Anth

[West Bromwich Albion @WBA]

A base to work from in the North East. 🏟️

Thank you, @SpennymoorTown. 🫡

[Footy Accumulators @FootyAccums]

When you wake up and realise Premier League football is back this week!

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

A well deserved ovation for Mason Miley 👏

[Toon Polls @ToonPolls]

Thanks to Fun88 for honouring a 4 year old joke tweet and sending me, my brother and nephew to the World Cup Final. Unreal.

[Derek Rivers @DykaRivers]

PSR was anti-competitive. SCR is arguably worse. Here's why the Premier League's financial rules don't protect competition — they protect the established order. 🧵👇 (all in one post)

SCR lets every club spend 85% of football revenue on their squad. Sounds fair, right? Same percentage for everyone.

Except 85% of £700m is £595m. 85% of £300m is £255m. The rule doesn't level the playing field — it takes the existing revenue gap and writes it into law. The clubs who built their revenue advantage decades ago (much of it in the pre-regulation era) get to spend from a permanently bigger pot.

And here's the part nobody talks about enough: revenue in football follows success. You grow commercial income by winning things and playing in Europe. But to win things you need to spend, and you're only allowed to spend what your current revenue permits. It's a closed loop. The Big Six's moat isn't talent or ideas — it's regulation.

Now look at what happens when a club actually breaks through:

🔴⚪ Newcastle. Ended a 70-year domestic trophy drought, qualified for the Champions League — and their "reward" was selling academy graduates before a June 30 accounting deadline to stay PSR compliant. Pure profit on homegrown players sold not for football reasons, but for spreadsheet reasons.

🟣 Aston Villa. Champions League quarter-finalists. Their prize? Forced player sales every June and UEFA fines, because European qualification drops your squad cost ceiling from 85% to UEFA's 70%. Read that again: succeeding LOWERS your spending headroom relative to your domestic rivals who didn't qualify.

That's the glass ceiling. Win a trophy, reach the CL, do everything right — and the rules snap you back to your "correct" place in the hierarchy.

The league had one genuine chance to fix this: Top-to-Bottom Anchoring, which would have capped everyone's spending at a multiple of the bottom club's TV money. An actual competitive-balance mechanism. The clubs voted it down.

So we're left with a system that calls itself "sustainability" but functions as protectionism. Owners with capital ready to invest are barred from doing so. Challengers are forced to sell their best young players to fund ambition. And the same handful of clubs get regulatory cover to stay on top forever.

Competition law exists to stop incumbents rigging markets against new entrants. English football has done exactly that — and called it fair play.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

I almost spat out my coffee 😂😂😂

[NEW chorley Awaydays @ChorleyAwayDay]

The maddest Conference "North" in 2026 /2027

[Durham County Council @DurhamCouncil]

The operators of Lebaneat are facing a bill of over £16,000 for poor food hygiene and licensing breaches.

https://t.co/FkdNp60Nwe

[Rob 🅼 @Im_RobM]

MC Tazo auditioning on Britain's Got Talent tonight is peak international break.

[James Copley @JamesCopley_]

That’s the spirit!

(Wait until the end)

#SAFC | #NUFC

[Joe @MagsHWTL]

Mrs just made me a bacon sarnie with ketchup today, just sent her flying across the room, NOWT RED TODAY UP THE FUCKING MAGS KILL THE MACKEMS

[Anth @AnthAston]

@dannewell190 Enjoy pal
It’s was snowing when I left yesterday😂

[Leonard Leazes @Leonard_Leazes]

This weekend sees Jordan Pickford return to his boyhood club. Pickford (38) switched allegiance from #NUFC to #SAFC in 2000 when he was 12 after being bullied by NUFC supporting girls at his school about the length of his arms. He has held a grudge against the Jawdies since then.

[The Magpie Group @MagpieGroupNUFC]

A quiet March awaits.

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

Newcastle were denied a penalty as Lucas Digne appeared to commit a handball offence in the box ❌

📺 @tntsports & @discoveryplusUK

[Man Savings @man_savings]

Waterproof Jacket now just £68

Use code: WINTER20

Link >> https://t.co/fh556yeAhQ

AD: RRP £170

[Mark O'Haire @MarkOHaire]

I've never seen anything like the referee taking charge of tonight's game in Portugal...

Ricardo Baixinho is avergaing 113.89 BP across his nine league games this season:

Over 8.5 Cards in 8/9
Red Card in 7/9 (11 reds in total)

An absolute maniac and I'm all for it 🤪

[Craig Hope @CraigHope_DM]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Newcastle United’s £200m Woolsington Hall masterplan!

🌎 The world-class facility that will transform club…

🏊 Pools
🏟️ Mini stadium
🛌 Accommodation
🎞️ Cinema rooms

⬇️ Full details… https://t.co/uCdIHbwDv2

[Durham County Council @DurhamCouncil]

#DurhamRestaurantWeek returns end of this month! Friday 30 January 🍕😋 are you booked in?

Organised by @durhambid, this is your chance to enjoy a week of delicious deals at restaurants, cafes and venues across Durham City!

Find out more: https://t.co/A3nDmOlYaf

[Anth @AnthAston]

@linda_brunskill No you lost😂