Tom Sherrington

Politics BA and enthusiast. Barrister. Says "No" to nonsense.

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

My advice for the new intake of pupils/baby barristers:

Enjoy your victories but don’t bathe in them,
Learn from your losses but don’t dwell on them

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

@footballontnt @lukestanley03 Who is the cameraman who is paid to focus on this kid? That’s what we pay for is it?

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BenInRushcliffe]

Why don't the media ask the questions before the election?

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

@BlueWolf_09 You’re forgetting him doubling down that Leicester couldn’t win the league about 6 weeks before they won it by 10 points. 🤡

[Nathan Salt @NathSalt1]

Feb 1, 2026: Man City star Rodri accuses the referee of not being neutral.

"I know we won too much and the people don't want us to win, but the referee has to be neutral. It's not fair because we work so hard. When everything is finished, you are frustrated."

He was fined £80k and FA panel “unanimously” agreed he hadn’t met threshold for a “sporting sanction”

March 20, 2026: Harry Maguire gives away a penalty and is sent off. Later claimed he called officials a “fucking joke” as he went off.

Maguire and United disputed fourth official’s claim. FA sided with officials and hand an extra one-game suspension to #mufc defender

Right…

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

@lauriewhitwell So you get banned for swearing at officials now? I’ll expect dozens of suspensions for every team every week then, yeah?

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

@R_o_M Even more irritating about this is that shortly afterwards, DCL led with his arm against Casemiro, touched his face, he went down and the ref gave a foul. Much less contact in the middle of the park. Just infuriating. Leeds deserved the win though.

[The CBA @TheCriminalBar]

Judge-only trials: letter published in The Times and signatories in full

Lammy’s jury reform plans are unworkable, lawyers warn.

Read the full letter and news in The Times. Signatories:

Riel Karmy-Jones KC , chair, the Criminal Bar Association, Andrew Thomas KC, vice-chair, the Criminal Bar Association, Kirsty Brimelow KC, chair, the Bar Council of England and Wales, also former chair of the CBA, Heidi Stonecliffe KC, vice-chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales, HH Peter Collier KC, formerly resident judge, Leeds crown court, and recorder of Leeds, HH Christopher Kinch KC, formerly resident judge of Woolwich crown court and recorder of Royal Borough of Greenwich, HH Geoffrey Rivlin KC, past deputy resident judge at Southwark crown court, HH Peter Rook KC, formerly a senior circuit judge at the Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey), former CBA chair, co-author, Sexual Offences: Law and Practice, HH Jeffrey Pegden KC, formerly a circuit judge and formerly judge at Southwark crown court, HH Nicholas Loraine-Smith, formerly a circuit judge and formerly judge at Southwark crown court, HH Paul Dodgson, formerly a circuit judge and formerly judge at Southwark crown court, Tana Adkin KC , former CBA chair, Chris Henley KC , former CBA chair, Mark Fenhalls KC, former CBA chair, also former chair of the Bar Council, Francis FitzGibbon KC, former CBA chair, James Mulholland KC, former CBA chair, Mary Prior KC, former CBA chair, Claire Davies KC, leader of the South Eastern Circuit, Caroline Goodwin KC, leader of the North Eastern Circuit, also former chair of the CBA, Samantha Hillas KC, leader of the Northern Circuit, Harpreet Sandhu KC, leader of the Midlands Circuit, Sarah Jones KC, leader of the Western Circuit, Christopher Rees KC, leader of the Wales and Chester Circuit.

https://t.co/Qi9PFBBhkp

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

🚨 Judge Only Trials 🚨

The law of unintended (👀) consequences.

An old-fashioned long thread.

And a prediction.

👇🏼🪡 🧵

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

@SamCoatesSky If Burnham stood and won that causes a longer term problem for Starmer. If he stood and lost, that’s a bigger catastrophe. So politically, strangely, it was probably right to block him. But who knows

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@KrishnaAnand_ @utdreport Manchester is as safe as any big city, brilliantly liveable and the fastest growing city in Europe. Don’t speak about my city when you have probably never even set foot there.

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

@colinmufc2 This, this and more this. The injury time phenomenon strikes again

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

@vespreken Isn’t this just pointing out how bad United were those seasons, and yet they still beat Arsenal at their place?

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

@SourceGarland Of course you did, that’s a replay. 👌

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

@Footballtweet Walcott must be drunk. This team hasn’t won anything and have scored 19 of their goals from corners ffs. Prime Rooney, CR7, Tevez and co feasts on this team. Edwin has a sleep in United’s goal too.

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

Ole was relatively successful in the league (for a season) as he had a regular back four, decent counter attacking options and few injuries. Dalot was nowhere near the team. He may have been on loan at AC Milan at the time who ended up getting rid of him too. Not had that since

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

Forget the managers and tactics for a moment. Dalot epitomises the long running problem. He is consistently poor. Some good players can have a bad game but some players just aren’t good enough and he is one yet he has hundreds of appearances and wears G Neville’s shirt.

[Blake Forkan @forks_gk_]

Sesko’s just got us back to 2-1. The crowd are raucous. Brighton attack and we turn them over. Counter is on. YOU get the ball in acres of space in the middle, it’s on. You do you and make a complete balls of it. Brighton get it and the momentum of Sesko’s goal is gone. Go away.

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

Injuries have been a major problem for years. Players seem to be out for an inordinate amount of time with little explanation. Dalot isn’t, so gets game time despite costing us in games over and over. Poor recruitment, poor injury management and poor squad = poor results

[Tom Sherrington @TomSherrington]

@Bricktop_NAFO Someone has been watching West Wing 🙄