Hugh

Move along, nothing to see here.
Dad, Seanair & Grampa, GtGrampa.

[Hugh @shugcar]

@Follow_Follow_ Switch the tv off 😀

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:

“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.

The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.

This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”

The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.

And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?

Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.

The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Ah yes that famous “negotiation” where Japan unconditionally surrendered after two atom bombs and Hitler blew his brains out.

[NatRecordsScot @NatRecordsScot]

1424, Scotland – King James I proclaims a ban on “Fut-Ball”, hoping to encourage people to focus on archery instead. Let’s be grateful this and others which followed were not better enforced...

Good luck to the boys in Massachusetts on Sunday!

[Hugh @shugcar]

@PastGlasgow The Glaswegian!!

[Hugh @shugcar]

@EatandSleepGolf @cproc_ @NUCLRGOLF Animal welfare? 'Save the birdies' is on one banner

[Hugh @shugcar]

@almurray The curry sauce must have been dynamite!

[Hugh @shugcar]

@MiguelDelaney & Man City, Newcastle.

[Hugh @shugcar]

@scotlandscoeff1 Call up Melon.

[Hugh @shugcar]

@PastGlasgow Spent a large part of the 70s in the Ruby. It looked better back then.

[Broughton Spurtle @theSpurtle]

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[Hugh @shugcar]

@RangersFC The correct answer is Willie Henderson.

[Hugh @shugcar]

@scotlandscoeff1 Nah

[Hugh @shugcar]

@RealTimVine @England Basic arithmetic would be fine.

[SNBTS-Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service @givebloodscot]

If you are EH6/EH7 and looking for somewhere to give your gift, there are spaces still available on Thursday 21st May at Norton Park Conference Centre, Leith❤️

Book online at https://t.co/FjkS2aNYEK or call 0345 90 90 99

#Edinburgh #Giveblood #Leith #Blooddonor

[Hugh @shugcar]

@Happiest_Gurl @thepenGW @brianmoore666 Yes, at half time.

[Hugh @shugcar]

@Number10cat Should have used a right hook.

[Kirkintilloch Rob Roy FC @KirkyRobRoyFC]

90’ | FULL TIME

Finishing the season with a big three points on the road! 😄

#MonTheRoy #RobRoyAway

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[Hugh @shugcar]

@74frankfurt Thought he was taking the bins out :)