Happy Gherkin

Just a smiling pickle.

[Scousericey @scousericey]

*Cheats

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

That Tuchel comments about DNA is ridiculous. It wasn’t DNA that left Mainoo on the bench and several of England’s most talented ball players out of the squad. Or who brought on multiple brawny defenders when England needed to keep the ball.

[BBC 5 Live Sport @5liveSport]

Julien Laurens doesn't hold back on Tuchel after England's World Cup exit💥

He says the manager should be sacked and that he hasn't accepted the blame for last night's defeat🫣

#BBCFootball #FIFAWorldCup #England

[Julien Laurens @LaurensJulien]

The most damning for Tuchel, even if you think he isn’t responsible for this embarrassment, is that he had a drink break to change everything. He had 4 minutes to make sure the players would do something different than the previous 10 minutes, to change things. And it got worse!!

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

Fascinating the way Fabregas explains why he doesn’t want to sub on a defender (s) to protect a 1-0 lead. Tuchel, come and take notes.

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

Let's be clear: that was tactical cowardice. It takes guts to defend deep but more to back yourself to keep going. That Konsa-Gordon sub will live in my head until the Euros. Don't tell us that it will be different if you're going to make exactly the same mistakes.

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Every single word of this from @Tim_Vickery is spot on. You literally couldn’t say it better.

England had Argentina exactly where we wanted them and gave them the game.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Dan Burn ahead of Harry Maguire is absolutely baffling. On grounds of form, experience, leadership, penalty-taking. Baffling.

[Cain Smith @cainsmithMU]

Reading the entire report for this Maguire thing is hilarious. The fourth official admitted that he ‘misheard’ him saying ‘you’re a joke’ (Maguire said that he said ‘what a joke’) but that he definitely said ‘you’re all a fucking joke’ afterwards…

He filed the initial report, later admitted that half of it could be wrong and then the FA still back his account of it 🤣🤣

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

A Reform council is scrapping a scheme that costs it nothing & helps refugees integrate, while Reform scapegoats refugees for failing to integrate.

This is the nature of Reform and the viciously racist ideologies that feed it from overseas.

https://t.co/C1oFDNukdI

[Luke Charters MP @lukejcr]

So there we have it. Reform UK want to repeal the Equality Act.

This is the law that:

Stops your boss sacking you for being pregnant.

Protects disabled workers who need adjustments to do their job.

Backs up equal pay for women.

Stops people from being harassed at work because they’re LGBT+.

Makes it illegal to refuse someone a job or a service because of their race or religion.

And THIS is what they’ve decided is the problem in Britain?

Not the cost of living.
Not NHS waits.
Not wages. (They said they’d actually them CUT for young people)

But YOUR rights.

THEIR culture wars would TEAR UP protections that millions of hardworking Brits rely on every day.

NO THANKS ❌

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Bruno Fernandes’ fingerprints are all over just about every fast, crisp and fluid passage of play that Manchester United are stringing together under Michael Carrick.

He is revelling in the freedom he has been granted. On form, there is not a better player in the Premier League right now.

📝 @mjcritchley

🔗 https://t.co/l8y7gXzUQO

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zack Polanksi, "Nigel Farage claims to be a patriot but I don't think there is anything patriotic about Reform UK"

"A patriot loves their country, their neighbours, no matter what the colour of their skin or what country they might have come from"

"Water companies should not be sold off to foreign investors, they should be in public ownership. Green Party's policy is renationalisation"

"That's patriotism"

"We also hear Nigel Farage call himself a populist"

"Populism is about the 99% against the 1%"

"Nigel Farage claims to be a man of the people but he's a man of the wealthy people"

"He's literally there to defend the 1%"

"This isn't about hating the 1%, some of the 1% like the Patriotic Millionaires - a group of millionaires who are saying tax us more as this would be better as tackling inequality would result in a better society"

"The very best of being British, is saying that when we gather together in our communities, even when we disagree, less divisive hateful rhetoric peddled by the right. Instead more hope and solidarity bringing communities together"

[Stu’s Football Flashbacks @stusfootyflash]

Today marks 31 years since Lee Sharpe’s glorious backheel equaliser against Barcelona.

One of the great Champions League goals of the 90s.

Pure class. @Sharpeyofficial

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

If you want to leave the ECHR which of these rights are you happy to give up?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Gary Neville, "I played in a football team with a group of people from Manchester, from Ireland, Wales, Scotland. But also people from Africa, Asia, America, Europe. And we were a beautiful team, united as one"

"Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country"

"The messaging is getting dangerous"

"All these idiots out there spreading hate speech in any form, abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them"

"We must stop elevating our voices towards them"

"It needs to stop now"

"And get back to a country of love, peace and harmony"

"And become a team again"

💯👏

[. @jdpoc]

Hard to find a more accurate, succinct summary of the Reform Party.

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"We do love England."

'A New England' singer Billy Bragg on his love of Englishness and the St George's cross flag.

#Newsnight

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

“The whole frame of the migration crisis is a racist, fascist frame.”

Migrants are “not to blame” for the state of British public services, instead the answer is to point the finger at “private jets, millionaires and billionaires”, Green Party leader Zack Polanski says.

[Otto English @Otto_English]

Doting grandad terrorised and labelled a paedophile for daring to play with his grandchildren in a park.

A disgusting story demonstrating the disgusting state of affairs in this country.

Everyone who has enabled this climate should be deeply ashamed

https://t.co/fDHPHe07Xl