Peter Cliffe

Curious soul, one-man accounts dept., 'legacy' fan #LFC #YNWA

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Daily Mail say today we need Farage and Reform to save the country. A reminder of the role the Mail played in getting us into this mess.

[Paul @greasydunlop]

I know people like to vote for joke novelty parties at every election.

But 997 seems particularly high.
#makersfield

[Nima Tavallaey Roodsari @NimaTavRood]

So far at the 2026 FIFA Epstein Cup before a ball kicked:
- Senegal & Uzbekistan squads treated like criminals upon arrival given full cavity searches;
- Africa’s best referee sent back to Somalia despite having a diplomatic passport;
- Iraq team photographer sent back despite valid visa;
- AIPS (international sport journalist association) calling on FIFA to sort out unacceptable visa issues of African & Iranian journalists;
- 90% of Moroccan fans with tickets denied entry
- 14 members of Iran backroom staff denied visas

Not a word from Gianni ”today I feel black/gay/disabled etc” Infantino.

[Neil Docking @NeilDocking]

Very sad for Slot, even if it’s the right call. Had a nightmare second season that began in horrific circumstances. Was statesman like how he dealt with Jota & parade tragedies. Everything after that spiralled, lots of misfortune but lots of mistakes. A legend for winning no.20.

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 Andoni Iraola clear favourite to succeed Arne Slot as Liverpool boss. #LFC may talk to other candidates like Stuttgart’s Sebastian Hoeness & Pierre Sage of Lens but 43yo Spaniard leading contender post #AFCB exit + close to Richard Hughes @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/lLJ6Lr5V5p

[Peter Cliffe @pfcliffe]

Ditched government projects lost taxpayer £6.6bn last year

Spending committee finds MoD most wasteful and also points to cancelled schemes such as Rwanda and Stonehenge

https://t.co/1oY68mi6pi

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

The ONLY way to stop the far right from taking power in your country

[John Gibbons @johngibbonsblog]

This feels like when all the government ministers resign one by one

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.

Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.

Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games.

Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on.

As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.

[Premier League Panel @PremLeaguePanel]

To explain Liverpool’s systemic coaching issue, you must understand the variety of goals they concede: A) poor high press triggers/spacing, B) poor pro-active closing down from the front in a mid-block, C) losing runners in a deep block, D) poor set piece defending, E) poor rest defence vs counter-attacks. In the last 3 matches vs Man Utd, Chelsea & Villa, they have shown issues in all 5 of these defensive scenarios types. This is not one isolated defensive issue that can be easily fixed. Slot’s approach to defensive coaching is simply not adequate and it has little to do with squad composition.

[Gareth Roberts @robbohuyton]

Shambles on and off the pitch. Take some negotiating to persuade the best players to sign up for a bit of this…

[Lemon @Lemonbriz]

🚨🎙️ Jamie Carragher on Arne Slot after Liverpool’s 4-2 loss to Aston Villa

“I’ve been saying this for weeks now — I don’t see this club progressing with Arne Slot in charge. Absolutely shocking again tonight. Slot has to take the blame for that performance. No fight, no intensity, no plan — we’ve just been bullied at Villa Park. That’s not Liverpool. The players looked lost out there, and the tactics were all wrong.

If Liverpool are serious about getting back to where we belong, competing at the very top, then they have to act now. Xabi Alonso is there for the taking if Chelsea are sorting a deal. Hijack it. Go and get him. He’s a Liverpool man, he gets the club, he wins trophies. Because next season, you simply cannot play like this again. This isn’t Klopp’s Liverpool — it’s not even close. Sort it out, or the fans won’t stand for it.”

[David Lynch @davidlynchlfc]

Tonight summed up why so few Liverpool fans believe Arne Slot can fix this. Yes, this side is short in attack and signings will help, but they won't sort a midfield and defence that have been shambolic all season. So, without a change of head coach, how does it get better?

[Football Away Days @FBAwayDays]

Absolutely unreal overhead kick in the Old Firm game today.

Wow! 😍

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Back in the day, you’d buy a $2 bag of ice and dump it in a tub for an ice bath.

Now, it seems you buy an $8,000 bath tub.

Never underestimate the commercialization of everything.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

What in the world did we just see!

The 2 hour marathon barrier has been broken. Three guys went under the old world record...

Sabastian Sawe just ran 1:59:30 with crazy negative splits, closing the last half in 59:01....faster than the American Record in the half.

One of the most mind blowing performances we've seen. How did we get here?

Every breakthrough is a mixture of belief and progress.

It takes folks daring to see what's possible, surrounding themselves with a quality team and doing the work to give themselves a shot.

You've got to bet on yourself in a big way.

When asked whether he believed he could run a sub-2-hour marathon before the race, Sawe answered with one word:

"Yes."

Let's get the obvious out of the way. Performance enhancing drugs are the legitimate question mark to every breakthrough.

So Sawe did as much as he could about taking that off the table.

He and his team asked to be tested all the time. His sponsor put up 50K to the Athlete Integrity Unit. The tests are run independently, no advance notice. Over a 2 month stretch, he went through 25 drug tests.

There's always a doubt. There has to be given what we know. Hopefully there's transparency in the results. But hats off to Sawe for addressing it:

"I want to prove that I am clean when I set foot at the start line."

But how'd we actually get here where two guys went sub 2 in the same race?

1. Shoe tech

We've had a revolution in shoe technology that boosts running economy.

For years shoe companies said their shoe would make you faster and was mostly marketing. Until 2016, when it actually did.

Initial research showed a 3-4% saving in economy, while subsequent work has shown it's highly variable.

Now, it's a matching game. Find the perfect shoe for your form and you can get a big boost.

Normally, it takes years of lots of miles and strength training to boost economy.

But now we get that instant boost that not only helps boost performance but often leaves us feeling less beat up in the later stages of the marathon.

So we get a little bit less hitting of the wall...

2. The fuel

For a long time, fueling was limited by biology. You can only take in and process so much.

Then in the 2000s, researchers found if we mixed sugars, we can boost intake because they're processed differently.

Then recently, Maurten found if you use a hydrxogel, you boost utilization without GI distress anymore.

We've gone from pushing 60g/hr to 120g/hr in a few decades.

Again...less bonking.

3. Depth

A few decades ago, you spent your career racing on the track and then once your speed started to fade a bit you went to the marathon.

Now, many skip right to the marathon. That's where the money is.

And with the economy boost from the shoes, you can make that jump quickly.

More depth of talent means more competitors in their prime pushing barriers.

4. Belief

Even with the shoes and tech, a few years ago sub 2 hours seemed a long way off, until Kipchoge pushed that barrier in a series of time trials.

Yes, they weren't official races and had contrived pacing. But it absolutely shifted everyone's thinking on what is possible.

A generation of runners saw Kipchoge go for it.

Our prediction of what is possible changed.

It's mind blowing how far we've come in such a short time.

What once seemed decades away, just got smashed twice in the same race.

Hats off to Sawe, especially for addressing the scourge of doping and showing folks what is possible with a lot of hard work, some crazy belief, and some fortuitous advances.

[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

Watch Sabastian Sawe 🇰🇪 run 1:59:30 to destroy the Marathon World Record in London!!🤯🔥

First man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon.

2. Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 1:59:41
3. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 2:00:28

All under the previous World Record.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A Toronto man ran 1,105 kilometers (687 miles) over a year, carefully planning his routes to form the shape of a dancing figure

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

It's not run slow to run fast...

It's run a lot of easy to give you the foundation and capacity to handle and absorb all sorts of moderate to hard training.

They work in concert. You don't just magically get faster by lots of easy. It supports the rest.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎶 Iran-linked accounts are circulating a new LEGO-style propaganda video portraying U.S. and Israeli leaders as corrupt elites tied to the “Epstein files,” part of a broader online campaign aimed at undermining support for the war.

The animation depicts President Donald Trump as an “orange pig” controlled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, depicting the entire war as a project to “make Israel Great Again.”

The chorus repeats: “Your government is run by pedophiles. They ordered you to die for Israel.”