Bob Houghton

#SAFC #Retiredfireman #Lovegolf #Northerner #Remainer #coffeedrinker #Centrist

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

@Capt_Fishpaste I understand that his former club have a 25% sell on clause.
Do you know if this is true !

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

@Capt_Fishpaste
Is this guy a serious football reporter

[John Harriott @JHFootballAgent]

I am hearing today Granit Xhaka has threatened #SAFC with strike action after the World Cup following his transfer request, if the club do not let him join Chelsea.

Xhaka is said to want to join a 'big club with great ambition' - and to link up with former manager Xabi Alonso again.

The player is desperate to leave the North East and move back to London, and play for major honours.

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

https://t.co/0ipqwkuS9U

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

Pretty accurate from my standpoint

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

@justConSAFC He'll be bald next season and we won't recognise him

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

@WestHam @SportsPeteO A Sunderland fan here. Just like us you clearly have your club at heart. I sincerely hope the team is up for the fight. Every game will be a cup final for your opponents. You will need a good start to avoid the chance of a double dip. Like ourselves, Luton, Leicester. Good luck

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

[M🍥 @Mo_utdred]

Burnley players first training session under Michael Jackson.

[Dougie Critchley @DougieCritchley]

There is absolutely 0 chance that Sunderland sack Regis Le Bris this summer.

We could lose every game between now and the end of the season, finish 15th, and he would still be a candidate for manager of the season.

We finished 4th in the Championship last year, closer to 17th place Oxford United than Leeds and Burnley, and only got promoted in the final minutes of the play-offs.

We are on track for 52 points, the joint 7th largest points tally amongst newly promoted sides in Premier League history.

We have beaten Chelsea, Brentford, Bournemouth and Newcastle home and away.

We have taken points off City, Arsenal and Liverpool.

He has expertly blended 15 new signings, developed a never-say-die attitude and created genuine stars.

He's one of the best things that has happened to my club in years!

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

This incident never looked real. Even the people on the stage behind him stayed and watched, rather than taking cover.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

It’s been 20 months since attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, PA, a state he desperately needed to win to stay out of prison. Many are now saying it misled voters & it helped him win.

Corey Comperatore was killed by the bullet apparently intended for Trump. His sister is demanding answers from Trump, but he's ignoring her, refusing to discuss it, AND HE PERSONALLY SHUT DOWN THE INVESTIGATION!!! Why?

Why wouldn't he play this up? Play the victim? Blame the deranged left? Blame Biden? Obama?

That's his classic move, no?

And Secret Service are not trained to allow a president under attack to stand and expose himself to a kill shot. Yet, these agents did just that, and were promoted - one was made the head of the entire agency!

So, look again. Do you think it was staged? Y or N?

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

@JamesCopley_ Pin this up in the team changing room PERMANATLY

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

@NYCSchools @SAFCsource Well done young man.
PS I'm loving that shirt too
#SAFC

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

How the hell was this not gives as a penalty

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

Ban them publicly!!!

[🚩This Is Wearside 🏳️ @ThisIsWearside]

We stand united in support of Romaine Mundle.

What he faced today is not “banter”, not “heat of the moment”, not something to scroll past and forget.

Football is built on passion, rivalry and pride. It is not built on hate. When a player pulls on the shirt, he represents effort, sacrifice and commitment. No one signs up to be racially abused for doing their job.

Silence protects the abuser. Unity protects the player.

Racism has absolutely no place in football, in the stands, online, or anywhere in society. If you love the game, you protect the people who play it. There is no middle ground.

We stand with Romaine. We stand against racism. Always.

@SRTRC_England

[Michael Graham @Capt_Fishpaste]

Get these scum ‘fans’ out of #SAFC immediately. 🤬🤬🤬

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

Bloody foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs.

[Gerry 🏇💨💨💨 @gerryd84]

Never in my life have a heard a French Geordie accent until now 😂😂

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

@stressed_eric58 @sciencegirl The modern Fire Service have no time for snooker

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

This one is so simple I reckon even the right wing papers will understand it. Might even get a jokey “and finally” on the odd bulletin or two. Then again Nige might have a little rally that has to be covered live and then a clip used saying Starmer must go

[Bob Houghton @Bobthefireman]

@BRYN_BORANGA Pepperd's Shy 🙈