JoeyP1985

serial debater, european football connoisseur, views are my own, or retweets :)
he/him

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

Hi @TheTotallyShow - usmnt chat... they dont have another name. 3 lions, bafana bafana, die mannschaft, les bleus... the nickname is organic, and unfortunately their usmnt is what stuck

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

As a frequent visitor @danielstorey85 , can you set the record straight - it's 'Scilly', or 'The Isles of Scilly', but never the 'Scilly Isles'. You've let this pass with Jimbo for too long without course correction! Yours a Scillonian.

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

@HLTCO @JohnHodgson1986 Land of hope and Glory - rousing, but classic

Technically GSTK is British anthem, not England, so there is a gap... could Jerusalem along with Cricket? I would replace GSTK for Rule Britannia... but only for the tune, lyrics are problematic... (and Tbf, LoHaG ain't perfect...)

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

@DanNeidle Partially suppressive effect of '08 austerity - generation of missed wage growth.
Partially the self employed fudge of "pay with dividends not salary" motivated by split taxation policies?

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

@HLTCO I cant explain why, but its a Juventus shirt.

I'll like it if we win something in it...

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

@FootballCliches @DKingTelegraph I think we should use boots as the 'line'. It doesnt matter if you can score with other parts of the body... stops the faffing about working out where an armpit starts. Put chips in the boots, know were the toe and heel are = instant answer, no faff.

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

@faisalislam This seems a bit wrong way round? Increasing rates dampens demand-side inflation. This is supply-side inflation (like Brexit), increasing rates removes the ability to offset the shock and cuts growth, not inflation.

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

@DPJHodges But that is because he didn't?

It's a bit grubby, and Mandy's appointment was somewhat forced through before vetting had cleared, Keir doesnt appear to have knowingly lied / misled. Boris did. It's the Mens Rea. It's different.

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

Hi @FootballCliches , Steve Sidwell just described a QPR player as "a technician of the sphere" on Soccer Saturday!

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

Hi @British_Airways did you know that your "hotel map" when booking holiday never works. No matter what PC or tablet nor any browser I use.

[Luke Robert Black 🌳 @lukerobertblack]

It must have been so weird to pretend they’ve never met

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

🎥WHO PLACED THE BET?
Someone just made a killing with an extraordinarily well-timed bet on financial markets, minutes before Donald Trump's announcement of war talks yesterday.
Was it luck, or inside information?
Either way... someone just got rich.
Four min primer👇

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

@FootballCliches Longest ever VAR review? Can VAR even intervene once they've been allowed to play on? Are they going to "draw the lines" on 1966? #afcongonnaafcon

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

What Tice misses here, is there isn't "minimum/maximum tax we could pay" - there is only 1 tax rate, the one you pay. Most people aren't making moral judgements on how much tax they pay - they just pay the tax owed.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Richard Tice responds to reports he avoided nearly £600,000 in tax

"There is a moral imperative now in the UK that we shouldn't just pay tax as required, but you're a naughty person unless you pay the maximum tax you could possibly pay"

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

The referee said no, because he wasn't fouled.

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

Chelsea want a penalty but the referee says no! ❌

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

@SkySportsNews Woltemade doesn't kick palmer down in the box - Palmer stood on Woltemade's foot which was already on the floor.

Reece James' wrestling at a corner... that however was a pen.

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

Went to first West End musical in years with my two youngest today…

The centre of London was heaving with visitors, in a way unrecognisable from the image percolated on this site…

The stats underline this… West End has fully recovered and more from pandemic and now has overtaken Broadway on tickets sold - millions more, and more tickets sold than the Premier League…

This isn’t mirrored in all visitor attractions but seems an interesting and resounding success. Industry reports interesting new trends such as very last minute ticket purchases. Ticket prices do seem extortionate/ dynamically priced… but the stats suggest they are down a bit in real terms.

British Museum visitors at a 10 year high of 6.5 million…

Visitors generally fully recovered from pandemic, interestingly driven by domestic tourists and North Americans… seemed pretty clear that summer 2025 for example, London was world capital of live music.

Comes day after the Mayor of London wrote to Anthropic to come to London after their troubles with the Trump Administration and a marked change in the vibe around the investment in AI and tech…

While there’s obvious some challenges in any modern day mega city, and in Britain right now, strikes me that the stats show taking your cues from the mildly bizarre cultivated campaign against Britain and our capital on this site is likely to lead to erroneous perceptions.

Interested in any insights as to how the west end has overtaken the premier league and Broadway… and how other parts of UK have fared - as I’ve written before visitor numbers to places like Manchester are also booming re football, unis and now the music at the once laughed at Coop Live…

PS yes it was Wicked. And it was good.👍🏽 🧙

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

@ChrisDHWaugh Going over easy, and simulation are different things.

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

@CraigHope_DM I thought he was applauding Cunha, not the ref

[JoeyP1985 @Joeyp1985]

Newcastle vs Man Utd, haven't seen officiating this poor since Villa vs Newcastle 3 weeks ago. #NEWMNU