Dave Foot

I love Jesus and I sing, both imperfectly. Married to @SarahJFoot, horn player, @MeantimeChorus, cyclist, big cricket fan. Trying to live more sustainably.

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I scroll back through my Twitter feed and realise it's literally only me attempting to get onto the BBC Cricket live text feed. I either need to tweet more, or less.

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@Lipsy198 @Journey_7216 @TheAthleticFC Net worth of Reynolds & Mac is not that much in football ownership terms. They will be small fish in the Prem.

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@Heccles94 Essex, UK. Socially small c conservative, economically liberal. Left, eco conscious, Christian.

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@_hypocaust For me it feels more like a lament that the playing conditions aren't already more progressive than they are. Even if it ultimately cost England a SF place I wish that there could have been a result yesterday - England deserved to lose, and Pakistan thoroughly deserved to win.

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@ClareWoodhead3 @FactswithDinesh @legsidelizzy Spotted I missed a "they're" from an extra bit I deleted, but perhaps if I'd rewritten it "their" I'd have gotten away with it...

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@ClareWoodhead3 @FactswithDinesh @legsidelizzy It staggers me that business-minded people with deep pockets don't see women's sport as a huge growth market and just plough resources into it. I mean, it doesn't stagger me, because they're sexism persists, consciously or unconsciously.

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@ClareWoodhead3 @FactswithDinesh @legsidelizzy The last WAshes down under was a complete washout as far as England were concerned, which was so very disappointing. But the last one here was a cracking series.

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@legsidelizzy When did you come back to Twitter, and are you regretting it? 😩

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@ClareWoodhead3 @FactswithDinesh @legsidelizzy In no other industry would you expect to see growth without investment first, but people seem to think it's okay to say, "when interest goes up, then we can do xyz".

I'm lucky to live close by a county ground that generally gets a women's intl match each year. Always a fun day.

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@ClareWoodhead3 @FactswithDinesh @legsidelizzy You just know that girls growing up notice these things. Progress is far too slow. My wife plays, she's captain of the ladies team at our club, but they are starting so far back from the men who have been playing since they were young boys.

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@FactswithDinesh @legsidelizzy Let me introduce to you the idea of male privilege.

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@FactswithDinesh @legsidelizzy So you're saying there is no responsibility on the men who hold the de facto power here to leverage their power to make it a more equitable space? How do we make any progress on anything?

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@FactswithDinesh @legsidelizzy No, she's talking about the representation of women in cricket (and wider sports) journalism. No, there is nothing barring women from pursuing the career, but there are a million things in the way of it being an equal playing field.

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@legsidelizzy Well these replies are rather repulsive, aren't they?

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@FactswithDinesh @legsidelizzy Well done, you've found one. And missed the point entirely.

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@bbctms can we get some GIF action? #bbccricket

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@DarrenMatt82242 @bbctms Tis a fair point, but I didn't forget - what there wasn't space for in a tweet was that the discussion on TMS had suggested a minimum 5 characters. I looked at first, second, third names where relevant and otherwise there are a lot of Bobs (and a Viv) to have played.

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Palindromic cricketers: in all men's tests, there are five players whose names read the same backwards as forwards: India's Naman Ohja and Nayan Mongia, Pakistan's Talat Ali, WI's Rangy Nanan and of course Aiden Markram. Only Markram has more than 5 letters. @bbctms #bbccricket

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@SpaceIntel101 @hankgreen From my UK experience, this is a false equivalence fallacy. Yes it is true that all parties lie, but not all parties lie to anything like the same extent. I can't comment on Dems' dishonesty, but the brazen way in which Trump et al lie without consequence is shocking.

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@TheBarmyArmy Many things might be leveled at the England cricket team, some of them valid, but anyone who suggests laziness is talking out of their arse.