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@Ed__Dawes I was devstated. Still haven't forgiven Harkes either

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@HLTCO Couldn't agree more. One of the best and most intelligent players I've seen at Derby. United should perhaps have looked to Will Hughes before some of their other signings, but I suspect he would have had the sense not to go

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@jslovechild Colin Bow Bell

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@cLawn22 Graham Richards, Trevor Christie penalty against Rotherham to get promotion in 86: "Cool as Custard"

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@Ed__Dawes That Barnsley game in 85. 2-0 down on 10 mins and it was so rammed outside half the Popside hadn't made it into the ground by then. 3-2 final score. Happy days!!

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@henrywinter All fine sportspeople, and Keely Hodgkinson would be a worthy winner. But why Luke Littler ahead of Luke Humphries, and why no Cav? Also, in my eyes, the best achievement of the year was Jasmin Paris, but I guess her sport is too niche.

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@dcfcofficial Outstanding 👏 👏

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@JohnBrewin_ Leicestershire appears to have been a hotbed of refereeing talent

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@AvantiWestCoast I'm on the 8.07am from Birmingham New Street to Edinburgh. This has been sat at Penrith for over 3 hours. Is it going on, being cancelled or other? If cancelled, can I return south on the same ticket?

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@neilhay3s @TomiCaws Great video, football and social history. I'm ashamed to say I'd not heard of Gresford, feels like I should have.

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@PaulEmbery It's all a bit weird and entitled - and shows a disappointing lack of judgement.

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@JimmyRamBelieve I begrudgingly messaged my nephew (Forest fan, his dad's fault) last night to congratulate them on the win. I was really surprised they never won there under Clough.

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@maxrushden We love Ebou. And it didn't matter. So all OK 👍

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@maxrushden @guardian_sport @bglendenning @jonawils @barneyronay Where does Ebou Adams miss for Derby rank on the Rosenthal scale?

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@SteveBloomerPod Worst I saw in person was John Harkes v Leicester in the play-off final, for it's significance and how disappointed I was. Objectively, Adams is worse, but as it didn't matter, I'm discounting it!

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@elisjames Comedy still ahead of podcasting. That also feels significant.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

My Election Day Monologue on @TimesRadio. In praise of British democracy.

It’s election day in the United Kingdom, a seminal event we too often take for granted. We also do it in a very British way. 

There will be no armed guards at the polling stations. No intimidating mobs. Just paper and pencil, trusted tellers and friendly canvassers. 

If the British people decide it’s time to change governments, that will happen quickly and without fuss. The military will not be mobilised. Barbed wire will not be arranged around public buildings. Defeated candidates will not be fleeing the country. Riot police will not be assembling on side streets. 

But a removal van — something we’ve all had to use at some stage in our lives — will turn up sometime Friday morning to help the incumbent move out. Another will bring the belongings of the new prime minister and family. 

A few words from the winner outside 10 Downing Street, a round of applause as he goes through the famous door — and the business of government continues as before. Even with a new broom there will be a sense of continuity. And calm. 

Nobody will contest the overall integrity of the result, whatever minor challenges there are at the margins. The loser will concede defeat and wish the winner well. The winner will try to be magnanimous. 

Nobody will be exiled. There will be no talk of being cheated, of a rigged election, or lawyers getting rich on endless court challenges. No mob will descend on the Palace of Westminster determined to overthrow the result. The pigeons will continue to peck away, undisturbed, on Parliament Square. 

However people voted the result will be accepted. Folks will just get on with their lives and wait to see what the next government has in store for them. 

Such a peaceful, uneventful, very British passage of power is to be treasured. It is perhaps THE distinguishing hallmark of democracy that power is passed in this way, without upheaval or protest, at the behest of the people. 

Democracy requires a winner to be gracious and a loser to accept that they’ve lost, without quibble. That is the British way. It is not now true of that great democracy across the Atlantic. 

It is also the case, if today heralds a change, that a centre right government will give way to a centre left one. Whatever the result the numbers in Parliament who might be deemed hard right or hard left will be de minimis. Pretty much irrelevant. 

There is something quite British about that too. It will not be the case when that great democracy across the Channel votes on Sunday, where the extremes on both sides of the political divide are likely to make up almost two thirds of the National Assembly. 

We broadcasters don’t do British party politics on election day. That can wait until you’ve voted and we know the result sometime after 10 o clock tonight. 

So we will spend the next hour looking at elections in France and America, two countries with their own strong democratic traditions. 

Also two countries, as we shall see, with democratic challenges we don’t face, whatever else may confront us. 

They are our allies — fellow democrats in a world threatened by autocrats — and we must wish them well in overcoming their problems, as we tackle ours. While taking some comfort and pride from the fact that there is something quite special about our own British democracy. 

So let us savour this important day.

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@GuillemBalague I definitely think there is an element of that. For the same reason I think we may play better against the "top" teams, because there is then less expectation and a loss is more acceptable - more likely to be seen as glorious failure!

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@AngelaRayner @Keir_Starmer @mattforde @RonJichardson Well, you've lost my vote watching the game with a Forest fan and a Leeds fan 😂

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@keithdunn Typical Southgate performance. Score early then sit back. Disappointing.