Jamie Heggie

Misunderstood

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

"It's important that this incident isn't exploited for anyone's political agenda"

[doomer @uncledoomer]

imagine being a 19 yo american ball turret gunner sitting in a B17 looking out at this sublime, beautiful landscape on your way to bomb a railyard in austria, but all you can think about is your sweethearts warm bosom and giant unshaved bush back home. the grass is always greener

[Josh Holland @joshhollandLCFC]

"Top's playing polo, we're playing Crewe" sing sections of the #LCFC fans.

[Ralph Leonard @buffsoldier_96]

Jose Mourinho starting to look like an IRGC commander.

[Sheridan @sherrybucks]

Influencer's fleeing Dubai right now.

[Jamie Heggie @heggie89]

@ObiaaBewu Auxerre and Kaiserslautern

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 𝙱𝙴𝙰𝚁 🇬🇧 @RangersBear55]

LOVE @rickygervais 😅

[U.S. Cremonese @USCremonese]

If you ever wondered if he could make it in a cold, rainy night in Bologna... 🌧️⚽🩶❤️

[📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola @BomboneraTears]

🇦🇷 Boca Juniors fans were outside the players’ hotel last night in order to gee up their side ahead of tonight’s superclásico!

Boca Juniors vs River Plate
@ La Bombonera
KO 7:30pm UK time

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

Lucy Connolly was sentenced to 31 months for a tweet

[Nigel Pearson @NigelGPearson]

Milan Mandaric, a wonderful eccentric 87-year-old, young at heart and soul man, has sadly died this week.

Milan was a man I admired, liked hugely, worked for and with, and came across when our professional connection ended. He had a boyish and never-ending youthful outlook on football, and insatiable impatience for success and satisfaction... his love of being included in conversations about absolutely everything or anything, his love of winning, doing a deal, arguing a case, being valued and loved. He gave me an opportunity, when many wouldn't.

The 2008/09 season, when we were promoted as champions, back to the Championship, the fun we had, the friendships we made, the lasting football connections made and developed, is still without doubt my favourite season of my long career.

Goodbye, dear Milan...you were a singular force I couldn’t help loving, even when I didn't want to... but let me tell everyone, he taught me how to never be satisfied, to strive for better even when you think the ceiling was reached. He could always make me smile, even when I was furious with his unreasonable demands. I'm smiling now while writing this...

So long, Columbo xx

[Nigel Pearson @NigelGPearson]

The news of Susan Whelan leaving Leicester City has come as a huge shock and surprise to me.

Her contribution to the incredible rise and success of the football club as a business and sporting operation is absolutely in no doubt. But vitally, as most managers like myself would recognise and discover, some of her best, meaningful and important work, from my own experience, was done during difficult and turbulent times.

Her business skillset, her strength of personality, directness and ability to make tough decisions during stress is unrivalled, in my experience.

When we first met at an interview, her presence and strength was very clear, but importantly her understanding of her role and place was crystal clear to me. Her loyalty to Khun Vichai and the whole Srivaddhanaprabha family was set in stone. She was literally King Power’s ‘safe pair of hands’ during the earlier period of their wonderful Leicester City adventure.

Mine, along with Craig and Steve's understanding of how to hopefully find the right way to communicate with our new bosses was constantly reviewed via the feedback, care and assistance of Susan's contribution to our professional relationship. She never abused this authority as the conduit to the owners. This is not always the case, as I’ve experienced at other clubs.

The understanding of cultural nuances is pivotal to achieving a successful and meaningful relationship, and her advice to me, in relation to this, is something I cherish. I have both learned, and in turn passed on, that advice and help to others I've experienced and encountered in life.

Susan and I both being, let's say, ‘of a strong will and mind’ have crossed swords, and we still both now when we occasionally meet, reminisce over some of these encounters. But one of her watchwords ‘compromise’ is etched in my brain!

I remember one colossal disagreement when she was away on holiday with Robbie, and I was nearly home in the car at Chesterfield roundabout, on hands free, lights on red... I looked across, mid-expletive, and the woman in the car adjacent to me just looked at me with her mouth wide open 😂.

When Susan and I met next we laughed, apologised and shared a glass of wine. We are both cut from the same cloth... desperate to succeed, strong-minded, but both recognised we were just cogs in a machine and wanted the best for the club and business.

Our fondness and respect for each other has never waned, even though as she has discovered, the journey always has an endpoint, even if you don't want it to.

I am proud to have managed both King Power clubs, been sacked at both, had personal and family heartache with departure, which has been difficult for us to overcome, but I've always counted on the integrity and honesty of Susan Whelan, someone Leicester City would not have achieved and navigated the choppy waters of this wonderful sport without.

Good luck Susan, you’ve been a brilliant colleague, boss, ally and friend. Love to you and Robbie from us all.

The Leicester City family will truly miss you and your wonderful wisdom and love.

Cheers and love,

Nige x

[Jamie Heggie @heggie89]

@TheBarmyArmy Rehan Ahmed for Bashir

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

An illegal migrant who entered Britain on a small boat and then sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl, in Epping, gets just 12 months in prison

Lucy Connolly got nearly three times that for sharing some hurty words on social media

Joke country

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

Does anyone remember a statement like this when we had weekly marches flying Palestinian flags? When they clambered over our war memorials? When Jewish communities were intimidated and left feeling vulnerable? No. He only has an issue when it’s the flying of our own flag.

[Danielle Tousi @DanielleTousi]

When the Met Police retweet politicians like Shabana Mahmood and Sadiq Khan while clamping down on the Unite the Kingdom rally, you see the mask slip - the police have become political actors

[No Context Leics CCC @OOCLeicsCCC]

No one:

Absolutely no one:

@alfonsothomas after promotion:

#Foxes

[Leicestershire County Cricket Club🦊 @leicsccc]

𝗪𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗗! ⬆️🦊

We've done it! After 22 years away, Leicestershire will play Division One cricket in 2026. 🥳

THIS TEAM. THIS CLUB. 💚

#Foxes🦊

[Jamie Heggie @heggie89]

@arrowsmithlesl1 @latimeralder Not arsed by either of the pictures above, but by your own theory, drivers wouldn't know if it's a zebra crossing or not now as it's painted like a gay flag, so are you just arguing because it's a red cross and you don't like red crosses?

[Jamie Heggie @heggie89]

@seatsixtyone How do Trainline decide their routes when you put in A to B? I did Salzburg to London a couple of weeks back changing at Munich and other German stations and then via Brussels. It was still fairly 'quick' but definitely wasn't one change via Paris!