I’ve yet to hear a radical thought from Andy Burnham as he campaigns to return. He’s U turned on the EU, and on trans rights. He’s appeasing the far right on immigration. And he’s vague about renationalising utilities - even water in England. All very Starmeresque.
Trump has just announced he will not attend Don Jr's wedding this weekend, due to "circumstances pertaining to Government."
Trump's official schedule shows he will be spending the weekend at his golf resort in New Jersey.
VAR bias has decided the league title.
That’s a remarkable sentence, but you do have to ask yourself why clubs will expect anything different next year if the standard of the people involved at the top - and the technology itself - doesn’t improve.
To be clear: they’re not protesting against the sexual torture of Palestinians by Israeli authorities. They’re protesting against the NYT for reporting it.
Referees, like anyone, should not have to suffer threats or intimidation.
But this hasn't just happened in a scottish oasis of calm and tranquility where refs have been supported and lauded.
There has been a form of aggressive lobbying from the top of one football club ever since the Dougie McDonald incident, this set a tone and agenda that their fanbase carried relentlessly without counter or repercussion.
The referee strike and why it happened has been erased from history. That should have been a watershed moment - it wasn't
They continued as they started to see results from the pressure, and successive CEOs / chairman / managers of Celtic maintained the tone and pressure - explicit and implicit. And now here we are.
Rangers have occasionally spoke up when they feel the need, but nothing as concerted and pernicious as Celtic's 15yr campaign.
This statement tells a story much higher than Beaton got threats because of Wednesday night, but most don't want to tell it.
This is not what VAR was sold as, and highlights the obvious issue for Collum/SFA - if the technology available in 🏴 requires ‘subjective’ decisions it isn’t being used to correct the clear & obvious & as such simply isn’t fit for purpose.
Editor: you get those kit launch photos of Bryan Mbeumo?
Photographer: Sure did, boss. Tapering to an abyssal void of infinite darkness just like you asked.
Editor: what
Since Thursday’s loca election, five Reform councillors have been forced to resign, four have been suspended, and one wants the Doncaster Council to monitor UFO activities.