DJ O'Connell

Father, Husband, Army Officer. Sky Blues Season Ticket holder since 88/89. Ripon resident. Stephen King fanatic. Tsundoku sufferer.

[DJ O'Connell @daz_doc]

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@BO3673 @almurray @AC_NavalHistory Made easier by the Primacy of Ammunition production on a global scale?

[DJ O'Connell @daz_doc]

@GC_Rail Thanks CW, BR are misleading people

[DJ O'Connell @daz_doc]

@GC_Rail morning. I have a ticket for tomorrow's 1923 LKX to Sunderland. Can I travel on it today?

[Ben Page @Benpagelondon]

Heseltine not mincing his words

[DJ O'Connell @daz_doc]

@mrdanwalker They've made it very easy for the 'women belong in the kitchen' mob 😖

[🇬🇭 Black Stars @GhanaBlackstars]

Brandon Thomas-Asante appreciation post 👏🏾

[DJ O'Connell @daz_doc]

@Ginger_Tucci Not new, but the original Le Carrè 'tinker' tailor...' and 'Smiley's People' with Sir Alec Guinness are on iPlayer and very much worth a watch.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Sir Alex Ferguson sends message of congratulations to Frank Lampard, praising his work in guiding Coventry City into the Premier League. “Your personality as a manager and a leader is so clearly defined in how your team has played great football this season, with confidence and self-belief, and I’ve enjoyed watching them,” Ferguson said via @LMA_Managers.

Lampard was awarded the Sir Alex Ferguson Trophy for LMA Manager of the Year voted by managers and based on the resources the individual manager has available to them. Ferguson added, “I know from speaking with you that you have great humility and, that important quality of a curious mind for learning.”

Following a glittering playing career (3xPL, 1xUCL, 1xEL, 4xFA, FOTY, 106 caps) Lampard could easily have simply gone into punditry. He's eloquent, insightful and brings authority to any discussion about elite football, club or international. But he loves the time on the training field, the contact with players, the challenge of building a team.

The competitive juices have flowed ever since he was doubted as a kid breaking through at West Ham. There's still a sense with Lampard that he is driven by proving people wrong. And proving himself right. And driven by a passion for the game and for winning.

Lampard has experienced a mixed time in management (at Derby, Chelsea twice and Everton), some of it very good, some less so, but his persistence (278 games and counting) and now lauded work at Coventry highlights his maturing into a manager of genuine substance at 47.

At a time when Dan Ashworth and Kevin Thelwell at the FA are focusing on developing more home-grown coaches, Lampard's prominence is even more significant. Thomas Tuchel's successor? #LMAawards #PUSB

[LMA @LMA_Managers]

🏆Congratulations to @Coventry_City Head Coach Frank Lampard OBE, the winner of The Sir Alex Ferguson Trophy for LMA Manager of the Year presented by @Vitality_UK.

[DJ O'Connell @daz_doc]

@Megadeth Absence of UK & EIRE suggests a possible future tour?

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

OK forget about what I said yesterday - THIS is the absolute worst picture of Trump ever taken. So for fuck’s sake, out of basic human decency, do not retweet it and accidentally expose more people to it. Fuckface would be devastated.

[DJ O'Connell @daz_doc]

@BBCMOTD @FansAgainstVAR_

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

Strap in: Follow one of our paratroopers from @16AirAssltBCT jumping in to Tristan da Cunha – one of the world’s most remote communities – to deliver vital medical support 🪂

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

An announcement on an airplane

“Headphones must be used to avoid disturbing other passengers”

Train companies - please use this instead of “See it. Say it. Sorted.”

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Doug King’s a force for good at Coventry City. He promises to be a force for good for the EFL, fighting the pyramid cause, now he’s in the PL corridors of power. Could the New Deal be done? He’s about community & sustainability. Decisiveness, too: Robins out, Lampard in #PUSB 1/2

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

When I was 20, I got a job as a gas jockey in Brewer, Maine. Gas was 24 cents a gallon, and if you filled your tank, you got a choice between a loaf of bread and a waterglass. Check oil and wiper fluid? Check. That was before the oil embargo of 1973. And before Trump.

[DJ O'Connell @daz_doc]

@1jlatibeaudiere ...The biggest D**k in the Premiership.

[Coventry City @Coventry_City]

Today we have fulfilled our promise to return to the @PremierLeague.

We do so with ambition, with unity, and with a clear vision for the future.

WE ARE BACK. 🏁