged to take the advice they give to young people. Stop being such snowflakes, save your pennies and go on less holidays.