Sam

Haway the lads

[Regis @LdySAFC]

The camera man sprinting to the scenes…

Onien racing off in front of him…

Neil and cirkin in the crowd…

Jobe brought to tears smashing the beach ball, bent style.

This is the angle of all angles, the Stadium of light 💡#SAFC

[Osbaldwick C.C. @OsoCricket]

The 1’s start their season tomorrow away at @BoltonPercyCC whilst the 2’s host @Nawton_Grange at the OCG and are looking to bounce back after last weeks defeat. Get down and support the lads 🍻 🏏

[Osbaldwick C.C. @OsoCricket]

Our second team are looking for a scorer for the upcoming season. Open to all ages and training on how to score can be provided if necessary. Free teas/payment provided.

Please get in touch if yourself or someone you know may be interested in this role?
@YPLNCricket

[Osbaldwick C.C. @OsoCricket]

Transfer News - We’re delighted to announce the signing of Jack Sonter as our Aussie overseas for the 2025 season ✍️ 🇦🇺
I’m sure everyone at the club will give Jack a warm welcome when he arrives in early April and we look forward to seeing him in action this summer at the OCG!

[Sam @SamboT93]

@HarryBeard7 @danellwood5

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!

As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.

Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.

I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.

And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more. 

OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.

We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.

I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.

I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.

And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.

Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.

Rafa that!

Best always, your fan, 

Roger

[Sam @SamboT93]

@LowerTiers @JACKBRIMMELL

[Sam @SamboT93]

@soccerazpod Celebrations

[Sam @SamboT93]

@MinsterFootball I reckon @BiltonChris

[Sam @SamboT93]

@Ryan_Truswell @CricketopiaCom The noise. Filth

[Sam @SamboT93]

@cricketyorks a strong tea at the weekend at @osbaldwick_cc

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

A warrior, a legend and an inspiration.

Rob Burrow will be so, so missed.

[Osbaldwick C.C. @OsoCricket]

Please get down and help us raise money for a charity close to everyone involved at OCC 💚 @HuntersYLN @MCCOfficial

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

The Football Association Challenge Cup. A long read.

The World's Oldest Association Football Competition. Let that sink in.Something to be proud of as a part of English football and cultural life.

Changes to it? Yes, with one caveat. That every club who takes part in it has an equal vote as to what those changes are. Too simple eh?

But no, several high profile managers ( who'll be fucking long gone and won't give a fuck when our beloved competition has finally been finished off) and several owners will be gleeful today, another victory for maybe 6 of 100+ pro clubs, another concession to the greed, while relegating a national instution to an annoyance.

I've played for Stafford Rangers in a Cup 1st round against Burnley, hoping desperately to get a replay at Turf Moor.

I've played in an FA Cup Final between England's 2 biggest clubs.

At Hillsborough, I ran out wearing the yellow of Southend United, with 6000 travelling Shrimpers and what seemed like a million yellow balloons. The game where I felt I belonged in that esteemed company.

Playing in the back garden, bewildered as Alan Sunderland scored the winner when Arsenal beat United in a game that epitomised the beguiling spectacle of this famous old trophy.

Yeovil, Altrincham, Hereford, Sutton, Blyth Spartans, Chasetown. Names that maybe only ever pop up once in a football lifetime for the nation but to the fans of those clubs, ask them about their Cup memories and see their faces.

We're being diddled, had over, fucked about, taken the piss out of. By who? Managers who " desperately need fewer games", by owners bemoaning having to gamble their precious boys against Rochdale instead of resting up for Real Madrid, something understandable if it weren't for the luxury of 30 pros costing a billion pounds plus an academy of cherry picked youth from around the world. How many fucking players do these clubs need to play one replay every 5 years?

If the Football Association had any arsehole it would have put any decision that fundementally changes a 153 year old tournament to a vote of all participating clubs. It won't though , because it's scared to say a word to the all conquering Premier League. If you didn't believe before today that the FA wasn't fit for purpose, now you know because the organisation that administers the most professional clubs in the land, the EFL have effectively called them liars. That alone should ensure investigation by an independent regulator, along with any number of other decisions, changes and ideas the all conquering Premier League want implemented.

Fuck you to every manager who's come to these shores wanting U-21 teams and B teams playing in the EFL. This isn't Spain where they can't populate more than 2 divisions with quality teams from across the nation, this is England where we have over 100 pro clubs over 5 divisions, where a town of 40,000 like Burnley can proudly compete in the top 2 divisions regularly for over 100 years.

Fuck you to the big name managers crying about too many games. Use your fucking 30 man squads better and play the 15 you hardly use but cost more money on wages in a year than clubs competing in the Champions League from other nations operate a whole club on! And that's without the star boys who you steal from clubs for a pittance from clubs in the pyramid and overseas that you love the idea of playing but won't because " they're not ready quite yet". Bullshit!

Unless you, reading this, do something, anything by way of protesting this obscene and constant tidal wave of changes to the English game that is ruining the fabric of a delicate pyramid ecosystem, the your children simply will never get to afford to watch what we have.

A sport for everyone, not for an elite few.

It's time to fight back. Enough changes, enough greed, English football worked well for 150 years, trust it, trust those in it and those who support it.

[Sam @SamboT93]

@JaySnowden_ You’d save tweet til safe wouldn’t you

[Sam @SamboT93]

@BESTCreativeLds @LCFC Delusional

[Sam @SamboT93]

@BESTCreativeLds @LCFC Game would’ve been well out of sight if they were clinical. Lucky deflection and lucky decision by officials. They played very good stuff at end of first half and start of second half

[Sam @SamboT93]

@BESTCreativeLds @LCFC They were much better. Get your Leeds goggles off

[The Ricky Gervais Clips @gervaisclips]

one of the greatest outtakes to have ever existed

[Sam @SamboT93]

@SPEZIAL73 @ollysherwood1