🚨 Brian Brobbey on his altercation with Romeo Lavia during Sunderland vs Chelsea:
“Honestly, I didn't understand why he was so involved. Rogers committed the foul, and suddenly Lavia was running towards me like I had personally offended him.
“He kept telling me he wasn't scared of me, so I asked him why he was standing so far away. If you're going to make all that noise, at least stand where I can hear you properly.
“He also kept bringing up his shirt, as if I had come onto the pitch to steal his kit.
“The funniest part was when he told the referee I grabbed him first. I told him, ‘Brother, you came looking for me. What did you expect, a handshake?’
“I have no problem with Lavia. He's a good player, but he needs to understand that not every argument on the pitch requires him to become the main character.”
A Coventry City fan has donated this commemorative 1987 medal to the family of Bradley Lowery, as an apology for what happened at the CBS Arena when Sunderland visited last week. The person who donated the medal believes the family could run a raffle in order to raise funds for the Bradley Lowery Foundation.
After getting the gift, Bradley's family took to social media to say:
"This unbelievable donation arrived in the post to us this week, and it has me truly speechless. To donate something so special purchased by someone so important, is so selfless and kind
This donation did not arrive with a contact address so if this is from you, please let us know❤"
Which ever Coventry fan donated this medal, you are a complete legend 👏🏻
The British Empire was the greatest work of human civilisation this world has ever seen. It outlawed the slave trade and then hunted it to extinction across every ocean on earth. It put the rule of law on six continents. It built the railway, the telegraph, the modern world. And when it left, India, Canada, Australia and fifty more kept the lot. That is not conquest. That is inheritance.
A quarter of the land on earth. A quarter of the people. Run from one wet island. Now ask what it did with that reach. Not what it took. What it built.
It built the law. Around a third of the world's people live under legal systems descended from English common law. The presumption of innocence. Trial by jury. A judge who can rule against the government and keep his job.
It built the machine age. The first intercity railway. The cable that joined Europe and America. By 1902 a telegraph ring circled the entire world, landing only on British soil.
It built the knowledge. Newton. Darwin. Faraday. Turing. Berners-Lee. The machine you are reading this on is, from the physics up, a British invention with foreign parts.
And it built a war on the slave trade. No great power had ever made war on the trade — until Britain did. Sixty years. Around 1,600 ships seized. Around 150,000 Africans freed. Around 2,000 British sailors dead doing it.
Then the thing that proves the case. Every empire before it ended in fire. This one chose to go — and the nations it freed kept the lot. The courts. The parliaments. The language. Then they formed a club with the country that had ruled them. Fifty-six members. Four of them were never British at all. Former French and Portuguese colonies asked to join.
Nobody applies to join the empire of a tyrant.
Was it perfect? No empire is. Fine. Now name the empire that did better. Name the one that bled for sixty years to end the slave trade. Name the one whose former subjects kept its courts. Name the one that packed up and went home.
There is one.
Nobody keeps the chains of a master. They keep the gifts of a builder. Fifty-six nations kept them. That is the verdict — and it was not ours. It was theirs.
Others apologise for our history. I tell it — properly, from the record, without the guilt. If that's what you want more of, stand with me: https://t.co/qC8TTIpcH2
#history #britishempire
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I’ll never have a second team but if I did it would be Bayern Munich after playing ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ on German soil to salute Harry Kane. Lots of stadiums in England wouldn’t play it for risk of offending someone…so hats off to Bayern! 🫡 🇩🇪 🏴 🤝
I agree. The British establishment should apologise over slavery. To us. For allowing this pathetic, self-loathing, anti-white bullshit to drag on for so long.
The answer, to any jumped-up Caribbean or African, is this - you can piss off. End of debate.
Forest Green have released a video of their new changing rooms, and to say they are interesting is a massive understatement...
Just wait until it cuts to the changing room 😅
Okay I trimmed it down, this is just so funny, I've got belly ache from laughing editing it down. If you are having a bad day just stick this on and I guarantee you will forget your troubles for a while. Seeing Sean Lock and Joe Wilkinson pissing their pants is just golden. Enjoy. #DanyDyerAliens #SeanLock #JoeWikinson #jonrichardson #Jimmycarr #Comedy #Humour #Jokes #BritishComedy
This young lads interview after Fleetwood knocked Arsenal out of the EFL Cup last night won't be topped. No PR training in that lad at all.. 😭
'stick it in the top corner and run like fuck' 😂