Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺

5x #Blogger Awards | SL MMU | #SMMSsports PhD | SFHEA | @MPAweareyou Board | @DMA_UK Nth Council | #BIMA Councils | #trailrunner #Lymes #LFC #sourdough my views

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

Absolutely thrilled & humbled to win Global & UK 2018 @RunUltra_UK @suunto Blogger Awards!!! From the bottom of my ❤️ thank you soooo much ALL voters ☺️ #Bloghour #ukrunchat @RHarriers https://t.co/3RaAtlCDVj

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

Please watch then spread the word of @ecosia. Our planet needs it. And if just a tiny percentage of us change our behaviour, look at the impact. https://t.co/7gzChnVRii #ClimateEmergency

[Prof Jamie Woodward @Jamie_Woodward_]

The water quality campaigner and former Undertones frontman @Feargal_Sharkey said the private dinner was outrageous and an example of “regulatory capture”. He said: “In my view here we have a clear case of regulatory capture – industry and regulators, both of which are currently under enormous amounts of public scrutiny and criticism, acting in tandem trying to avoid anything remotely looking like transparency and/or accountability. This is pretty damned outrageous.” He also called for the chairs to resign.

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

Bradley absolutely outstanding!

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

What a run and finish that was from Bradley!

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

@christhacker66 @MartinSLewis Doesn’t surprise me. I’m getting this above 10% increase even via companies I could switch to.

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

@MartinSLewis hi Martin. Are you finding that car insurance is rising at extreme rate? Over 100% increase on mine despite no incidents of any kind. They said it’s because of increased costs of providing their service. Sector increases similar.

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

@christhacker66 @MartinSLewis I can’t get my head around such an increase.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Costa Rica, once home to rampant logging, has now almost doubled the size of its rainforest. They turned it all around within a generation. It can be done.

Protect people and the planet. #COP15

#ActOnClimate #biodiversity #deforestation #rewilding #solutions

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

What a read

“it has been a marvel to watch this bloke—a culture builder, a serial transformationist, a deeply authentic, empathetic human”

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

ROG ON KLOPP LEAVING LIVERPOOL ✍️

❝The news is overwhelming. Partly because there were no hints of the manager standing down early. Two years remain on his contract, and the announcement totally blindsided us amidst the ambitious wonder of a quadruple chase, arriving after neither rumor nor leak. Secondly, Jürgen Klopp was more than a football manager, he was a leader, a transformational change agent, and a deep empath in a chaotic world where that has become all too rare a currency. What he has achieved at Anfield since arriving like a Teutonic Care Bear in 2015 has been nothing short of alchemy.

Back then, Liverpool was a club reeking of tradition, aspiration and haunted nearlies. Klopp transformed it with his singular brand of passion, faith, and bombast, unleashing that audacious, demanding collective pressing game which soon overwhelmed all-comers. Klopp’s Liverpool took the field with power, determination and exuberance—as if driven by their fans' very passion—as the manager demanded his players "must fight with the last drop of fuel in their machine,' and then rewarded them with a big, big hug.

To watch Liverpool was to feel alive. Champions League triumph in 2019 was followed by long-yearned-for Premier League glory in 2020. I know I am an Everton fan and meant to despise everything in red, but the small percentage of me that is still human could only marvel at the joy Liverpool fans were experiencing along the way, and the memories they made as they "conquered all of Europe." I was reminded of this on Wednesday night, when the Reds reached another Wembley final and their traveling fans raised a banner proclaiming, "Imagine Being Us." I stared at that statement for longer than I care to admit, before realizing that I honestly can't. That it does seem like under Klopp, Liverpool fans have journeyed to so many places both real and emotional, witnessed so many magical moments, and had so much bloody fun. Whatever you want to call the footballing style, "Gegenpressing," "Heavy Metal Football," or "Mentality Monsters," it has been humanly transcendent to watch Klopp forge that connective trinity: the unity built between team, fans, and himself on the sideline with his fist-bumps and ecstatic body jerks, always conducting the emotion.

Ultimately, The Hug was Klopp’s most most powerful tactic of all—and I hope one day, there is a statue of him delivering one outside of Anfield, like a giant German Elmo that fans can just slip into and take a selfie. Indeed, as someone who has been on the receiving end of a Klopp hug, I can confirm they are better than any drug Aaron Rodgers has dabbled in. The Klopp hug communicates belief, gratitude, and infinite love. Life Affirmation without words. A reflection of the truth of the man who has delivered it

What now? Klopp said this morning he hopes this news will be the ultimate motivator for his players. "Let's now really go for it. The outside world wants to use this decision, laugh about it, wants to disturb us. We are Liverpool, we went through harder things together. And you went through harder things before me. Let's make a strength of it. Let's squeeze everything out of this season and have another thing to smile about when we look back in the future." It is unknown if he will manage again. He said this morning, "If you ask me, 'Will you ever work as a manager again?' I would say now no. But I don't know obviously how that will feel because I never had the situation. What I know definitely—I will never, ever manage a different club in England than Liverpool." For their part, the club have said, even though they found out in November, they are yet to approach a replacement. While I hope they will give Roy Hodgson (my favorite ever Liverpool manager) an emotional return, or throw the bank to tempt that tactical maestro Stevie Gerrard back from Al-Ettifaq, expect former midfielder Xabi Alonso, who has propelled Bayer Leverkusen to the top of the Bundesliga, to be the subject of tabloid conjecture, and Liverpool fans' fever dreams.

A quick word to Liverpool fans reading this: I send you my love today. I can't even imagine the feeling of hope and happiness and glory this man has brought into your life, now singed by that sudden shocking sting of loss. Take strength from the memories you have made together though, because it has been a marvel to watch this bloke—a culture builder, a serial transformationist, a deeply authentic, empathetic human—do his thing. If anything, this announcement is a reminder that nothing is forever, and that we should not take a moment for granted. It is also fascinating that while every Liverpool fan I know has been agonizing about Mo Salah and his future—it is Jürgen that is the first to step off citing exhaustion. A reminder that the caregivers often pass on first, and a brutal truth that Rory Smith talked to me about when I saw him in December—it does not look that fun to be a Premier League Manager. It is a brutal job, lived out in the bright-lights of a global crucible with hysterical stakes, knee-jerk overreaction, and trial by tabloid, that grinds down all those that do it. I actually love that Klopp will sign off in a style befitting his unique personality, on his own terms, departing after a quadruple chasing-high.

There will be more, much more to come on this story. Liverpool’s innocuous Fourth Round FA Cup clash against Norwich City on Sunday morning now becomes must-watch theater for the emotional outpouring that will begin—setting the tone for the rest of a season that is going to feel like equal parts Crusade and McNulty’s Wake Scene from the Wire. Jürgen Klopp deserves that. Not just for the footballing memories he has given us, but the life truths he has dispensed along the way. I have interviewed him many times over the years, and honestly, learned so much about life from each conversation. I want to leave you one conversation I went back to this morning in the immediate wake of hearing the news. On the eve of lifting the coveted first title for Liverpool, I met with Klopp in his office, and asked him, a deeply religious man, if winning is, indeed, the most important thing. Jürgen did not have to wait a beat before telling me, "If life should be judged at the end, when we stand in front of the (heavenly) door, they ask, 'Did you win something or not?' That would be really strange. They should ask, 'Did you try everything to improve the place you have been, the house you have lived in, the mood, the love?' And I will say, 'Yes, I tried it everyday.'"

YNWA ❤️

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

Jürgen Klopp: “not just an extraordinary coach but…a compassionate man who understood and articulated the values of human decency.” #klopp #YNWA https://t.co/WCEuBk0Z9X

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

It's been an utterly abominable 24 hours for Brexit news:

- The UK gave up on negotiations to extend our trade deal with Canada, leaving us worse off than when we were an EU member
https://t.co/EkwL7Ux6TG

- New incoming border checks will add £200 million a year to the cost of our food and drink.
https://t.co/gxYDOLZdeE

- MPs were warned that the EU's upcoming ETIAS/EES border systems may lead to 14-hour queues to enter (the rest of) Europe from the autumn.
https://t.co/L0rpDZLNTZ

- There were warnings of possible shortages of flowers for Valentines Day because of the new incoming border checks.
https://t.co/G7ao5PRwOS

- A plan to extend visas for British expats in France from 90 to 180 days was blocked by France's Constitutional Council court (a decision which has no right of appeal).
https://t.co/tTIfgcgYFd

- Rishi Sunak's pledge to ensure no future laws can create a border down the Irish Sea has gone down like a bucket of sick in TUV quarters. (And has sent the blood pressure of the usual suspect Brexiters sky-high.)
https://t.co/odwcopbjcJ

- The EU's plans to increase bulk medicine procurement across the bloc risk creating shortages in Britain because they have very significantly greater buying power than the UK does.
https://t.co/qMmYN6l1dt

Phew! That's a truly catastrophic batch of headlines for just one day...

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

@bluedave65 Haha, how old are you Ash? 😂🤪

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

What a manager. What a leader. What a human. Thank you Jurgen. Look forward to seeing what this last push of his tenure brings. Win or not it will be very special indeed. An absolute legend.
#Klopp #YNWA

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

There is no way I buy into any idea of Gerrard as our manager either. Too emotive rather than strategic. Very mixed managerial track record.

[Gareth Roberts @robbohuyton]

This should be a fascinating event re Hillsborough at @edgehill with Phil Scraton - anything involving Phil always is.

Worth signing up as soon as you can as places are limited.

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[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

@northernassist I know what the problem was. Sorry but it doesn’t change anything about the atrocious level of service you consistently provide. Hundreds of us off one train alone were over an hour late for work, meetings etc. These are not isolated incidents.

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

@northernassist how we tolerate your shambolic rail service I do not know. Delays of over an hour. Train terminations. Unable to get on unsafe next train. Paying full price. Meanwhile you. Now charge car parking so adding over 10% to my commute. F*cking farce.

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

@NanettevdLaan @alextomo @forensicgod Shocking. Any decent leader would immediately take such issues up with their supplier and the solution they’re buying from them.
To double down and deliberately cover that up, knowing it then caused SPMs to be wrongly convicted and their lives ruined is staggeringly cruel.

[ℍ𝕚𝕕𝕕𝕖𝕟 𝕃𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕠𝕠𝕝 @hiddenliverpool]

Liverpool has been selected as #7 in the best cities in the world by Time Out magazine

https://t.co/wxDy42GHkh

[Dr Jeff McCarthy 🇪🇺 @RunEatRepeatuk]

@Dr_BellaR The incredibly sad thing is Bella, that homelessness always rockets under the Tories. Data repeatedly proves this. Political choices that push people to suffer in the extreme so others obtain record wealth.