MANGAL SINGH

Head Teacher in Birmingham sharing thoughts on education, Liverpool FC and the world as it happens. All views are my own. A retweet does not show agreement.

[Manny Singh Kang @pedalsingh]

Hugely honoured to cut the ribbon at Bilbrooks brand new care home, specialising in dementia care.
I was joined by its first resident Maureen! A fantastic facility and a credit to all those who made it possible. The battle to improve dementia care goes on 🙏🏾❤️

[John Wight @JohnWight1]

I had a scan done on my knee today. Years of heavy squats in the gym, running on concrete, etc. have taken their toll. 59 and due my free bus pass this year.

I was referred by my GP and was told I did not require an appointment. Just turn up at the hospital's radiology department, and I would be seen.

I was in and out in 15 minutes. All I had to do was provide my name, date of birth, and first line of address to the lady behind the desk. Five minutes later I was called through.

The best equipment that money can buy was utilised to scan the knee affected.

The NHS is a wondrous and a wonderful thing.

God bless Nye Bevan.

[Sam Crome @Mr_Crome]

The heatwave has been a good example of how unpredictable school leadership is, how there isn't usually a playbook for decision making, and how putting the safety and welfare of communities is at the heart of what we do...

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

This is a brilliant investigation. It shows what many of us knew. Hostile states are supporting both Islamist & far right causes in order to divide us. If you are echoing those narratives you are aiding & abeting a hostile state.

https://t.co/Qr8sbm42zv

[SimonBrundish @SimonBrundish]

Crazy how Salah’s legs have gone

They’ve talked about it in this match

Yet only Meunier has covered more High Speed distance than Mo

And only Ngoy has run faster

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Banning social media for kids is necessary to change the culture around it.

Like how we banned smoking in restaurants. It changed our views and habits on smoking.

Culture is everything.

It is how we save our kids.

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

• Jurgen, what’s your take on that Mexico vs South Africa game where the referee had to hold the players during the cooling break because FOX was still airing commercials?

🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Jurgen Klopp: “This is football being held hostage by suits in air-conditioned offices. These so-called ‘cooling breaks’ were sold to us as a shield for player welfare, a noble sword against the heat. But in reality? It’s nothing but a golden cage built for the advertisers.

When I saw players standing around during a cooling break while television schedules dictated the rhythm of the match, I couldn’t help but wonder: who is the World Cup really serving? The fans? The players? Or the advertisers?

A World Cup match should flow like a river. Instead, we’re building dams in the middle of it so commercials can pass through. That’s dangerous for the spirit of the game. Football was once the main event; now it risks becoming the background music to an advertising show.

We’re told these breaks are about player welfare, and of course player health matters. But when the game starts bending its knee to television timing, people are going to ask questions. The ball is supposed to be the star. Not a commercial break.

The World Cup is football’s cathedral. Yet sometimes it feels like we’ve turned it into a shopping mall where the cash register gets more respect than the match itself.

If this is the future, then football isn’t being interrupted by advertisements anymore. Football is becoming the interruption between advertisements.”

—🎙️ ZDF

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

That hydration break came at just the right time because many Americans were beginning to panic that they hadn’t hadn’t seen an ad for over 20 minutes

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

Five minutes into the opening game and still no "Mexican Wave" from actual Mexicans.
Take note USA soccer fans.

[Oliver Kay @OliverKay]

All is well on Planet Origi.

(Extract from James Milner’s book Ask A Footballer)

[David Opie @DavidOpie]

You don’t understand the stranglehold this Nescafé Gold Blend advert had on the UK because of Anthony Head (long before he was in Buffy)

[Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu]

Ban Ki-moon, then secretary-general of the United Nations, commented on how, in his visits to some of the most forgotten areas of the world, there was a common factor: the presence of Cuban doctors.

“They are always the first to arrive and the last to leave.”

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Welcome to the Reds, Andoni 👋

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Murder of Henry Nowak is NOT our “George Floyd”

A jury found Floyd was killed by a white police officer, actions celebrated by some on the Right
Nowak was killed by a Sikh civilian, condemned by everyone & deserves to rot in jail

Sarah Everard was our “Floyd”
Never forget her

[Waqas🔶️ @m0w4q45]

A man murdered Henry Nowak. Lock him up and throw away the key no argument. But Rupert Lowe, Zia Yusuf and Robert Jenrick now want to punish every Sikh in Britain for what ONE criminal did. Here's what they're conveniently leaving out.

The "loophole" they're raging about doesn't exist. The second a kirpan is used in violence, the religious defence is GONE and it's treated as an offensive weapon, full stop. Digwa was convicted of murder AND possession the exemption protected him from nothing. He was reportedly carrying a SECOND, non-religious knife anyway. So ban the kirpan tomorrow and a man who set out to kill still kills. You'd outlaw a symbol of faith and change precisely nothing.

Want to talk "public safety"? Use the real numbers. London, April–Oct 2025: 1,625 kitchen knives used in knife crime. Kitchen knives are the single most common murder weapon in the country 46% of knife homicides. Kirpans aren't even on the chart. And knife crime is FALLING offences down 5%, knife homicides down 18% to the lowest since records began in 2003. So why the sudden moral panic over a ceremonial blade carried peacefully for generations? Because outrage is cheap and real policy is hard.

"Equality before the law," says Jenrick while demanding a law that targets one specific religion. Pick a lane, lads: it's either equality OR singling out a faith. It can't be both.

And remember WHO you're lecturing. 83,000 turban-wearing Sikhs DIED for Britain in the two world wars. 109,000 wounded. 14 Victoria Crosses, a per-capita record, their names carved on a memorial beside Buckingham Palace. The turban was their only helmet.

The REAL scandal? Police handcuffed Henry as he lay dying because his killer shouted "racism" first. THAT is the failure that cost a life. Fix the policing. Don't scapegoat a whole faith to dodge the harder conversation.

Let Sikhs carry their kirpan. Don't let one evil idiot rob a patriotic, law-abiding, 300-year-old faith of one of its most sacred articles. That isn't justice and it isn't safety. It's cheap politics and we can all see it. 🪯

[Inspector Gadget @InspGadgetBlogs]

Who'd have thought raising the state pension age to 67 would result in increased youth unemployment 🤔

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

This sack is well deserved, but I need to address some Liverpool fans.

Football is not a sport where you fluke things, especially at the highest levels.

I see people saying Slot won the league with Klopp’s team. Do you know Klopp himself could have remained and not won the league? Football isn’t entirely 1+1. Another manager could come and meet that Klopp’s team and underperform.

Let’s stop doing this, it’s not nice. You try to take away every credit from Slot because he had a bad season. Football fans have amnesia.

I watched numerous Salah interviews when they were winning under Slot. There was one with Gary Neville where Salah was mentioning the difference between Klopp and Slot.

He talked about the details Slot puts into the game, he talks specifically about how Slot knows when to make changes/substitutions, how he reads the game differently and knows what to do at the right time.

Salah, in another interview, further talked about how Slot would sit him down and tell him places to improve and that helped him a lot. Slot also told him not to track back, several things he said about Slot, because everything was so rosy.

If I search the tweets from many of you also, I would find many of such good things said about the manager. This season, it didn’t work out. In fact, my mutuals know I predicted Liverpool not to finish top 2, and it wasn’t because of Slot. I felt like when too many players join a club, it takes time for them to get their rhythm. I could have been wrong, but I was right this time.

Every club goes through hard times. Real Madrid won the UCL two years and have become useless despite signing arguably the best player in the world, and assembling The Avengers.

Slot had a bad season, the sack is deseved because he was disastrous, but don’t try to discredit him from all angles, that’s not sportsmanship and that’s not a fair thing to do. Winning the premier league on your first season isn’t something common, stop it guys.

Wish him well as he goes. Hope the new manager does well too.

[Michael Reid @michael_reid11]

Arne Slot leaves Liverpool with the second-highest win rate of any manager in the club's history (100+ games).

Jürgen Klopp - 60.9%
Arne Slot - 58.4%
Kenny Dalglish - 58.3%
Bob Paisley - 57.4%
Rafael Benítez - 55.4%
Joe Fagan - 53.4%
Bill Shankly - 52.0%

#LFC

[Adam Rowe @adamrowecomedy]

I’m glad they’ve made that decision but it’s just stupid timing from the club.

If they’d made the announcement last week he’d have got a proper appreciative send off and despite this season, he absolutely deserved that.

Shambles. Let’s hope they get the next steps right.