Mick Scanlon

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@FXMC1957 If Bobby Charlton was such an important factor in the England side then why didn’t he ever play for England again after that World Cup defeat? I think Alf should have started with Colin Bell who was arguably a better player than Charlton at that point in time.

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@simon5233 @FXMC1957 Or they lost because England had no reserve goalkeeper with a decent amount of match practice in an England shirt. It’s easy to criticise Bonetti but he and Alex Stepney just had a handful of caps between them. Was Alf Ramsey too reliant on Gordon Banks?

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@def_leppar20044 Get Off of My Cloud.

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@HillF1 Thanks for posting this because @C4F1 didn’t give the names. I had a guess and got your father and Jackie Stewart right but wrongly assumed Jim Clark was the third driver.

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@afneil Nandy is the patron saint of Labour Party mediocrity. I wonder if the Kremlin knows that she’s our Minister of State for Culture? They’d have an even bigger laugh at that.

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@slinehan1 I grew up in an era when there were none of these court-side teams. Tennis was very much a self-contained game with players wholly reliant on their tactics, decision-making, resilience and win or lose mindset. Maturity too which I sometimes feel is lacking in Emma Raducanu.

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@SuperbFootyPics Appearances can be deceptive. It wan’t a happy club. Both George Best and Frank O’Farrell would be gone by the end of the season. Just four years on from winning the European Cup and the club was in freefall.

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@TheGolfDivoTee One of the greatest sporting disappointments of my life. The golfing gods didn’t smile that day. I just wonder if Tom had chipped that shot just off the 18th green instead of trying the long putt. The sadness compounded by the play-off in which he seemed exhausted.

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@C4F1 @LeeMcKenzieTV @therealdcf1 Great coverage today and such an occasion. You briefly discussed that it was the first British podium since 1968 but didn’t mention those drivers back in the day. A pity. Guessing here but was it Jim Clark, Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart?

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@robertmdaws @ManUtd Great picture. David Herd and possibly George Best in the background.

[Lisa Pease @lisapease]

If the west stopped funding Israel’s wars they would collapse in a heartbeat. We don’t even have to kill people to do this. We just have to stop supplying them the weapons they’re using to kill everyone else. And if the countries they’ve attacked in genocide, want to fight back, well, Israel, has it coming. But sadly, so does the US. Our karma is so bad right now. I don’t know if this country will ever recover.

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@_PaulHayward Good morning, Paul. I really really enjoyed your article on Aaron Rai in today’s @observer But disappointed to see you focus on English winners of the US Open and not mention Northern Ireland’s @Graeme_McDowell and his groundbreaking win at Pebble Beach in 2010.

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@DjokovicFan_ I think the fact that Margaret Court held the record with 24 slams for so long might have been a factor. That was an irritation to many. It was imperative for them to dilute Court’s achievements and they badly wanted someone to equal or surpass that total - male or female.

[Boris Becker @TheBorisBecker]

JC is a legend

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@TheGolfDivoTee Poor Doug Sanders. I’ve never forgotten that image of his whole body crumpling after he missed that putt.

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@TheGolfDivoTee Thankyou! I’m really chuffed. Not to take anything away from Lee Trevino’s genius but I think it was a devastating loss for one of my childhood sporting heroes - Tony Jacklin.

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@BBCSpringwatch Why couldn’t @ChrisGPackham offer one word of praise for that wonderful little feature by @IoloWilliams2 about the water voles? Chris makes too much about himself and this was a case in point. It was a lovely film, Iolo. You made the water vole so endearing.

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@WhitesideOne ……on the vine at Manchester United.

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@WhitesideOne George’s physical decline in just two years (1972-74) was sad to see. He was a great footballer but he’d also been a great athlete. His speed, conditioning and durability - all lost with his bewildering retirement in 1972. If only he’d somehow kept playing. His career withered….

[Mick Scanlon @MickScanlon63]

@TheGolfDivoTee “Lee, you’ve talked and wisecracked your way to the Open Championship and with the most outrageous luck I’ve ever seen on a golf course. Now please, please I beg you, just shut the **** up, get the claret jug and let me **** off home to make sense of it all. There’s a good lad.”