After MUFC fans suffered rough treatment in Lyon in '24, I got a message from Andy Burnham asking what he could do to help.
He'd long been into fanzine culture (I first met him in '98).
Later a regular at Munich memorials.
And the only politician to have been on TOTD
🚨BREAKING: More names have been revealed in connection with Palantir CEO Peter Thiel's "secret society" Dialog.
The names are broken out into attendees of the club's retreats and the society's founding members.
So Vini Jr is going to play under a manager who recently justified racism against him.
Militao is going to play with a LB who once called him a m0nkey to his face.
Kylian Mbappe is going to play with a player who was caught on camera being racist towards him and his teammates?
A married man drove nine hours to meet a woman he met online, only to learn she was a fake profile created by two football fans seeking revenge after a vacation argument.
A Manchester United fan met two Liverpool supporters on holiday in Cancun, argued about football for three weeks, got thrown in the swimming pool, and drove nine hours to Aberdeen to meet a woman who didn't exist.
They made it all the way from Mexico to Sheffield before striking.
Back home, the two Liverpool fans set up a fake social media account for a Scottish woman named Emma and began messaging Stuart Slann, 39, from Sheffield.
After a month of flirtatious emails and texts, Emma invited him to visit her at a remote farm in Aberdeen.
Slann drove nine hours through the night. When he arrived the farm was empty. Emma sent a text saying she was still at work. He waited in his car for three and a half hours.
Then his phone rang.
"Do you recognise our voices, Stuart? It's them Scouse lads who threw you in the pool. Do you recognise our Scouse accents?"
He replied: "Yes I do." They told him: "You've been framed" and burst into laughter.
Slann told the Sheffield Star: "It was a cruel thing to do. If they had asked me to drive to Manchester, Leeds or even Liverpool it wouldn't have been so bad. But Aberdeen was just cruel."
The story has one final, brutal footnote. His wife reportedly left him after discovering he had driven nine hours to meet a woman from the internet.
Mbappé’s girlfriend, Ester Expósito, recently said in an interview: “You can’t sit down and debate a Nazi. It just makes them think being a Nazi is a normal opinion.”
These are the idols the next generation actually needs.
This is fucking horrific. Pochin telling England to keep winning so blokes don't batter their wives, instead of telling abusers not to abuse.
Can't believed what I have just watched.