Alex McDermott

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.

Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.

Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games.

Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on.

As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.

[Ollier Smurthwaite @OS_Architects]

We are developing some proposals for a modern mansion block with taller ceilings, more windows, better communal areas and a private garden. We’ve been researching Albert Hall Mansions and Richard Norman Shaw who is credited with making flats desirable to the aspiring Victorian middle classes @archi_tradition @Aesthetic_City @createstreets

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security ... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition ... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Seeing the progress in Zack Polanski’s ability to communicate is really, really striking. This kind of clarity is unusual.

There’s a reason Starmer attacked his left, as well as his right, in today’s speech.

[François Valentin @Valen10Francois]

There's something profoundly soul-crushing about seeing derelict London houses that were once built for families being sub-divided into 11 different properties for childless young professionals in their 30s to spend up to half of their income on

[Nick Collins @Nick___Collins]

I’ll go into the details on tonight as I have hundreds of replies to my earlier post and there’s no point replying to them all.

So this fella has had his season ticket for many years at Anfield. He’s passionate but often takes things way too far but it is what it is. He has crossed the line before by throwing stuff at officials (usually chewing gum) and stewards looked embarrassed rather than do anything.

So I guess that’s allowed his behaviour to escalate maybe in his brain.

About 28 mins into the game, Semenyo goes to take a throw in. He’s not a player that goads the fans and seems like a decent lad. The sort of player that people want playing for their club.

For reasons I’ll never know, the fella near me in bay 7 (I’m bay 9) decides to go over to him in his wheelchair and shouts something at Semenyo. Semenyo then asks him to repeat it and he repeated it and threw his chewing gum at him.

Then 2 mins later the play is stopped. The fella next to me says he hopes Mark hasn’t said anything racist to Semenyo but then I’m getting texts from people saying it’s about the fan in the wheelchair allegedly abusing Semenyo.

We missed the first goal because all of us were uncomfortable being around this guy, who’s now sat in silence, probably realising what he’s done and he’s soon to be in the shit.

We didn’t want him near us and people (including myself) were calling him a racist prick. It was just uncomfortable to be around and we wanted him gone. The stewards didn’t have a clue what was going on either.

He was eventually removed from the ground at 21:01 by police. Firstly saying he’d refuse to move and wouldn’t leave but then agreeing to leave, then kicking off. I’d gone to the toilet by this point but saw him kicking off near the exit.

I believe there is some kind of protocol where the police have to remove them and not stewards and they have to get a sort of investigation going first. That’s why it took them 30 mins to get him out of the ground.

So the club now have to help the police with an investigation and rightly so. If he’s found to have racially abused Semenyo, he needs to be banned for life. No excuses.

Another fan chimed in saying “Semenyo didn’t look upset” so sorta sticking up for the abuser or playing devils advocate. But he just looked shocked to me, which is probably why he asked him to repeat himself.

So props to Semenyo for having the brilliant game he had. All 3 goalscorers were black, which was quite fitting really. The irony is, the fella had a “no room for racism” badge on his shirt.

I think at the time, it was annoying that we had to be around the prick but I think the club acted as fast as they could. I believe stewards can eject fans if they personally hear abuse but otherwise a report needs to be made for it to happen.

On the flip side of this, look at the amount of disability abuse there is in response to this. Discrimination is discrimination, so if you’re making your “edgy jokes” about disability on the back of it, you’re just as bad.

I’ve cropped his face out for obvious reasons but it’s incredibly ironic to have that badge on you and then do something like that. There’s obviously going to be a legal process ongoing now. The head steward asked us all a few questions and everyone was helpful.

Proud of the way the club acted in response to one prick. Anfield is a very welcoming place to people from all walks of life. Let’s keep it that way.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“This genocide is in 4k on your telly & your only answer, you're not gonna be able to say I didn't know, the only answer you're gonna be able to give to your kids is I didn't care...”

🇮🇪Game Of Thrones Star Liam Cunningham

[Matt Zarb-Cousin @mattzarb]

Britain’s right-wing press

[Big Smoke - @Skepta]

I have 3 houses in the UK and 2 houses in Nigeria. Get your money up, how you let the immigrants get richer than you lol

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

I’ve seen some of the most run down high streets and retail areas in Britain. ‘Shopping city’ in Runcorn is up there for decay.

This is the result of 40 years plus of ‘leave it to the market’ and letting people and communities rot. The idea of planning is regarded as stupid.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

BREAKING

After a debate in Parliament, the Government has accepted my Private Members’ Water Bill.

As of today:

• Above-inflation water bill hikes suspended
• Dividend payouts halted
• Citizens’ Assembly on water ownership confirmed

Democratic control of water is here!

[a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms]

I’m so pro Gary Stevenson, almost every argument against what he says reinforces what he says in tone, content or both but also he’s managed to get himself EVERYWHERE. so few people make left wing arguments anywhere, he makes them in literally any place that’ll have him. good!

[Alex McDermott @Alex_Dermy]

I must agree with everything this successful left wing news organisation puts out, and if I don’t it must burn to the ground! - Terminally online leftists engagement farming

[Babble @Babble____]

Bastani and Novara are vampires bleeding the corpse of the 17/19 left project dry.
They should have been defunded by the left after Bastani aided in the arrest of two protesters or when he took a GB news slot or when Michael Jaywalker boosted anti-trans rhetoric.

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

How did the left end up with a bunch of positions that are completely alien to the people we aspire to represent?

I loved this conversation with @ayocaesar

[Luke Robert Black 🌳 @lukerobertblack]

Everything, literally they have everything in common.

This is why the entire premise of their podcast is a farce - they have the same worldview, same opinions, same politics and same ideas.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Israel knows it can commit war crimes with impunity.

That is why it has launched its largest assault on the West Bank since 2002.

We are witnessing the total erasure of Palestine - and our government is shamefully complicit.

End all arms sales to Israel, now.

[Alex McDermott @Alex_Dermy]

@_andrewkerr_ I’m glad Bob Mortimer has found an heir to continue his legacy

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

"The evidence of genocidal intent is not only chilling, it is also overwhelming and incontrovertible.”

South African lawyer Tembeka Ngcukaitobi delivers a stirring testimony in South Africa's case against Israel for genocide in Gaza at The Hague.

[Alex McDermott @Alex_Dermy]

@lowestoflowe Is this still available