Will C @willcraft23

Newcastle have spent £179m to replace Alexander Isak and Dan Burn is playing up front in a Premier League game

@LetsTalk_FPL Schade vs Barnes long term?

@LetsTalk_FPL Drop to just 2 playing attackers to bolster defence and play more 4 at the back? That 3rd spot is just so unpredictable debating just not giving myself the headache

This is the bit of Right to Buy discourse that really gets on my tits, because I know loads of people who did it. My grandparents bought their council house after living there for decades. My mum did it at one point. Of course they did. If the state says, “Do you want to buy the house you already live in at a massive discount and actually own something?”, most working-class people are going to say yes. Why the fuck wouldn’t they? And that is why Right to Buy was such brilliant politics. It was genuinely empowering for the people who benefited from it. You went from being a council tenant to owning an asset, having something to leave your kids, being less dependent on the state. I completely understand why that appealed. It also fits Thatcher almost perfectly. I don’t think her philosophy was simply “fuck everyone, you’re on your own”, which is how “there’s no such thing as society” often gets remembered. It was more this belief that responsibility starts with the individual and the family, then the neighbours, the church, the voluntary group, the local community. Her father was exactly that kind of civic-minded greengrocer who got involved in everything, and I sometimes wonder how much of Thatcherism boils down to WHY CAN’T EVERYBODY JUST BE LIKE MY DAD? And, well, because they fucking aren’t. HERE COMES THE GOBLIN. What happens when Derek doesn’t help his neighbour? What happens when Derek is skint? What happens when Derek is 84? What happens when Derek has three kids, two jobs and absolutely no fucking time? What happens when Derek assumes Sandra will do it, Sandra assumes the church will do it, the church assumes the charity will do it, and the charity has lost its funding? You have rediscovered WHY INSTITUTIONS EXIST. “People should step up” is a perfectly decent moral sentiment. IT IS NOT A FUCKING DELIVERY MECHANISM. You cannot organise healthcare, housing, education, social care and poverty relief around SOME DECENT BLOKE WILL PROBABLY SORT IT OUT. That is literally why we build systems. Human beings are inconsistent. Some people are incredibly generous. Some are selfish. Most have their own shit going on. A functioning society cannot make essential things depend on whether an unusually conscientious greengrocer happens to live three doors down. And Right to Buy is almost the perfect example. For one family, fantastic. You buy your council house. You pay it off. You have security. Your children inherit something. Brilliant. Then another family does it. Then another. Then another. House 100,000: sold. House 500,000: sold. House 1,000,000: sold. At some point some 25-year-old cleaner turns up and asks: “LOVELY. WHERE’S MINE?” And suddenly everybody gets very interested in personal responsibility. That is the bit that annoys me about using someone’s mum buying her council house as proof that Right to Buy worked. OF COURSE IT WORKED FOR YOUR MUM. THAT IS THE FUCKING POINT. The question is whether it worked as a housing system over generations. Because if Brenda the cleaner could buy her council house in 1987, but Chloe the cleaner in 2026 is now paying private rent on Brenda’s old council house and needs two incomes, a massive deposit and preferably some conveniently deceased grandparents before she can buy anything herself, then you solved Brenda’s housing problem. YOU DID NOT CRACK HOUSING. You sold the chair and then told the next generation they should have got there sooner.

Steve Miller @StevenJonMiller

3 weeks ago

Dear @andyburnham My mum died of dementia a few months ago. She was a cleaner. She bought our council house. We were very working class. She would hate the way you are wrecking our country and its future. You don’t understand what working class is.

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Yet another reason to hate the New England Patriots

@FPL_Pickle Benched him every week this season and he's been my highest scoring defender 🥲

Boring western news: “The economy is shit and oil is expensive” Cool fucking Egyptian news: FAST AND FURIOUS 🔥😵 CHICKEN HEIST 🐔 🏦

Clash Report @clashreport

2 months ago

WATCH: Thieves steal 105 kg of chicken from a speeding truck in Cairo in a bizarre Fast & Furious-style heist.

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Wouldn't have been in that situation if we didnt make pointless time wasting subs

Aspire all you want PSR has done its job

Dan Roan @danroan

2 months ago

“We’re confident it’ll continue to mean a competitive league where aspiration is real” PL chief Richard Masters defends new SCR financial rule that caps club spending at 85% of revenues (70% for clubs in Europe), despite concerns over its impact ⬇️ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

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I’m not into arguing which ex-player was better than who.. But I have absolutely adored Bruno playing for #NUFC. I’m not going to pretend otherwise. However for all that, I don’t think this summer has been handled in a manor reflecting somebody who hoping to be a club legend.

A “legend” doesn’t hire an agent to engineer a move away from the club he is captain of while he sits on the other side of the world agreeing to it behind his clubs back. Just in case anyone is unsure.

A lot of the overly corporatised aspects of the World Cup are being attributed to fact it’s being played in the US. Think people will be surprised how much of it is just how football will be from now on

That’s allllll on Tuchel, that. You cannot play like that, for that long, against quality players, with zero pace as an out-ball. It’s suicidal. Having Rashford as the out-ball when 1-0 up would have been much more benefical **defensively** than an extra body in your own box.

Cowardly performance

6 at the back with 20 to go with no out ball. Gutted.

Whoever decided that Sam Matterface & Lee Dixon should be the leading commentary duo for ITV needs sacking

That Dan Burn cameo

@MsiDouglas His man did score their goal unmarked in the box mind

Konsa is so shit

Cant belive Konsa is the best we have at centre half. Not gonna win this game never mind the competition with this back 4