MIke Andrews

Love football, running, my family and my dog - not necessarily in that order!
Left-leaning former teacher.
Unlike many, not easily offended.
Villa fan🦁

[MIke Andrews @MAndrewsm547]

@StanCollymore Ironically, notts county are in the city boundary, and Forest and the city ground are in the county boundary!

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@BBCRMsport @BBCRadioManc

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@GalitzineHQ Albert memorial, London

[Ali Al Hussein @AliBinAlHussein]

There is no shortage of issues regarding FIFA. Let me start by clarifying what some of these are from an FA perspective, in particular that of Jordan going into a World Cup for the first time.
We are a small country with a minimal budget for our FA and had to deal with enormous hurdles. First, getting our fans into the USA: not all were granted VISAS, even though they had tickets -which we also know were sold at exorbitant prices. Secondly, we are being taxed by the US govt through FIFA for our participation. Money that should go to players and staff. This was not the case for those who played and set up camp in Canada and Mexico. But we happened to be in the USA so now we face these huge costs in taxes for having participated.
Thirdly we have been waiting for reward money for our players since December for the Arab cup in Qatar, which is a FIFA event. The money our team should receive for having reached the final has not been delivered yet, while at the same time FIFA brags about how many billions they have in reserve.
It is clear the problem really is with leadership. For months, FIFA has been refusing to help us on any of these or other matters- until it was verbally communicated to me during the World Cup that if I endorsed Infantino it would go a long way to helping our FA out.
We pride ourselves in Jordan in upholding ethical values. We did not endorse him before and certainly will not now. But the whole situation amounts to blackmail and we refuse to give in to that.

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@SarahForRuncorn The French army held the Nazis back while the British could escape from Dunkirk. Many French soldiers lost their lives and were captured. You are so naive and/or uneducated.

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@PolitlcsGlobal If you add up all the home nations, @TeamGB won 😉

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@Ocar2z9g get yourself to a turkish barber - £10

[MIke Andrews @MAndrewsm547]

@ArmenianAbs3 The eggs you eat aren’t fertilised

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@espenstrand He'll probably be given extra rest and be back in september

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@horgsim You've got the Villa Park capacity wrong and their best PL finish. You may have a strong argument, but back it up with facts if you want it to stand up

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@Benarasiyaa Do US cops not carry tasers?

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@LeTour

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@Piersmorganf @LBC @IainDale What's sweden got to do with it??? 🤣🤣🤣

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@fredbeare @LBC @IainDale Dale is Tory

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@LBC @IainDale HTF was she made a baroness???

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@implausibleblog What the MoD wanted is insignificent - every depaartment wants billions more than it gets

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@Ocar2z9g He's not a politician. He is unelected and bought his position in Reform. He just calls himself Shadow Home Secretary😂

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@Ocar2z9g Make sure most of them are veg - fruit is v high in sugar

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@AVFCMH This is the same Sky News presenter that @mehdirhasan called out the other day for not challenging politicians who blatantly lie on the channel