Unique Sports Group, the agency mandated by Marseille owner Frank McCourt for sales this summer has allegedly threatened Irish players that they would "never play for US-owned UK clubs" if they refused to play Israel. #TeamOM
It was confirmed to me this morning by a prominent football journalist informed by a former FAI board member that the UK-based player agency Unique Sports Group (@UniqueSG) threatened the Irish players yesterday that they'd never play for US-owned UK clubs if they refused to play
Well done to Ireland goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu for taking the principled decision to withdraw from the game against Israel.
He should never have been put in this position, but he has shown immense moral courage and integrity by doing the right thing in the face of genocide.
Well well. So Darren Jones says Keir Starmer misspoke in his interview with Nick Ferrari when he said Israel had the right to cut off food water and essential supplies to Gaza. He says it was a mistake by his team not to come out immediately and acknowledge that. And yet one week after the interview, I was on Daily Politics with @darrenpjones and I condemned Starmer for his comments. Jones's response was to claim Starmer had never said that Israel had the right to commit thise acts and I should apologise for saying he had. I wonder if @darrenpjones wants to now apologise for being one of those who failed to stand up to genocidal policies.
I’m just gonna leave this list here of all of Israel’s prime ministers; their real names, their names they changed to so they sound more “Hebrew”, and their “ancestral homeland” respectively:
• David Ben-Gurion (David Grün) - Poland.
• Moshe Sharett (Moshe Chertok) - Ukraine.
• Levi Eshkol (Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik) - Ukraine.
• Yigal Allon (Yigal Peikowitz) - Belarus.
• Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch) - Ukraine.
• Yitzhak Rabin (Yitzhak Rubitzov) - Ukraine / Belarus.
• Menachem Begin (Menakhem Volfovich Biegun) - Belarus.
• Yitzhak Shamir (Yitzhak Yezernitsky) - Belarus.
• Shimon Peres (Szymon Perski) - Belarus.
• Ehud Barak (Ehud Brog) - Russia.
• Ariel Sharon (Ariel Scheinerman) - Belarus.
• Ehud Olmert - Russia.
• Naftali Bennett - United States.
• Yair Lapid (Yair Lampel) - Serbia.
• Benjamin Netanyahu (Benjamin Mileikowsky) a Poland.
Hope this helps.
It's a fucking benefit concert you morons. He's not going to make Palestinians pay for their own benefit concert, and he's not going to go to Palestine to tell Palestinians that Palestine should be free. Fucking idiots. Slobbering, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging troglodytes.
Growing up, a hit song crossed demographics whether the genre was your favorite or not. People who don’t primarily listen to country still know Dolly, Shania, Carrie, The Chicks, etc. because they made actual hit records that crossed over. If a song can spend 23 weeks at #1, breaking records that stood for 20+ years, while a huge portion of the public is sincerely saying they’ve never heard it, maybe the conversation isn’t “people hate country.” Maybe @RollingStone should be writing about how streaming-era chart dominance no longer equals cultural dominance because there’s some trickery at play. That’s the real story being avoided. Don’t gaslight us.
Disappointing to hear the FAI confirm that the game between Republic of Ireland vs Israel will go ahead following a vote among the players.
Gavin Bazunu was one of the players who refused to play. He has been left standing alone by many of his senior teammates. We will remember.
Hearing from several sources around Ireland hotel that agents are telling players you must play our you'll never play for a US owned team in the UK.
How grim and predictable from faceless agents who profit in the background.
Good lord, boxing dickriders are some of the most pathetic people in sports.
Eddie Hearn signed a contract. Turki refused to honor it. They breached the deal, not Hearn.
And for what? Dana White adds NOTHING to this fight. They wanted to use Fury–AJ to legitimize Dana & Zuffa in boxing, and it was a massive failure.
The NY Times has released a list of the Top 100 Best TV shows of the 21st Century.
They polled over 500 major stars, showrunners & other notable names.
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She was bought at fourteen by a man who assaulted her for five years and fathered two of her children.
When she finally fought back and he died, Missouri put her on trial — and the court ruled she had no right to defend herself. Celia. 1855.
Missouri law at the time said a woman could use deadly force to defend her honour.
Celia's lawyers argued that law covered her. The judge ruled it did not — because the statute said "any woman," and Celia was not legally a woman. She was property.
That was the finding. Not that she was lying. Not that it had not happened. That the protection did not extend to her, because she was a thing.
She was convicted and sentenced to hang. The state waited until she had given birth — the baby was stillborn — and then executed her in December 1855.
She was nineteen years old.
Her story is the kind of buried history that we must never forget https://t.co/V6OJtazidd