Ray 💙

Having a bit of a rest these days... but still caring for my family, saving a Cemetery and drinking beer

[Jake Fenner @jakefenner_]

At some point VAR went from eliminating “clear and obvious error” to trying to make the game perfect and it’s starting to ruin the sport

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Lisa Nandy has had two years to improve social media.

Instead, she's leaving Twitter for Instagram - even though political content there is also toxic.

Instead of fixing the problem, she's walking away.

Don't be like Lisa Nandy.

[Lemon @Lemonbryz]

🚨 Luka Modrić on Croatia’s controversial last-minute disallowed goal against Portugal:

🗣️ “This is football. Not a courtroom, not a lab where we freeze every frame and argue over centimetres.
Tonight we gave everything against a very good Portugal team. We were still fighting deep into stoppage time. The boys kept believing, kept pushing, and when that ball went in through Josko we thought we had it — equaliser, extra time, everything still possible.
Then VAR comes in and takes it away because of a touch earlier in the move. I respect the officials, I really do. But the rule is clear and obvious error. Was this one? These little things, these marginal calls where players are fighting for every inch… that’s football. That’s what defenders and attackers do every single day.
If we start ruling out goals like that in the last seconds because of a split-second touch or a shoulder or a toe, then what are we left with? The game loses its soul. The emotion, the chaos, the moments that make people fall in love with football — they get taken away by technology that was only supposed to fix the obvious mistakes.
We accept that sometimes the ball doesn’t go your way. We’ve done it our whole careers. But when the decision feels like it rewrites the last chapter of the match instead of just correcting something clear, it hurts. Not just us in the dressing room, but everyone who was watching and living every second with us.
Portugal deserved to go through, they’re a strong side and they showed it. But nights like this make you wonder where the game is heading. We play with our hearts, we fight until the whistle, and then one review decides everything.
That’s not protecting football anymore. That’s changing it into something else.”

[Ewok @22CaratEwok]

This England game’s like standing at your back door at 1am waiting for the dog to have a shit

[Brendan May @bmay]

I notice England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 aren’t nearly as good under Andy Burnham.

[Ray 💙 @hencotesray]

@MittensOff What a tosser!!

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Farage on #BBCBreakfast: “If Andy Burnham becomes PM we need a General Election, no mandate!”

Sally Nugent: “Do your MPs who defected from the Tories have a mandate?”

Watch the chancer’s face as his own logic gets rammed straight back down his throat. Pure gold.

This is the exact line every interviewer should use on him from now on.😂😂😂

RT if Sally Nugent deserves a medal 👇👇👇👇

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Pinocchio looks so shifty here. If any other UK party leader took a secret £5m bung from a Thailand-based crypto tycoon, and didn’t declare it, Farage would demand their resignation. And be right too.

[Ray 💙 @hencotesray]

@DPJHodges What a duplicitous, two-faced, hypocrite of a man. He couldn't lie straight in bed, as me Nana used to say.

[Ray 💙 @hencotesray]

@LukeEdwardsTele @sallynugent A joy to watch. There needs to be more interviews like this.

[Ray 💙 @hencotesray]

@Bbmorg @mrddmia Thick, ignorant fuckers.

[Ray 💙 @hencotesray]

@Peston He's a wanker.

[G.T @gingerrtom]

This you?

[Don Hutchison @donhutch4]

Being Liverpools sporting director must literally be the easiest job in the world.

Sit back have a cup of tea.

Then wait for Newcastle to try and buy a player then just copy and buy.

[Ray 💙 @hencotesray]

@toryboypierce @Keir_Starmer What a wankerous thing to say.

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

Riots in Southampton as predicted. That is why I reported Farage to the police today, incitement to violence. He should be arrested immediately. #FarageRiots

[Ray 💙 @hencotesray]

@ZiaYusufUK What a disingenuous twat you are.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Henry Nowak's father outside court yesterday: "We do not want Henry's murder to be used to create further hatred, division or tension."

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

Inflation “unexpectedly” fell by 0.5% to 2.8%

Growth was an “unexpected” 0.7% - the highest in the G7

Net immigration “unexpectedly” fell by 82%

NHS “unexpectedly” met it’s interim 18 week target

Our media have so deceived the public that all positive news is now “unexpected”

[The Rejoin EU Party @RejoinP]

@supertanskiii found the clip of Farage explaining how politicians exploit the system by hiring their wives…

So here’s the follow-up. 👇

Years later, Farage is confronted over doing exactly that himself hiring his own European wife as secretary.

His excuse?

“No British person would do the job.”

While spending years attacking European workers.

This interview is an absolute car crash.