Danny Thompson ⚫⚪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇻🇳

A friend first, a boss second... probably a twitterer third. Welsh blooded Geordie teaching in the Nam. You're not as confused as I am. Sport, music, travel. 🌍

[Luke Edwards @LukeEdwardsTele]

@FabrizioRomano You don’t speak to anyone at #nufc because they know what you do. If you did speak to anyone you would have avoided this. Must have missed his unveiling, think he went to Brighton! You do you. I’ll stay in my lane big man x

[Jay 🐺 (R) @jay_wwfc07]

Let's be incredible clear here, the entire reason that Starmer is resigning is because people like Farage, Lowe, Robinson and co have convinced the lesser minded of the country that he was doing an awful job.

Anyone who can research can see he really wasn't...

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[Roberto Parrottino @rparrottino]

Marcelo Bielsa: “Jugar cuatro tiempos en lugar de dos altera la concepción que culturalmente se había construido para interpretar el fútbol. No le agrega nada y le quita mucho. Cuando se dividió en cuatro no se pensó en el efecto que puede tener sobre lo que hizo que el fútbol sea un deporte que enamora, sino que se pensó en otro tipo de repercusiones que no las discuto ni las analizo. Antes de esta decisión el fútbol tenía una característica; ahora tiene otra. La gente se enamora del juego por sus características”.

[Kaka @KAKA]

Reunidos 🇧🇷⚽️

[NUFCThreatLevel @NUFCThreatLevel]

As a defender, would you even bother trying to win the header?

[Danny Thompson ⚫⚪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇻🇳 @ItsDanInNam]

@WhitleyBayFC Class - well done lads. 👏👏👏

Right winner for goal of the season IMO - mental strike.

[Danny Thompson ⚫⚪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇻🇳 @ItsDanInNam]

@HLTCO It's a crime the final isn't in Mexico

[Jess 🌻 @jessicarrrrrrrr]

I hope if the UK get a chance to host the world cup they take a leaf out of usa's book and zoom in on random British celebs like Tyrone from Corrie, Gareth Gates and the guy from the pepto bismol ad

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

Dear America,

Camera cuts into the crowd is for picking out shots of baddies from around the world, fans doing random stuff unaware that they’re on the big screen etc not your American tv celebrities. Stop ruining the culture of our beautiful game.

Regards
Football.

[Danny Thompson ⚫⚪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇻🇳 @ItsDanInNam]

@dilanesper @UtdResurgent Again - acting in good faith - it is not inevitable.

It is only inevitable if you impose the working culture of the United States onto the game that the rest of the world already cherishes & has done for generations.

The United States take is the outlier.

[Danny Thompson ⚫⚪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇻🇳 @ItsDanInNam]

@KV__82 I think most would agree with you (including me).

His face often doesn't seem to fit for some reason.

[Danny Thompson ⚫⚪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇻🇳 @ItsDanInNam]

What happened to "Not all head contact is foul play?".

Carley's starting point is yellow & the only debate is whether to upgrade.

Shocker of a referee & shouldn't have a game as big as this. #NORvEXE #SAIvCHI

[Danny Thompson ⚫⚪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇻🇳 @ItsDanInNam]

@jesstuck18 The RFU's insistance on giving all the big games to Carley or Dickson is mindboggling.

[Mia “GIRT” Lastname @themiasandrist]

Crying tears of pride right now

[Oliver Brown @oliverbrown_tel]

These ‘hydration breaks’ are fundamentally warping the World Cup. Curacao had just enjoyed perhaps the highlight so far with that equaliser against Germany and were on the attack again. Then three minutes to promote a laptop brand, and momentum is handed straight back. Wretched.

[Danny Thompson ⚫⚪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇻🇳 @ItsDanInNam]

@HLTCO Terrible time for it as well. Totally breaks the Curaçao momentum, gives Germany the chance to regroup.

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

Don't know if this is common knowledge, but the BBC has produced a spoiler-free link to watch World Cup match highlights without knowing the score.

Simply go here:

https://t.co/dg52CjYbN8

[Mike Stanley @mikestan87]

The burglar at 3am coming in the patio door to see you sat in your underpants watching South Korea v The Czech Republic: