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[Phil Coates 🇬🇧 🚜 @PhilCoates9]

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[Annie Eaves @AnnieEaves]

We’ve had wars, diplomatic incidents and everything in modern history, but never has a country embarrassed itself as much as Argentina in such a short time. It’s unique in that it’s the public, sports stars and politicians all in it together.

[FIFA @FIFAcom]

A @FIFAWorldCup love story 💞

How one match in 1986 produced a relationship that has endured for 40 years…and counting ❤️‍🔥

#FootballUnitesTheWorld

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[B @utdbrxy]

Cape Verde went to war with Spain, Uruguay and Argentina in their first World Cup. We will make sure history remembers this run

[VUJ @DavidVujanic]

CAPE VERDE !!! 🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻

[Vinnie Sullivan @VinnieSull1van]

This is a harrowing, heartbreaking account from Sidney Williams, a 73-year-old WW1 veteran living at the Royal Star and Garter home in Richmond, about the trauma, pain, and regrets. He openly states that it wasn't worth it and that he wouldn't volunteer again.

You can see and feel the pain within him. I certainly can anyway, and it affects me deeply. My family has seen plenty of people lost or mamed in the world wars and beyond. Too many people celebrate world wars that they don't understand when we should, in reality, be mouring uneccessery tragedy.

There he sits, a shadow of himself, and he's supposed to be one of the "survivors."

🎤 “Was it worth it?”

🪖 “No.”

What a waste 🕊

[Wayne Barton @WayneSBarton]

If Thomas Tuchel doesn’t know how to use a Kobbie Mainoo he shouldn’t be allowed to have one

[Cheeses Of Nazareth @OhCheesesChrist]

"We are committed to building a world-class stadium with our supporters, not just for them, with atmosphere, affordability and accessibility at the heart of our thinking."

Collette Roche

When Collette says "with our supporters", I'd genuinely like to know which supporters she's referring to. Everything I've fed back through fan surveys, and everyone I know who regularly attends matches, whether they've been going for a few years or a few decades, wants to stay where we are. Spend five minutes on social media, and you'll find plenty of others expressing the same view.

If the club insists that the majority of supporters favour a new stadium, it should publish the data supporting that claim and break that data down appropriately.

The club can separate responses from match-going supporters, season-ticket holders, executive members and regular members from those who may never have attended a game at Old Trafford. If the evidence genuinely shows overwhelming support for a new stadium, then I don't see any issue with being transparent and sharing the results.

At the moment, we're simply being asked to accept the narrative. If the majority of supporters really are behind the project, then show us the proof. Transparency would only strengthen the club's position.

It often feels as though the strongest voices pushing for a new stadium are those who rarely, if ever, attend games. Without data to prove otherwise, it appears the drive for a new stadium isn't coming from match-going supporters; it's coming from owners who still haven't properly explained how they'll fund it. Prove us wrong.

No doubt a lucrative naming rights deal will contribute, but what about the rest? Personal Seat Licences? That's hardly a solution that improves affordability. Then there's the proposal for at least 25% of the stadium to be made up of hospitality seating. As per this post, match-day pricing of tickets is spiralling out of reach for many supporters (https://t.co/zMxUgcypIs)

Let's be honest: we're not even going to sell out a 100,000-capacity stadium week in, week out, especially at current pricing levels. The club has already priced out many of the supporters it will need to fill those seats. I'm sure the business model has accounted for these scenarios, but I'd question the credibility of those projections when so many loyal supporters are already being pushed away from regular attendance simply due to affordability.

There's little value in Supporter Groups approaching this from different angles. The decision on relocation and the new build is, in all likelihood, beyond the point of being reversed. What's important now is ensuring that, as Collette said, the club genuinely listens to all supporters, but also recognises the difference between those who attend regularly, those who attend occasionally, and those who never attend but still have strong opinions on what match-going fans should want.

What we need now is a united approach from supporter groups: a coalition with a clear, consistent message. Rather than working against one another, they need to be organised and aligned, ensuring that before any key decisions are finalised, supporters have meaningful input and the club is compelled to listen, learn and implement in a way that keeps as many regular match-going supporters on board as possible. Risking that, loses so much of what Manchester United Football Club is about.

[Malala Yousafzai @Malala]

The EU has invited Taliban officials to Brussels to discuss a migration deal — and today I am shaken and deeply disturbed by this.

This is the same Taliban that banned girls from secondary schools and forced them into marriage. The same Taliban that, earlier this month, arrested dozens of women in Herat for how they were dressed. The same Taliban that detains, beats and executes women who dare to speak out or break their rules.

Through its system of gender apartheid, the Taliban have erased women and girls from public life. Europe must not legitimise a regime responsible for one of the worst human rights crises in the world.

Any engagement with the Taliban must begin and end with the rights of Afghan women and girls.

[Nazanin Boniadi @NazaninBoniadi]

The sentencing of singer Parastoo Ahmadi to flogging for the simple act of singing publicly without a hijab and continued execution of protesters is a stark reminder that, despite talk in Washington of a “new regime” in Iran, the Islamic Republic’s machinery of repression remains unchanged.

https://t.co/mtkCajvLQV

[lemn sissay OBE FRSL @lemnsissay]

Said the sun to the moon
Said the head to the heart
We have 'more in common'
Than sets us apart

Photo Tom Pilston (The Observer)

[Andy Mitten @AndyMitten]

Lou's a top man. His life is like being a character in a Viz cartoon.
Love it how he mixes with people from all backgrounds. Proper good sense of humour too. And a massive heart.

[Letters of Note @LettersOfNote]

RIP David Hockney

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

The family memorial inscriptions on Commonwealth War Graves are always so profoundly moving.

Private Cyster: “He gave the dearest thing in the world, his beautiful unfinished life.”

Lt Brotheridge: “Out of the bitterness of war he found the perfect peace.”

Private Corteil: “Had you known our boy you would have loved him too, ‘Glen’ his paratroop dog was killed with him.” [note the dog toys left on the grave]

Private Harbert: “How can the memory fade of one who gave up his young life so unselfishly?”

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

IMPORTANT ❗️
Further to my late post last night. Believe all can read this.

Pse share and help us expose the CPS (Alan Murphy and Samantha Shallows) what they tried to hide.

Will also share documents and exhibits they chose to class as ‘unused’ evidence in another post.
It’s shocking…..

[Bruno Fernandes @B_Fernandes8]

how can I assist you? ☕

[Adrian Edmondson ❎ @AdrianEdmondson]

So bored of news outlets trying to write the news rather than report it.

[Bradford City AFC @officialbantams]

We will always remember the 56 lives lost on May 11 1985. 🎗️

You’ll Never Walk Alone. ❤️💛

#BCAFC