Sharon Thomas

Tired. Weary. Fatigued. Broke. 🇵🇸

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

@EssexPR @pickup8907 @itvfootball Mark Chapman reports on football, rugby, Olympics all sorts but he has no experience diving off a 10m platform or running a 100m or playing 90 minutes of football against the best in the world. Yet you bash someone with hugely relevant experience because she's a woman.

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:

“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.

The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.

This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”

The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.

And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?

Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.

The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

We're in!! So excited. Just need flights and a hotel now 😊

[Stereoboard @stereoboard]

EXTRA // Due to HUGE demand (like, sold-out-instantly levels of demand), I Don't Know How But They Found Me (@iDKHOW) have added a second night at London's Tufnell Park Dome on December 1!

Grab tickets here, from 10am Friday 👉 https://t.co/2YpIE71vtF

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

@MeidasTouch He probably thinks this is good.

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

My friends in the UK.Please sign. The UK government decided not to change the laws they previously agreed needed to be changed. Surrogate parents need your help.https://t.co/YvAeGZtibl

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

@SimonHarrisTD BY ISRAEL. Why tell half the story when the addition of 2 words paints a far bigger and more accurate picture. BY ISRAEL.

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

They've wiped out the journalists in Gaza, time to take out those reporting on Lebanon now 🤬

[Farah Haidar 🇱🇧🇨🇭 🇵🇸🇳🇬 @farah_shour]

@M_Simonyan Typical @IDF

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

@insights5g @21metgala @grok Thats Irish actressJessie Buckley. Nominated Best Actress for Hamnet.

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

@SFCBenW It was the Irish. You're welcome 😂😂

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

Who gave the okay for France to wear pale blue? #fraveng #6nations

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

@Danalyzer99 Funnily enough that's exactly what I did! Best of luck.

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

If Barcelona win this I'll have made back what I lost at Cheltenham today and a bit extra for good luck.
#NEWvBAR

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

Why is nobody telling Israel they have to dismantle their 90 nuclear warheads? #IsraelIranConflict

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

*I am deeply concerned about the unlawful actions of the US and Israel* is what he meant to say but was too busy picking splinters out of if his arse from all the fence sitting.

[Micheál Martin @MichealMartinTD]

I am deeply concerned by developments in Iran and the real potential that exists for escalation and wider conflict in the region.

I strongly urge all parties to exercise restraint and to work to avoid that outcome.

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

Doesn't matter who said. He speaks the truth. #IranvsUSA #iranvsisrael #OmanMediation

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Foreign minister of the dictatorship of Oman, a key UK ally, says he is “dismayed” that “active and serious negotiations” on Iran have been undermined by the US/Israeli bombing.

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

💔💔💔💔💔

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

@philipnolan1 😂😂😂

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

@chris_kammy @benshephard I'd counted him out because he was on the panel!! Sneaky but brilliant.

[Sharon Thomas @Shaztwirl]

Could @VirginMediaIE please switch to #maskedsingeruk now?? Great rugby coverage but were now nearly 20 minutes behind the UK show and some of us like to watch and tweet!