Ross Armstrong

[José Alberto Chozas @JoseAChozas]

Y lo siento mucho porque le tengo mucho cariño a Argentina, pero qué bochorno de final. Nunca quiso ganarla, fue a no perderla y a desquiciar a España con juego sucio.

Lo de Messi y Enzo pidiendo roja para Cucurella es de una antideportividad tremenda. Estoy muy decepcionado. Y de Paredes prefiero ni hablar. Perdedor dantesco.

Hoy ganó el fútbol porque ganó la única que quiso jugarlo.

[Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK @CovidJusticeUK]

. @michaelgove A mistake is forgetting to put the bins out.

Referring your 'great personal friend' and donor to a 'VIP lane' so that he is awarded £164 million in public funds, as you did, is not a mistake.

We know exactly what that is evidence of.

[Howard Leigh @HowardLeigh8]

@implausibleblog @GlasgowEurope There were plenty of UK companies in the UK who specialised in making quality #PPE equipment. Why were they completely ignored?
And why was all the stock of PPE clothing thrown away at the start of #Covid? 1 guess folks.

[Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🥪 @CliveWismayer]

Was it an ‘honest error’ to give contracts worth hundreds of millions to Doug Barrowman:

• without competitive tender
• with a huge built in mark up
• whose company, formed 2 days before, had no experience in the market
• in return for unusable PPE

Funnelling taxpayers’ money to your friends, donors & other cronies is called ‘corruption’ everywhere outside Westminster.

[Geoff Banks @geoffbanksbet]

This is the greatest five minutes on gambling I’ve ever seen

If you don’t know him, he is Dan Waugh. A specialist on gambling regulation

[LFCJ19 @Jordan22w]

Makes me feel physically sick that the tax payer is paying for Manchester United’s new stadium, while their billionaire part owner Jim Ratcliffe avoided over £3 billion pounds worth of tax the last financial year.
Fucking corrupt to the core.
Tory, Tory man united. 👍🏼

[Simon Rowlands @RowleyfileRRR]

The restrictions on deposits to betting accounts encourages bettors to leave in their winnings rather than withdraw then redeposit.

And yet the UK Gambling Commission refuses to implement stricter protections, so those funds are at significant risk in many instances.

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

We've allowed our sport's rules to be so bastardised and idiotised ( stick that in your dictionary @MerriamWebster) that every football illiterate on the planet can argue with authority that any contact is a legitimate foul.

In what is literally a contact sport.

[11thst @lment115]

@CodyKakpo

[Lydia Hislop @LydiaHislop]

It is vital those who realise the body blow the loss of Kempton would be for high-class British Jump racing and Flat trainers in the SW, not to mention the sport’s fans, contact @LincolnJopp ahead of next Tuesday’s House of Commons debate to express their views:
#SAVEKEMPTONPARK

[Racing Post @RacingPost]

🗣️ "I had other plans, then Dad got ill"

Ireland editor Richard Forristal talks to the trainer who hit the bullseye with his only two darts at Royal Ascot 🎯

Read with Racing Post+ 👇

[Peter Robinson 🦖🔙🔛🔝🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @333peterobinson]

Whoever let Flora Of Bermuda run needs sacking immediately. Reared up multiple times with her legs caught several times.

Finished virtually pulled up with the jockey looking down several times

A disgraceful look

@Ascot @BHAHorseracing

[Rory Delargy @helynsar]

The Problem at Ascot is that the public need to know what's going on and the stewards won't give any indication until it's all wrapped up with a bow. That leaves SSR presenters to cobble together what information they can find without any guidance.

[Marc Geschwind @MarcGeschwind]

Really good analysis from Henry. This is the Ronaldo issue right now.

He's playing as a 9, but he's never been a 9 and he's not acting as a 9. Not giving Portugal those traits and it hurt them today.

[David Johnson @davidjohnsonTF]

This is the can of worms the BHA opened on Saturday. Jockey has one arm on the stall throughout the process as his horse is fractious and rears as stalls opened. Ends up losing 2l or so. Not even an enquiry called to look at the matter.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

The latest refereeing controversy is simply another reason why the audio has to be played live in stadium and on broadcasts. It works in other sports. Fans, viewers, listeners deserve to know what’s happening in and to THEIR game. The game doesn’t belong to PGMO/IFAB.

[Rishi Persad @RishiPersad1]

BBC2 now for the final frame of this year’s World Snooker Championship. Amazing drama.

[Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs]

🔴 Liverpool Beaten, Bullied and Left Clinging to Context

#MUFC 3-2 #LFC | #PremierLeague

I predicted a Liverpool defeat in my my preview this morning, which is not something I do lightly, even in a season as miserable as this one. The injury list finally felt too heavy to ignore. For once, it was valid context rather than the tired shield it has too often become.

But context is not absolution.

Liverpool lost 3-2 to a poor Manchester United side and, in truth, the score flattered them. United were better, sharper, stronger, and should have won by more. Liverpool’s two goals came from gifts. United created the better chances, won the physical argument, and exposed yet again a side that cannot defend properly, cannot control key areas, and cannot be trusted when the game demands nerve.

Yes, there was a third-choice goalkeeper. Yes, Curtis Jones was filling in at right-back. But how did Liverpool get here? Poor planning. A January window ignored. A squad stretched to breaking point while the manager keeps talking as though this chaos happened to him, not under him.

Arne Slot may believe he can fix it. I see no evidence. The man-management has looked poor, the squad has looked underused, and the excuses now sound less like explanations and more like evasion. As soon as the season turned sour, so did the conviction behind the project.

Mac Allister was poor again. Gravenberch still does not look like a natural six when Liverpool are under pressure. The team tried, but trying is not enough at this level.

United have done the double. City have done the double. Liverpool are falling into a Champions League place rather than earning one.

This needs ending. Not dressing up. Not explaining away. Ending.

[Michael Mongie @MikeMongie]

Shocker @FA_PGMOL https://t.co/lI1GDkkCRi

[Kevin Blake @kevinblake2011]

We will inevitably see far worse cases of interference this season, but a four-day ban for what was such an avoidable piece of significant interference really does underline the ongoing issue with dangerously lenient enforcement of the rules. I’m blue in the face from saying it.