Tom Kirby

Man of mystery

[nathan fielder @nathanfielder]

Here is official trailer, You Can See Everything

[Championship Terrace Talk @ChampionshpTalk]

Only one answer...

Sheffield Wednesday's mission impossible!

#swfc

[Harry Hugo @HarryHugoGoat]

OUR FIRST MONTH IN NATIONAL LEAGUE SOUTH - FINANCIALLY 📊⚽️

August was @FarnhamTownFC’s first ever month at Step 2.

3 home games.

4,212 supporters through the gates.

And more than £100,000 generated around those matches before hospitality, commercial sponsors and season tickets are included.

Last year August saw us take just over £30,000. That's some growth.

Here’s what we learned 🧵

[Tom Kirby @shtommer]

@aboveaveragefpl 31 pointer. Outrageous @BakerFPL343

[Tom Kirby @shtommer]

@LiveFPLnet You, sir, are the man 🙌🏻

[Tom Kirby @shtommer]

@SeanDZWalsh Ronaldo isn’t even the best Ronaldo

[Tom Kirby @shtommer]

@storchyowl @swfc David I can’t tell you how excited everyone is about the next season and hopefully many seasons to come. Your enthusiasm, warmth and professionalism is such a contrast to the last regime… thank you! 🇺🇸 🤝 🏴��󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Fergus Craig @FergusCraig]

UK cover reveal!

You are cordially invited to die.

Out in February 2027 and available to preorder now from wherever you get your books.

This year it has made me very happy to see so many people fall in love with a serial killer. Excited for you to read the next instalment.

[Gregory Blotnick @gregoryblotnick]

all these anecdotes on the Scots drinking the city of Boston dry (after drinking entire airplanes dry) are the stuff of legend

from bars:
“We’ve been here for over 30 years, and we’ve never seen anything like it.”

“We tripled St. Patrick’s Day.”

“They’re drinking everything.”

[EFL @EFL]

The people have spoken! 🗣️

@swfc's remarkable comeback in the 2023 @SkyBet League One Play-Off Semi-Final has been voted as the greatest #EFLPlayOffs match of all time! 👏

#EFL | #EveryMinuteMatters

[Tom Kirby @shtommer]

@Goose_Creative It’s only more white in the mock-up because it’s laid out flat like this. Players arms don’t stick out like that (unless you’re Andy Sinton) and hey presto you see more blue when there’s a central stripe. You’ll find many are blue central stripe absolutists!

[Grant Roberts @GrantR_1867]

The EFL has sanctioned Sheffield Wednesday consistently since 2018.

Over that period, the club has been hit with multiple transfer embargoes spanning nearly a decade. By October 2025, Wednesday were under six simultaneous embargoes — the most any club has ever faced.

On top of that, the club has suffered repeated points deductions. A -12 deduction in 2020/21 severely damaged recruitment and momentum going into that season. Although it was later reduced to -6 on appeal, the damage had already been done — those points ultimately proved the difference between survival and relegation to League One.

In 2025, the situation worsened further. The club received:
•-12 points for entering administration, after the former owner failed to meet basic financial obligations such as paying wages and bills on time
•A further -6 point deduction, again due to the owner’s failure to uphold his responsibilities

This is not a case of a club gaining an unfair advantage — quite the opposite. The club has been placed at a significant competitive disadvantage for years due to sustained mismanagement.

Sheffield Wednesday has endured one of the most damaging ownership periods a club of its size is likely to experience. The former owner’s approach has not only harmed the club financially but also created a toxic environment for staff and supporters alike.

And yet, despite this, there is now an expectation that the same owner should be repaid — while the club continues to face further punishment.

How can that be justified?

The new ownership group should not be penalised for the failures of the previous regime. They should be given the opportunity to restore stability to a club that has lacked it for nearly 26 years.

Imposing further sanctions — such as another -15 point deduction, spending caps, business plan restrictions, and transfer limitations — would only deepen the damage. It risks condemning the club to yet another relegation and prolonging the cycle of instability.

At some point, there has to be recognition that continued punishment is no longer corrective — it is excessive.

The club, its staff, and its supporters deserve the chance to move forward.

#FairDealForWednesday

@storchyowl

[Gabriel Sutton @GabSutton]

Points deduction for Sheffield Wednesday next season completely unfair for me.

David Storch is already inheriting a huge mess, and a massive rebuild, from Dejphon Chansiri, and seems to be doing all the right things.

I don’t see which relevant parties this punishes, nor which it benefits (other than Wednesday’s division rivals).

The rules and regulations have to take contextual nuance into account on things like this, otherwise you create situations that don’t reflect the true spirit of the game.

Would implore the EFL to review this.

#FairDealForWednesday

[David Storch @storchyowl]

Another amazing week in Sheffield with so many special moments. Every time I come here, I fall more in love with this city and its people, who have been so warm and welcoming.

Great interactive Q&A with the @swfc staff at Hillsborough; their loyalty is admirable. We will restore joy and pride to the offices as we create a culture of excellence.

I've been impressed with the strong civic leadership I've seen from Mayor @olivercoppard and @katejosephs. I have further enjoyed building a great relationship with Clive Betts. Also loved my time with Sheffield Wednesday Legend, @HirstyD9 who still has so much passion for the Owls.

My team and I are working on so many important initiatives so that we can hit the ground running once we take over this wonderful club. Most notably; improvements to Hillsborough and the design of our kit and crest (stay tuned!😉).

Had the opportunity to host a lunch at the outstanding new restaurant in the City Centre; Maria. You guys have to try it! We were joined by @LordBlunkett who enlightened us with his many stories spanning 75 years of genuine love for the club through the good times and not so.

I finished my visit, stopping in at the Broomhill Tavern, relaxing over a pint with some new friends watching our match against Stoke City.

I'd like to wish everybody a very Happy Easter weekend as we continue into next week heads down on this journey to rebuild this incredible football club.

See you soon,
David

PS. was also lucky enough to find 2 vintage shirts @RagParade ... Love it!

#wawaw #uto #swfc

[Virginie Sigonney 🇫🇷 @GinieSigonney]

In 1940, British pilots were dying without ever being hit by the enemy.

The cause was purely technical.

They were flying the Spitfire—already an exceptional aircraft in terms of aerodynamics and maneuverability—but one critical flaw remained: engine fuel supply under strong negative acceleration.

During a steep dive to escape a Messerschmitt, negative G-forces caused fuel to surge into the carburetor.

The mixture instantly became too rich.

The engine lost combustion, spluttered, then cut out completely.

A few seconds were enough to turn an agile fighter into a stationary target.

German aircraft, equipped with direct fuel injection, retained full power in dives and pull-outs.

The tactical advantage was real, measurable, and deadly.

RAF engineers were well aware of the problem.

But the “ideal” solution required a complete redesign of the Merlin engine—unrealistic in the midst of the Battle of Britain.

That is where Beatrice “Tilly” Shilling came in, an aeronautical engineer and recognized specialist in high-performance mechanics.

Accustomed to pushing engines to their limits in motorcycle racing, she approached systems not as abstract theory, but under real extreme conditions.

Rather than redesigning the engine, she carefully analyzed the fluid dynamics of the fuel delivery system.

Her diagnosis was simple and rigorous: the issue was not combustion, but an instantaneous excess of fuel flow.

She calculated a critical threshold.

The engine had to receive enough fuel to maintain maximum power, but never enough to flood the carburetor under negative G.

Her solution was brutally effective.

A simple brass flow restrictor, drilled with millimetric precision, installed upstream of the carburetor.

A passive component, with no moving parts, no failure risk, dimensioned exactly to the Merlin’s requirements.

She personally validated the device, then traveled from airbase to airbase to have it installed.

No committees, no delays—tests, measurements, results.

Once in place, the engine remained fueled during dives.

Spitfires could maintain power, follow the enemy through vertical maneuvers, and finally exploit their full aerodynamic potential.

Officially, the device became known as the “R.A.E. restrictor.”

On the airfields, pilots simply called it “Miss Shilling’s orifice.”

It was not an elegant solution in the academic sense.

It was a performant, robust, immediately operational solution.

Exactly what war demanded.

Without flying an aircraft or firing a single shot, Beatrice Shilling turned a critical disadvantage into a measurable tactical gain.

A striking example of what engineering can achieve when guided by technical mastery, sound calculation, and the courage to act quickly.

©️ Eric Fdl / Imperial War Museum / National Geographic
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[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Being able to actually see what’s happening in dark or low-light scenes used to matter. Shadows had shape, blacks had detail, and night photography still communicated space. Too often now, darkness just becomes information loss.

[David Hines @hradzka]

PIANO. *plays the softest, most heartbreaking melody you ever heard in your life*
TOM WAITS, leaning into microphone.

[Tom Kirby @shtommer]

Bus replacement service

[Denise 🇺🇸 @NoDMsPerfavore]

In 3 words or less! 😱

[John Fingleton @JohnFingleton1]

Britain needs nuclear power. Our nuclear projects are the most expensive in the world and among the slowest. Regulators and industry are paralysed by risk aversion. This can change. For Britain to prosper, it must.

Earlier this year, the Prime Minister appointed me to lead a Taskforce to set out a path to getting affordable, fast nuclear power Britain.

Our final report today sets out 47 recommendations, among them:

- Creating a one-stop shop for nuclear approvals, to end the regulatory merry-go-round that delays projects at the moment.
- Simplifying environmental rules to avoid extreme outcomes like Hinkley Point C spending £700m on systems to protect one salmon every ten years, while enhancing nuclear's impact on nature.
- Limiting the ability of spurious legal challenges to delay nuclear projects, which adds huge cost and delay throughout the supply chain.
- Approving fleets of reactors, so that Britain’s nuclear industry can benefit from certainty and economies of scale.
- Directing regulators to factor in cost to their behaviour, and changing their culture to allow building cheaply, quickly and safely.
- Changing the culture of the nuclear industry to end gold-plating and focus on efficient, safe delivery.

If the government adopts our report in full, it will send a signal to investors that it is serious about pro-growth reform and taking on vested interests for the public good.

A thriving British nuclear industry producing abundant, affordable energy would be good for jobs, good for manufacturing, good for the climate, and good for the cost of living. And it could enable Britain to become an AI and technology superpower.

Britain can be a world leader in this new Industrial Revolution, but only if it has the energy to power it.

Our report is bold, but balanced. Our recommendations, taken together and properly implemented, will forge a clear path for stronger economic growth through improved productivity and innovation. This is a prize worth fighting for.

https://t.co/9wPTtkTDMU

[Tom Kirby @shtommer]

@1867News @kburton95 Also increasing the dividend to our other creditors… who they are legally bound to get the best possible deal for. They can’t just cherry pick their favourite from anyone who hits 25p in the £ surely