David Furzer-Jones

one part ~ @cultkits

[David Furzer-Jones @davey_DL]

@nationalexpress - 4 + hours to Heathrow from Swindon. All because a driver hasn’t checked the route before setting off. Now have a missed flight and having to re book. Looking forward to the conversation around compensation.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🚜 Kieran McKenna, set to reject approaches from Brighton and stay at Ipswich Town next season.

McKenna, also ready to sign new long term deal at the club to end speculation as @David_Ornstein reports.

↪️ McKenna, out of the Chelsea job race with Enzo Maresca really close.

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

Good news, Ipswich Town fans 😅

#BBCFootball

[Dan Roan @danroan]

“I cannot celebrate if I’m 2nd”

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta tells me how it’ll feel if his team falls agonisingly short & finishes runners-up to Manchester City in the title-race after Sunday’s Premier League finale
https://t.co/IoJ7dwrjOt

[Stuart Watson @Stuart_Watson]

FT: Hull City 3 #itfc 3

What a game. Breathless, end-to-end action. Two moments of magic from Hutchinson not quite enough. Town pegged back x3

Players from both teams slump to turf in exhaustion. Home and away fans all stand to applaud

4pts from final two gets Blues over line

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Jordan Henderson leaving Saudi Arabia after helping to ‘grow the game’

[A Funny Old Game @sid_lambert]

TELLY GOLD: It’s Attilio Lombardo’s birthday… so here he is doing the Lambada on the glorious Gazzetta Football Italia.

Saturday mornings in the 90s. What times we had.

[Stuart Watson @Stuart_Watson]

EXCLUSIVE: Understand that Sam Morsy has told the Egyptian FA that he's unavailable for African Cup of Nations selection. Huge boost for #itfc.

Full story ↪️https://t.co/QPVbbSiBix

[David Furzer-Jones @davey_DL]

Nice contribution to a @BBCSport article on the kits of previous AFCON’s from @Joshy_No4 / @cultkits :

https://t.co/9GQbhmLfgh

[Accidental Partridge @AccidentalP]

“Hello, is that reception?”

[Accidental Partridge @AccidentalP]

“I’m leaving you, you cow!”

[Jonny Sharples @JonnyGabriel]

“All I'm saying is people deserve to know if his very shiny nose was a side effect of the vaccine”

[Cult Kits @cultkits]

Shirts with a sash. This might be up there with the greatest 👀

Part of yesterdays drop

[Dan Evans @Dan_Draws]

big baby

[Cult Kits @cultkits]

The Sunday Drop 📦

See what’s new 👉🏻 https://t.co/60WBP7lFJI

[David Furzer-Jones @davey_DL]

Filthy that, from Wes

[MUNDIAL @MundialMag]

We support Ipswich now.

[David Furzer-Jones @davey_DL]

Here’s a secret Santa idea for Roy, if you need one, @IanWright0 …

[Carl Anka @Ankaman616]

"Premier League, corrupt as f***" is the chant from Everton fans on the 10th minute.

[Gary Neville @GNev2]

So sorry to hear the news of my very first England coach, Terry Venables. A man who gave me a chance to play for my country and became without a shadow of doubt my number one England coach in my whole career.

There were three things that were important to me about Venables. The first is when we hear people that play for Pep Guardiola now say that he can call the outcome of a game in training a few days before the match arrives, Terry Venables had that very same capability, he’d come through the Barcelona system. In Euro 96 as a right back, I played as a conventional right back in the first match, the right of a back three in parts of the second match against Scotland and as a right winger when we were in possession through our goalkeeper in the third match against Holland and in the fourth match against Spain in the quarter final as a right wing back. The ability that we had to change systems during matches and from game to game was incredible, it blew my mind. England certainly needed more like him and it was a real sadness when he left at the end of Euro 96, I felt it never got as good again for England as it was under him.

The second thing was that he was an unbelievable personality and character, larger than life. He was someone who was a players man, looked after his players, stood up for his players in big situations like the pre-96 trip to Hong Kong and the dentist chair incident. He was someone who the players trusted and had great faith in and he always spoke openly and he was a personality that was far too big for the then rigid and stiff FA football association and that’s why they got rid of him after Euro 96 and why the relationship ended.

The third thing is what all great coaches need. He had an unbelievable ruthlessness and clinical side to him. We had brilliant leaders in that dressing room like Ince, Adams, Shearer, Platt, Gascoigne, Southgate and Seaman. He handled them all really strongly and they all knew who the boss was. There were many times where he would come in at half-time and call out one of the senior players and there were few England managers who could do that and Terry had that quality.

I sit here today thinking back to my special times with Terry and can say he is without doubt the most technically gifted British coach we’ve ever produced.