Lesley-Ann Jones

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@RichieFirth Separating raw egg whites from yolks with my fingers

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@alexewing_ @BBCSport @editor_drs Fantastic 👏👏👏

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@stephenRB4 Silencio

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@InkRevenge How kind, thank you!

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I'm guessing that 'Stick it up yer Junta' is not allowed ... 🇪🇸

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@Hathers46allout ❤️ Stories he had.

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Twenty-three years ago, my father wrote this: an incisive and fascinating analysis of England's World Cup performances from 1934 to 2002. He and my mother attended both the 1966 final and the banquet at the Royal Garden Hotel. He never stopped talking about it. Those stories were our Thousand and One Nights. He longed to see England win again during his lifetime - which for a proud, devoted Welshman was not nothing.

After all these years of disappointment and unfulfilled expectations, maybe it's time again? Dare to dream, folks. Dare, dare to dream. #England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #WorldCup2026

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@IsEverythi61161 I'm like Dickie Attenborough. Everything moves me!

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I'm crying already ...

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Semi-final ready 💪

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@biltontowers @AlanHudson_10 @MartinKnight_ Immensely kind of you. Thank you! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Thomas Tuchel is realising that England players are about heart as much as head. Mentality as much as method. How often have we had this debate down the decades? Welcome to England, Thomas. Cold-eyed analysis of England’s performance is required, of course, and Tuchel will study the quarter-final win with his staff. But he has to appreciate the nature and source of the adrenalin that fuels many England players.

Tuchel was unhappy with the performance, and technical mistakes. His best player, Jude Bellingham, replied that it wasn’t technical or tactical issues but the psychological that underpinned England’s advance. xGuts.

England players fought to get through against Norway whereas, judging by Tuchel’s reaction, he wants more thought. Wayne Rooney made the same point when England slunk out of Brazil in 2014. More intelligence required, “streetwise” was the word Rooney used.

Argentina won the last World Cup with a blend of head and heart, and the genius that is Lionel Messi. England have Bellingham, a mix of savvy and spirit, technical and physical, all of it world-class, and he will surely relish looking for opportunities in an Argentinian defence that is not one of their better versions.

Bellingham disputed Tuchel’s initial critique of England’s win. Tuchel balanced it in subsequent interviews. “I’m in love with my players,” Tuchel said. “I'm proud, I'm happy, and I feel so connected to this team, because they just do whatever it takes to take the next step. They just refuse to lose. They overcome obstacles and adversity.”

There was a “but’ coming, a chunky caveat. “But I'm also a football coach, I also have demands that we want to bring out the best in us.” To improve performance. “Performance helps you win games. We can play better. It was not a high-level game. We made life complicated for ourself.

"The head of mine is not fully satisfied. We can play faster. We can play more clinical. Too many unforced errors and technical mistakes in our game. That cost us a lot of belief. We got lucky in decisive moments. But I am not saying that we are lucky to win.”

Tuchel then opened up on his own emotional reaction to it all. “I feel very alive. I don’t want to be anywhere else in the world. It's a new level of emotional rollercoaster.” Welcome aboard, Thomas. #ENG

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The great Paul Gambaccini reveals he has Alzheimer’s. His response? “As Freddie Mercury once sang, you can’t turn back the clock, you can’t turn back the tide. Ain’t that a shame. There’s no denying it’s a serious condition with an uncertain future, but for now life goes on as normal and I continue to broadcast.” Magnificent.

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@patricksturg You know this how?

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@mancunianmedic Simply the pest. 🐀

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A moratorium on bitching about Harry & Meghan, por favor. I am so fed-up with it all.

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Is anyone else still recovering from staying up for the football the other day? I’m getting too old for this.

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@Judyastley @ProofreadJulia 🤣 And had he had one?