Ioan Stephens

The mighty Swans 🦢 FIRST LEAGUE DERBY DOUBLE! WALES IS BLACK AND WHITE ⚫️⚪️

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

Finally got to meet Leon Britton and I met Joe Rodon #NewProfilePic

[Swansea City AFC @SwansOfficial]

✍️ Welcome to Wales, Welsh! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

We are pleased to confirm the club has reached an agreement to complete the signing of defender Stephen Welsh.

👉 https://t.co/npbC5f0K0C

[🔶Alexander🔶 @testosteroneHAV]

>"Immigrants are leeching off welfare"
> Lights a £700,000 bus on fire

Amazing work patriots

[Swansea City AFC @SwansOfficial]

Swansea City is deeply saddened by the passing of lifelong supporter Matthew Collins following his battle with cancer.

The thoughts of everyone at the club are with Matthew's friends and family at this sad time ❤️

Once a Jack, always a Jack 🦢

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

Absolutely disgusting behaviour… shame on you @FIFAcom you should be standing up for the people who officiate this game, instead you bow away like cowards

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

FIFA confirm Omar Abdulkadir Artan can’t officiate at the World Cup after being denied entry into the United States.

The Somali referee is one of Africa’s most respected officials. Somalia's Ministry of Youth and Sports say Artan travelled with a valid US visa.

Yet Somalia is on a travel ban list introduced by President Trump’s administration.

🗣️ “FIFA is not involved in host country immigration processes, including visa adjudications, and has been informed by authorities that Mr Artan's status will not be changed at present.

“In line with previous FIFA events, a host government ultimately determines who receives a visa and who is admitted into their country.”

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

Like the race track will be undriveable therefore it can’t continue

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

If there’s an issue with the tarmac on the track they can’t repair it in time so race will have to be suspended surely 🤔 #MonacoGP

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

Red flag!!!!!!!! #MonacoGP

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

I’m ok with this, nostalgia is a good thing but let’s not ruin his legacy before he’s ready for such a big job

[Tom Coleman @tomEcoleman]

At the risk of spoiling everyone's fun...

Sources at Swansea claim Michu is NOT currently a candidate to take over as sporting director, despite reports elsewhere #Swans

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

Lance Stroll is so fucking useless, get him gone from this sport #MonacoGP

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

FIA are really keen to give these 5 second penalties today… #MonacoGP

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

Tymon should be in this team, not having anyone say otherwise. #Swans

[The Championship Chat Podcast @Champchatpod24]

🤩 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡! 🤩

On this week's podcast, our two pundits named their own Championship Team of the Season! 👏

This is the XI @_ElliottJackson selected - but what do you make of it? 🤔

Brought to you by @lineupbuilder. 🤝

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

More of a Cymro too, what even is a Giggs?

[TheWelshDragon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐉 @TheWelshDragon9]

Dan James now has more Cymru Caps than Ryan Giggs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

Christ that percentages of low and medium levels of education is just astonishing, you can tell who the drop outs voted for… so easy to manipulate

[YouGov @YouGov]

🧵/ How Wales voted at the 2026 Senedd election: our new study based on reanalysing the data behind our successful pre-election MRP identifies the key demographic and political divides behind the new Welsh party system

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

And how exactly are they to blame for this? Overreach from the stewards here

[PlanetF1 @Planet_F1]

Lando Norris and McLaren are facing a stewards' investigation in Monaco.

Marshals were seen struggling to recover Norris's car after he stopped on track in FP2.

https://t.co/NieVmdBcrD

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

Official: FIFA bans breathing, fans have to pay to breathe in every 2026 World Cup stadium

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: FIFA have BANNED Vuvuzela's from every 2026 World Cup stadium.

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

Inciting violence is against the law in the UK, so Russian Nigel here seems ok with it, tells you everything about him as a person, always waits for a tragedy in the news to use it to his advantage and never cares for the victims or their families, disgusting piece of work he is

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage defends saying people should respond to Henry Nowak’s arrest with “pure cold rage”

“I used that term very, very deliberately… I suggested that rage was put in a cold way, not a hot way”

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

How patronising is that deform MS… how dare he downplay the people of Wales and its government, England and Scotland are fine to handle their own governments but when it comes to Cymru.. we have a so called “Welsh” person talking down on us as if he were born an Englishman, cunt

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

I was recently on a panel with a senior Welsh Reform politician and we were asked about devolving the Crown Estate.

He said that Wales shouldn't have more powers because "we are not very good in Wales at being efficient in running things".

There are a few points I would make about the comment:

1. There are legitimate arguments for not devolving the Crown Estate. I chronicle them in my book. I do on balance believe it would be better for Wales if it was devolved (or at least the money from it was sent directly to Wales) but it is not inherently “anti-Wales” to be hesitant about the devolution of the Crown Estate.

2. However, the argument that “we are not very good in Wales at being efficient” is one of the most infantile descriptions of a nation I have ever heard, especially coming from a man/party who claimed they wanted to lead that nation. The idea that Wales and the Welsh are uniquely incapable of running something illustrates a level of self-hate and lack of confidence that we need to shed. It’s a narrative that holds us back more than almost anything.

3. Nothing says “I don’t think we will ever run the Welsh Government” like this statement. If Reform really believed they would one day have the levers of government at their disposal, they wouldn’t be so quick to deny Wales having them.

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

Colour reflects Stroll’s performances over the last few years, pure shite

[formularacers @formularacers_]

🚨 | BREAKING: Aston Martin unveil their special livery for the Monaco GP.

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

Nobody should be buying any of this nonsense the Saints staff are spewing, you’re all just as complicit as the manager, you had the chance to say no and you didn’t do it

[Second Tier podcast @secondtierpod]

The WhatsApp messages between the Southampton analysts have been released 📱

A junior analyst was sent to 'observe' Oxford train in December. His response to colleagues was:

🗣️"I didn't really have an option and wasn't provided an opportunity to say no. I was an intern and was doing what I was told."

When he sent details from that session back to his line manager, he received a message reading: "You legend. Manager loved it."

He was asked to carry out a second spying mission on Ipswich but expressed concern and was told that "the boss is adamant that someone needs to go".

After being caught, another analyst at the club sent a message to his colleague, said:

🗣️"I said all along I was never happy about it all & it wasn't right, but no one listened to me!"

Yikes.

[Ioan Stephens @ioanstephens]

Who’d have seen this one coming

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Microsoft Bans Claude Code After AI Costs More Than The Humans It Replaced