Anthony B 🏁

Follow the Fulham win lose or draw. Occasionally rub shoulders with the rich & famous.

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

@JohnstonFFC Me and the team celebrating....Get in!!!! @FulhamFC

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

Great scenes at Fleetwood. Proppa footy

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

How the fu*k is anyone earning minimum wage, or anything close to it, in the UK meant to afford living alone?

The numbers simply don't add up.

You can work 40 hours a week and bring home around £1,700 a month after tax, National Insurance and pension contributions.

Then you're looking at £800 for rent, £120 in council tax, £350 on household bills and another £300 just to feed yourself.

That's your entire monthly wage gone before you've even covered travel, your phone bill or an unexpected expense.

No savings. No financial security. No money left to actually enjoy your life.

Yet we're expected to celebrate every time minimum wage increases.

But what's the point of a pay rise when you're still struggling to afford the basics?

At what point are we going to admit that something has gone seriously wrong in this country?

[Kevin Edger @KEdge23]

This is truly an insult from Andy Burnham.

Labour are doing this as a distraction. While the country talks about gherkins, they’re not talking about the fact Labour have lost control of the economy and public finances.

Don’t let Andy Burnham and Labour deceive you.

[Saskia @Saskiaaa_____]

We are facing a 27% rise in energy costs come January and this spacker government are proposing making gherkins cheaper

I can't take much more of this

[The Veteran Investor @TheVetInvestor]

@JamesP728 @andyburnham making big moves

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

Bloke is a small time PM.

It’s actually embarrassing

[James Philips @JamesP728]

Sorry this does say £21 a year saved on shopping? 😂A year?!

That’s not a typo?

Thank you so much Andy Burnham😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[stevec3457 @stevec3457]

Breaking news Andy Burnham has just announced free fish and chips to anyone over 80 Accompanied by both parents .

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

This is the correct approach 👍🏻

[Jack Kelly @jackellyffc]

3. AA: "The Cup is a really good opportunity for a team like us. Tomorrow is a good opportunity for some players that are working hard, but maybe we have some players that are working hard, and they still need to continue working hard because, like I said, there are some players that played the other day and they will play tomorrow because I want to win this game. For me as a coach it's very important, for our team it's very important.

"And this is not about giving opportunities. It's about to win the match. When we played against West Ham and Wimbledon, I made a lot of changes, but because I felt that we needed it.

"We played on Tuesday against West Ham, so it was difficult to put so many players that played on Saturday and then they had to play on Tuesday. Maybe it was a little bit difficult, but tomorrow you will see, you will see the 11 starters but I'm thinking about to play with a strong XI." #FFC

[Paul Coleman @Paul_B_Coleman]

Britain’s new minimum wage: £27,456 a year.

Higher-rate income tax kicks in at £50,270.

Wage compression the Soviet Union could only have dreamed of.

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

Absolutely mental

[WasAcop @WasAcop]

Car crash interview. £874 million to get about 4,000 people off the street.

That’s £190,000 each. Buy them a house.

Instead it’s contracts, outreach teams and councils deciding where the cash goes.

Rough sleeping rose under Burnham in Manchester. Now we’re nationalising the failure.

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

Anyone else finding AI pics and videos really boring?! Fuck me it’s in hyperdrive.

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

@Dantheffcman We’d get knocked out the competition

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

QF at stake midweek so I do hope we strengthen the starting 11 from previous rounds.

Leno

Tete
Affengruber
Cuenca
Robinson

Berge
Charles
Palacios

Kevin
Iwobi
Muniz

Wouldn’t be against starting Bassey again either. Been sensational but needs a rest. No sess is an issue

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

I actually think this is possibly the best away kit in the history of the football. 🔥

[Fulham Football Club @FulhamFC]

Roared on by the away end.

To the 3,000 that travelled, thank you. 🤍

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

I actually thought this when I watched this morning

[Charlie Walsham @CharlieWalsham_]

I admitted last week that I’ve stopped enjoying Match of the Day. And this week’s programme illustrated exactly why.

Just look at the way Mark Chapman opens the show. Flat. Lifeless. Almost uninterested.

Football is about passion, enthusiasm, banter, anger, love, joy and despair. Yet the BBC has somehow managed to package its highlights into a programme almost entirely devoid of emotion.

Chappers, as he’s affectionately known, comes across well on the radio. But on Match of the Day, he looks bored rigid. Like the last person on earth you’d want to sit down with for a conversation about football.

To be fair, Steph Houghton and Martin Keown did a reasonable job. But as somebody pointed out in response to my previous post, where’s the humour? Where’s the fun? Where’s the sheer joy of football?

Everything is so painfully serious. The pundits deliver their analysis within such tight parameters that the whole thing feels sterile.

Bill Shankly famously said football wasn’t a matter of life and death. It was more important than that.

But the real point is that people love football because it makes them feel alive.

Watching Match of the Day these days is like observing a post-mortem conducted by a forensic pathologist who regretted his career choice years ago and is now just counting down the days until he can collect his pension.

Surely, in the post-Lineker era, there must be a better way of presenting football highlights? Give us people who love the game. People who can laugh, joke, argue and get carried away. Give us proper analysis, certainly, but make it feel like the conversations we have with our mates down the pub.

And for those chauvinistic throwbacks who complained about women presenting men’s football, let me say this: of Match of the Day’s three presenters, Chapman is comfortably the worst. Give me Kelly Cates or Gabby Logan any day of the week.

Someone needs to have a word in Chappers’ ear. Tell him to bring some of his radio personality to the television studio.

Because his dry, bored, dead-eyed delivery is sucking the life out of a programme devoted to a sport that should be anything but lifeless.

Football is supposed to be fun. For God’s sake, can somebody tell Match of the Day?

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

@MalikOlalekan3 Really hope not. I actually want to progress to the next round. Palace will target him like last time!

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

@allmyown4026 Robinson had a stinker. He’s not been bombing forward like he used to and even when he does his crossing was atrocious

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

I thought we played really well in the slippery conditions in terms of temperament and control. Final third bad but moment of brilliance fully deserved.

Garcia a worrry, not the goalscorer we needed albeit puts himself about.

AA managed that perfectly.

#UTF

[The Grizzler @The_Grizzlers]

Álvaro Arbeloa this is what the Fulham fans want and this is how you build the connections with the fans ❤️

[Anthony B 🏁 @Fulhamflutter]

@1966MJG Fizzing!!!