Bugpowder Dust

South London and North East Scotland

[Bugpowder Dust @bugpowder_dust]

@englandcricket three drops of rain and we get a half hour delay while some clown rides around on a tractor with a rope. People have paid to be here

[Bugpowder Dust @bugpowder_dust]

@surreycricket your ground crew are utter clowns

[Mark 🇬🇭 @TheBoySeggy]

Should’ve been one of the greatest moments in FA cup history, but some bloke sat in a booth near the M4 with a fancy protractor said nah, your big toe is too big. Fcuk VAR & everyone who thinks it’s been good for this game #FaCup

[Adrian Durham @TheAdrianDurham]

Is this what offside is all about?
Is any advantage gained?
Should it be so scientific?
Is it meant to be judged by who's got bigger feet?

[Football Park Scotland @FP_Scotland]

🔴⚽️| 𝗠𝗶𝗼𝘃𝘀𝗸𝗶| 𝗔𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝟭-𝟬 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰

It’s a dream start for the Dons!

Bojan Miovski puts Aberdeen in front in the semi final after just two minutes at Hampden!

[Bugpowder Dust @bugpowder_dust]

Well said Rovers

[Tranmere Rovers FC @TranmereRovers]

Club Statement: FA Cup replays

[Geoff Norcott @GeoffNorcott]

@EmiratesFACup @premierleague ‘Strengthen’?
Fuck all the way off you spineless charlatans.
It’s yet another sop to the biggest clubs at the expense of the wider game.

[Ross County FC @RossCounty]

Full-time at the Global Energy Stadium:

Ross County 3-2 Rangers

A massive 3 points and our first ever victory over Rangers!

[Dulwich Hamlet FC Women @DHFC_W]

57'

Record home attendance for a women's game at Champion Hill.... 1,142 at the ground today.

Thank you very much for your support not only today but throughout the season

#DHFC 1-0 #ETFC

#DHFC💖💙 #Spicy 🌶️

[Scottish Football Away Days @scotsawaydays]

Aberdeen "End VAR" banner today

@AberdeenFC

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

the water industry has paid out more than £72bn in dividends while running up £60bn of debts since it was privatised by Margaret Thatcher with zero debts

https://t.co/dIhwqUScY7

[Bugpowder Dust @bugpowder_dust]

@pbtfc Why were fans in the ground not informed?

[Dulwich Hamlet FC @DulwichHamletFC]

BACK TO WINNING WAYS 👊

A big 3 points at Nyewood Lane!

0️⃣-2️⃣
#DHFC 💖💙

[Bugpowder Dust @bugpowder_dust]

@gavinnivag Great pic

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[The Exploding Heads @Exploding_Heads]

When someone "says what this country is thinking"

[Bugpowder Dust @bugpowder_dust]

@DulwichHamletFC Couldn't make it today, appreciated the commentary. Good work team, up the Hamlet

[Bugpowder Dust @bugpowder_dust]

@DulwichHamletFC Talk about tempting fate

[Bugpowder Dust @bugpowder_dust]

@DulwichHamletFC What happened to Alfie Egan and Alfie Allen