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Family and football. Annoyed by injustice and brainwashing government's that use state tools against their own citizens. One of many reasons for voting YES

[Albannach @SaorAlbannach]

Funny how election interference in Scotland isn't a topic here.

Remember when Ruth Davidson bragged about them "sampling ballots", a crime, before 10pm on 18th September 2014...

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Serious assaults in Glasgow drop 33% to 5 year-low and overall violence increases at significantly lower rate yet today BBC Scotland.....

[🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Scotland_1967]

The Biggesy Clubs debate
@talkSPORT your caller said Celtic are not a big club because of finances. Che £1.39bn debt. Spurs £852m. MU £753m. Ars £358m. MC £102m. Liv £65m. Cel £0. Ran £0. Your caller must have been meaning most in debt )

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

Zlatan Ibrahimovic on to Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in the FIFA World Cup:

🗣️ “Listen to me carefully, because most of these people in suits have never understood the game and never will.

They create a subsidiary. Call it FIFA Forward Enterprise. Keep majority control on paper. Sell 20% to investors who have never smelled grass. Then wave $20 million in front of every federation and pretend it’s democracy.

That is not structure. That is a magic trick for lawyers. FIFA keeps the majority. FIFA keeps the board. FIFA keeps “exclusive authority” over governance, the calendar, the rules, everything that sounds important on paper. The investors get no operational role. They are only buying a slice of the cash machine. FIFA even says the investors are buying into the subsidiary, not into FIFA itself, so “nothing changes.”

I have seen this movie before. Nothing changes… until the numbers start talking. Once private money owns a permanent piece of the World Cup’s revenue, the pressure never stops. More tournaments. Bigger formats. Different calendar. Different priorities. Because investors do not care about the soul of the game. They care about return. And when the federations are already bought with the $20 million “gift” and the bigger Forward payments, who exactly is going to say no?

This is the same FIFA that spent decades selling the World Cup under the table. I remember the 2015 arrests. Swiss police walking into the hotel in Zurich and taking officials out in the early morning. Racketeering. Bribes. Money laundering. Hundreds of millions paid for television rights, for marketing rights, for World Cup votes. South Africa 2010. Qatar. The whole circus under Blatter. Jack Warner. Chuck Blazer singing to the Americans. Blatter and Platini banned for that $2 million “gentlemen’s agreement” that suddenly appeared when it was convenient. The Ethics Committee, the indictments, the years of “we are cleaning the house.”

And now the house is cleaner, they say. Now instead of brown envelopes and secret payments, we have subsidiaries, minority non-controlling stakes, permanent capital vehicles, JPMorgan valuations, and carefully selected long-term partners. Same hunger for money. Same system of buying loyalty from the 211 associations. Only the language got more expensive.

Infantino stands there and talks about democracy and opportunity. I am Zlatan. I do not need the $20 million and I do not need the speech. Most of these federations do need the money. That is exactly why this structure is dangerous. You are not offering development. You are offering a transaction: take the cash, vote yes by September, and stay quiet while pieces of the World Cup become private equity assets.

Football does not belong to FIFA. FIFA belongs to football. The moment you put shareholders inside the commercial heart of the World Cup and call it progress, you have already admitted the game is for sale. They just found a prettier way to write the contract this time.

I played at the highest level. I saw real power and real money. This is neither. This is bureaucracy protecting itself while selling the one thing that still belongs to the people who actually love the game.

Keep your structure. Keep your valuations. Keep your minority non-controlling stakes. The World Cup was never meant to have owners in suits. It was meant to be bigger than all of you.

[UEFA @UEFA]

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National Associations

[Jacobite 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @Rmca18]

If this was in Scotland it would be headline news on STV and the BBC.

[Ron Wilson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 @TartanSeer]

Hang on ... 'Better Together' told Scots in 2014 that Scottish oil was 'gone' by 2019 and was almost worthless. Turns out we could be 'rich'. 'No' voters were sold a pup. It's time to rerun Scotland's right to self-determination.

[Republican @RepublicanSons]

Another of the Union's finest

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

“President Trump is the greatest president of all time. He stopped eight wars.”

“Can you name one?”

“Um… 🦗🦗🦗🦗”

Courtesy @TheGoodLiars

[Dave Doogan MP @DaveDooganSNP]

😬 As recently as May, when asked if he would ever accept a peerage, Anas Sarwar stated bluntly: “No.”

🤥 He has now joined a long list of unelected Labour lords. It’s time for these charlatans to be shown the door.

🗑️ Scrap the Lords.

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

NHS Scotland waits of over 1 year plummet by 77% only one year after Swinney makes major investment but media ignore this dramatic newsworthy newsm https://t.co/eySI6y1UJJ

[The SNP @theSNP]

Scotland generates more corporation tax per head than anywhere else in the UK outside of London.

Imagine what we could do with the powers of independence.

https://t.co/VZe62xwW9L

[Dischord @Prae54Rae]

Scotland, we all know what’s coming, and like our oil and renewables, they will simply help themselves.

[The SNP @theSNP]

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[Bill Cruickshank @BjCruickshank]

Burnham is totally ignoring Scotland apart from telling us we can't vote on our own future: https://t.co/YWItQPECTB

[Del @Del84946007]

England hasn't got the baws to be independent...
England cant affort to be independent !!
England needs STOLEN resources !!
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[George Henderson @georgeh71065174]

Why have Plaid Cymru,Sinn Fein & the SNP not stood together on a platform & stated the English Pretend Union is dead,If 3 of the 4 countries want to end it then it should end,If England say no,Its not a Union its a dictatorship,Stop being cowards & go to the International Court

[Dischord @Prae54Rae]

One for all the yoons to chew over and try to defend. Let’s hear your London MSM brainwashed BS? 😀😀

[Jimac @jimac1111]

Too wee, too stupid...

[Indy now 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Indynow6]

Scotland really is the best. Cry more Unionists. 😭