T the Gunner

Trust the process

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Veteran journalist Mujahid Abu Mufleh, before and after his detention in the Israeli Auschwitz camps.

[T the Gunner @GunnerSince93]

Morroco up against the refs and VAR

[T the Gunner @GunnerSince93]

@eurofootcom @EFEdeportes So nothing to do with the 3 min American Ad breaks?

[Anastasia Moran @AnastasiaSMoran]

An Israeli drone targeted a 10-day-old baby with a sniper rifle.

This baby is one of 60,000+ child casualties. There’s been no accountability for their deaths & injuries.

This is one of the many cases investigated by the UN Commission of Inquiry in its new report today 👇

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children https://t.co/v7Cul4wHzP

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Delivered by C‑section from her dead mother's body. 23 years old. 'israel' bombed and killed her. Buried them under rubble. The baby girl was named after her. Doctors gave her a 50/50 chance of survival. She died 5 days later and was buried next to her mum.

Check the date.

[Adam @AdamFulwell_]

We’re told to carpool into work, reduce emissions, reduce plastics etc etc and the BBC are incinerating a hole in the Ozone layer with a helicopter to show footage of a train??

[(fan) Trey @UTDTrey]

Wow this video is incredible

[Sudanalytics @sudanalytics_]

“Seguramente fue el ÚLTIMO PARTIDO DE MESSI EN UN MUNDIAL. Tendrá 35 AÑOS para el PRÓXIMO MUNDIAL DE QATAR”.

Esto fue hace ¡8 AÑOS!, después de eso fue Campeón del Mundo y, con 39 años, lleva 5 goles en 2 partidos en otro Mundial.

Lionel Andrés Messi. 🚬

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

In the 1970s and 1980s, over 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C via contaminated blood products.

When Andy Burnham became Health Secretary on 5 June 2009, terminal patients and activists targeted him immediately. They staged a protest outside his constituency office on 19 June.

Instead of acting, Burnham's department blocked statutory public inquiries, signed off letters denying government liability, and left the archives un-declassified under the standard 30-year rule.

Yet in 2017, conveniently on his very last day as an MP before becoming Manchester Mayor, he went on TV calling the scandal a 'criminal cover-up'.

His speech went viral. The media and victims' groups praised his passion, completely forgetting he himself had sat at the top of that 'covering-up' department. He chose to stay silent until there was zero political risk.

And this is not the only instance.

The Mid-Staffs Scandal (2005–2009), one of the worst care failures in NHS history, saw up to 1200 NHS patients die from systemic neglect. Patients were left in filth and drank from dirty flower vases.

Who was the Health Secretary tasked with handling the aftermath?
Andy Burnham.

His administration ignored 81 separate requests from grieving families, MPs, and health organisations for a full public inquiry, opting instead for a highly restricted, private independent review.

Why?
To protect Labour from an NHS crisis right before the 2010 election. The full statutory public inquiry was only granted after Labour lost— by the incoming Conservative Health Secretary.

Burnham didn't cause the scandals, but he did choose how to handle them. He suppressed the truth when he held power, then played the hero once he left office.

The ultimate political opportunist.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

The first person in British history to initiate the private management of an entire NHS hospital was Andy Burnham.

[T the Gunner @GunnerSince93]

Fuck you Balogun

[Charlie @CharlieHillReal]

I’ve counted about 5 air ambulances in the sky.

Bedford has a hospital but not a big one.

Luton has a bigger hospital with a proper trauma A&E but no helipad.

It’s also Friday night in a heatwave where A&E will be strained already

Thoughts with the healthcare heroes tonight

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🤍 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Yan Diomande emotional letter to his late sister:

"Dear Roxane,

Remember when somebody bought me a fake United jersey, and I wrote Ronaldo 7 on the back with the black marker?"

"We didn’t know rich or poor. We just knew happiness."

"Remember 25 people sleeping in one house back in Abidjan? Mum wanted to watch her soap operas. Everyone else wanted to watch movies. Remember how I always used to fake like I was asleep and then go into the TV room after midnight? I’d put the TV on real low. Just like 2 volume bars. I’d watch football in the dark and dream."

"Remember when the adults saw me playing football in the dirt and nicknamed me “Roberto Carlos” because of how hard I would shoot? And remember how I was secretly so mad about it, because CR7 was my idol?"

"Remember when I went to play so far from home? I was 9 years old. Inter Foot Sud Comoé, all the way near the Ghana border. Just a little boy on his own. I don’t know if I ever told you this story, but me and the other kids used to go into the village and steal potatoes because we were so hungry. We did a “bank heist.” Two kids distracting the shop owner, and 18 other kids running out with two potatoes. They weren’t even good. But they tasted amazing. Hahahah. It’s still my favorite thing to eat. Boiled potatoes with some oil. It reminds me of those times."

"Remember when I got my first real football boots, and I used to sleep with them? Growing up, I always played in those white plastic sandals. Even when I go back home now, I still play in them. It’s our tradition."

"Remember when I would come back home, and you would tell my friends from the neighborhood, “Why did you stop training? Yan is not going to buy you cars. You have to keep working."

"You were 10 years old, and already my agent."

"Remember how we used to sit and dream about moving to France? How we were going to go shopping and get our own apartment and I was going to be a rich footballer with cars and a big house, and you wouldn’t have to worry about nothing. You were the one who always believed that I could be the next Cristiano, when everybody else laughed."

"Remember when I moved to America for high school at 15, and I was so homesick? I didn’t know what anybody was saying for months. They sat me next to a French kid, and he tried to translate everything the teacher was saying. Remember when I called you, saying, “You won’t believe it, the kids here argue with teachers."

"Back home, you know we wouldn’t even dare to blink at our elders."

"Remember when I couldn’t believe the kids were smoking after school? You used to say it sounded like I was in an American TV show."

"Remember when they took me on trial at Bournemouth? At Chelsea, Rangers, Olympiacos, Crystal Palace? Eze and Olise even came up to me after one training and said, “Yo kid, you’re really good.”"

"But they still didn’t sign me."

"Even the B teams in the MLS didn’t want me. I didn’t even know why. They never gave me a reason. The adults handled everything. They just kept taking me all around Europe, and everybody kept saying no."

"My visa was up. My dream was over. They sent me back to Africa, and we cried together."

"You were the one who never stopped believing. A few weeks later, I signed for Leganés and we cried different tears."

"That was back when I used to have emotions. Now, I don’t feel anything. It’s like I’m not even human. Since you died, I’m just blank."

"I don’t even think I shed a tear the day they told me that you were gone. I was just in shock."

"It was a few weeks after I made my debut for Leganés. Who makes their debut at 18 against Real Madrid? It was too crazy. It was a dream."

"And then it was a nightmare. Someone kept calling me from back home. I was annoyed. I didn’t understand why they kept calling me."

"I picked up, and they didn’t even soften it. You know how it is back home. No emotions. Just……..

“Your sister is gone.”
“What?”
“She died.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Somebody put something in her drink at a party, and she never woke up. She is gone.”

"You were 15."

"15."

"I never got any answers. I don’t know if I want to know why. Maybe it was jealousy. Maybe it’s just something that happens in our country. Maybe I could have protected you. I don’t know."

"I try to trust God’s plan. It’s all I can do. I don’t try to forget, because I know I won’t forget. All I can do is use the pain to work harder, and to do everything we dreamed about."

"I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on. I will make sure that everybody knows your name. The whole world."

"Everything I do on a football pitch, it’s for you."

"So much has happened since I last saw you…… You would not even believe it. I don’t know if I believe it."

"You know what’s crazy? After my debut against Madrid, I actually swapped shirts with Mbappé. Remember when we used to watch him on TV, and you’d say, “Mbappé? Yeah, he’s good. But my brother is better.”

"I was wrong about one thing. I don’t want to be rich. I see what it does to people, even to family. When I was at Leganés, everything I was earning, I was sending home. It got to the point where I didn’t even want money anymore. It was just a burden. They never stopped asking. I guess they thought I was a millionaire already. I didn’t even have an apartment. I was living at the training ground in a room with no TV. Just football and sleep, football and sleep."

"I didn’t want a big house. I didn’t want cars. I just wanted to put everything into football. Everything to show the world that my sister was right……."

"Ha…. you will think this is funny. When I moved to play at RB Leipzig, I was always late. Well, not late. But I was on time, which in Germany means you’re very late."

"So you already know what I did next. I started arriving 90 minutes early to everything. I was so early all the time that the guys started calling me “The German.”"

"I always have to overdo everything. I have zero chill. You always said that."

"The pitch is the only place that I feel at home anymore. It’s the place where I feel calm, and I can speak to you. I just wish you were still here so I could tell you….. We did it."

"Everything you said came true."

"We’re leaving for the World Cup tomorrow. For real. Your brother is going to play for Côte d'Ivoire, like Drogba, like Yaya, like Gervinho."

"I don’t even look at it like a game. I look at it like a stage. This is my chance to show the whole world what you saw in me. Every time I score, I’ll make sure everybody knows your name. I’ll make sure they don’t forget you."

"You always said that I could be better than Cristiano. If I see him there, I’ll tell him hello for you."

"I’m going to do what you predicted, I swear. Before I even had real boots, you were telling everybody, “My brother is going to be the greatest in the world.”

"I will prove that you were right, or I will die trying... Your brother, Yan."

— @PlayersTribune

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

TRUMP: “Without The United States, There Would Be No Israel”

He meant it as a boast, but it landed as a confession: no US, no Israel.

[The Palestine News Network @PaliNewsNetwork]

YouTube just deleted PNN channel … we had over 40,000 new subscribers since March

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

Via FOIA, we formally requested Kash Patel’s travel itinerary for the 3 days leading up to Charlie Kirk’s assassination and we just heard back and were told the burden of the request is too great.

How is this even remotely legal?

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

Immigration has simply made countries stronger at this World Cup.

Folarin Balogun with a brace for the co-hosts. Nigerian parents, born in US, trained in English academies, now represents US.

Nestory Irankunda for Australia, youngest player to score for them at the World Cup. Born in a refugee camp in Tanzania, originally from Burundi. Australia took his family in, and he has just repaid them.

Yasin Ayari just scored a bullet for Sweden. Tunisia father, Moroccan mother, born in Sweden.

Ime Okon for South Africa. Nigerian father, South African mother, born in SA.

Isak, born in Sweden to Eritrean parents, who ran away due to civil war.

Curaçao, only Tahith Chong was born in Curaçao, all other 25 players were born in the Netherlands, that’s why they’re a bit decent with ex premier league and decent league players in the squad.

Haiti National team, about 12 players born in France including Isidor and Bellegarde, some others were born in USA and Canada.

Moroccan team that started yesterday, almost all of them were born abroad😭. Hakimi, Riad and Saibari were born in Spain, Bounou in Canada, Diop and Bouaddi in France, Talbi and El Khannouss in Belgium, Mazraoui in the Netherlands, even their coach was born in Belgium 😭😂

Felix Nmecha scored a banger for Germany earlier. Nigerian parents, born in Germany, raised in England, now plays for Germany.

Lamine Yamal, born in Spain to Moroccan and Equatorial Guinean parents. Represents Spain.

Hannibal, born to Tunisian parents in France, and moved to England at 16. Plays for Tunisia.

John Yeboah, born in Germany to Ghanaian Father and Ecuadorean mother, plays for Ecuador.

Zion Suzuki. Japanese mother, Ghanaian father, born in the US. Represents Japan.

Yan Valery for Tunisia was born in France to a Martiniquais father and Tunisian mother.

Mbappe? Algerian mother, Cameroonian father, born in France and plays for France.

Raphinha, born in Brazil but father is Italian-Brazilian and mother has both Italian and Angolan heritage. He plays for Brazil.

Olise. Born in England, represents France because his mother is Algerian but holds French citizenship. His father is Nigerian.

Jamal Musiala. Born in Germany to a Nigerian father and German-Polish mother. Represents Germany but was eligible to represent Nigeria, Poland, or England (he was raised there).

Anthonia Rudiger, born in Germany and plays for Germany. Parents are from Sierra Leone, they fled the war back then to Germany.

Alphonso Davies, his parents are Liberian, they fled the war and sought refuge in Ghana where he was born. They moved to Canada when he was age 5. The rest is history.

Diogo Costa, born in Switzerland to Portuguese parents. Plays for Portugal.

Guehi was born in Ivory Coast to Ivorian parents. Moved to England very young and now plays for England.

Chukwuemeka was born in Austria to Nigerian parents, he was raised in England. He holds 3 citizenship, but chose Austria.

David Alaba. Born in Austria, his mother is from Philippines and his father is from Nigeria. Represents Austria.

Theo and Lucas Hernandez, their father is french with Spanish heritage, mother is fully French. They both play for France.

Declan Rice, Irish from his father side, mother is fully English, born in England and plays for England.

Nico Williams, born in Spain to Ghanaian parents, plays for Spain. His brother, Inaki Williams was also born in Spain but represent Ghana.

Semenyo born in England to Ghanaian parents and plays for Ghana.

Van Dijk, Surinamese mother, Dutch father, born in Netherlands and plays for Netherlands.

Bukayo Saka, Nigerian parents but born in England and represent England. Same with Eberechi Eze.

Konsa, Congolese parents.
Mainoo, Ghanaian parents.
Harry Kane, Irish father and English mother.
Watkins, Jamaican descent. All born in England.

I’ll turn off my ink here. You can add many others in the comments. Immigration has made football very competitive.

[Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA]

Who did it better?