simon 🌹

musician. mathematician. socialist. @islington_band

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

@OwsWills @cymraesydwi So's your weird pay-per-view healthcare model but that didn't stop you, did it? Or is it only ideas to the right of both parties that get a look in from you?

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

@BryanCrabtree17 @BBCNews What a charmer you are

[Nooruddean @BeardedGenius]

Stuff like this is as bad as the original comments. It leaves the door of acceptability ajar for the unacceptable. And it’s done for the same reasons as the original comments - for a sensationalist spike in circulation. All dressed in the thin veneer of polite ‘balanced’ debate

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

@jrc1921 R.I.P.

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

@GraceOnFootball Frankly I don't believe penalties should count towards the Golden Boot to begin with. They're not real goals and it basically restricts the award to "main penalty taker of the team who was lucky enough to be granted the most pens" - non-penalty takers don't stand a chance

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

What the fuck is this final, easily one of the craziest games of knockout football I've seen probably ever and it still isn't over yet

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

I'm a little behind but looks like the turf in front of right goal isn't so great? It's badly worn and looks like they've outright replaced a square of it. Understandable after a long tournament but for a WC final I'd expect better. Don't think this was an issue in previous WCs?

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

Hugo Lloris is getting a million fucking French knighthoods after this

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

By the end of today it could be that England was knocked out by the back-to-back world champions at a stage of the tournament that, before GS, they hadn't even reached since 2006, and not surpassed since 1990. Last year the first final since you-know-when, and we drew it!

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

Mocked this up the other night after the QF (major tournaments only):

Ok, GS beats weak teams and struggles against strong ones. But people forget the old record. Just one win in 2010 & 2014 WCs combined! And this was with a "golden generation"!

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Gareth Southgate to stay as manager of England football team after leading them to World Cup quarter-final, FA confirms https://t.co/SFOyqQQmYs

[Varia Bortsova 💙💛 @variainayurt]

Moscow swaps regular holiday decorations for festive Russian swastikas (Z) installed around the city this year. Never imagined that I would see this in my lifetime, but here we are, and it will remain part of our shameful history forever

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

@mybigcrack @lunch_enjoyer She turned me into a newt!

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

@freshhel

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

@PicturesUssr Would have loved to have seen what a modern USSR kit - in the age when football shirts are fashion statements - would look like. Could do a lot better than just СССР written across the front. The kits from around 1990-91 are getting there but there's clear unfulfilled potential.

[andy peacock @AndyPeacock999]

'TRADE UNIONS ARE RUINING CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS!'🤯

'Why do we have Christmas holidays?'

*quieter voice*
'Trade unions😔'

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

@ByYourLogic

[simon 🌹 @simon_breakaway]

@DailyTrix Elon's jet is in a crowded theatre? Somebody should do something about that

[Dave Ward @DaveWardGS]

Fucking right we are.