Liam

[Berk @trapdoor456]

Yep!

[Liam @Dozza313]

@ToonDazza Could worry more not bout 6 Argentinians but the millions and millions fighting age dirty men coming daily . I more worried bout being more tax to give to these dirty illegals immigrants paying for them . Not sports

[ᴱᴺᶻᴼᴵᶻᵁ @ENZOIZU]

🎙️ Let’s stop having the wrong argument about Xabi Alonso.

The argument isn’t whether he’s a good coach. He is.

The argument isn’t whether he was deceived. He wasn’t.

The argument isn’t even whether the model is broken. We’ve already proved that.

The argument is this: Alonso looked at everything Chelsea had become and decided his career needed it more than his principles required him to walk away.
That is not an accusation. That is just what happened.

He saw Santos being developed and sold. He saw Cucurella, one of the few genuine senior characters left, being priced for Real Madrid before he’d taken a single session. He saw Enzo Fernandez, vice-captain, two exceptional seasons, being tested in the market at £120m while the club publicly said they wanted to keep him. He saw a sporting structure where the directors don’t move and managers rotate. He saw four years of the same cycle eating four different coaches.

And he signed a four-year deal.

Not because he was tricked. Because Chelsea offered him the one thing he needed after the Real Madrid job: relevance. A Premier League platform. A club big enough to rebuild his CV and small enough right now that he couldn’t fail on the biggest stage. A fanbase desperate enough to believe in him that the bar for early success was always going to be low.

Chelsea needed credibility after the chaos.

Alonso needed Premier League proof after Leverkusen.

That transaction made sense for both parties. It just wasn’t about football first. It was about positioning first.

And that is why fans should not separate Alonso from the ownership anymore.

The moment he signed, he became the model’s most valuable asset. Not Palmer. Not Enzo. Alonso. Because his name is the thing that makes the rebrand feel real this time. His reputation is what stops fans asking the questions they should be asking. His press conference, hunger, mentality, strong base, working together with the sporting directors on the right decisions, is the cleanest version of the script this club has handed to every manager since 2022.

The words change. The structure doesn’t.

“Right decisions with the sporting directors.” Those are the same sporting directors who approved the Santos sale. The same ones who put a £120m tag on Enzo. The same ones who let Cucurella go before their new manager had even started. Alonso is aligned with them. He said so himself. In public. On camera. First press conference.

So when the collision comes, and it will come, because Alonso’s ambitions are genuinely elite and Chelsea’s model is genuinely developmental, I want to remember that moment. The moment he stood at the microphone and told us he was working within the structure rather than above it.

Every Chelsea manager eventually faces the same crossroads. Keep the player that helps us win, or sell the player that helps the numbers. Pochettino hit it. Maresca hit it. Tuchel hit it in a different way. And when Alonso hits it, when BlueCo want to sell the player he wants to keep, or keep a player he needs to move, we’ll find out whether he’s here to build something or here to survive something.

My honest read? Alonso stays one or two years. Gets Chelsea back into Europe. Use that to prove he can manage at the elite level in England. Then Liverpool or Bayern come calling in a moment of weakness and he walks. Not because he’s disloyal. Because that was always the trajectory. Chelsea is the stepping stone back to the top for him the same way he is the credibility stepping stone for BlueCo.

Both sides are using each other. Both sides know it. And both sides will smile for the cameras until the moment it stops working.

That’s the part that should make you angry. Not the Santos sale. Not the Cucurella exit. Not even the Enzo situation.

The fact that they’re all still asking you to trust the project while every single decision underneath tells you exactly what the project actually is. 💙 #CFC

[Brunte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @Brunte84]

Since you mentioned Lady Thatcher, @andyburnham, here's a reminder of what she achieved 👇🏼

•⁠ ⁠Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40%

•⁠ ⁠Basic rate: 33% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)

•⁠ ⁠Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)

•⁠ ⁠Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third

•⁠ ⁠Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners

•⁠ ⁠Home ownership: 55% → 67%

•⁠ ⁠Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults

•⁠ ⁠Foreign holidays: roughly doubled

•⁠ ⁠Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten

•⁠ ⁠Pensioners' average incomes: up around 30% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Infant mortality: down almost 40%

•⁠ ⁠Real GDP: up by almost a third

•⁠ ⁠GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million

•⁠ ⁠Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon

•⁠ ⁠Britain became a net oil exporter

•⁠ ⁠London restored as the world's financial capital in 1986

•⁠ ⁠Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90

•⁠ ⁠National debt: 47% of GDP → 28%

•⁠ ⁠State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39%

•⁠ ⁠The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000

•⁠ ⁠Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms' rate: 42% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Higher rates of income tax: nine → one

•⁠ ⁠Death duties: fourteen rates → one

•⁠ ⁠Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years

•⁠ ⁠40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector

•⁠ ⁠The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987

•⁠ ⁠British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90)

•⁠ ⁠BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen

•⁠ ⁠"Tell Sid" broke the record again in 1986

•⁠ ⁠British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, "the world's favourite airline"

•⁠ ⁠The Channel Tunnel: launched — entirely privately financed

•⁠ ⁠The Falklands liberated in 74 days

•⁠ ⁠Backed Gorbachev early, stood with Reagan, and won the Cold War

•⁠ ⁠Three consecutive election victories and the longest-serving PM of the twentieth century ✌🏼🇬🇧

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

🚨🇬🇧 "AYÚDENME. POR FAVOR, AYÚDENME. VAN A VIOLARME".

Los abogados dijeron: "SI SE PUBLICAN LAS IMÁGENES DEL ATAQUE, SE PRODUCIRÍAN DISTURBIOS EN TODO EL PAÍS".

Esto es espantoso.

Se han hecho públicos los detalles de la violación de una niña de 15 años en Leamington, Reino Unido.

La chica grabó todo con su teléfono.

Los afganos hicieron eso.

Es algo horrible, más allá de toda creencia.

[Liam @Dozza313]

@andyburnham This sounds very dangerous

[Mal @UtdMaI]

Italy won in 2006 — nobody remembers the tournament as a robbery.

Spain won in 2010 — nobody remembers the tournament as a robbery.

Germany won in 2014 — nobody remembers the tournament as a robbery.

France won in 2018 — nobody remembers the tournament as a robbery.

But mention Argentina’s 2022 title and the conversation immediately turns to penalties, refereeing and FIFA’s influence.

That alone tells you how differently that World Cup is remembered.

And now, in this tournament, the same team has somehow created even more questions than answers.

Whatever they win, the asterisk will follow them.

[Yorkie 'B' 🏴‍☠️ RN VD and Scar..🇬🇧 @RenownVet21]

Fixed it for ya, ya cheating, dirty bastards

[grandson @Grandsoncr7]

No robbed trophy.
No controversy.
No scandal.
No FIFA help.
No rigging.
No robbed awards.

Cristiano Ronaldo; the greatest of all time.

[Notorious @FullCipher]

What can we say it all before the match

[LaVozGalactica @Lavozgalactica]

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Acaban de filtrar un vídeo de 26 minutos con todos los robos de la Argentina de Leo Messi en este Mundial.

Compártelo para que lo vea todo el mundo y llegue a la FIFA.

[AILEN COVA @elmasgrandeRM]

Esto es así

[N Ecc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Neccccy]

😂😂😂😂

[Christian Arias @ChristianariasF]

🔥 Piers Morgan lo dejó clarísimo hoy 🤡🤡
“¡El árbitro de la semifinal England vs Argentina es Ismail Elfath, el preferido de Messi en la MLS! Con él Inter Miami y Argentina nunca pierden… y encima fue cuarto árbitro en la final 2022 🤦‍♂️”
😂😂😂😂 ¡Ahora entendemos todo, Messi Lovers! El verdadero rival de Inglaterra no es Kane ni Bellingham… ¡es el VAR Hormonado y su árbitro personal! 🦾🚨🚨🚨
Infantino y FIFA mode ON full time 💩💩💩💩💩
Sin ayudas arbitrales la Princesa Hormonada ni llega a la final 🤡🤡🤡
¡Pura alfombra roja otra vez! 😂😂😂🖕🖕🖕🖕
#PiersMorgan #Elfath #SeVieneElAtraco #PrincesaHormonada #MessiLoversFox 🤣💥🚨💩🦾🖕

[Liam @Dozza313]

@FabrizioRomano Fifa world cup here messi have the world cup no point playing the games has fifa already gave you the cup before started . seems every in the world now is Corrupt to the core governments , sports , ect ..

[Liam @Dozza313]

@FabrizioRomano How many fouls did thay get away with . ?? Motm should be the ref and var . Not wasted Messi. Ronaldo will always be the best behind Maradona number one. Disgusting match but we'll done england semi final would of gone final if wasn't some very poor ref disions

[SethOfficial @UTD_Seth001]

🚨Ian Wright on Enzo Fernández’s challenge on Elliot Anderson.

🗣️ “That is a straight red card. I don’t even think it’s up for debate.

What makes it even worse is that VAR didn’t even ask the referee to go to the monitor. That’s exactly why VAR was introduced—to catch clear and obvious errors like this.

I’ve seen players sent off for far less throughout this tournament, yet somehow this challenge escapes without the referee taking a second look. That’s unacceptable.

You cannot tell players that safety comes first and then ignore a challenge like that in a World Cup semi-final.

England have every right to be furious. The referee got it wrong, VAR had the opportunity to correct it and failed to do so. That is simply not good enough at this level.”

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: Argentina hold up a political sign at the World Cup

Completely against the rules

Will FIFA be punishing them?

[amounzz @amounzz_]

🚨 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥: Argentina were not originally drawn into Group J.

During the live World Cup draw, they were moved with no proper explanation given.

Everyone carried on as though it never happened but watch Didier Deschamps. He knew.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Andy Burnham is days away from becoming Prime Minister, but he’s not answered a question from a journalist in two weeks.

Where is the outrage from the establishment?