Andrew Acum 🎗

“There's an idiot wind and there's lies on the rise.” | FA Level 5 referee | Menagerie DJ | MSc International Marketing.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

RUTTE: Russia's losses are absolutely staggering. Over 30,000 per month. This means losing more men in one month than Soviet Union did in 10 years in Afghanistan.

My message to young Russians and their families:

"You are being sold a raw deal. Men like you who join the fight won’t be trained. The equipment they’ll provide you is substandard.

There is a very high chance you’ll die or be wounded while you’re out there. And odds are that if you are wounded, you will be left to suffer in the mud and die.

So when we talk about tens of thousands of Russian casualties, that’s not abstract. That will probably be you."

[Dan Cancian @dan_cancian]

I know it's a trivial issue in the grand scheme of things, but not enough is made about how awful the World Cup logos have been since 2014. What used to be colourful and inventive has now become standardised and sterile. Much like football itself.

[Adam Summerton @adamsummerton]

Kids these days can find out about any player or see any score/result in seconds, it’s brilliant.

BUT back in the 90s when we saw far, far less overseas football, one of the best things about World Cups was discovering players you’d never heard of during the tournament - so many examples of that in 1990 (my fave WC) - remember doing the Roger Milla corner flag celebration in a Sunday morning game :)

[Andrew Acum 🎗 @AndrewAcum]

@RobCragz @pterrybetula Everton, Brighton, Spurs, Forest and Leeds also apparently interested. Guess we would offer him guaranteed playing time that he might not get at the others.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 @MazzucatoM on Channel 4:

“Brexit was one of the biggest economic tragedies for this country… sold on lies by Farage and Boris Johnson.”

Brexit reduced our market size, damaged business investment expectations, and left us with weaker growth.

Ten years on, the refusal to hold those responsible to account is striking.

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.

Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...

The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.

That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.

Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.

Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

[Andrew Acum 🎗 @AndrewAcum]

@OpTic_MH @Uzzell01 Billy Sharp? Signed in January but didn’t get much game time.

[Andrew Acum 🎗 @AndrewAcum]

@PinceyKeeble1 It seems to be a thing with “expats”. I’ve got friends who live abroad and they have this rose-tinted image of what Britain was like when they lived there - but it’s usually a past that I just don’t remember.

[Andrew Acum 🎗 @AndrewAcum]

@digitalsunshine And we can watch the World Cup featuring some of our players and realistically dream about signing some of the others!

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Theresa May, "Brexit Means Brexit"

Right: Sunday Times, "Suspend border checks for Britons this summer, airline tells EU"

Your reminder that on On Nov 30th 2017, when the UK was still in the EU, the UK government (as part of the EU Council, where it still had a seat and vote on legislation) voted to adopt Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, which established the EU Entry/Exit System (EES)

This is a biometric border system requiring the collection of fingerprints and facial images from non-EU (“third-country”) nationals entering the Schengen Area

Such is the love of queues for Brits, that before we left the EU we voted to make queues for Brits wanting to visit the EU 🤷‍♂️

[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

Poor from the Southampton execs.

Trying to discredit the commission with whatabouttery does them no credit.

Leaders set the tone and the culture, they’ve let the fans and the club down with this.

[Andrew Acum 🎗 @AndrewAcum]

@kkarbo69 @KitchenRecipes_ Wrong on both counts. Microwaves use non-ionising radiation (same as mobile phones or radios) so do not affect your food. Microwaving is one of the healthiest ways of cooking as the short cook time preserves nutrients, and it requires less water/fat than boiling/frying.

[Paul Browning Photography @Paul__Browning_]

Few months ago a young lad called Toby messaged me on instagram and asked if I’d follow him back, I jokingly replied .. I will if you come and spend the day out in the field with me, rather than all this through the screen stuff.

He did it, his mum brought him at 5am to spend the day at @Bempton_Cliffs with me.. I used his little vlog camera to make him a video that he can share.

He is a little legend, with a foot ailment that made it difficult to walk or stand for long, with a true passion for photography and determination to spend the day with me, it was unreal.

He also had his dad’s old camera with manual focus and none of the gimmicks we all have in our silly cameras .

All these photos are his.
#wildlifephotography

[Andrew Acum 🎗 @AndrewAcum]

@Paul__Browning_ Wow!

[Andrew Acum 🎗 @AndrewAcum]

@Teamgrassroots_ Very difficult to tell in real time, but the correct decision. Well done to the AR:

[Andrew Acum 🎗 @AndrewAcum]

@pagrev @craywanderers @Teamgrassroots_ He was sent off for DOGSO, not handball.

[Andrew Acum 🎗 @AndrewAcum]

"actually it would be the seniors who would be punished, not him." But the seniors haven't been punished, even though the top team now know all about the wrong doing. Nothing Saints say rings true.

[SaintsExtra @SaintsExtra]

🚨 #SaintsFC owner Dragan Solak on William Salt:

"I believe that our junior intern felt personally it's wrong, and he didn't feel right for doing this, and I think he should have expressed that stronger. I'm pretty sure that if [he had] come to us, the top management, actually it would be the seniors who would be punished, not him.

"I have a lot of pity. I'm sorry for what he had to go through. And we obviously would like him to stay in the club and we offered him a prolonged job with the club."

[via @BBCSport]

[SaintsExtra @SaintsExtra]

🚨 #SaintsFC owner Dragan Solak on William Salt:

"I believe that our junior intern felt personally it's wrong, and he didn't feel right for doing this, and I think he should have expressed that stronger. I'm pretty sure that if [he had] come to us, the top management, actually it would be the seniors who would be punished, not him.

"I have a lot of pity. I'm sorry for what he had to go through. And we obviously would like him to stay in the club and we offered him a prolonged job with the club."

[via @BBCSport]

[Andrew Acum 🎗 @AndrewAcum]

@irishlondoner @danroan He could sack him for gross misconduct with no pay off. Unless, of course, he actually knew what was happening all along.

[Prof Colin Talbot (rerum cognoscere causas) @colinrtalbot]

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.

Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison

Huge coverage of both

Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.

Media coverage? You judge.