Alex

Hashem, @LFC, @FCMN_IL in that order.

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

THREAD

I have created a 'Jewish' XI of players currently active in English football and where they fit within Anglo-Jewry.

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

Been saying this about Gandelman since his @Fcmn_il days. Top player, who scores wherever he plays.

[Uri Levy @Levyninho]

עומרי גאנדלמן כובש מחזור שני ברציפות באיטליה

זה פשוט מטור�� שהבן אדם הזה קיבל 0 דקות בנבחרת ישראל בקמפיין מוקדמות מונדיאל 2026

ועל זה שבגיל 25, בואכה 26, יש לו 5 הופעות בנבחרת, 287 דקות בסה״כ, בהן כבש שער אחד, אני כבר לא מדבר. שערוריית ספורט

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

@piersmorgan @FootballCliches - can a team be breathing down your neck when they are currently one point ahead?

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

@UniRabbi BDE - may his memory be a blessing.

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

Back in my day this was called asking the Shul caretaker for the score updates at Shabbat Mincha.

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

I know it is the Belgian Pro League, but he is also a midfielder!

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

Since I started following @Fcmn_il, Omri has been my favourite player. If we are honest he was too good for us. Don't think this will be the last we see of him. Good luck Omri!

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

If Tottenham fans had anything about them they would start singing this

https://t.co/szzwdTKqWA

@WeRTottenhamTV

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ וְקִיְּמָנוּ וְהִגִּיעָנוּ לַזַּמַן הַזֶּה

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

Just left synagogue briefly and read the news in detail. Sickening, surreal.

For as long as I recall a fact of Jewish life has been security duty: ordinary lay members standing outside shul to create a physical and psychological deterrent against events like this. One always wonders - as I did recently, standing in a high-vis vest after agreeing to a far-too-irregular shift on a Shabbat morning, and as my wife has done far more often - how necessary that presence is.

I was in Pittsburgh shortly after a white nationalist assassinated worshippers at a progressive synagogue, I've gone through what feels like military security to get into a shul in Sweden, I was in Paris days after a jihadist sought to murder shoppers at a kosher supermarket. And of course I've been in bomb shelters in the Holy Land.

Britain has always felt different - a place where people, mercifully, do not have to die for being born Jewish. It is, by most objective measures, one of the best, possibly the best, places in the world to be Jewish, now or at any time in history. Yet who could say the last few years have not challenged that? Who today could say it is not necessary for us to stand outside our synagogues, waiting for an event like this befall us, hoping but not quite knowing this day will pass like all the others.

I always find it remarkable that on the two occasions I've been to JW3 (London's Jewish community center) since  October 7, on every occasion, people driving down Finchley Road have hooted or screamed abuse at the queue of elderly folk shuffling in - I posted about both incidents out of some tiny sense of obligation, knowing they formed part of a bigger story, even if my Britishness, and Jewishness, both made me want to do the opposite, to ignore and suppress it.

Until recently, our High Holy Days machzor - or prayer book for Yom Kippur - had remained the same since the 70s - written largely by Germanic Jewish scholars in the immediate shadow of the Holocaust, full of words and poems trying to make sense of that event. Seeing footage of a body soaked in blood outside a shul in Manchester, it feels like the penumbra of that period hover over us a little more today. On Yom Kippur the customary greeting is "Gamar Chatima Tova" - in short, may you be inscribed in the book of life for the following year. Which is why this attack, on our holiest day, is such an unimaginable affront to Jewish life in our country.

[slbsn @slbsn]

In fairness to Chelsea, it was impossible for their one main striker to get an injury.

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

His dad Yes is over the moon

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

⚪️⚫️✈️ Wilfried Ndidi, on his way to Istanbul as he’s joining Besiktas! 🦅

Exclusive pic from the flight and here we go. 🇹🇷

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

Class

[Adam Hurrey @FootballCliches]

Tomorrow.

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

זה היום עשה ה נגילה ונשמחה בו

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Liverpool FC. Premier League champions.

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

@screenrotpod Down it went, like data-led recruitment

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

@jonawils As an Israeli football fan I found this quite balanced, however, Maccabi TLV's rivals for the championship is Maccabi Haifa not Hapoel.

[Sharon Davidovitch @sDavidovitch]

צריך לומר עם יד על הלב: אמא שלהם זונה

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

@FootballCliches In Sydney a lot of venues have a 23:00 curfew. Was recently at a wedding and unironically commented that knowing there is a deadline looming means 'you leave nothing on the dance floor'

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

@AfcMagical @Biggies_MaIIs Yeah, the test in the NRL lasts 15 mins and is assessed by independent Drs. In the PL they need to find a way of 'punishing' those who exploit it by doing exactly what should be done to a player with a head injury.

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

This book appeared in "Bad Santa" at work. I took it out of circulation to ensure no Chillul Hashem. I am doing the Lord's work.

[Alex @LordAlexofDover]

@cricketcomau @FootballCliches "calf awareness" sounds like what a European manager, translating back into English. Bit like being in a "good moment".