Graham Comrie

Dino Bellagio - Nick Brown Racing

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

They want you to believe Keir Starmer leaves no legacy. They’re wrong.

[Sophia Cai @SophiaCai99]

FULL timeline of the campaign to bring Balogun back, according to a half dozen U.S. government & soccer officials:
- Wednesday after U.S.-Bosnia match: Andrew Giuliani alerted Trump to the red card (Trump & Giuliani had been talking multiple times/week since start of World Cup and regularly before that.)
- Wed night: Giuliani, Lutnick and U.S. Soccer officials began activating on plans to challenge red card
- That kicked off 4 days of coordinated lobbying, legal maneuvering & diplomacy that stretched from Oval Office to Zurich
- On *Thursday* Trump dialed Gianni Infantino and asked abt FIFA’s rules around the red card decision and grounds for suspension. (They’ve known each other for 8 yrs.)
- FIFA declined to confirm any specific discussions but reiterated to POLITICO that the decision to suspend the one-match ban was made by an independent disciplinary committee.
- As U.S. Soccer’s legal team formally prepared & submitted its appeal to FIFA, Giuliani + Lutnick offered to make White House attorneys available to assist
- At the same time, Giuliani and Scott Goodwin — a hedge-fund manager who had helped pay the salary of Mauricio Pochettino — zeroed in on the officiating history of referee Raphael Claus
-Articles examining previous controversies involving Claus circulated among senior gov officials as they evaluated every argument that could bolster the appeal
- On FIFA side, Emilio García, who oversees the legal affairs of FIFA, advised Infantino on the available procedural options
- García + other FIFA officials worked to determine whether the circumstances of Balogun’s tackle met the narrow standards that would allow the disciplinary decision to be revisited
- By Sunday, FIFA announced that Balogun’s one-match suspension would be suspended
- FIFA insists that the decision was an independent one made by its 18-person disciplinary committee, but it would not say whether the decision was decided through a vote, and it has not published a report on the decision.

https://t.co/eXOOUkza6N

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@BetsideJay Well if ever there was an if only…..

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@RacingPost Watch out for school trips.

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@brianorbrain2 @s23lgn @ScotlandNT Seen that now, incredible disparity. Even for the likes of Tullberg and Perez.

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@s23lgn @ScotlandNT Glasner. Probably out the salary range though ?

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@Grant_Colgate Quasi Colgate ? All the graft might give you the hunch. Too handsome though ?

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.

B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

The Flashing Blade (1967). The historical French children's drama set during the War of the Mantuan Succession - that's what the kids want!

It was recut and redubbed by the BBC in 1969 and frequently shown throughout the 1970s.

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@Grant_Colgate I’ll fax it.

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@DrSimonsTravels Might be alright in Holland ?

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@RacingPost Too jazzy ?

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

Too jazzy ?

[Racing Post @RacingPost]

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[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@Grant_Colgate It’s his annual leave.

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@Grant_Colgate Didn’t catch it all but I’m sure some of that was dog speak for beer garden.

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@Grant_Colgate Chester checking it all out.

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@jamietomo @wpymes @RAF_Luton I heard that after the 10 mile training run they were puffin.

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@Grant_Colgate Asked my gardener (me) he says leave them and head to a beer garden.

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@Grant_Colgate So did we when we moved. He says he hates doing it, hurts his back, it’s a pain in the backside and pointless cos nobody sits in it. Says it’s better in a beer garden.

[Graham Comrie @GrahamComrie3]

@BetsideJay Some run from that side.