Ste Matthews

[⚒MARK⚒🎗️ @m4rk1964]

Chris Eubank has written a book about the Titanic 😱

[Sid Lowe @sidlowe]

Have wondered about this. Here’s my theory: I think it’s sort of the opposite. But it is born, at least in part, in the place you’re talking about. I don’t think it’s love; I think it’s a kind of indifference. By which I mean, it’s like City don’t count and people — who see them (whether rightly or wrongly) as operating on a different plane and with different rules etc — are kind of resigned to them and have reached an acceptance. So, for fans of teams like, say, Liverpool or (even) United (despite being rivals in Manchester), if City win the league: shrug, yeah, whatever, what you gonna do? If this year Arsenal or in previous years Liverpool win the league — who you are competing with on the same level, who are your peers/challengers, for want of a better word, whose title win would be as good as yours would have been — it actually does hurt and it does mean something. It’s a “real” title win…and thus, by extension, a real title loss for your team. And I suspect that goes beyond just fans of those teams too to become more generalized. I know, I know, plenty of people will really dislike this, from both sides of the argument, and I might have to hide from the @s now as they all shout at me, but it’s about people’s perceptions and I reckon there’s something in that.
Anyway, sorry: a long tweet. Just a theory.

[Ste Matthews @SteMatthews86]

Just curious to hear all the football fans saying we don't make allowances for Christianity in matches, what do you want during the match? Hail Marys before kick off, holy communion 20mins in? being asked to kneel for corners? Some old crone playing Hosannah? #Ramadan #EPL

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

Every football club on earth exists because of this island. 🇬🇧

Kings banned it. The richest schools in England claimed it. They wrote the rules and locked the gates.

Then the working class stole it back.

In 1850, Parliament passed the Factory Act. Work stopped at two on a Saturday. Working men had free time. And they chose football.

Churches formed clubs to keep men out of pubs: Aston Villa, Bolton, Everton.

Factories formed teams from their own workers: West Ham from the Thames Ironworks, Arsenal from a munitions factory.

The FA Cup Final. Blackburn Olympic: weavers, spinners, a plumber. They beat the Old Etonians 2-1. No private school team ever reached the final again.

Then British workers carried it everywhere they went ⚽🌍

Scottish miners in Spain founded its oldest club. A Nottingham lace trader gave Juventus their black and white stripes.
A butcher's son from the same city founded AC Milan. British railway workers in Uruguay named their team after Stephenson's Rocket.
Cornish miners founded Mexico's first football club. A schoolteacher from Kent taught the game to his students in Argentina. His school produced Lionel Messi.
A boy from Southampton brought two footballs to Brazil. They call him the father of Brazilian football.
Real Madrid are said to wear white because of an English amateur team.

From Lancashire cotton mills to every continent on earth.

Three and a half billion people watch football. The most popular sport ever created. And it was created here. By the British people.

Every Saturday, three o'clock. That kickoff time exists because of the Factory Act of 1850. The moment working men were given an afternoon off.

They chose football. And the world followed.

No owners. No sponsors. Just supporters.

Be part of us. 👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 🙏

Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

[Paul🥷 @l4pablo]

This Price Andrew song getting sung in the Cavern, Liverpool is a belter 😂

“He’s a a sweaty nonse” 🎶

[Ste Matthews @SteMatthews86]

@MaccaMatthews just seen this and almost hypnotized by it, little clip off the post too... does this beat the Thiago one?

[Abis @IamAbis19]

The ball hung so long you forgot to wonder if it ever kissed the grass 💀🔥

[Ste Matthews @SteMatthews86]

Arsenal fans: OMG Why won't people stop goin on about Martinelli, he didn't even do anything...

Also Arsenal fans: next 15 posts - Martinelli, Martinelli, Martinelli...

The ladies doth protest too much, I think

[Ste Matthews @SteMatthews86]

Isn't it nice to see us finish a game with all the players still playing in the same positions they started in?

[Ste Matthews @SteMatthews86]

@cainy25 I would be safely back on the half way line while we send lockett and lowry forward to attack that corner!

[Ste Matthews @SteMatthews86]

That last minute clearance by Chiesa was great, but why is he even left as last man anyway, why is Kerkez prowling round the penalty box like a fox in the box? Can we jib this 'throw the left back in the box at corners' gimmick, its useless! It's called Left Back for a reason!

[Ste Matthews @SteMatthews86]

@cainy25 Not giving left backs shite, just saying left backs should do left back stuff, like stay back as last man, while better attacking players fill the box and concentrate on scoring goals!

[Ste Matthews @SteMatthews86]

@AdrianTempany You've got to love it, unless you're Arne Slot who obviously absolutely hates it!

[Ste Matthews @SteMatthews86]

These arsenal fans are insufferable, theyve seen liverpool lose to a injury time winner yesterday, they've scored a injury time winner today, you'd fucking revel in it.... oh, no they're still goin on about PGMOL! Fucking hell lads, have a day off, it's exhausting! 😮‍💨

[Ste Matthews @SteMatthews86]

@Joey7Barton Probably the last one mate, you know the one with THREE prime ministers because one of them had to resign after crashing the economy and the other had to go after 57 ministers resigned en-masse just to get rid of him!

[Luke @LukeWhosTalking]

Not them hyping themselves up like they're storming Normandy all week only to lose to a Year 11 hahaha

[Ste Matthews @SteMatthews86]

@ThaEuropeanLad Why are Carragher and Alonso in black and white as if they are some obscure shouts from the 1950s?

[We don't deserve cats 😺 @catsareblessing]

At this moment he knew he fucked up

[Liverpool News @LFCVine]

Not just a footballer 🥺❤️

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Our lad from Portugal. Forever ❤️