Ryan

Proud Daddy & Husband to very patient wife. Photographer with training wheels. Mostly here to rant about football.

[Ryan @RyLee89]

Virtually every Sunday league goalkeeper I know could do this…

Ridiculous sport

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

Insane: Florida State Punter Daniel Hughes has gone viral for having one of the strongest legs you will ever see.

The regular person doesn't realize how impressive this is.

🤯🤯🤯

[Ryan @RyLee89]

@TicketQuarter spell it out for me please, what are all these additional fees…??

3 tickets priced at £25 but the fees make the total £80!!

#WTF

[Dee Rangers @DeeRangers]

Nearly there….

We’re closing in on #LegendsDay 2026

Our annual #Charity event in support of @ClatterbridgeCC in memory of our friend Tom right here in #Chester

We would love your support;
https://t.co/abInUBvurp

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

Manager: We need to suspend Alex immediately.

HR: That’s serious. What happened?

Manager: He keeps coming to work dressed casually despite multiple warnings.

HR: Casually how?

Manager: Jeans. Open shoes. No formal office wear.

HR: Okay. How’s his performance?

Manager: Very good.

HR: Meeting deadlines?

Manager: Yes.

HR: Any quality concerns?

Manager: None.

HR: Any client complaints?

Manager: No.

HR: So what exactly is the issue?

Manager: He refuses to follow the dress code.

HR: What does he say when you raise it?

Manager: He says, “As long as I complete all my assigned tasks perfectly, I don’t think anyone should be concerned about my dress code.”

HR: And does he complete all his assigned tasks perfectly?

Manager: Yes… but that’s not the point.

HR: Then what is the point?

Manager: Standards. If we allow this once, others will start doing it too.

HR: So you want to suspend one of your top-performing employees over jeans?

Manager: Yes. Two weeks.

Two weeks later…

[Dee Rangers @DeeRangers]

We are on the countdown to our most important day of the season…

#LegendsDay 2026 is nearly here!

Please help spread the word, and if you can, show some support. #RT #Chester

https://t.co/abInUBvurp

[paul bassett davies @thewritertype]

If you're tempted by the hot weather to swim at the seaside or in English rivers, you may become sickened by toxic parasites. These toxic parasites are called water companies, and the cure for them is nationalisation.

[Ryan @RyLee89]

@johngibbonsblog @Knox_Harrington Fresh orange and bitter lemon ❄️

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

You can argue for and against VAR but one thing that is indisputable is that it's made the experience of watching football worse.

[Ryan @RyLee89]

@JamesAFC1 Usually you’re a misery when it comes to referees, but this is very very funny

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

VAR

I enthusiastically welcomed it. Was sold on the higher percentage of right decisions so we could all go home knowing football justice had been done and we could concentrate on which player was crap instead.

But I was wrong. Woefully and completely wrong.

Waiting 5 minutes for a decision to be made alone means the system isn't fit for purpose. Why? Because I sat with TV producers who said everything would be wrapped up in 10-30 seconds. It has literally taken the spontaneous joy from the most important part of the game. A goal.

Then, one thing completely blindsided me and many others.

Subjectivity.

I thought there would be science and a nailed on guarantee of a successfully and universally accepted decision. How wrong we were. Instead, arbitrary lines are drawn that simply can't with any certainty say whether a player is offside or not. So a human in a portacabin, 200 miles away only does what the referee can do, make a best guess.

Likewise handballs, dives, any penalty decision to be honest. A subjective decision decided out of stadium allowing an increasingly small and poor refereeing pool a get out of jail free card. Instead of them making a shit decision and owning it, they just pass it on 200 miles away so 3 men in a portacabin can make a shit decision instead. Lunacy.

For the love of the game, let's go back to investing in getting more referees, respecting them so that they join the trade and don't feel constantly abused. In short, treat them like rugby referees. Ultimate respect.

Then, fuck VAR off, it's ruined the game, made it petty and chaotic, and taken that one ingredient that you simply can't replace, instantaneous joy.

As a player and fan I accepted a referee making a bad decision in a game in the same way I accepted fucking up a shot or pass. We're all human.

Let's get back to that, humans doing their best, everyone walks away from the ground accepting that and less unrealistic pressure put on officials to be perfect when perfection doesn't exist in any walk of life.

VAR stinks. A system designed to help is a massive hindrance and it's about time pundits, fans, players, referees, clubs put pressure on authorities to get rid of it. We only need goal line tech, the rest can and should be refer refereed by humans making their best judgement. A best judgement that was over 98% right( audited fact pre VAR).

Enough is enough, fuck it off.

[Ryan @RyLee89]

The king has spoken.

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.

Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.

Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games.

Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on.

As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.

[Ryan @RyLee89]

Absolutely embarrassing.

[Ryan @RyLee89]

@JamesAFC1 Where are you looking??

Everton fans are absolutely fuming with VAR and match officials.
West Ham are in complete meltdown and talks of corruption to relegate them.

No outrage!!? You’re just not paying attention

[Dave Peasant, Aspiring Lorax @aspiringpeasant]

In 15 min they decided this entire whale species was less important than money from oil drilling.

15 minutes.

FIFTEEN MINUTES.

[Howard Beckett @BeckettUnite]

No world in which this should be accepted

It’s just obscene

Full stop.

[bint ♨️🐧 @NBinted]

Turns out socialism actually works and makes people’s lives better huh?

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🎙️ Thierry Henry on FIFA turning the World Cup Final into a Super Bowl circus:

“Football is losing its soul little by little. A World Cup Final is supposed to be the purest form of football, pressure, intensity, emotion, tactics, suffering, history. Not a halftime concert made for social media clips and celebrities in vip seats.

When you play at the highest level, your body is programmed around rhythm. Fifteen minutes. That’s what every footballer in the world has known since childhood. Your muscles stay warm, your concentration stays locked in, your emotions stay alive. Now imagine players sitting there for 25 minutes during the biggest game of their lives because FIFA wants a bigger TV spectacle.

People think footballers are robots. They are not. Momentum is real. If one team is dominating before halftime, that long break can completely kill the intensity of the game. It changes everything tactically and mentally. You cool down physically, you lose adrenaline, and then people expect players to immediately return playing at 100 miles per hour.

And let’s be honest here, this is not about football, it’s about money and entertainment. They want football to become the Super Bowl. More commercials, more performances, more headlines, more celebrities. But football became the biggest sport in the world without all of that. The game itself was enough.

The dangerous part is that if the final quality drops or players get injured because of these changes, fans will attack the players first. They will say certain stars disappeared in the second half or failed under pressure, without understanding the conditions were completely changed for a television show.

For me, the World Cup Final should feel sacred. Ninety minutes of war between the best players on earth. Not a pause long enough for the world to forget the match is even happening.”

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks...

HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless.

Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it

So where's the wall-to-wall coverage?

Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

[Ryan @RyLee89]

@PeterPrickett Is this not indicative of the football community?
Even Joe Cole who isn’t that old has a dinosaur mentality.

To be so openly mocking the idea of education is a terrifying look into the state of the current climate as children idolise these people.