Mike

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🚨 Jürgen Klopp has launched a scathing attack on the cooling breaks being used during this World Cup. 👊

"Football is being held hostage by executives sitting in air-conditioned offices.

These breaks are being presented as a shield for player welfare, a noble weapon against the heat. In reality, they are nothing more than a golden cage built for sponsors.

When I saw players standing around during cooling breaks while television timeouts dictated the rhythm of the match, I couldn't help but ask myself: who is the World Cup really serving?

The supporters? The players? Or the advertisers?

A World Cup match should flow like a river. Instead, we are building dams in the middle of it so commercials can be shown.

It's dangerous for the spirit of the game. Football used to be the main event, but it now risks becoming background music for an advertising show."

He didn't hold back. 👏👏

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🎙️Joe Hart on Kai Havertz escaping a red card against Burnley, insists they’re doing to help Arsenal win the league:

“Listen, I’ve been in this game a long time as a player, now watching it closely and that challenge from Kai Havertz on the Burnley lad today is a stone-cold red card. Straight out of the IFAB Law 12 playbook: serious foul play.

You’re lunging in, studs showing high, minimal contact with the ball, endangering an opponent’s safety with excessive force. It’s reckless at best, dangerous and brutal at worst. The law is clear, ‘a tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent… must be sanctioned as serious foul play.’ VAR had a look and still bottled it. Yellow card? Come on.

If that was a Burnley player sliding into Saka or Ødegaard like that in the title run-in? Red card before he even hits the ground, three-game ban, headlines for days. But Arsenal? Nah, just a booking and carry on.

They’re doing everything, everything to help Arsenal win this league. Refs, VAR, the whole system. It’s not even subtle anymore. Big club protection on another level while teams like Burnley are fighting for their lives. How are we supposed to trust the integrity of the competition when decisions like this keep swinging one way?

Fans are fed up. Proper fans see it. This isn’t football anymore, it’s a scripted title charge. If Arsenal win it, a lot of people will have serious questions. Absolute shambles.”

[Anthony O'Neill @AnthonyAinsdale]

Our salt processing plant in runcorn is going bust due to sky high energy costs so we'll import salt even thou we have a never ending quantity of it. It's totally insane! Net zero is destroying all our industry. Criminally reckless.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“Let’s spend £4.5trillion on net zero over the next 25 years. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1.5 billion of taxpayers’ money this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by falsely claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Yet another punishment tax by this vindictive Labour government. A green charge on gas boilers to subsidise heat pumps. We are paying for Ed Miliband’s net zero nonsense that won’t make a blind bit of difference saving the planet but it will make some corporations very rich.

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

🗣️"The issue that needs tackling is feigning injury and diving, it stops children copying"

Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche says diving is a major problem in football and it influences young children to copy players who do it.

[Peter Bolster @peter_bolster]

These things always come out after Howard Webb has made his TV appearance, coincidentally. They should be able to drag him back on to explain that farce of an explanation he gave Michael Owen on Monday.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Liverpool FC have complained to the BBC after Kelvin McKenzie appeared on its coverage about journalistic standards

McKenzie was the editor of The Sun when it blamed Liverpool fans for the Hillsborough disaster

[@JamesPearceLFC]

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

£52 million of taxpayers money is spent on building a road in Guyana.

It’s coming from the “Climate Aid” budget.

Next month you’re going to be asked to cough up more money for BS like this when there’s potholes on British roads.

Roads in Guyana are not our problem.

Via @Telegraph

[Mike @dherk_]

2010's trauma*

[Liverpool FC Retail @LFCRetail]

2010s nostalgia, modern style. The Liverpool FC Urban Purist Collection by adidas

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

How about we celebrate the great signings without disrespecting the PL champions?

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

The Premier League need to get a firm grip on refereeing standards and decisions pronto, because if I'm right ( reading a lot of tweets from supporters of ALL clubs since the King decision) the concern about standards is at, if not beyond tipping point.

We no longer know what is being punished and why and it's making many a game simply unwatchable.

Listen to people @premierleague @FA_PGMOL, you're losing the room.

[The Anfield Wrap @TheAnfieldWrap]

Haha Simon Hooper fuck off lad

[Who Is Gręgg🇿🇼? @greggmunikwa]

Stole Allez Allez Allez
Stole the Diaz chant
Stole dua lipa
Stole the chiesa chant
What’s next? YNWA?

[Mike @dherk_]

Den perry is at it again

[Ellesmere Port Social @eportsocial]

Who had August 2025?

[Biggies Malls 2.0 @Biggies_MaIIs]

All the “red cartel” stuff makes me laugh because it’s only “blue cartel” clubs of City, Chelsea, Villa and Everton that are using underhand accounting methods to game the system.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Our lad from Portugal. Forever ❤️

[Mike @dherk_]

I hope Slot and the players refuse these interviews, and if there is a camera in the changing rooms, it gets covered up with a shirt. ruining the game. What happens at half time should stay private.

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

Premier League games will have new US-style feature for first time ever next season
https://t.co/64pI6U6mL5

[Mike @dherk_]

No.

[Mark Simm @markesimm]

#Glastonbury2025 can someone please take down that bloody Costa del Porto flag?! 🤬