Leigh Evans

A Wulfrunian sent to Coventry

[Leigh Evans @EvPiece]

@ryantegan If he gets convicted you have endless receipts there mate. I don’t know how you cope with that level of response straight to your phone

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[Leigh Evans @EvPiece]

@KieranMaguire Just make sure you give us a big chunk of it back for Vuskovic

[nhu 🇻🇳🇨🇳 @maisonlongan]

the US fucked up so bad you got footy fans on here defending a referee

[Dante Raimundo 🇻🇪 @RaimundoDante]

Vcs já pararam pra pensar que o atleta negro americano Jesse Owens entrou mais fácil na Alemanha Nazista para disputar as Olimpíadas de 1936 do que o atacante iraquiano Aymen Hussein para disputar a Copa de 2026 nos EUA?

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

One of the grimmest political tricks of the last 15 years has been convincing the public that disabled people are a bigger economic threat than tax avoidance, private outsourcing failures, or housing costs.

[Leigh Evans @EvPiece]

@Garuba_OO Like all the ex pros say, Drogba was the strongest player on the pitch until he got into the penalty area. Then he was weak as a kitten

[Lea @Lea_EFC]

The whole of England supported Aston Villa and they won the Europa League

The whole of England supported Crystal Palace and they won the Conference League

Over to you PSG, the whole of England are supporting you 🤝

[Vivain Jenna Wilson @Vivainmusk24]

Tottenham win a game and the world wants Villa investigated for match fixing 🤣🤣🤣

[Jake Sanders @JakeSanders92]

Wolves have won as many home games this week as Tottenham have won since April 2025.

[Ben Carr @DoctorBenjy]

The anger and outrage over a man who has grown his hair until his sports team wins X amount of games, when there is so much else to be legitimately concerned about, is fucking mind blowing.

[Michael Cox @Zonal_Marking]

Thomas Frank at Tottenham: another manager who has previously done well with low possession football struggling to adjust to the demands of a bigger club. It basically never works, and clubs should probably stop trying it. ⬇️
https://t.co/LBgqHuhyvb

[Leigh Evans @EvPiece]

@TheExtraInch My biggest concern is Poch’s coaching record since he left Spurs. That worries me more then any political alignment he has

[Leigh Evans @EvPiece]

@Billytheyid70 @Billie_T I’ll put forward the one most people thought was a great window at the time. N’Dombele, Lo Celso, Sessegnan and Clarke. Big money for very little return

[Leigh Evans @EvPiece]

@nikul_ Unnecessary sunglasses, black footwear. Definitely gets wickets on a Sunday

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.

[🗡️Charles Dagnall 🗡️ @CharlesDagnall]

Well there’s enough horrid stuff going on in the world so here’s Vic & Bob inviting Mark Lamarr to do the Mammalathon Challenge.

[Neil Lancaster @neillancaster66]

Fucking prick

My son spent 6 months in Iraq, and then two 7 month tours of Afghanistan with the Royal Marines

He fought hard in Sangin saw friends die, or be maimed. He bears scars of his own, and he did it because the USA triggered article 5

Risible, amoral fucking bastard

[Andy Creed @cyberistia]

Thomas Frank’s time at Tottenham Hotspur has been horrendous and it is hard to argue that he has shown anything close to being up to the job.

What makes this worse is the revisionism that has crept in around Ange Postecoglou. Largely because of the Europa League win, his tenure is now being softened in people’s memories. But the reality is that much of his time was also poor. Performances were erratic, the defence was a mess, and there was little sense of long term progress. A trophy should not be used to airbrush away months of underachievement.

When you step back, Spurs have effectively wasted at least five years. Probably more. You can trace it back to the final Conte season when everything started to unravel, through managerial churn, poor recruitment, and now into the current mess. And it does not stop here.

Next season is already compromised. Why? Because whoever comes in next is almost certainly not going to be an elite, transformational appointment. They will inherit a squad full of decent but limited players and will be asked to improve them, stabilise results, and somehow restore belief. That is not a quick fix. That is a slow, grinding process that takes time, and Spurs do not have a track record of patience or coherent planning.

Now look at this from the supporter’s point of view.

If you are a season ticket holder paying well over a thousand pounds a year, which most are, you are already five thousand pounds down over that period. Add travel, food, and drink and you are comfortably closer to ten thousand pounds. That is before merchandise, bringing children along, or treating matchdays as full family outings. If you do away games as well, add several more thousand on top.

It is entirely reasonable that many fans will be twenty thousand pounds or more out of pocket over those years to watch a consistently substandard team. Not because football is unpredictable, but because of repeated, avoidable failures in managerial appointments and player recruitment.

Yes, there is a social element to going to Spurs. For many people it is about routine, community, and shared experience. That matters. But it does not negate the financial reality, or the sense that loyalty is being taken for granted.

The club does not treat supporters like partners. They treat them like customers. That has been painfully obvious for years, and it was crystallised by the episode where a fan paying around twenty four thousand pounds a season confronted a member of the Lewis family. The response told you everything you need to know. They are far too removed to care.

For them, the money keeps rolling in regardless. For fans, the emotional and financial investment keeps rising while the football goes nowhere. That imbalance is at the heart of the current apathy. Not anger anymore. Just numbness.

[Leigh Evans @EvPiece]

@JayFM26 @Billie_T I don’t blame Frank, he’s a safety first coach. The people who hired him are responsible