Larry Overton

Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love & be loved for the rest of your life

[Larry Overton @lmoverton]

@KirkStan @RemingtonUK @LidlGB I went to 5 Lidl shops near me and they never had them, so frustrating they must of all gone to the northern shops 😠

[Larry Overton @lmoverton]

@Lynne_Kirk Doesn't seem like 10 years, a lot has happened in that time x

[Larry Overton @lmoverton]

@Matt_Pinner Travel clock

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@KirkStan @greeneking A pub with no hand pumps isn't a proper pub 😤

[Larry Overton @lmoverton]

@KirkStan @Fruli Not too sure about fruit beers 🤔

[Matt Le Tissier ✝️ @mattletiss7]

While your government take away the winter fuel allowance for pensioners who’ve spent their life paying into the system they also admit to paying 8 million pound A DAY to house illegal immigrants who have just arrived here! Someone make it make sense 🤷‍♂️

[Adam Graver @thebrewodyssey]

Time For a Brew World Cup 2024 Qualifying Pool D - Group C

@PomonaIsland @StaggeringBeer @DurationBeer @ElusiveBrew

Votes close at 10am tomorrow. Top spot goes straight through to the main draw. The best 16 breweries outside of P1 into the knockouts. Get your votes in!

[Larry Overton @lmoverton]

@KirkStan @Somersby Summers here at last time to crack open a can of cider. Especially if you've got a matching glass 🤚

[Portsmouth's finest 🇬🇧 @Super_Pompey]

I think I speak for all Pompey fans especially our captain Marlon Pack

[Danny Cowley @dancowley1]

Football is the best game in the world…

The FA Cup is football’s greatest cup competition…

Please stop messing around with them…

Just leave them alone… ❤️⚽️

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

The Football Association Challenge Cup. A long read.

The World's Oldest Association Football Competition. Let that sink in.Something to be proud of as a part of English football and cultural life.

Changes to it? Yes, with one caveat. That every club who takes part in it has an equal vote as to what those changes are. Too simple eh?

But no, several high profile managers ( who'll be fucking long gone and won't give a fuck when our beloved competition has finally been finished off) and several owners will be gleeful today, another victory for maybe 6 of 100+ pro clubs, another concession to the greed, while relegating a national instution to an annoyance.

I've played for Stafford Rangers in a Cup 1st round against Burnley, hoping desperately to get a replay at Turf Moor.

I've played in an FA Cup Final between England's 2 biggest clubs.

At Hillsborough, I ran out wearing the yellow of Southend United, with 6000 travelling Shrimpers and what seemed like a million yellow balloons. The game where I felt I belonged in that esteemed company.

Playing in the back garden, bewildered as Alan Sunderland scored the winner when Arsenal beat United in a game that epitomised the beguiling spectacle of this famous old trophy.

Yeovil, Altrincham, Hereford, Sutton, Blyth Spartans, Chasetown. Names that maybe only ever pop up once in a football lifetime for the nation but to the fans of those clubs, ask them about their Cup memories and see their faces.

We're being diddled, had over, fucked about, taken the piss out of. By who? Managers who " desperately need fewer games", by owners bemoaning having to gamble their precious boys against Rochdale instead of resting up for Real Madrid, something understandable if it weren't for the luxury of 30 pros costing a billion pounds plus an academy of cherry picked youth from around the world. How many fucking players do these clubs need to play one replay every 5 years?

If the Football Association had any arsehole it would have put any decision that fundementally changes a 153 year old tournament to a vote of all participating clubs. It won't though , because it's scared to say a word to the all conquering Premier League. If you didn't believe before today that the FA wasn't fit for purpose, now you know because the organisation that administers the most professional clubs in the land, the EFL have effectively called them liars. That alone should ensure investigation by an independent regulator, along with any number of other decisions, changes and ideas the all conquering Premier League want implemented.

Fuck you to every manager who's come to these shores wanting U-21 teams and B teams playing in the EFL. This isn't Spain where they can't populate more than 2 divisions with quality teams from across the nation, this is England where we have over 100 pro clubs over 5 divisions, where a town of 40,000 like Burnley can proudly compete in the top 2 divisions regularly for over 100 years.

Fuck you to the big name managers crying about too many games. Use your fucking 30 man squads better and play the 15 you hardly use but cost more money on wages in a year than clubs competing in the Champions League from other nations operate a whole club on! And that's without the star boys who you steal from clubs for a pittance from clubs in the pyramid and overseas that you love the idea of playing but won't because " they're not ready quite yet". Bullshit!

Unless you, reading this, do something, anything by way of protesting this obscene and constant tidal wave of changes to the English game that is ruining the fabric of a delicate pyramid ecosystem, the your children simply will never get to afford to watch what we have.

A sport for everyone, not for an elite few.

It's time to fight back. Enough changes, enough greed, English football worked well for 150 years, trust it, trust those in it and those who support it.

[Lee C @PORTSMOUTHFCLEE]

Your not a proper Portsmouth fan if you haven’t liked the Paul Merson Video 😂

[Larry Overton @lmoverton]

@RevRichardColes a very enjoyable evening at New Theatre Royal Portsmouth on Saturday 03/02/24.
Condolences at the loss of your mother,no more suffering her

[Samuel West 💙💛 @exitthelemming]

This is from THE WAIT, a short film from 2018, with @PoppyRoe and Mike Burnside. It was written and directed by @JasonMcColgan.

And it broke me.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

This is Waterlooville, in Hampshire.

My wife’s friend took this video and was kind enough to let me share it.

While politicians and the London media live in a parallel universe this is reality for much of UK. Economic malaise & high streets that look like a zombie film.

[Larry Overton @lmoverton]

@KirkStan @NMBCo @Lynne_Kirk Look what I've just found in @Morrisons in Horndean

[Larry Overton @lmoverton]

@KirkStan I seem to their long lost cousin 🤔

[Larry Overton @lmoverton]

@KirkStan Those glasses look the business (did you get any)

[Neil @P24576512]

For those who don’t understand the history , here is a little lesson.

1)Before the modern state of Israel, there was the British mandate, not a Palestinian state .

2) Before the British mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.

3) Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic mamluk sultanate of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.

4)Before the Islamic mamluk sultanate of Egypt, there was the ayyubid dynasty, not a Palestinian state. Godfrey of Bouillon conquered it in 1099.

5) Before the ayyubid dynasty, there was the christian kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.

6) Before the christian kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Fatimid caliphate, not a Palestinian state.

7) Before the Fatimid caliphate, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state .

😎 Before the byzantine empire, there was the Roman empire, not a Palestinian state .

9) Before the Roman empire, there was the hasmonean dynasty, not a Palestinian state .

10)Before the hasmonean dynasty, there was the Seleucid empire, not a Palestinian state .

11) Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the 3rd of Macedon, not a Palestinian state.

12) Before the empire of Alexander the 3rd of Macedon, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state.

13) Before the Persian empire, there was the Babylonian empire, not a Palestinian state.

14) Before the Babylonian empire, there were the kingdoms of Israel and Judea, not a Palestinian state.

15) Before the kingdoms of Israel and Judea, there was the kingdom of Israel, Not a Palestinian state.

16) Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the 12 tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.

17) Before the theocracy of the 12 tribes of Israel, there was the individual state of Canaan, not a Palestinian state.

In fact, in this corner of the earth, there was everything but a Palestinian state!