Some devastating news to share this morning but Harry 'Badger' Hartley has sadly passed away. Absolute hero who always put a smile on everyones face. We've set up a go fund me to help out the family at this difficult time, all donations much appreciated❤️ https://t.co/GiiFrehWnq
Best video you’ll see all day, 85 year old Maureen Van Gerwen taking out 86 on the bull to win the family Christmas comp. Absolute scenes 😭
Get her to Ally Pally immediately @OfficialPDC
Time for a reset
We weren’t entirely truthful with you all regarding this group.
This group formed from three people criticising the club in each others direct messages. We couldn’t sit back any longer and watch the club we support, die a slow death. So we decided to do something about it.
We thought we had enough between us to get things off the ground but we knew that we needed more people on board to help and advise us.
So we asked for people to email us with ideas and suggestions. This group quickly went from 3 of us to 9 in the space of about 2 weeks.
We didn’t know these people but we thought with their passion, experience and the agreed principle of staying anonymous, this could only benefit The 1867 Group.
We all had the same idea. Change needs to happen at Hillsborough.
Our problem was, everybody had different ideas on how to achieve this.
Now we’re not going to sit here and knock the people who did get involved. You can hold your heads high and say you gave it ago. That’s a lot more than can be said for others.
After the the tennis ball protest, the original three and founding members took a back seat and left it in the hands of people that had more spare time to give to the project than we could give, only coming back every so often to answer questions for the media and to put out fires that seemed to be happening near enough on a daily basis.
You could tell from the way this account tweeted that there were numerous people behind the screen from our differing writing styles.
Some members wanted to just focus on organising protests. Others wanted to attack football governance as a whole. Others wanted to focus on ticket prices whilst others wanted Chansiri to leave. It became very messy, very quickly.
We three original members couldn’t quite believe what happened when we saw this account tweeting club captain and fan’s favourite, Barry Bannan regarding his wages. Our phones blew up with notifications and quite rightly so, this isn’t what we set out to achieve. We’d lost all credibility in two tweets.
We’d like to apologise to Barry Bannan and also any of the podcasts that this account kept trying to antagonise.
We were devastated as we really did start this group to make a difference and to give fans a way to channel their anger and legitimate concerns.
After seeing the tweets to Bannan, the three original members messaged the group to ask what had happened and who was responsible. Nobody took accountability. This was the second time this had happened after the farcical “green and black” balloon protest that not all of the group had agreed to.
The new members then deactivated the account without even consulting all of us.
We thought this was unacceptable and have now thanked the guys that joined us for their efforts - but we have now taken back control of this account. The passwords reset.
We’re back to three members but one of us is a new member who we believe has the same intentions as we do and who has an excellent resume, who we believe will keep us on track.
We do still wish to remain anonymous but if and when the time comes that we need to put a face to the group, we aren’t afraid to do so. But this will be at a time when we feel it is absolutely necessary.
We also appreciate the handful of people outside of this group who have kept our identities hidden - even if a few of you did threaten to “out” one of the original members.
I’m sure you’re wondering why we’ve decided to come back and that we should just leave it, but we can’t. This time we’re going to do things differently. We want change.
This a club that we care deeply about. This is a fanbase that we care deeply about.
As we mentioned previously, the same original members took a back seat before as this project was interfering with our personal lives, so this account will predominantly focus on organising protests - and this time, you’re either on board or you’re not.
It’s time for a reset. For us and the club.
#SWFC
Watch the moment a cheeky boy tickles the Princess of Wales during her visit to a sports centre for a rugby inclusivity day.
She was in Hull today to join some of England’s World Cup-winning wheelchair rugby league squad.
Read more: https://t.co/8xyWy2cBPY
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐑𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬’ 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫:
Semedo and Ronaldo met in Sporting Lisbon’s academy, where they grew to be the best of friends. However, their talents lay at opposite ends of the spectrum and Sporting made the decision to let Semedo go.
However, Ronaldo was insistent that Semedo stays, threatening to leave as well. It was a sign of how valued Ronaldo’s precocious talents were that Sporting Lisbon’s directors agreed to let Semedo continue with the club.
"He said they could put an extra bed in his room and that we could share a cupboard for his clothes. He said that if I went, he would too. The place I am from in Setubal is not a good place for a young man. A lot of my friends from there were involved in crime. Some of them are dead now, or in jail.” said Semedo in a interview with The Times.
Nowadays, José Semedo has retired from professional football and works at the scouting department of Al Nassr.
𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒐 𝒊𝒔𝒏’𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕. ❤️