Anthony Abdool

Books, Ads, MCFC.

Deep down, I'm shallow.

[Anthony Abdool @anthonyabdool]

Am also at @anthonyabdool.bsky.social for those interested. Not posting regularly there rn, but give it time.

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@tonybishop1 I need to listen to you more!

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One for you @tonybishop1

[James H Reeve @JamesHReeve]

🎵Emilio Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday . . .🏏

[Francisco Cunha @OnDisasters]

A preventable tragedy

On This Day in 1967: Stockport air disaster (England). A British Midland C-4 [G-ALHG] crashes in Stockport, 72 of 84 aboard die. On a go-around, crew lost control after 2 engines failed. Investigation traced the issues to a known - but never addressed - design issue in the fuel system.

More details here by ASN (video is from British Pathé)

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The immediate cause of the accident was loss of power of both engines on the starboard side, resulting in control problems which prevented the pilot from maintaining height on the available power with one propeller windmilling. The loss of power of the first engine was due to fuel starvation due to inadvertent fuel transfer in flight. The loss of power of the second engine was due either to fuel starvation resulting from inadvertent fuel transfer in flight or to misidentification by the crew of which engine had failed followed by failure to restore power in time to the engine misidentified as having failed.
Contributory causes of the accident were:

(a) The design of the fuel valves and location in the cockpit of their actuating levers, so that a failure by the pilot correctly to position the lever by an amount so small as to be easy to do and difficult to recognize would result in inadvertent fuel transfer on a scale sufficient to involve the risk after a long flight of a tank expected to contain sufficient fuel being in fact empty.

(b) Failure of those responsible for the design of the fuel system or the fuel valves to warn users that failure by a small amount to place the actuating levers in the proper position would result in inadvertent fuel transfer on a scale involving this risk after a long flight.

(c) Failure of British Midland's air crew or engineers to recognize the possibility of inadvertent fuel transfer in the air from the evidence available in previous incidents in flight and contained in the fuel logs.

(d) Failure of other operators of Argonauts who had learned by experience of the possibility of inadvertent fuel transfer in flight to inform the Air Registration Board, the Directorate of Flight Safety of the Board of Trade or its predecessors, or the United Kingdom Flight Safety Committee of the facts which they had learned so that these might be communicated to other operators of Argonauts and other aircraft equipped with similar systems and fuel cocks."

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@thesefootytimes 1970
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@fin_lay24 His vocal cords sound like they’ve been steeped in claret and plum duff…

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Clive Thomas, Brazil v Sweden 1978. Iykyk.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

The ref blew the halftime whistle as Arsenal were getting ready to take a corner 😅

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Imagine dragging your opponents down to your level of haram ball - and still losing

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@sigourneybeaver We had female carers coming twice a day towards the end of my mum's life. They were most respectful of her making sure she was washed and showered and fed. Hope you get the support you need the way you need it.

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@fin_lay24 You’re not alone. F Scott Fitzgerald did exactly the same thing in his letters.

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@CiarzScrawlings Magnificent work. Thank you.

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@joefattorini @rorysutherland What's wrong with Folio editions? The Larkin one, for instance, is rather lovely:

https://t.co/2Gm931WhcB

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Camera off and sound off for my company Teams meeting.

That's because @howiehok3434 is on a retweet frenzy and I'm totally here for it.

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‘John Stones’ walking out before John Stones was hilarious.

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Class from Unai Emery and the Villa players...

[Anthony Abdool @anthonyabdool]

‘In case of emergency, break glass and send for Pep.’

[Simon Bajkowski @spbajko]

Guardiola will keep a role as Global Ambassador for City Football Group.

Ferran Soriano, CEO: “We will be able to use his knowledge and experience in so many of our other clubs to help managers and players."

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Well done the Gooners and my Gooner chums…

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@FasilBalti I’d love it so much, but…

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@9320pod @AmosMurphy_ ‘To you my son I bequeath my coatigan. Guard it well and use it wisely.’

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Fly to Guernsey once a month at the moment. Flight's always full.

https://t.co/9RWWA1maPD

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Sitting in a Portuguese bar - in S. London - watching a highlights package of Gigi on a sports channel.

Man earned his keep this season, no question.