Connor James

Season Ticket Holder H5.

[Connor James @Connotroversial]

Spot the difference. #FFC

[Richard Seiler @richardseiler]

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is

Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?

And somehow that is the whole point

I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it

From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again

When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak

The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them

But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus

Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it

A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it

And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care

And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off

He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard

That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show

We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product

That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was

And that is exactly why we keep watching

Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

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[Connor James @Connotroversial]

@hollyberry6699 @TheBluestStar Does Brian not go to the matches anymore? I spoke to him at a game few years back but haven’t seen him since…

[Russ Goldman @Russ_Goldman]

Time to go Marco. Thank you for being a great manager of Fulham and I hope you find the right club for you. Fulham need to find a manager to take the club to Europe. Unfortunately, you are not that manager. All the best and thank you for the memories. #FFC

[Connor James @Connotroversial]

@jackellyffc @WhiteNoise1879 Nice one Jack!!

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨SIMON JORDAN DEFENDS JOHN TERRY AGREEING WITH RUPERT LOWE ON BURQA BAN

"If John concurs with this view, that's NOT racism! It's an alternate view and you are allowed to have it"

Well said Simon Jordan 👏

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

Britain…

Women and children flee war. Men go to war. Every war. Every time. All of history.

So a bus pulls up in your town. Door opens. Out steps forty men. Young. Healthy. Alone. No wives. No children. No limp. No wound. No fear in their eyes.

And you’re told to call them refugees.

From what?

Nobody answers. Nobody’s allowed to ask. The bus pulls away. Another one’s already behind it.

Your daughter walks to school past that hotel now. Your wife locks the door when she didn’t used to. Your nan won’t go to the shop alone anymore. And if you say something… anything… you’re the problem.

That bus isn’t stopping. There’s no vote on it. No debate. No one you elected approved it. And the next one arrives tomorrow.

[Connor James @Connotroversial]

Why does Marco Silva not make half time changes? He waits until we’re 2-0 down at 70 minutes before he thinks the game needs changing. Does it every week.

[Connor James @Connotroversial]

Spare going for Saturday

[Peter J Stephen @PeterJStephen]

One spare for Saturday. H5. This is your view. #FulhamFC message me for details.

[Connor James @Connotroversial]

@_GETinSports @Sjopinion10 😬

[Connor James @Connotroversial]

@RhysCarefree @rioferdy5 @WayneRooney @RioMeets Fewer not less. This is English, stick to Welsh.

[Simon Jordan @Sjopinion10]

Whilst some of these points are positive indicators.

None of them have anything to do with this mayors term in office in fact they are in spite of it ..

Some of its ideological tripe … a place for everyone unless of course you are concerned about the direction of travel and the values of this country.

[Peter J Stephen @PeterJStephen]

Will Kevin start?
Will Harry Wilson score against Brentford again?
Will you be in the Hammy end to see it?
Last chance to pick up a ticket with this view?
Message me for details.

[Peter J Stephen @PeterJStephen]

I have a spare for Saturday’s game v Brentford.
DM me for details.
This is your view.
#ffc #fulhamfc

[Connor James @Connotroversial]

Iwobi over Kevin is a crime now. #FFC

[Connor James @Connotroversial]

@TomRogers24 That’s what I said. Silva take WAY too long with substitutions. It’s agony.

[Connor James @Connotroversial]

@jackellyffc Has to start next week. Cannot believe Silva didn’t start him over Iwobi having seen that in training.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Fulham deserved that. Finished far the stronger, good subs, and understandably fuelled by sense of injustice over Manchester United goal. Very obvious two-handed push by Yoro on Bassey somehow unpunished. VAR apparently said it wasn’t enough of a push! The sooner the audio of the decision process is played live (as in cricket/rugby) the more credible the process will be (IFAB issue, not PGMO tbf).

Anyway, Fulham deservedly equalised. Smith Rowe - “one in Emillion” as some fans call him - restored parity with first touch. Such a fine talent when fit and flowing towards goal. And Marco Silva such a good motivator and also influence on games with his subs.

Ruben Amorim still has so much work to do. United strengthened attack but engine room still spluttering. Lacks control and athleticism. Also, why doesn’t Mainoo get a look-in? #FFC #MUFC #FULMUN

[Connor James @Connotroversial]

He loves us

[Jack Kelly @jackellyffc]

A familiar face at Craven Cottage today 🇵🇹 #FFC

[Connor James @Connotroversial]

@FulhamTransfer @Gazzetta_it Is even that good?