mark dockery

Part time rugby referee and somelier, full time husband & dad.

[Anthony Shaw @anthonyfdshaw]

Sent this on a group. So true.

Welcome to the modern Premier League.

[Jack Blackburn ����🇦 @HackBlackburn]

21 years ago today.

Come for the sound of ball on stump

Stay for the Richie Benaud commentary

[TomCPFC @T0mmyCPFC]

Constant reminder that the best palace chant still needs to be rung around Selhurst..

#cpfc

[🤍𝕁𝕆🤍 @jomickane]

Remember Johnny Ball, he made kids programs back in the 80s & 90s about science & the environment..... UNTIL he called out the climate bollox & claimed that schools were brainwashing kids with rubbish. He then got cancelled for some reason. Here's an old clip where he talks about CO2

[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

Oh for fuck’s sake give it a rest…

Brexit was FACTUALLY a de minimis footnote (I voted remain in 2016 so don’t even start…) when compared with a raft of the worst policy decisions imaginable since the end of WW2 across virtually all policy areas, by fuckwit politicians…

To name some of the biggest offenders:

- Most expensive energy in the developed world fuelling inflation across every good and service going - and net zero cultish insanity crippling our economy; we now make virgin steel only via emergency nationalisation in all but name - mainly because windmills and solar don’t produce the joules to produce concrete or steel, to build stuff

- Shuttering North Sea oil whilst buying the same stuff from the Norwegians who banked the oil: two trillion in the tank, three hundred grand a head, a quarter of the budget paid forever

- PFI. Blair and Brown fancied hospitals that didn’t trouble the books, so they put them on tick with loan sharks. £60b of buildings, £300b out the door, NHS still paying through the nose for a car park and a leaky roof.

- Tories borrowed the best part of £400bn at 0%, the cheapest money in three hundred years, and what have we got for it? Furlough, a fortune in PPE that didn’t work, and ~£20b handed to chancers with fake ltd co’s. Nothing built. Nothing that pays you back. The lot, gone. And here’s the one nobody says out loud… Money was free. Risk free. Rates at zero for the best part of a fucking decade. If a govt or their perm secs had any sense that was the moment to issue a 30y infra bond and build the grid, the reactors, the track, the housing, lock the cost in at basically nothing and let it pay for itself for two generations. Norway would’ve had it done by lunch. We didn’t issue a penny of it. Now the long end’s at 5.5 and the door’s now bolted shut. We had the cheapest money in history and spaffed it all.

- Capital markets that don’t work since Blair and Brown’s various legislative and regulatory changes, making pension fund allocations lower going into British companies, and making it harder and more costly to raise capital to grow and keep businesses here paying taxes and employing people - the collective cost of this to British households is conservatively estimated to be around £20trillion (per @andyroocraig’s figures) and countries that were literally communist within living memory are on track to overtake us this decade, on the IMF’s own numbers. Oh, and Mississippi HAS already overtaken us on GDP per capita basis (they are the butt of all poverty jokes in the US)

- Brown flogged 395 tonnes of gold, over half the national reserve, in 17 auctions between 1999 and 2002, at about $275 an ounce, near a twenty-year structural low. They call it “Brown’s Bottom” for a reason. Pocketed $3.5b but I t’d be worth around $52b today. So that socialist genius cleared the lot at the bottom of the market and torched the thick end of £40b in one decision (because he like many politicians since the 90s is a retard with no real world understanding)

- P90/P10 wage compression under social democracy is demonstrably worse than even the Soviets managed under Gosplan ffs

- Selling off and sweating various other national assets to fund our absurd debt borrowing pile that has mostly been spaffed up the wall on zero return or loss making initiatives / welfare socialism etc

- Series of the worst trade deals imaginable (pre and post Brexit)

- Too much of people’s money tied up in the resi property Ponzi scheme doing nothing (other than now: losing value in realtime)

- Planning laws that stop anyone building infrastructure on housing

I could go on…

Plus we have rising long yields now, which are (TL;DR) the price of having destroyed your own structural buyer base and then issuing into the gap while the central bank sells on top. Brexit doesn’t appear anywhere in that mechanism either.

So, this creepy obsession you have with Brexit is weird, lame and entirely worn out.

Bin.
🚮

[Holmesdale Fanatics @ultrascpfc]

CONFERENCE LEAGUE WINNERS 2026.

THIS STORY SHALL THE GOOD MAN TEACH HIS SON.

[FPLNobby @NobbyFPL]

Watch ‘til the end… Palace fans… I promise you a tear… love my football club! ❤️💙🦅

[LB @BoozerArab]

To pull a (handmade and painted) tifo this size off away in Europe is just unreal.

👏 👏 👏

[Winging It: A Crystal Palace Podcast @WingingItCPFC]

We’ve seen Brighton, Millwall and Charlton fans all giving it “tinpot” and all sorts of verbal gymnastics about this meaning nothing.

The fact is, you couldn’t even begin to dream about having the 12 months that we’ve had and the only way you could recreate this is with AI.

[Holmesdale Road @holmesdale_road]

We all dreamed of a European tour.

For twenty years as a group the goal was always European football. Without an active fan scene in England, supporters visit silent grounds with impossible restrictions backed up by draconian banning orders.

(Thread 1/5)

[Holmesdale Road @holmesdale_road]

The most basic expression of support, even something as simple as somewhere to display banners, are still not possible in stadiums. The youth that bring the vibrancy and active support are priced out, unable to access tickets and put off by boring, santised stadiums

(Thread 2/5)

[Holmesdale Road @holmesdale_road]

It can be said that culturally English football has been in steep decline for two generations and continues to get worse.

(Thread 3/5)

[Holmesdale Road @holmesdale_road]

As a result, a chance to travel abroad and support Palace was always the dream. Being a second division team for the first seven years of the group and only briefly threatening Europe once in the next 12, this perpetually seemed like a distant reality.

(Thread 4/5)

[Holmesdale Road @holmesdale_road]

As a result pre season, whilst meaningless on the pitch, provided a bit of what we’re looking for off of it.

Photographs from …

Augsburg ‘14,
Berlin ‘15,
Metz ‘17
Bern ‘19

As well as Athens (H) & Nova Gorica (A) with old friends from Panionios.

[Cam @SE25CPFC12]

This clip doesn’t do those limbs justice.

#CPFC

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[Graham K @GrahamLKeegan]

He got dumped by the BBC for saying this.
But he was right of course.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

I can’t believe what I’ve just watched.

Socialist teachers who are striking, right in exam mock periods, are being counter protested by very grown up and sensible teenagers DEMANDING that they be taught back in school.

These “teachers” should be ashamed of themselves. Draped in Gaza flags, and flying far-left “Stand Up to Racism” and Unite Union banners outside a school.

Keep your politics out of our schools and DO YOUR JOB.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

This is a must watch.

[Max and Paddy Quotes @maxandpaddyline]

The greatest scene in TV history 📺