Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺

8th in line to a throne somewhere. Once auditioned for Destinys Child. Liverpool supporter since 1976. Up The Reds!

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

@realDonaldTrump Fuggin ‘ell la. Have a lie down. That cocaine doesn’t agree with your system.

[Gary Marlowe @gmarlowe]

A global embarrassment

The incoherent ramblings of an addled dementia patient or the commander in chief addressing his generals? You decide.

#Trump

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

@rustyrockets Can’t string a sentence together. You can have powder powered ideas but unless you can get them across, forget it.
This is Ai. Or i hope it is. If not, shoot the editor.

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

@SalanCLN @Braden_LFC Out in Denmark today

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

#LiverpoolFC new 3rd kit is on sale in my local Intersport store in Denmark. Both kids and adults version.
Early release??

Was looking forward to it on the pre-release rumour photos. But IRL it’s very plain and, frankly, shit.
No intricate details or sewing. #LFCkits #newkit

[Nick Collins @Nick___Collins]

I’ll go into the details on tonight as I have hundreds of replies to my earlier post and there’s no point replying to them all.

So this fella has had his season ticket for many years at Anfield. He’s passionate but often takes things way too far but it is what it is. He has crossed the line before by throwing stuff at officials (usually chewing gum) and stewards looked embarrassed rather than do anything.

So I guess that’s allowed his behaviour to escalate maybe in his brain.

About 28 mins into the game, Semenyo goes to take a throw in. He’s not a player that goads the fans and seems like a decent lad. The sort of player that people want playing for their club.

For reasons I’ll never know, the fella near me in bay 7 (I’m bay 9) decides to go over to him in his wheelchair and shouts something at Semenyo. Semenyo then asks him to repeat it and he repeated it and threw his chewing gum at him.

Then 2 mins later the play is stopped. The fella next to me says he hopes Mark hasn’t said anything racist to Semenyo but then I’m getting texts from people saying it’s about the fan in the wheelchair allegedly abusing Semenyo.

We missed the first goal because all of us were uncomfortable being around this guy, who’s now sat in silence, probably realising what he’s done and he’s soon to be in the shit.

We didn’t want him near us and people (including myself) were calling him a racist prick. It was just uncomfortable to be around and we wanted him gone. The stewards didn’t have a clue what was going on either.

He was eventually removed from the ground at 21:01 by police. Firstly saying he’d refuse to move and wouldn’t leave but then agreeing to leave, then kicking off. I’d gone to the toilet by this point but saw him kicking off near the exit.

I believe there is some kind of protocol where the police have to remove them and not stewards and they have to get a sort of investigation going first. That’s why it took them 30 mins to get him out of the ground.

So the club now have to help the police with an investigation and rightly so. If he’s found to have racially abused Semenyo, he needs to be banned for life. No excuses.

Another fan chimed in saying “Semenyo didn’t look upset” so sorta sticking up for the abuser or playing devils advocate. But he just looked shocked to me, which is probably why he asked him to repeat himself.

So props to Semenyo for having the brilliant game he had. All 3 goalscorers were black, which was quite fitting really. The irony is, the fella had a “no room for racism” badge on his shirt.

I think at the time, it was annoying that we had to be around the prick but I think the club acted as fast as they could. I believe stewards can eject fans if they personally hear abuse but otherwise a report needs to be made for it to happen.

On the flip side of this, look at the amount of disability abuse there is in response to this. Discrimination is discrimination, so if you’re making your “edgy jokes” about disability on the back of it, you’re just as bad.

I’ve cropped his face out for obvious reasons but it’s incredibly ironic to have that badge on you and then do something like that. There’s obviously going to be a legal process ongoing now. The head steward asked us all a few questions and everyone was helpful.

Proud of the way the club acted in response to one prick. Anfield is a very welcoming place to people from all walks of life. Let’s keep it that way.

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

Bloody hell. Lavrov arrives in Alaska with T shirt with CCCP, the Cyrillic letters for the USSR. In other words when the Baltic states and Ukraine and the Central Asian republics were under Moscow’s control. If this is a statement of intent, it’s quite something

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

@lovefollowconqr Great design E!

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

@tv2play 240kr a month for live sport which glitches like a dodgy stream and has more ads.
The Euros is going to be fantastic at this rate. Might as well cancel now and save the stress. And stream the BBC through a VPN. #tv2play #tv2fail

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

Bit of a shit week rescued somewhat on a Friday, like the superhero he is, by @tomhanks supported by a cheeky pint on the terrace.

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

@CrowdedHouseHQ @NeilFinn tickets to Cavern club sold out within 15 seconds? Surely some bots at work? Come on @skiddle what's the deal?

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

@MoneySavingExp The need to cough up for seats on every train is a practical, passion and budget killer. As is lack of bookable space on trains during summer breaks.
Depending on age of kids will determine how much fun you can have. Under teens? Reconsider.

[Dominic King @DKingTelegraph]

Sometimes one word is enough and Andros Townsend used it last night: mockery.
The Premier League are making this up as they go along with Everton and it’s an absolute disgrace.
With VAR, with PSR, with contemptuous kick-off times, the people in charge have vandalised football

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

By removing the personal touch @IKEA has managed to change their restaurant from a fun treat to an absolute nightmare. Been like this for 6 months at Ikea Aarhus. #peopleNotScreens

[Andy Heaton @Andrew_Heaton]

115 charges but a pen ain’t one

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

@BenCoomber My experience over last 7 months has been 95% non alcoholic choices. But if i really fancy a glass of wine to compliment the food, i won’t beat myself up about it. It’s maybe one a month.
For me that’s the healthiest balance.
Everything works better - mind. Body. Libido.

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

Too flight football without VAR is bloody ace.
Proof of concept is the League Cup /EFL quarters games. All flowed fantastically. Officials were confident. Players got on with it. Every game had a “VAR check” incident but not one game was spoiled by its absence. @LateChallenge

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

@MelissaReddy_ Its become a sport designed exclusively for tv watchers with little appreciation of the actual game who just want unnecessary jeopardy. And designed for tv stations to discuss and make advertising money and subscriptions from armchair punters.
These “mistakes” are not mistakes.

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

@JamesPearceLFC @David_Ornstein Good work Agent @officialAL20

[Phil W🇩🇰(🇬🇧)🇪🇺 @pwitcomb]

@googledave Bonkers if true.