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[marvidh @MarvidH]

@JamieJackson___ Any chance of a poem about this?

[marvidh @MarvidH]

👏👏👏

[Christina Unkel @ChristinaUnkel]

1/9🚨Transparency isn’t just good governance—it protects the integrity of the game.

FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee did not overturn Balogun’s red card. It suspended the suspension under Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code, making him eligible to play.

The issue isn’t… 🧵

[Barney Ronay @barneyronay]

Balogun’s red card was balls but this is bizarre. He should politely decline to play, thereby becoming the most popular American on earth

[marvidh @MarvidH]

Just back from Strasbourg, whose Stolpersteine reveal many tragic stories. General Walter Brehmer was a prisoner of the USSR 1945-55, investigated in 1960 but died in 1967. Ten years later the cases against him was closed. https://t.co/zTZPTvE1N5

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

How did the Nazis' team responsible for transferring my father's uncle from where they received him to his point of deportation? https://t.co/lKmQUR6Wep

[marvidh @MarvidH]

Fair

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

With Darren Jones now confirming that he will not be entering any leadership contest, I find myself, and I suspect many others, reflecting deeply upon our future within the Labour Party.

I did not join the Labour Party to witness a mandate, won through immense effort and entrusted to Sir Keir Starmer by the British electorate, quietly transferred to another individual through pressure, intrigue, and political calculation. Nor did I join in order to endorse a process which appears, at least to many ordinary members, to be drifting perilously close to a political coup rather than a democratic exercise.

Let me be perfectly clear. I do not wish to see Andy Burnham become Leader of the Labour Party, and I certainly do not wish to see him become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

That is not born of personal animosity. It is a matter of principle. Leadership should be earned, not assumed. Mandates should be won, not inherited. Legitimacy should flow upwards from the membership and the electorate, not downwards from a collection of parliamentarians, advisers, commentators, and newspaper columnists who appear increasingly determined to decide the outcome before the contest has even begun.

What troubles me most is the growing sense that some believe the membership should simply acquiesce and accept whatever arrangement is placed before them. Such an attitude betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what the Labour Party is. It does not belong to the Parliamentary Labour Party. It does not belong to newspaper editors. It does not belong to political factions. It belongs to its members.

Those members pay for the party. They campaign for it in all weathers. They knock on doors, deliver leaflets, defend its values, and devote countless hours of their lives to its success. They are not an inconvenience to be managed. They are the very foundation upon which the party stands.

If Andy Burnham genuinely believes he is the right person to lead Labour, then he should place that proposition before the membership and allow them to render their verdict. Let there be a contest conducted openly, honestly, and democratically. Let the 350,000 members exercise the rights afforded to them by the party's constitution. Let us discover whether the enthusiasm proclaimed by certain sections of the media and elements within Westminster truly extends beyond those circles and into the wider Labour movement.

For my part, I remain unconvinced. More importantly, I remain profoundly uneasy at the manner in which this entire affair is unfolding. The Labour Party has always prided itself on being a democratic movement. If that principle is to mean anything at all, then the members must be permitted to determine their own future free from coercion, manipulation, or prearranged outcomes.

Anything less would not merely diminish the authority of a future leader. It would represent a profound disservice to the very people upon whom the Labour Party ultimately depends.

[marvidh @MarvidH]

Farage grillé, très bien cuit

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

If you have a spare 3 mins and 45 secs today, watch this fantastic grilling by Sally Nugent on BBC Breakfast.

The very first time I've seen Farage questioned properly about his £5M bung, and it's fair to say, he totally fluffed it.

There are points when you can see Farage tremble and even accuse the BBC of putting him in danger. 🤦‍♂️

It was for security. It was for cars. Nobody cares. It's no one's business. He won't tell us. DANGER!

At one point, he let slip that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards may 'disagree' with him on the rules around donations.

He knows he's going to be found guilty on this one. He's in trouble, and his face gave it away gloriously.

Top hats off to Sally Nugent. Stellar work. 👏

[marvidh @MarvidH]

Any idea when Chris Mason is stepping down?

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Keir Starmer is expected to announce on Monday that he will step down as prime minister, after overwhelming pressure from Labour MPs to make way for Andy Burnham to become Labour leader 👇

https://t.co/jIJrqy0JXV

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

The best tweet of the World Cup for me. 10/10. No notes.

[marvidh @MarvidH]

@bifana_bifana “Scored a half-volley in the Faro(e) Islands on Setanta Sports, you’ll never sing that”

[marvidh @MarvidH]

“Scored a volley in the Faro(e) Islands on Setanta Sports, you’ll never sing that”

[MCFC Retro @RetroMCFC]

Dietmar Hamann volleys in from outside the box, doubling #ManCity’s lead away to EB Streymur in the Faro Islands. 🇫🇴 (2008)

[marvidh @MarvidH]

This explains the absurdity of the rioters very well.

[Scott Hamilton RTM @SikotiHamiltonR]

1/4 Jimmy Corry is a Belfast Protestant man whose house was burned down by a Loyalist gang hunting for non-whites. After Corry appeared on TV & protested that the gang was picking 'on its own', something very revealing happened. Corry lost his racial status.

[marvidh @MarvidH]

@ManCityHelp Still waiting… by the end of the week do you mean today or another day? The relocation window is supposed to open on Tuesday - is that still the case?

[marvidh @MarvidH]

@StevenMcinerney Shades of “Eric the half a bee” here.

If this bee lacks subtlety…

Last season’s black kit looked a bit Nazi tbh.

[Danny Shaw @DannyShawNews]

On the murder of Henry Nowak by Vickrum Singh Digwa, it is worth reading this paragraph, below, of Judge William Mousley KC's sentencing remarks.

While we await the investigation, the judge probably has the most complete view of what happened - and the impact of Digwa's lies:

[marvidh @MarvidH]

Forest played the opposition in front of them. As did Arsenal. Forest won the trophy twice on the bounce, in an era mercifully free of online “banter”.

[marvidh @MarvidH]

Yes

[Brendan Boyle @BrendyBoyle]

I love the angle taken by @kenearlys on the Champions League final.

He’s absolutely right to dedicate so much time to how Arsenal waste time 🗑️

The drinking water and human life lines 🤣

[marvidh @MarvidH]

Fair

[Alan Alger @Alan_Alger_]

Well, I spent the best part of £7000 to be here so I’ll have my say…

Great season, winning the league, so we can’t complain too much… here’s the *but*… (all things I’ve said many times over)…

- ‘Arsenal game-state 1-ahead’ continue to be one of the most frustratingly bad teams in football.
- The decision making from our players on the simplest of things leaves so much to be desired at times. Saka’s told he doesn’t have long by the ref and continues to waste a corner before HT - where there was no chance of a PSG counter. (He was also abysmal throughout - not the only one).
- The technique on the two missed penalties - doubtful change of body shape and addressing the ball all wrong - is just asking for trouble.
- The Champions League continues to be a blot on our history, I’m convinced we’ll win one of the next three (and remember, if it was invented in the 1920s we’d probably have many more, including the one Liverpool cost us, after GG got to grips with European football, in 1991).
- I don’t think the ref was great, but I think he got the big things spot on.
- Budapest a lovely city and the people are really nice.
#AFC

[marvidh @MarvidH]

@IanDarke Most refs in the PL might have given it and we know what they are.

[marvidh @MarvidH]

@slbsn @jamescrawford MUFC :-) #MeatIsMurder

[Tom Flathers MCFC @tflathers]

But I had the great fortune of photographing, working with and knowing Pep for 10 years.

The weekrnd was completely overwhelming both on capture and emotionally.

I have done my best over the 10 years to do justice to this genius through imagery.

Thank you @PepTeam