tim hara

Hull City season ticket holder 🐯

[tim hara @hara_tim]

@DearGozde 13

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨⚠️ OFFICIAL: Belgian Federation statement on Folarin Balogun red card case, saying they are “astonished”.

“The Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) is astonished by FIFA's decision to declare suspended United States player Folarin Balogun eligible to play in the USA–Belgium match on Monday, 6 July at 5:00 p.m. (Seattle time).
FIFA bases its decision on Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code.

This provision states that the FIFA Disciplinary Committee may decide to suspend the enforcement of a previously imposed disciplinary sanction.
However, Article 66.4 of the same FIFA Disciplinary Code clearly provides that a red card (sending-off) automatically results in a suspension for the team's next match, as has been the case for all previous red cards issued during this FIFA World Cup.
Furthermore, and irrespective of the above, the decision is in direct contradiction with the provisions of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Competition Regulations, as set out in Article 10.5:
"If a player or team official is sent off as a result of a direct or indirect red card (second caution), they will automatically be suspended from their team's subsequent match. In addition, further sanctions may be imposed.”
The automatic nature of such a suspension was also explicitly reaffirmed in FIFA World Cup 2026 Circular No. 16, which was distributed to all participating member associations on 12 May 2026.
The same rule is reiterated at every FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Coordination Meeting prior to each match and is included in all FIFA World Cup 2026 workshop presentations.

❗️In order to safeguard the legitimate rights of all participating teams and to protect the fundamental principles of fair play in our sport, both at this FIFA World Cup and at future editions of the tournament, the RBFA is investigating all potential options.”

[tim hara @hara_tim]

@1968Tv Highlights are on BBC iPlayer 👍

[Wembley Stadium @wembleystadium]

This is what it means 🥺🧡

[CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ @CBSSportsGolazo]

This @T_Deeney x Oli McBurnie moment at FT 🥹

[Aston Villa Updates @avfcbreaking]

There was a time when a European final belonged to the supporters who dragged their club there.

Not anymore.

When Aston Villa were handed roughly 11,000 tickets for a Europa League final in a 70,000-plus stadium, the number itself told the story. UEFA can package the event however it likes — “festival of football”, “European showpiece”, “global celebration” — but the modern European final is no longer built around supporters. It is built around clients.

The supporters fund the journey. The corporates inherit the destination.

Villa fans will have spent thousands following the club across Europe. Flights, hotels, time off work, loyalty schemes built over years. Yet when the final arrives, huge sections of the stadium are reserved for sponsors, hospitality guests, executives, delegates and “neutral” allocations that often end up on resale sites within hours.

And supporters are expected to accept it.

UEFA’s defence is familiar. Sponsors fund competitions. Broadcasters need space. Hospitality drives revenue. All true. But football crossed a line when the event surrounding the final became more important than the supporters inside it.

The optics are awful because fans can see it themselves.

A finalist gets 11,000 tickets while corporate packages costing thousands remain available. Genuine supporters scramble through ballots with lottery-like odds, while neutral areas fill with tourists taking photos during the warm-up.

And UEFA wonders why resentment grows.

Supporters are constantly called “the lifeblood of the game” until ticket allocations are discussed. Then they become an inconvenience to work around premium inventory.

Football did not become Europe’s dominant sport because sponsors created atmosphere. The noise, colour and emotion UEFA sells globally every season is generated by match-going supporters — the same people increasingly pushed aside at the biggest games.

The “neutral fan” concept is perhaps the biggest fiction of all. In theory it promotes access. In reality it fuels resale markets, inflated prices and thousands travelling ticketless out of desperation.

UEFA could change it tomorrow. Finalists could receive 70 per cent of the stadium combined. Corporate sections could shrink. Hospitality would still exist.

But that would mean sacrificing revenue.

And modern football has shown repeatedly which side wins that argument.
#AVFC #scfreiburg

[Tom Hamilton @tomhamiltonespn]

A podcast, a drink with a lawyer, 25 implicated players, an eligibility crisis and the prospect of 133 matches needing to be replayed. A feature on “passportgate” and why a decision from a court in Utrecht on Monday could flip Dutch football on its head.

https://t.co/kJqCrF0IQs

[Hull City @HullCity]

An egg-cellent treat for the lads x

#hcafc

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

Keely Hodgkinson vs West Ham wasn't on our 2026 bingo card 👀

[Adey @djadey1974]

Hello my Hull City friends. My Father in Law Jim sadly passed away this month aged 75. I wonder if you could help me out by joining me in clapping on the 75th minute during tomorrow's game vs Sheffield Wednesday. Please share with as many people as you can. #hcafc

[Dr. Dr. P: "I said what I said". @Psychgirl211]

@KirstieMAllsopp as a DClinPsych with over thirty years' clinical experience I can categorically tell you this.

It is never 'kind' or 'polite' to collude with someone's cognitive distortions and/or their psychotic beliefs.

True kindness lies in what we psychologists call 'reality-testing', whereby we challenge people's maladaptive thinking patterns.

The goal of this is for the people we treat to become grounded in reality, so that their behaviour becomes more adaptive and, eventually, their mental health improves.

A man thinking he is a woman (or vice-versa), is about as maladaptive as it gets.

Whether we like it or not, we are all rooted in the physical reality of our bodies:

I for example am Black woman, and you are White woman.

We were both born within this genetic 'envelope', if you will.

And each of us lives, and we will die within, the genetic envelope of our race.

(And, I'm sure the idea of 'Blacking up' would horrify you).

This is exactly the same with sex.

It's not a matter of having 'sympathy' for 'trans' people.

We do them no favours by lying to them and colluding with their dysfunctional thinking, because inevitably they will run out of cognitive distortions.

The lies will wear thin and biological reality will 100% catch up with them.

This is inescapable.

The truly 'sympathetic' thing to therefore, is to be honest to 'trans people'.

They have not changed sex.

They cannot change sex.

They will die exactly the same sex as they were born.

The truth is kindness.

Not your lies.

[Stu’s Football Flashbacks @stusfootyflash]

Brian Clough talking openly to Brian Moore in 1990 about his interview for the England manager’s job 13 years earlier.

Here, he reveals he upset the selectors before it even started, by wanting to change the national shirt.

Cloughie was one of a kind.

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

It’s 35 years since the great Saint & Greavsie gave us their Christmas special, and it was one of their all-time classic episodes.
With Jimmy Greaves suffering from flu, they brought the Spitting Image Greavsie puppet into the studio, with Peter Brackley doing the Greavsie voice.
With loads of laughs and gags, it was an all-time classic.
RIP Lads.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

At the 1928 Olympics, women could run something longer than a sprint for the first time.

They raced the 800.

Disaster quickly ensued. Just about every paper reported the same thing: 5 women dropped out, Everyone else collapsed. It was chaos. And dangerous.

As a result, women would barred from anything longer than a sprint for the next 28 years.

...It was all a lie. No one struggled...

A single false story set back women's athletics for 3 decades. It teaches us about the power of a story:

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

BBC Brass Tacks
May 1979
Does English Football Need Investment?

[Hull City @HullCity]

It is with great sadness that Hull City learned of the recent passing of our former chairman Don Robinson at the age of 91.

We would like to express our heartfelt condolences to Don's family and friends at this sad time.

#hcafc

[Brian Horton @brian_horton4]

@HullCity Just heard the sad news about Don Robinson passing away he gave me my first job as player manager of Hull City and l learned so much from him and he also made me a director of the Tigers. He was a very positive person and was always very adventurous in his decisions 🙏

[The Early Tigers @TigersEarly]

RIP Don Robinson

Revived a comatose #hcafc & transformed the club by sheer force of personality

Condolences to his friends & family

[Scarborough Athletic FC @safc]

We are sad to inform our supporters that we have been notified that former Chairman of Scarborough FC Don Robinson passed away peacefully this morning aged 91.

Don was a well respected local and international businessman and had two spells as chairman during the 70’s and 80’s. This was a golden era for the club with giant killings in the FA Cup watched by massive crowds at the Athletic Ground and of course our FA Trophy Finals at Wembley. Anyone that was at the 77 final win against Dagenham will remember Don carrying Colin Appleton on his shoulders with the trophy. He will be remembered for the passion and enthusiasm he brought to his role, wanting to move the club forward and be the best it could be.

He was a guest at our homecoming game against Sheffield United in 2017 and although he wasn’t able to attend games due to his health he was kept updated on our progress and was pleased we are doing so well.

Our condolences are with all Don’s friends and family at this time.
Rest in peace Don.

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

Back in 1989, Brian Moore interviewed Brian Clough and it was shown on ITVs Saint & Greavsie.
It turned out to be an iconic interview with Brian Clough at his very best.
Here is the full interview.