David

Retired after working for the previous 22 years in HR. I'd have got less for murder. A sad Newry Town and Stoke City fan, no glory hunter here.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Tensions Are Escalating In Albania.

After days of protests over a controversial luxury resort project, demonstrators in Rrjoll, northern Albania, tore down fencing surrounding the construction site.

Protesters say land belonging to roughly 200 local families was confiscated to make way for the development.

The confrontation comes as environmental and anti-corruption demonstrations continue to spread across the country.

This is no longer just a dispute over a resort.

It’s becoming a broader fight over land rights, political influence, and who benefits from Albania’s development boom.

[Steven @StevenWallaby]

I watch this scene like once a month.

[LeagueofIreland+ @AaJ1532082]

"There's children dying" Vinnie Perth raging before the Shelbourne v Shamrock Rovers at the FAI decision to move Ireland v Israel to a neutral venue.

[Dr B @DrB2you]

The first England game is on Wednesday at 9pm.
Good luck!
#WorldCup 🏆

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Carns is asked where the extra £ for defence should come from.

".. I think there are places, such as moving welfare from hand outs to hand ups"

Describing welfare as hand outs tells us all about Carns politics & who he wants to target - the sick, disabled, low paid, pensioners

[José Ramón Fernández @joserra_espn]

El Mundial 2026 presume diversidad, pero una rueda de prensa de Brasil y Marruecos no permitieron preguntas en español, Idioma oficial de uno de los países sede y hablado por millones en Norteamérica. Incomprensible.

[David @David70078685]

@Acyn 'Our arsenal of freedom'. What a dickhead.

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Burros jóvenes llegan a una granja y refugio en el Reino Unido, y son recibidos con alegría por los demás burros rescatados…

[David @David70078685]

@lowles_nick They could make a film about it and remake this one. Perfect.

[Utah A&M @Utah_AM]

Legitimately one of the funniest scenes I’ve ever seen

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the Brazil, Morocco, and Netherlands press conferences, where questions in Spanish were reportedly not permitted for Hakimi, Vinícius Jr., and Frenkie de Jong:

“I have covered World Cups for years, and this situation makes absolutely no sense to me. You’re telling me a World Cup co-hosted by Mexico can stop journalists from asking questions in Spanish? That’s like hosting a Formula 1 race and banning cars from using their engines.

We saw it with Hakimi. We saw it with Vinícius. Now we’re hearing similar stories involving Frenkie de Jong. The players understood the questions. The journalists spoke one of the most widely spoken languages on the planet. Yet somehow the language became the problem.

Gianni Infantino talks about inclusion, diversity, and bringing football to everyone. Fine. Then explain this contradiction. How can FIFA celebrate diversity in every promotional video and then create headlines because Spanish journalists are being told to switch languages at a tournament hosted by Mexico?

Spanish isn’t some obscure dialect spoken by a handful of people. It’s the language of hundreds of millions across the Americas and beyond. If a journalist from Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, or anywhere else asks a question in Spanish and the player understands it, why is football creating barriers where none existed?

The irony is unbelievable. FIFA keeps telling us football belongs to everyone, but this controversy has many fans asking whether some voices are more welcome than others.

Maybe there’s a logistical explanation. Maybe it’s a translation issue. But perception matters. And right now the perception is terrible.

Because what fans are seeing is simple: a World Cup hosted partly by a Spanish-speaking nation, players who understand Spanish, journalists who speak Spanish, and officials telling them not to use Spanish.

If that’s progress, somebody needs to explain it better. Because from the outside, it looks like football’s governing body is tripping over its own message.”

“FIFA wanted a celebration of diversity. Instead, they’ve handed the internet a controversy that won’t stop being discussed.”

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Lets cut Welfare to fund Defence.

Here's the top claimants we need to deal with.

Amazon, Google, Starbucks, Meta, Apple, Shell, BP, Vodafone...

All these companies pay ZERO tax in most if not all year's.

They should be paying tens of billions.

End this unaffordable Welfare.

[Jeremy Wilcox @jwilcox79]

All of this.
As long as I live, I’ll never *truly* understand how a nation-conquering cult of personality built around the most dead- inside, miserable, insecure person in America. He is only rivaled in this regard by Elon Musk.

An impossibly magnetic charisma of a hollow man.

[ʜᴇʀQʟᴇs @herqles_es]

🇺🇸🇲🇽 | La FIFA prohíbe a los periodistas preguntar en español a los jugadores de Brasil y Marruecos a pesar de ser la segunda lengua materna más hablada del mundo por encima del inglés.

La FIFA autorizó a preguntar en francés, árabe, portugués e inglés, algo que supuso un problema tanto para los periodistas hispanohablantes como para Vinicius Junior, que habla español pero no inglés.

El capitán marroquí, formado en España, también se mostró sorprendido por esta inexplicable restricción.

La FIFA se ha excusado argumentando que el idioma «puente» escogido era el inglés, pero esto no tiene sentido teniendo en cuenta que tanto los jugadores brasileños, como los marroquíes, tienen mayor facilidad para hablar en español que en inglés.

Algunos críticos con la medida alegaban además que el primer idioma del mundo del fútbol es sin lugar a dudas el español y que por tanto este debería ser el idioma puente escogido para la gran mayoría de encuentros.

[Kenjac @JackKennedy]

I'll take any excuse to post this clip. Maybe the funniest scene in TV history

[David @David70078685]

@Nance726 Americans eh?