Steve Smith

Lichfield Bluenose now living in Derby. loves rock music, motorbikes and beer

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@playupPomp3y @ClarksonsFarm1 40°🥵🥵

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@StanCollymore Stan, have you purposefully not listed Blues new sports quarter stadium of 62k or are you another villa fan that says it wont happen🤔🤔🤔

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@DaveSherlock3 sideways and backwards everywhere we go

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@BCFCTickets sort your online tickets out please, keeps telling me error on page when trying to purchase Barcelona game tickets

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@AvonandsomerRob all Jeremy is saying is, if you've got concerns about your prostate get it checked, let the professionals decide if it needs dealing with, not someone on X who thinks he knows

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

"Thank you so much for all the kind messages I’ve had but now, an announcement"…

[Richard Seiler @richardseiler]

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is

Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?

And somehow that is the whole point

I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it

From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again

When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak

The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them

But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus

Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it

A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it

And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care

And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off

He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard

That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show

We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product

That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was

And that is exactly why we keep watching

Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@mandotheway100 @MrBrum43 did you just say template stadium? dont think so mate, you've not heard of the project have you? #bcfc

[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.”

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@nicktotty @delves1 thats not what im suggesting, cook hired rooney, I cant imagine Dale making such a big mistake, Dale's fine in my opinion

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@nicktotty @delves1 if Dale aint recruiting Rooney then im quite happy, thats a step up from Cook in my opinion

[🅶🅾🆁🅺 @Raclure03]

Une des meilleures vidéos que j'ai vu sur internet 🥹🤩🤩🤩🥰

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@delves1 bang on, THE ONLY way to look at it, goes with my immense thanks and I wish him well

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@matbcfc my son had the same, used his girlfriends phone and worked fine

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@Zigiclegend19 @BloozEXTRA this'll do it

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@powndland see you outside mcdonalds at the bottom of the cov Rd, up the Blues ya bastard Gary lad

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@BCFC_USA a friend of mine is a forest fan, straight away he said we should go and get him

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@Megalithic12000 surely the giants standing as tall as the whole structure are what we should be talking about

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

Fuckin tinpot bastards, hope forest smash em

[Steve Smith @SmithyR18]

@JordanJaj66 #bcfc