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@chrismj1927 @78Spirit @Wrexham_AFC @Cymru @therealMickeyT My first ever football game

[Gavin @gavinlee79]

@DavidBu67718114 @TonyIncenzo @OldSchoolPanini @OfficialPanini You could be sitting on a small fortune if you have got it!

[Gavin @gavinlee79]

@KattConn @Mannydas This is the most cost effective way. It’s what I did. Only had about 15 duplicates in the whole album. I think that I need under 10 to fill the whole album now

[Gavin @gavinlee79]

@_PaulHayward He’s not wrong though

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@gianlucaaaah @resenhaflutt @PaniniAmerica Sort them by continent then by team. I found that easiest

[Gavin @gavinlee79]

@DaleJohnsonBBC Didn’t need to slow it down. Slowing it down actually made it much harder to see the deviation. Clear touch when replay played in full speed

[Peter Moore @PeterMooreUSA]

This has been bothering me for sometime, and I feel like I need to get it off my chest.

The World Cup is meant to be football’s moment to unite the world, but right now, it feels like the opposite.I am sadly old enough to remember the 1966 World Cup, when England played West Germany in the final only two decades after the end of World War II. That game, at least to me as a young lad, felt like it was helping the healing process of a conflict where millions of lives were lost…

So as this summer approaches, on one side FIFA continues to push pricing models that put the tournament further out of reach for the very fans who built the game. The soul of football isn’t in corporate sponsorship packages, it’s in the stands, in the communities, in the people who live it every day.

On the other, the current stance of the United States government is making that sense of welcome far less certain. When visa access becomes more difficult, when the tone towards parts of the world feels more closed than open, it sends a message, intended or not, about who this World Cup is really for.

That really matters. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to attend five World Cups, and each of those were hosted by countries that made you feel welcome and invited you to enjoy the beautiful game in the most amazing manner. Mexico 1986, Italia 90, USA 94, France 98, Germany 2006…all amazing, and those countries greeted you with open arms, and were proud to welcome in the world to enjoy the game at its highest level

But you can’t call it the world’s game while quietly narrowing who gets to be part of it.

At a time when football could be a rare force for unity in a world that so badly needs it, we’re allowing it to become more exclusive, more controlled, and more divided.

This tournament has the chance to be a bridge, like it was in 1966…Instead, it risks becoming a symbol of the very barriers the game is supposed to break down.

That’s a profound missed opportunity, and I’m saddened we here in United States are struggling to replicate the welcome and open arms we showed back in 1994. I sincerely hope my fears are misplaced, and that everything will be spectacular, but I can’t help feeling we are on a path towards scoring a huge own goal…

[Gavin @gavinlee79]

@caim67 Eddie the Eagle at Ibrox today

[Gavin @gavinlee79]

@TerribleMaps I’ve never, ever, seen a pret in south wales

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@DagnallJames You’re right. A classic shirt but one that was never originally released

[Gavin @gavinlee79]

@martynziegler Maybe they would be better off put more games on free to air

[Gavin @gavinlee79]

@TheAnfieldWrap Would love to have known the alternative reality of Nunez missing. Would the ref/var have gone back to send off the villa defender knowing now what we have learnt about Coote

[Gavin @gavinlee79]

@sainsburys why do I always seem to get checked on the self checkout? Also, if I use scan app then why do I need to go to the checkout and wait in line with others that have not scanned? Happening in Cwmbran

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@campbellclaret @BurnleyOfficial You’re not staying up if you can’t score any goals

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@DaleJohnsonESPN Totally fair to punish the VAR. However, questions need to be raised about the actual referee too. After all, he has the power to ignore the review!

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@ukintrouble @DaddyCoffee73

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@CaptRammbo @DaddyCoffee73 @RobHarries9 They’re ‘people’, not ‘illegals’ are you are referring the to FFS

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@JordanC1107 @OliverKay There really needs to be an incentive to keep homegrown players and not use values to boost PSR figures

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@theyfwaidan @TTWAR62 No need for that. You can be better than that

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@educationgovuk Why not just go back to A*-G? A system that everyone understands