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Spurs ST Holder (28 years) - I'm a lover of Golf, Soulful Jazz, Gourmet Food, Family & Friends.
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[Felicity Campbell @feli_campbell]

When I posted yesterday about Andy Burnham’s political machine secretly intercepting public emails to protect his Abu Dhabi property deals, my inbox was flooded by people thanking me for finally calling out what goes on in Manchester.

Well, I woke up this morning and looked at the latest financial disclosures coming out of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the rabbit hole just got so much darker.

Burnham's authority has been caught funnelling nearly £1,000,000 of taxpayer money to completely anonymous beneficiaries in a series of secret payments.

They paid out £83,000 in rent to a hidden landlord. They handed out thousands in anonymous "consultancy fees." Worst of all, they gave a £210,000 capital grant to a property developer and completely redacted the name from the public ledger.

When journalists finally confronted them, the authority claimed hiding the £210,000 developer payout was just a "human error" and blamed the rest of the secrecy on data protection laws.

Look at the terrifying double standard at play here.

If a working citizen misfiles a tax return by fifty pounds or makes a mistake on a local form, the state will investigate their entire life, apply ruthless penalty fines, and threaten them with court.

But when Burnham's regional authority hands a fifth of a million pounds of public cash to an anonymous property developer, they simply shrug and call it a clerical typo.

This is exactly how the modern British political cartel operates. They use the language of bureaucracy and data protection as a legal shield to funnel public wealth to private, hidden corporate interests.

I am sorry, but they are not governing a city. They are running a shadow ledger with your money, and they are terrified of the public finding out who is actually cashing the checks.

[Aaron Rankin @Aaron_R_Rankin]

It still beggars belief that Burnham’s destructive EU Reset Deal will ultimately destroy the UK’s agritech industry that’s currently worth £28bn in a hope to get a marginal increase in our £12bn in food exports to the EU

It’s like selling a Fabergé egg to pay for a service on your 2016 BMW 3 Series
https://t.co/C2P8a8sEdj

[M @michaelc1961]

@jonnorris12 @theribman Now ya talking✔️

[Lord Flash Heart @EugeneJ89312567]

@ramonagusta @BBCNews Reality is the EU is an economic failure when it should be an economic power house

[Ergo @SniersMoregut]

The Bogle “tackle” was the clearest red since Moses parted the sea

[🏆𝙷𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚗_𝚁𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚡🌍 @SpursGuy88]

Unless you're Tottenham

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

- £41bn for the EU
- £39bn for Chagos
- £10bn for Ukraine

And not a single vote for any of it.

The supranational entities (UN, IMF, EU, WEF, WB etc.) have plenty of new "jobs for the boys" though.

Are you seeing how it works now, kids? 🤔

[M @michaelc1961]

Yep nothing to see here after two pro-refs study for several minutes to turn a blind eye🤷‍♂️

[FloridaSpur @FloridaSpur]

@FA

The stud raking of the achilles heel is now more common than a footballer who dives.

Isn't it about time the FA and Referee Association got together and set an automatic five match suspension for this offence?

Or do you want to oversee a footballers career end early?

No card.

[M @michaelc1961]

@MartinJCooke As they should that guy has given several bad decisions against spurs over a few seasons as I recall

[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Alan Shearer on Bogle escaping a card while Pedro Porro was booked:

“Run it again. Forget the ball for a moment. Watch what happens to the player’s legs.

“The first contact catches him at the back of the ankle. Then the other leg comes across him. He’s trying to get away from one challenge and there’s another one waiting for him.

“And we’ve looked at all that and come away without a card?

“If you showed me that clip with the referee out of the picture and asked, ‘What happens next?’ I’d say, ‘He’s in trouble.’

“I wouldn’t say, ‘They’ll have a look and everyone can carry on.’

“Someone will tell me, ‘Alan, you played in a different era.’

“Yes. And if I made that challenge, you’d have spent the next 20 years showing it whenever my name came up. You wouldn’t be looking for a nice angle that made it look better.

“I know what a bad tackle looks like. Having made them doesn’t prevent me recognising another one.

“People keep saying, ‘He’s trying to get the ball.’

“Fine. What has he actually done to the player?

“You can begin a challenge wanting the ball and still make one you should be sent off for. Good intentions don’t protect the other lad’s ankle.

“I’m not claiming I can read Bogle’s mind. Look at the contact. Look at the position the other player is left in.

“The second leg matters as well. You can’t stop after the first contact and tell me we’ve dealt with the whole challenge.

“‘Was there enough in the first one?’

“There’s another one coming. Keep watching.

“And then look at Porro’s booking. For me, he wins that ball cleanly. The referee’s straight over with a yellow.

“‘You can win the ball and still commit a foul, Alan.’

“Yes. I’ve just said that. So apply the same scrutiny to Bogle. Tell me what makes Porro’s challenge a booking and this one nothing.

“You can’t be so certain about punishing one and so generous about the other.

“Imagine Porro looking at that.

“‘I got booked for mine.’

“‘Yes.’

“‘What’s he getting?’

“‘Nothing.’

“Explain that to him without making him feel he’s watching a different set of standards being applied.

“I can understand a referee missing a contact in real time. Players get in your way. You’re looking at one foot and something happens behind it.

“But once we’ve got the replay, explain what you’ve seen that makes you comfortable with this.

“Don’t just tell me it’s been checked. Tell me what you checked.

“The player’s getting up, checking whether he can put weight on his foot, and the answer appears to be that nothing further is needed.

“We tell players to stay on their feet. Give them some confidence that when they’re caught, somebody will deal with it. They shouldn’t have to make a performance out of being hurt.

“And imagine Leeds go on to win or salvage a draw. Tottenham are left thinking, ‘We should have been playing against ten men. Instead, we’ve had a player on the receiving end of that and Leeds have kept everybody on the pitch.’

“Someone says, ‘Well, Spurs still had chances.’

“That’s not the point. You can’t take away an advantage they should have had and then tell them they should have played better anyway.

“And what if the player who’s been caught has to come off? Tottenham lose somebody they need while the man who made the challenge stays on and helps Leeds get a result.

“Where’s the justice in that?

“‘Sorry, we got it wrong.’

“Does the apology give Spurs those minutes against ten men? Does it put their player back on the pitch?

“Those points could matter at the end of the season. By then, this will be an old clip to everybody else. It won’t feel old to the team that paid for the mistake.

“For me, it’s a red card. Not even a yellow is an extraordinary outcome.

“Someone will say, ‘At least he’s got up.’

“Good. I’m delighted he’s got up.

“That tells me how the player’s doing. It doesn’t tell me the tackle was acceptable.”

[M @michaelc1961]

Socialism achieving it’s targets in record time!
Destruction of nation plan!
- Immigration explosion
- Benefits hike
- Higher Taxes
- Strikes

They’re bang on target
Stand by for back in the EU
And even more discounted bus fares (he loves his buses)

[Tarzan🧌 @Tarzanjr554]

🚨 Michael Owen reacts to the controversial refereeing decision not to send off Jayden Bogle for his challenge on Mathys Tel:

🎙️ Interviewer: “Michael, what was your immediate reaction to Bogle’s challenge on Tel?

Michael Owen: “For me, that’s a red card. I don’t understand how you watch that challenge and come to the conclusion that it’s not serious foul play. He catches Tel at an angle, with real force. It’s dangerous, it’s reckless and it’s exactly the type of challenge the rules are supposed to protect players against.”

Interviewer: “VAR checked the incident several times but decided there was no serious foul play. Does that surprise you?

Owen: “That’s what makes it even more frustrating! They checked it, checked it again and apparently decided there was nothing serious enough to intervene. What exactly were they looking for? Sometimes I think VAR becomes so obsessed with finding a reason NOT to overturn a decision that it forgets the actual incident in front of them.”

Interviewer: “Are you questioning the consistency of Premier League officiating?

Owen: “Absolutely. That’s the biggest problem. We’ve seen players sent off for challenges that look less dangerous than this, yet here we are debating why this one wasn’t a red card. You cannot have one standard on Saturday and a completely different standard on Sunday. The rules don’t change depending on the referee.”

Interviewer: “Some will argue that Bogle was simply challenging for the ball.

Owen: “That’s the excuse people always make. Challenging for the ball doesn’t give you permission to endanger another player’s safety. You have to look at the point of contact, the force and the angle of the challenge. Tel was caught in a dangerous position. We shouldn’t need an injury before officials take these situations seriously.”

Interviewer: “What message does this send to players?

Owen: “A terrible one. Players are entitled to expect protection. If you punish one challenge and ignore another similar one, you create confusion and frustration. VAR was introduced to help football, not give everybody another reason to argue about refereeing decisions.”

[M @michaelc1961]

Fast asleep….

[Anthony Boutall @anthonyboutall]

⏱️Before nationalisation, 94% of c2c trains arrived on time. Now, it is just 71.5%.

Is anyone surprised? 🚆

https://t.co/W7pIhFzdr5

[M @michaelc1961]

@tomhuntio Good luck
Wish you well

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

Burnham's "EU Reset" will mean our food prices rise as fast as the EUs due to all the extra red tape...

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

Brexit/Europe is now the 2nd LEAST important issue for Brits... only the weirdo #FBPE and citizens of nowhere even think about it anymore.

[M @michaelc1961]

@SpursGuy88 Oh dear this prick !!!

[M @michaelc1961]

I kinda feel Spurs are going to win at Leeds….the omens are good!