Little Mick Hewitt who is a Leeds United Supporters legend .Was travelling to Boston for England game via Barcelona .Not been seen for 9 days last heard from in Barcelona.Share please let’s get him found .#LUFC
Morì nel sonno, la mattina di Natale del 2016. Aveva solo 53 anni.
Eppure, anche dopo la sua morte, George Michael continuava a salvare vite.
Solo allora il mondo scoprì ciò che aveva sempre tenuto nascosto: aveva donato milioni di sterline a orfani, senzatetto, malati e famiglie in difficoltà.
In silenzio.
Senza telecamere.
Senza bisogno di applausi.
Una concorrente di un quiz TV aveva detto di sognare un figlio, ma non poteva permettersi un trattamento in vitro.
Il giorno dopo, trovò sul suo conto 15.000 sterline.
Le aveva mandate lui, senza dire il suo nome.
Lavorava nei rifugi per senzatetto, travestito da volontario.
Donava 100.000 sterline ogni Pasqua alle associazioni per bambini.
Una volta, vide una donna piangere in un bar per i debiti. Scrisse un assegno da 25.000 sterline e lo lasciò alla cameriera, con una sola istruzione:
“Consegnaglielo dopo che se ne va.”
Pagò studi, cure, sogni.
Finanziò centri per persone con HIV.
Offrì un concerto gratuito per le infermiere che avevano curato sua madre.
George Michael non cercava fama.
Cercava umanità.
E forse per questo, ancora oggi, centinaia di migliaia di persone vivono grazie a lui.
An Argentina fan lost his wallet. The fan that found it looked inside and got the owners name, then him and his mates created a chant to help find him.
Eventually the owner came forward and his wallet was returned.
Quality, that! 👏�
Paula Ann Smith from Clubmoor Liverpool, was born on this day in 1962.
She was 26 years old when she lost her life at Hillsborough in 1989.
RIP Paula, 🙏❤️
Never Forgotten, JFT97
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🚨 Oleksandr Usyk confirms he will be vacating his heavyweight world titles.
"Today is Friday, the weather is beautiful and it’s good day to say I want to vacate all the belts I currently hold," Usyk said on social media.
"I want to make them available so the guys who are next in line can fight for them. I’m leaving the belts, but I’m not leaving the sport, because I still have my last dance.
"I want to thank everyone. I have great respect for all the organisations. There’s more to come!”
Two Muslim men pulled an elderly couple and their grandson from a burning house in Leeds last Friday.
You probably didn’t hear about it.
Mohsin Qayyum. 22.
Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal. 20.
Both from Bradford.
They drove past the garden. They saw the fire. They ran straight in.
Sheila Robinson, the grandmother who was trapped inside, posted on social media:
"My family and I will be forever grateful to these young men."
Her granddaughter Kayla wrote:
"Drove past the garden, seen it, and ran straight in and made sure everyone was okay without a second thought."
Everyone got out. The house can be replaced. The family is alive.
Every outlet that covered it called them heroes.
They deserved every word.
But not one headline told you they were Muslim men.
We have seen this before.
Two weeks ago, a teacher was stabbed in the neck protecting his pupils from a knife in his Manchester classroom.
Maysum Abdullah. 27. Science teacher.
LBC named him a hero. So did the Independent, the Manchester Evening News, the Mirror, the Sun.
He ran towards the blade.
A hero in every paper. A Muslim man in none of them.
This is the pattern.
When a Muslim name appears in a crime, the faith leads the headline.
When a Muslim name appears in a rescue, it vanishes from the page.
Now look at who that erasure clears the path for.
Bradford, the same district these men come from, is now led by Reform as its largest party.
One of their candidates, Daniel Devaney, topped the poll in his ward after writing on Facebook that Muslims were "pure scum" and that he wanted to "blast [them] off the face of the earth."
He was not deselected. He was not suspended. He was elected.
They are loud about our religion when they want to call it a threat.
They are silent when that same religion sends two young men running into a fire.
The book they want to criticise is the same book that commands us to save a life.
"Whoever saves one life, it is as if he had saved all of mankind."
— Qur'an 5:32
Qayyum and Iqbal lived that verse on a Friday in Leeds.
Abdullah lived it in a Manchester classroom.
And the headlines recorded the act, but erased the faith that drove it.
When we are the suspect, our religion is the whole story.
When we are the rescuer, it is not worth a line.
Their names are Maysum Abdullah, Mohsin Qayyum, and Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal.
Muslim men.
Say both.
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Gerard Baron Sr, a retired postal worker from Preston, was born on this day in 1921.
He was 67 years old when he lost his life at Hillsborough in 1989.
RIP Gerard, 🙏❤️
Never Forgotten, JFT97
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