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I'm Bob. West Brom. Philly Eagles. Scotsman. Views are my own. No trolls.

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@wrestling_VI

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#WBA @WBA 1979

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@UKLabour Whilst you don't secure our borders....

Stop lying

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@haydenr320 Play offs.....
Probably mid table but play offs

[WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @NotFarLeftAtAll]

Should the police have fitness tests every year …

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@duncanyoung68 Nah...

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@AlbionAnalysis @ChapmanJ92 Angus Gunn definitely

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@FBAwayDays Absolutely bloody boring

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Look at this photograph.

It’s 1968.

The man carrying this little boy on his shoulders is not his father.

His father has just left.

Left his mother.
Left their home.
Left for another life.

And the man who showed up — who drove 45 minutes across London just to check on a 5-year-old boy whose world had suddenly fallen apart — is holding him steady with both hands while the child laughs at the top of his lungs.

That drive would inspire the best-selling Beatles single of all time.

The boy’s name was Julian Lennon.

And he has never quite known how to feel about it.

Julian Charles John Lennon was born on April 8, 1963.

Four days earlier, The Beatles had released their first album.

His father, John Lennon, was becoming one of the most famous people on Earth.

From the beginning, music came first.

The touring.
The recording.
The chaos.
The fame.

Julian came after all of it.

Paul McCartney, however, had known Julian since he was a baby. He watched him grow up while the world around the Beatles became louder and stranger and harder to survive.

Then, in May 1968, John told Cynthia Lennon their marriage was over.

He had fallen in love with Yoko Ono.

Cynthia later said she came home from vacation and found Yoko already there.

Just like that, the family was broken apart.

Julian was five years old.

Paul McCartney decided to drive out to see Cynthia and Julian.

No cameras.
No publicity.
No grand gesture.

Just a friend showing up because a little boy was hurting.

And during that drive, Paul started humming.

“Hey Jules… don’t make it bad…”

Later, he changed “Jules” to “Jude.”

The song became “Hey Jude.”

Released in August 1968, it spent nine weeks at No. 1 in America, sold millions of copies, and became the biggest-selling Beatles single in history.

But for Julian Lennon, the song carried two truths at once.

To the world, it became comfort.
To him, it became memory.

A reminder that his father had walked away.

And that another man had stepped in long enough to help carry the weight.

Years later, Julian admitted he has a “love-hate relationship” with the song.

Because every stadium singalong…
Every radio replay…
Every well-meaning person saying “Your song!”…

Also brings him back to that moment when his childhood changed forever.

Yet even through all the complicated feelings, one thing never changed:

He never forgot that Paul showed up.

Not because he had to.
Not because it benefited him.

But because a child needed kindness.

Look at the photograph one more time.

A little boy laughing with his whole body.
A man holding him securely on his shoulders.
Two hands making sure he doesn’t fall.

Julian doesn’t know yet about the divorce.
About the fame.
About the legal battles.
About inheritance disputes.
About the strange burden of having your pain turned into one of the most famous songs ever written.

Right now, he only knows one thing:

Someone came.

And sometimes, for a child, that is everything.

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@realninawysocka After watching yesterday I noticed they were shit....

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@henrywinter Could always have played a RW at RW....

It was dull as dishwater.
Eng going out in the 2nd round

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@stuey_beef 1970s all 9ver again.....
Only this time it's deliberately being done. I'm guessing to get a bailout the cost would be rejoining the #EU

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Ask yourself: what kind of force drafts an official statement three days after a teenager’s death that effectively paints him as the aggressor — and only rows back when the family’s fury makes it politically impossible?

What kind of chief constable signs off a culture where the priority, in the immediate aftermath of a fatal stabbing, is not “how did we fail him?” but “how do we protect ourselves?”

The IOPC has already confirmed it is investigating the officers’ contact with Henry, including the use of handcuffs and first aid, yet Hampshire briefed The Telegraph that there is “no indication of misconduct” and that all officers are merely “witnesses”.

This looks less like accountability and more like an early attempt to lock in a “nothing to see here” narrative before the watchdog has even finished.

When a chief constable presides over a force that handcuffs a dying boy, drafts victim‑blaming lines, meddles in a live trial, and then rushes out exonerating briefings for his own officers, the problem is not rogue PCs — it’s the man at the top.

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@bagshaw2112 1979

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@KathrynLangran Absolutely fantastic.....

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You know what to do.....
Retweet the hell out of this

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Andy Johnson and team kayaking the English Channel next month in support of the brilliant @WBAFoundation - huge effort, support them if you can! 🚣 🌊 #wba
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Class from the Scots.

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@EdwardJDavey I'm reading things today about the government 'nudge unit' that tells families what to say in these statements.....
Is the unit real

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@TouchlineX @BBCSport Do we know the reasons why?

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@mfc_mrpage Portugal... But also Tunisia

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Yep

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#Debenhams so I pay £6.00 for next day delivery over the Free delivery for an item, yet the item arrives two days later. If you do that to 100 people that's £600...I want a refund as it's simply not good enough, who agrees