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[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Roy Keane on Ryan Gravenberch’s red card against Manchester City:

“I watched it back because I thought I must have missed something.

Gravenberch is already on a yellow. Doku is trying to get away, Ryan tries to get a foot to the ball, catches him and the referee gives the foul. Fine. Nobody is arguing about the foul.

Then Chris Kavanagh reaches for his pocket again.

I said, ‘What’s he doing?’

The lad next to me goes, ‘He’s sending him off.’

‘For that?’

And there it is. Second yellow. Liverpool bloody down to 10 men.

Now people will say, ‘Roy, he was already booked. He should know better.’ Of course he should be careful. But being on a yellow card doesn’t mean you stop being a footballer. He’s allowed to compete for the ball.

Look at the challenge. He’s not flying in with both feet. He’s not going over the top of the ball. He doesn’t wipe Doku out with some wild lunge. He’s trying to make a challenge, gets it wrong, and Doku gets back up.

It’s around the middle of the pitch. Gravenberch isn’t the last defender. We’re not talking about a striker clean through on goal. You can give a free kick there and carry on playing football.

And don’t start telling me the referee had no choice. He did have a choice. That’s the whole point.

Someone said, ‘But Roy, the referee doesn’t have to warn him first.’

I said, ‘I know the rules. I’m not asking him to send Ryan a letter.’

A warning isn’t compulsory. A bit of judgement would be nice, though. You’re about to take one of the best players on the pitch out of Liverpool against Manchester City. You’d better be certain the challenge deserves another booking.

I thought Gravenberch was excellent in that first half. Taking the ball under pressure, driving past City players, making their midfield turn and chase him. He was giving Liverpool a way to get up the pitch.

And then he’s walking down the tunnel for a challenge that, to me, is an ordinary foul.

You could see what happened to the game afterwards. City have an extra man, Liverpool have lost a player who was carrying them through midfield, and suddenly the whole thing changes.

I played for Manchester United. I’ve got no reason to sit here making excuses for Liverpool. If Gravenberch had gone in recklessly, I’d be the first to say he deserved it.

But I played in enough of these matches to know the difference between a player losing his head and a player getting his timing wrong.

Ryan got his timing wrong. The referee, in my opinion, got the bigger decision wrong.

And the worst part? Tomorrow people will look at the score and say City were simply too good.

What we do know is that at 0–0, with eleven against eleven, Liverpool were in the game. That’s the match I wanted to see finished.

Not one decided by a referee who seemed in a greater hurry to reach for his pocket than to think about what he’d actually seen.”

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

When your crimes are so bad, even Switzerland stops being neutral.

[╰┈➤ 🇮🇪 Brònzy 🇮🇪 @BronzyGuevara]

🔴 Just a wee reminder, if you don't like Iran's Islamic authoritarianism, it exists because the USA overthrew a secular socialist Iran in 1953 because BP was losing oil profits.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is Beirut today.

Israel is systematically wiping out entire apartment blocks in Lebanon’s capital — a historic city that has stood for more than 5,000 years.

Not military targets.

Civilian homes.
Residential buildings.

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.

[Aleksey The Great 🇷🇺🎖 @aleksthgrt]

🚨BREAKING NEWS

An Iranian protester said:

“My family in Iran doesn’t support the regime. But if there’s one country Iranians trust less than their own government, it’s America. Most Americans forget: Iran’s experiment with democracy ended with the US intervention in 1953.”

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Oh, look the IDF’s number one donor, Larry Ellison, just bought CNN. Along with earlier purchases of CBS and TikTok. Let me guess, you’re offended by me noticing that. It’s not wrong for him to buy half of American media for Israel, it’s wrong of me to notice.

[Brendan May @bmay]

I would happily pay more council tax if my council replied to imbeciles in this way.

[👑 Royal Intel @RoyalIntel_]

This is equivalent to Jeffrey Epstein joining the board of child safety.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

I’ve been saying it for months and now it’s painfully obvious: @howardlutnick is Donald Trump’s handler.

Yes, THAT Howard Lutnick.

– The guy who survived 9/11 due to son's kindergarten day.
– The guy who forced an Israeli loyalty test on White House staff.
– The guy who just happened to be Jeffrey Epstein’s neighbor (what are the odds?).
– The guy who lied about cutting ties with Epstein in 2005.
– The guy who visited Epstein Island with his four kids in 2012.
– The guy who thinks covering for pedophiles is funny.

But sure, keep telling yourself Trump is in charge.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @AGPamBondi: You did the one thing your king ordered you not to do: you made Trump look guilty.

You also lied under oath.

And you surveilled the search history of Congress Members.

We are impeaching you when we flip the House. Unless you resign first.

Good evening.

[Maty 🔴 @Ma6eS_9]

The fact that Wataru Endo stood up to defend that corner with what can be a broken ankle or a damaged ligament.

Absolute warrior, deserves all the praise he’s getting.

https://t.co/JrOssleG0j

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I was briefed this morning on the U.S. military capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, as well as their planned imprisonment in federal custody here in New York City.

Unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war and a violation of federal and international law.

This blatant pursuit of regime change doesn’t just affect those abroad, it directly impacts New Yorkers, including tens of thousands of Venezuelans who call this city home. My focus is their safety and the safety of every New Yorker, and my administration will continue to monitor the situation and issue relevant guidance.

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

“I am the first UN official to be sanctioned. For what? For exposing a genocide?”

—Francesca Albanese

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Please @elonmusk, do not do that.
Genocide is real, apartheid is real, all excruciatingly painful for too many.

We can all do better.

My pledge from South Africa.

[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

BREAKING: Prince Andrew just resigned because of the Epstein scandal.

Just weeks ago, we published flight logs and possible payments for services between Andrew & Epstein.

More powerful men will be exposed. Release the files, NOW.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

When an artist says “Death to the IDF” — ‘appalling hate speech.’
When Maccabi thugs chant “Death to Arabs” — ‘we will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets.’

Starmer’s moral compass is so broken it points to Tel Aviv.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is who the British prime minister and an army of UK newspaper columnists are shamelessly defending today, and outrageously equating with all Jews.

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

Not a single fucking word for the 1000's of Palestinian Hostages. We are Ruled by Monsters.