Ian

Truth, justice and the 'Murican way. Just not the chocolate, Hersheys is dirt. #Chicagosports

[tommy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @TomAVFC_44]

McGinn praising George Hemmings - explains why Emery has given him a proper chance in the first team

[MP10 @MusicPills10]

24 years ago today: Songs for the Deaf arrived and Queens of the Stone Age never looked back. Breakthrough record. Career-defining riffs. Grohl on drums. Still deafening.

[TheMoustacheCop @CopMoustache]

Just my opinion but I think (unless there are security reasons) any Gurkha who wants to travel back home to help should be allowed to, be given 6 weeks leave and a military flight there and back. What say you @andyburnham ? @Gurkha_Brigade

They have fought for us for years 🫡

[(Fan) Connor @AVFC_Connor_]

Thank you for this moment alone Emi Martinez

One of the best to play for us

#AVFC

[Bielsista @pedroelchileno]

Chelsea sold Maatsen for 40m to get clean profit for PSR, while they bought Kellyman, an unknown youngster for 20m to also give clean profit for PSR to Villa.

Now after 0 games played, he is sold for 5m to a sister club.

Normally in business, when you sell assets at boosted prices to get accounting and/or financial benefits it is considered fraud and has severe legal implications. Chelsea is now actively doing this as a strategy to defraud the financial rules of the Premier League and UEFA.

[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

For a very long time it’s not sat right with anyone that Police Officers are persecuted for doing their jobs.

If someone breaks into your house and makes off at speed, surely everything that then happens is on the criminal, not the Police Officer?

Time for change.

#ThinBlueLine 🚨

[Brian Baldinger @BaldyNFL]

.@ChicagoBears @JordanvandenB12 from Jo'Berg to Chi-Town...The story is just getting started. #dabears #BaldysBreakdowns

[Crime Scene Images London @csi_london]

Again, I don’t have a date for this footage, but it was posted on Facebook yesterday.

The location is the A13 eastbound, heading towards the Tilbury slip road. Whilst your eye is naturally drawn to the biker, there are two shots of the speedometer of the car from which the footage was filmed. One shows 130mph, the second 137mph.

So you can make a pretty reasonable guesstimate of the minimum speeds the bike is travelling at.

Although this isn’t @metpoliceuk ground, it is not far from it. It beggars belief that, because of cuts, the number of traffic officers in London who are trained and equipped to deal with pursuits is being reduced, with officers moved into other duties.

One of the solutions apparently put forward to justify reducing traffic policing is the increased use of automatic cameras.

Sorry, but that is total BS.

As this clip — and the one I posted yesterday — demonstrates, many of these bellends don’t have visible number plates in the first place. They are either hidden using folding mechanisms or simply aren’t attached to the bike.

You can’t enforce against a number plate that isn’t there.

Cameras have their place, but they are not a replacement for properly resourced traffic officers who can actually stop, pursue and deal with this sort of behaviour.

And to be clear, this isn’t a pop at @metpoliceuk or the officers themselves. They can only work with the resources and numbers they are given.

The criticism is aimed at those who decide the budgets and ultimately make the political decisions about policing priorities.

There are obviously many factors behind the rise in anti-social behaviour and the increasingly brazen behaviour we are seeing on our roads and public places. But I would suggest that one serious contributing factor is the reduction in the number of police officers per head of population.

When you reduce the number of officers available to deal with this behaviour, whilst simultaneously expecting technology to fill the gap, is it really any surprise that some people become increasingly confident that they can get away with it?

And whilst the sane and law-abiding majority look at this sort of behaviour with disbelief, there is also a significant number of people who follow, celebrate and produce social-media content around this stupidity.

They treat it as entertainment. They glorify behaviour that can ultimately cost lives or result in life-changing injuries — not just to themselves, but to completely innocent people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

That, in itself, is another part of the problem. When dangerous and criminal behaviour is rewarded with views, likes and followers, there will always be people willing to push the boundaries even further.

🎥Tee Onsight. (Caveat: does not credit who created this video)

[Ian @ChicagoCornish]

More football clubs need to be like @Official_HUFC 💙

[Hartlepool United FC @Official_HUFC]

We are deeply saddened by the passing of PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough.

Our thoughts are with their families, friends, colleagues and everyone affected.

A two-minute silence will be held at Victoria Park on Friday in memory of Matthew and Tom. We ask supporters to join us in paying our respects 🤍

[Ian @ChicagoCornish]

@HLTCO Speaks volumes for the sense of entitlement of that club.

[Matt Chambers @v31cr0]

@NFLonDAZN 2 weeks of watching Bears preseason. Not impressed with the repeated high pitch beeps and screen blackouts. Once we hit regular season this will not be acceptable for the price paid

[WhoScored @WhoScored]

Youri Tielemans' #MUFC Premier League debut by numbers vs Hull:

0 - Shots on target
0 - Chances created
0 - Accurate through balls
0 - Dribbles completed
0 - Tackles
0 - Interceptions
0 - Clearances
0 - Aerial duels won

[Ian @ChicagoCornish]

@WhoScored Fantastic debut, Youri. Keep up the good work. #avfc

[Zee Threepio @ThreepioZee]

I think I downloaded the wrong Star Wars.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

In 2008, 23 year old Gregory McCalium forced his way into a house in Oxford, England, carrying a knife. He expected to find an elderly man living alone. Someone easy to overpower.

Instead, he walked into the home of 72 year old Frank Corti.

Corti had served with the Royal Engineers during his military career and had spent years boxing. Those years of training had never really left him.

When McCalium lunged with the knife, Corti reacted on instinct. He avoided the attack, fought back with a series of punches, and overpowered the intruder before holding him until police arrived.

The burglar's injuries were so severe that prosecutors later said he looked as though he had been in a car accident. McCalium was eventually convicted of aggravated burglary and sentenced to four and a half years in prison.

Frank Corti never set out to become a headline. He simply refused to let fear decide how that night would end.

Some lessons stay with you for life. And when the moment finally comes, years of discipline can become the difference between being a victim and making it home safely.

[Damien Lewis @authordlewis]

Very sad news - Jack Mann, legendary surviving member of the Long Range Desert Group, the SAS, the SBS and SOE has sadly passed away, aged 100. Jack was a close friend, and many of you will have met him at my book launches. He featured in several of my books, the first of which was The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, as Jack served as one of Anders Lassen VC's indefatigable warriors. He was also a stalwart deputy to SAS commander Roy Farran DSO and they remained life-long friends. It was always an honour and priviledge to spend time with Jack, either hearing his stories of the war or of the remarkable life he lead thereafter. Jack executed behind the lines missions in North Africa, the Middle East and Europe, and he remained a stalwart supporter of the SAS Regimental Association, being a regular at commemorations and reunions, as these photos testify. He was modest, self-effacing and humble until the end. Rest in peace, Jack. We will remember them. Please share. (Photos show Jack seated in Jeep, France; Jack (right of photo, with the late P J Cabut (centre) and the late SAS veteran Alec Borrie (left of photo); Jack and Roy Farran DSO, in France (Farran in SAS beret), listening to a local French lady's reminiscences of their WW2 operations.

[Ian @ChicagoCornish]

@ChicagoBears vs @Browns coverage sadly borderline unwatchable on @DAZN

[Stu Hamilton @bluenobby]

36 years 'in service.' Sounds like an impressive career in Policing ... oh hang on ... until you find only 10 were in the police, all served in nice warm offices after direct entry at Superintendent rank. Never done a day's actually Policing in her life.
https://t.co/6RLCGMD9I2

[Ian @ChicagoCornish]

@ATRightMovies

[BBC Breakfast @BBCBreakfast]

The senior investigating officer in the PC Andrew Harper case has told #BBCBreakfast he is "appalled" that two of the killers will become eligible for early release.

Former Det Sup Stuart Blaik, who led the Thames Valley Police investigation, said he was "deeply concerned" and "the Government needs to review" the prospect of Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers being considered for early release

https://t.co/3GIVwZJd6z