There are many major issues in Australian football right now, but this is one I wanted to highlight.
Covering the Australian Championship has shown me that football in Victoria is leaps and bounds ahead of every other state in the country.
NSW/ACT has fallen significantly behind and is in desperate need of structural reform. The situation surrounding Yoogali is a great example of why this is needed.
A regional club, alongside Wagga Wagga, that is unwanted by Capital Football and unable to fit within NSW's NPL structures.
A club with ambition left in limbo.
Simply put, men's football across NSW has become the Wild West.
A proper tiered system combining Sydney and the ACT is desperately needed.
Men's association clubs in the Illawarra are spending a combined $1 million+ in wages to compete for a $25,000 prize.
I think we may need a football summit.
Its quite anazing how quickly Russell Brand was arrested,tried and will be sentenced on Monday YET out there are still hundreds of Grooming gangs still roaming the streets of the UK laughing their heads off.
🇵🇰 Irshad Ahmed showing the Consul General of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan for Scotland and Northern Ireland Summar Javid and the lads around parliament.
🚨 WENDIGO has been left alone on a mark of 147 for the Coral Gold Cup following the release of the weights for the Newbury race!
Huge news for the Jamie Snowden team.
Since riots are now spreading across Europe, there are some simple things any country that wants to avoid them can announce.
Anyone found guilty of rioting/looting:
- who is a foreign national will be immediately deported
- who is a dual national will be immediately stripped of their citizenship, then deported
- who is an asylum seeker or has been granted asylum, will be denied asylum/deported
- permanently banned from receiving any benefits/welfare of any kind
- given harsh custodial sentences
Announce this now and avoid riots or watch your country go down the route of France and Germany.
Unbelievable! 🔥
🔵🟡 WENDIGO gives Potters Charm 10lbs and a beating on seasonal debut in the Listed Chase at Carlisle over 2m4f for @jamiesnowden 🏆
He’s now the 6/1f to win the Coral Gold Cup at Newbury on the 28th of November! 💪
Since the slavery debate is back in the news, all the facts you need are 👇
Only a country led by self-hating, miseducated, virtue-signalling morons would be having this conversation the way Britain is.
It’s insane that Burnham is considering apologising for slavery.
Britain did MORE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY to end it.
Britain was the first global power to abolish the slave trade.
Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act in 1807.
Britain then formed the West Africa Squadron.
Brave British sailors patrolled the high seas and enforced this ban on the slave trade.
His Majesty’s Royal Navy, the mightiest navy the world had ever seen, faced down slave ships and forced them to comply.
In doing so the heroes of the West Africa Squadron freed 150,000 slaves.
With the sacrifice of thousands of British sailors.
Their sacrifice MUST be honoured.
The financial cost of Britain’s moral mission in today’s money was in the hundreds of billions.
The world owes a debt of gratitude to Britain.
That is why instead of apologising, as Home Secretary I will stop issuing visas to nationals of any country demanding slavery reparations from Britain.
We will not be humiliated any more.
Enough is enough.
Reform will stand up for Britain. 🇬🇧
@BigDaveWHUFC There were only 2 games in Britain in season 04-05 than finished 7-1.
Rangers V Dundee United and Man City V Barnsley.
The same two goalkeepers played in both games - Ronald Waterreus for Rangers and City, Nick Colgan for Dundee Utd and Barnsley.
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
The Scottish parliament is just a fukin parody now.
A guy that is barely literate, 2 men masquerading as a women with one on a student visa, and we have sitting msps running about Israel instead of working for the local communities they serve.
Shut it down.