Lee Gabriel

Mostly here for politics and history.

[Lee Gabriel @LeeTGabriel]

@UpdatingOnRome Teutoburg forest is lovely this time of year.

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Cape Verde was a great story. Truly great. But 2 weeks after, football doesn't give a fuck, less so after 1, 2 or 4 years.

If Mauritius, Mozambique, Mali do the same, great, but for 99% of fans, 99% of the time, across the world, nobody cares.

If France, Italy, Germany, England, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal boycott a World Cup, it's automatically invalid. It's just the truth.

Likewise, a club World Cup without any of Europe's top 25 clubs is invalid. Nobody is watching Inter Miami v Boca Juniors except in markets that simply don't generate revenue or global interest.

UEFA should immediately take over global law making ( UEFA replace FIFA 4 votes in a new IFAB with the 4 home nations continuing holding the other 4 votes).

Europe has paid football's bills for 150 years. It does not need to vote for a man in an island of 100,000 to hold the game to random because FIFA are giving him 20 mil.

I'm half English, half Barbadian. One has paid its football dues, the other hasn't, so the other cannot and must not hold the balance of power.

When two thirds of football nations fill their stadiums, support grassroots football, create a pyramid, have women's teams, find kids, then their vote is equal to a European powerhouse.

Not a day before.

Time for UEFA to secede from FIFA

FIFA needs UEFA. UEFA doesn't need FIFA.

[Harry Kane @HKane]

No words are big enough right now to overcome this empty feeling in the stomach. We were close, really close to another final but it wasn’t enough. We’ve given everything over these last 7 weeks and to fall short is hard to take!

I know the expectations are high and rightly so, we’ve been knocking on the door for 8 years now but again are missing that final piece of the jigsaw! That’s where we have to go away, process it and find a way to get better. I’m so proud of the boys and what we have shown throughout this tournament - some tough games and tough environments that we have overcome.

Some memories that will stay with us players and I’m sure you fans for a long long time! Going for glory doesn’t always mean you will get it. You have to fight for it, get knocked down, pick yourself up and go again and that’s what we will do, there’s no other way but to keep believing and keeping pushing.

Thank you to every single fan that travelled and showed their support in the stadiums. Thank you to every fan back home for believing in us. Thank you to the boys and staff for everything you have given. As always Win or lose, we learn and go again! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🦁

[Telegraph Football @TeleFootball]

Harry Kane has accused ITV and other World Cup broadcasters of trying to create division in the England squad as he dismissed the notion of a rift

“When you are playing a game like that and to be asked a question five minutes after the final whistle, and he [Bellingham] didn’t really know what the manager has said, what do you want Jude to say?

“It is easy to try and create this division – it seems like an English mentality, an English thing to do at these major tournaments."

🔗: https://t.co/3PuYdEb749

[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

[Lee Gabriel @LeeTGabriel]

@aljhlester Particularly amused that Suez was used as an example - a crisis where the US famously opposed and threatened to bankrupt Britain.

[Lee Gabriel @LeeTGabriel]

@isofttechn @awkwardgoogle @gork @grok It’s “Mary on a Cross”

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

🚨 Judge Only Trials 🚨

The law of unintended (👀) consequences.

An old-fashioned long thread.

And a prediction.

👇🏼🪡 🧵

[Lee Gabriel @LeeTGabriel]

@hoxtonwanka @guidoacasa @RossMcCaff And there is actual competition. Trains are a monopoly. A heavily subsidised monopoly.

[Flushing It @flushingitgolf]

Scottie Scheffler’s caddie, Ted Scott has posted a public apology to Francesco Molinari on his Instagram page. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come and there will be less hostilities at the Ryder Cup today 🤝

[Eduard Habsburg @EduardHabsburg]

@HistoricHive I assume he wants to marry one of my daughters

[Professor Kishan Devani BEM @Kishan_Devani]

"Immigrants are not #British Citizens"

Let me tell you - I'm the Son of East African Indian Refugees from Uganda that came here in the 1970s & I'm proud to be #British. I'm as #British as anyone in our amazing country. So stop your division & let us be!

RT if you agree with me!

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Reminder:
Immigration is NOT the reason that you CANT get a hospital appointment

Immigration is THE ONLY reason that you CAN get a hospital appointment

An NHS is only surviving on immigrant doctors, nurses & support staff

If you want to blame someone, think who’s in power….

[Miffy @miffythegamer]

A good example of this cordiality was Michael Foot, who even Thatcher described as a "thoroughly decent man". Politically, they could not have been further apart. I think culture wars have brought us to this place: where you're either Team or Team B. Team Red, Team Blue. (3/4)

[Lee Gabriel @LeeTGabriel]

@VodafoneUK I’ve been on hold for 30+ minutes.

[Lee Gabriel @LeeTGabriel]

@VodafoneUK @Jonezie It 100% does not work. I’ve tried it on multiple devices / browsers.

[Ben de Pear @bendepear]

$725 million is the settlement in America - but @facebook @meta was used to directly bombard c. 7 million with 1 billion Facebook ads grossly distorting the truth in the last weeks of #brexit by @Dominic2306 - he credits these ads as crucial see them here https://t.co/lzNwX8XIIA

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Nobody who has paid attention to the extreme Brexiteers should be remotely surprised about what has happened today. For the Brextremists Brexit was always about slashing taxes for the rich, shredding regulations for the corporates, and hoping culture wars, slogans and bullshit1/4

[Lee Gabriel @LeeTGabriel]

@JohnInSheffiel1 Also, you don’t add percentages like that 🤣