To be fair, if Vinicius Jr to Arsenal actually did happen it would surely be the most on brand transfer in the history of football.
The most insufferable player in the world joining the most insufferable club in the world.
@DreyfusJames Yeah just watched it and made me cry. Absolutely heartbreaking, in his last few minutes no compassion what's so ever. Don't care about, race, gender or religion just have some human fucking decency to someone that needed help or at least kind words to a dying person. 😢🙏RIP
‘Trampling to death pricks with rifles helps to keep their numbers under control’ insists African Elephant community 🤣🤣https://t.co/Z5Ytk5jMJw via @newsthump
@the_crafty_hop@jamiewhu01@WestHamHelp I’m in 241 and I got mine yesterday, it wasn’t easy though the website is shite always has been. It kept saying they weren’t available for me yet even though it said I was st holder!
🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for… memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes — his friends, colleagues, champions — killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet “did not comply with regulations.”
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal — but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended… for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
▪️ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete — killed in Kharkiv.
▪️ Mariia Lebid, 15 — missile strike in Dnipro.
▪️ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater — killed in Bakhmut.
▪️ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete — also Bakhmut.
▪️ Daria Kurdel, 20 — missile strike in Kharkiv.
▪️ Alina Perehutova, 14 — standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
▪️ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer — killed defending Luhansk region.
▪️ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka — missile strike in Kyiv.
▪️ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast — airstrike on Mariupol.
▪️ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion — shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would “compete” alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal — its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength — but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations — then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
🇺🇦 We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.
@piersmorgan@Keir_Starmer So he resigns, then what? Lammy? Rayner? Mahmood? Ed ‘net zero brain cells’ Miliband? All equally terrifying options. We’re quite litterally in a position where we’re fucked if we do, fucked if we don’t.
This club is in the fucking bin. @WestHam handing out 3 match bans for fans holding this up against our terrible owners.
@karren_brady and co simply cannot accept any criticism of a fanbase they have chosen to ignore. Disgusting.
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