It’s Non League Day tomorrow and we welcome @ACFC1916 to @anfield_sports for another massive @NorthernPremLge fixture…The Match Ball is kindly sponsored by MCV Plumbing & Gas Services…👏🏻👏🏻…With 6 games to go we’re right in the mixer for a play off place but goes without saying we need to give that play off push a good old kick start with a big performance down at the Anny…No better time to come pay a visit than on Non League Day…Hope to see you there…UTB…⚽️
@DazzaDavies@jake_efc14 People were upset because of the behaviour of your fans at the end which put a pensioner in A&E. So if you got stick or people pulled you up that’s why. If you were there you will have been made aware of what happened and this is your response. Your fans were cunts at the end.
Tonight’s game is kindly sponsored by @LJ_Support who will have a bucket collection in and around the ground for your odds…It’s a local charity that deserves all the support we can give so please if you can throw in, help them keep supporting families going through the toughest of times…💗
It’s Friday night football up next for the lads as we welcome @buryfcofficial to @anfield_sports for another massive game at the top of the @NorthernPremLge West table…The match ball is kindly sponsored by @LJ_Support a charity we wholeheartedly support…The first game to sell out under the Anny lights, hope you gotta ticket folks…UTB…⚽️
Tonight we host @avro for our first competitive meeting at step 4, played each other in pre season games when Step
7, @nwcfl league games at Steps 6 & 5 and now @NorthernPremLge game at Step 4…Some graft gone in from both clubs over the years to be at this point and with us both flying high in the table it promises to be another cracker between the clubs…As always our match day programme from @MatchdayPro is available on the gate…We hope you can come and join us folks for another biggun under the Anny lights…UTB…⚽️
@lowerbreck
Massive week ahead of fixtures and we start this Wednesday night at @anfield_sports 19:45ko verses @AvroFC
Come down and support your local team who are top of the league 👏 👌
Up The Breck ❤️🖤⚽️
Tonight we welcome @CongletonFC to @anfield_sports 7:45 KO…Another cracking 32 page programme available on the gate courtesy of @MatchdayPro with excellent articles from Jeff Gorse & @trevk37…as always massive thanks to Match Ball sponsors…The Ramsay Family @warren7051 & @proper_tees 👏🏻…Cafe & Bar fully stocked and dare I say it but the weather is looking fine so get down the Anny for some midweek footy action…UTB…⚽️
▪️UK electricity average standing charges of £187.50 a year in August 2025 are more than double what they were 4 years ago (£91.25)
▪️Energy corporations have trousered over £500 billion in profits during that time
The cost of living crisis is a cost of corporate greed crisis.
An Observation on Angela Rayner and the Labour Government:
One cannot help but feel a measure of sympathy for Angela Rayner. I know her well enough to say that she came into politics for the best of reasons: a desire to serve, a determination to improve the lives of people whose struggles she understood from her own experience.
But the further up the ladder one climbs in politics, the more insistent the temptations become. This is not simply about individual weakness or personal failing. It is structural. Over the past 40 years, Britain has built a society in which consumption, status, and proximity to wealth have become defining features of the political class. The gravitational pull of money is now so great that even those who arrive in Westminster with the clearest sense of purpose find their heads turned.
Angela’s story is not unique. She came from humble beginnings, but the wealth that circles political life today is more concentrated, more brazen, and more intrusive than in the past. The old checks and balances, party rootedness in mass membership, trade union accountability, a press less entangled with oligarchic interests, have all weakened. Where once honour, public service, even a sense of historical duty could command respect, today those values are dimmed in comparison to the pursuit of material position.
The mechanism is subtle but relentless. It is not corruption in the brown-envelope-under-the-table sense. It is the slow, almost invisible turning of heads. You are introduced to those who walked this path before you, former ministers who now sit comfortably in boardrooms or on the payroll of consultancies with six and seven-figure salaries. You are invited to corporate boxes at sporting events, to private dinners, to concerts and premiers. Lavish clothes or spectacles can be “within the rules,” provided they are declared. But by then the damage has been done.
The message is implicit but unmistakable: play the game, listen to us, and you too can enjoy more of this. The logic creeps into your personal life. You stretch to buy the house that can host the right gatherings. You measure your worth by the standards of a world that equates success with possessions and proximity to privilege. And once you are on that path, it is hard to step off.
This is, of course, a simplification of a complex socio-economic and political process. But as someone who came from a council estate myself, I see it all around me in Westminster. And it is not going to be changed by media witch-hunts, the tutting of ethics advisers, or even the occasional burst of public outrage.
As Gladstone once warned, “Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.” But in our current system, what is morally questionable is too often normalised, excused, and rebranded as “just the way things are.”
Real change will only come from a collective decision to choose a different path: to stop outsourcing our state to private interests, to end the revolving door between government and corporate boardrooms, to challenge the idea that the role of politics is to serve vast concentrations of wealth.
We can choose differently. We can once again put community, solidarity, and public service at the heart of our political life. We can insist that worth is measured not in the size of one’s house or the company one keeps, but in the contribution one makes to society and the integrity with which one serves.
Until we do, until we decide as a polity to hold up those values rather than the glittering prizes of private gain, hese scandals will not just recur. They will define the very character of our politics.