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[Sevenoaks Town FC @SevenoaksTownFC]

“For me this isn’t just about football, it’s about community. It’s about bringing everyone together” 🤝❤️

Some words from our chairman, Paul Lansdale, at the official opening last night of the Greatness Football & Community Centre 🙌

🔵⚫️ | #Sevenoaks #STFC

[LolBain🇺🇦 @LolBain]

@LewisStanding1 The North East used to make cars. Now they import them. Should we just accept cheap Chinese imports and forget UK car manufacturing then?🤷‍♂️

[Madness Daily @MadDaily2]

Madness and the Bayeux Tapestry 😁😉😉😎😎

[Batfox Pictures @Batfox_Pictures]

An American soul song became an unlikely a cappella classic for The Housemartins. Originally recorded by Isley-Jasper-Isley, “Caravan of Love” was completely stripped of instrumentation for the Hull band’s 1986 version, putting their vocal harmonies at the centre. The single went on to become The Housemartins’ only UK No. 1. Performing it on The Tube in 1986, the band showcased a very different side from their usual jangly guitar pop.

[Dean Henderson @deanhenderson]

Up and running. Huge win - Let’s go!!
Mitchell🔥
CPFC.❤️💙

[The Beak of Beak Street 🏆 🏆 🏆 @CFO4TAG]

Fulham Ultras are in fine voice ahead of their clash with Crystal Palace #ffc #cpfc

[AxoAndy @AxoAndy]

BREAKING: Andy Burnham to be paid to appear on Russian state run TV

*checks notes*

Sorry, it was actually Nigel Farage who made many paid appearances on the banned Kremlin-run Russia Today 🇷🇺

[LolBain🇺🇦 @LolBain]

@KerrRechts Let’s go!

https://t.co/q3UZXE5H1D

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

These points are frighteningly accurate. Clubs are deliberately looking at long standing supporters, taking away long fought for rights and making basic things like season tickets a weapon to remove rather than a part of "ownership" and support of the club.

A study was done over a decade ago and they are right, stadiums are full of people my age, with previous few avenues for youngsters, the vibrant future of any club, to congregate together as a large, noisy, feisty and sometimes intimidating group.

I'm surprised Palace owners have let it get this far because with greatest respect to a club I started at, 90's Palace was old, Surrey based and "nice". HF undoubtedly have made Selhurst a prickly place to play so their attendance is proof that embracing positive supporter change works. And works well.

Going to be honest, not a fan of the mimickery by English supporters of European Ultras groups per se, we have a 150 year old raw, passionate culture and we do things differently, so that's my tuppence on the "look" of groups like HF rather than the extremely valid points they make, which I support 100%.

We've just come off the $1000 a ticket World Cup, we know tourists from afar's spend is more valuable to clubs that a season ticket holder who doesn't need to spend £600 in the shop, and we know that through a cost of living crisis, youngsters are finding cheaper teams to support ( a very welcome unintended consequence of Prem pricing) or move away from football entirely.

If I were shouting still on radio this is exactly the debate we'd be having tonight, rattling cages of those in power, inviting guests into squirm a little as they try to defend pricing, strategy and bringing more youngsters into stadia. Alas, the Premier League, like FIFA and UEFA want only happy clappy official broadcasters to " tell them how great we are ", so you won't find HF statement being answered by anyone relevant in football, they just ignore and ride it out. It's why we are where we are now.

I hope HF reconsider, and I hope good people like @CEO4TAG can find a solution, we need more, not less HF.

Football without hardcore fans, is nothing.

Football without tourists, is fine.

Look after those who've looked after uou for 150 years. Today, tomorrow and in the future. It's why English football IS so special.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It’s hard to imagine many people having a bigger impact than Dolly Parton. Born in a one-room cabin, she earned 11 Grammys and an Emmy, built a business empire, helped millions of kids learn to read, and — as if that wasn’t enough — helped accelerate the research that led to the Moderna COVID vaccine. What a life. Michelle and I are thinking of Dolly’s family and her many, many fans.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

WATCH: The Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for the late Dolly Parton

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

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[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Today the Kremlin confirmed that CIA director John Ratcliffe held talks in Moscow with Russian intelligence officials, but not with Vladimir Putin. Here's what we know (and what we don't). Producer @BBCBenTavener

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

The brilliant Paul Whitehouse promoting the water referendum petition - this one - please sign and share https://t.co/p7dZoNJONr

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I'm rather liking this I have to say.....

[Mike Bones @mrmikebones]

The Prodigy “Girls” 2004

From Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. A standout moment in their post-Fat of the Land era.

[LolBain🇺🇦 @LolBain]

@PintsBeauty https://t.co/rRcK8xHg3e

[SOS Whitstable @SOSWhitstable]

It rained for an hour or so overnight, the first rain we've seen in quite some time.

Yet it was enough for @SouthernWater to release sewage in Hythe, thus rendering their beach unsafe to swim today.