Dan Perry

Filmmaker & Playwright, worked for Endemol, MTV, ITV & more | Currently meandering into the Middle Ages… | Writer / Director For Hire ⌨️✍️

[Dan Perry @thedanperry]

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I’ve watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments... will be lost in time... like tears... in the rain.”

[Boro Memories @boro_memories]

#OTD in 1995: Loan signing Uwe Fuchs continued to make an impressive impact with a hat-trick against Bristol City. Back in the good old days when we could actually beat them and when commentators made no attempt to try to pronounce names in a non PC way

[Atlético de Madrid @Atleti]

¡Feliz cumpleaños, Juninho! 🥳

[Dan Perry @thedanperry]

Legen………… dary 🙌

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

Some guys have set up a Football Manager LAN lads weekend! 😂

Legendary 🍺👊

[Dan Perry @thedanperry]

@TheCinesthetic Succession

[Dan Perry @thedanperry]

@Passion4FM Parmoooooooo!!!! #utb

[Dan Perry @thedanperry]

@Joe_Citrone @nocontextfm1 🙋

[Captain Cooper @ The Orphans Scooter Club @OrphansSC]

Can we have another one please @Boro ( well as close as you can get ) ✊🏻🔴⚪️ #UTB

[Dan Perry @thedanperry]

“All are lunatics. But he who analyses his delusion is a philosopher.”

Ambrose Bierce

[Boro Memories @boro_memories]

#OTD in 2008: Boro hammered Manchester City 8-1 🔥🔴⚪️

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Marlon Brando’s final scene with Al Pacino in The Godfather is a living, breathing piece of Cinema history. An established Hollywood legend handing the torch to a future icon. On what would’ve been his 101st birthday, Brando’s impact is still felt.

[Second Tier podcast @secondtierpod]

The alphabet with Neil Warnock.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Christopher Nolan’s next film is an adaption of ‘THE ODYSSEY’

• Described as a mythic action epic that follows the tale of Odysseus & his 10-year journey home after the Trojan War

• Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon, Lupita Nyong’o and Robert Pattinson

[BBC Sport Tees @BBCTeesSport]

"Dreams come true" 🥹❤️

These fans travelled from Hong Kong to watch Middlesbrough 🇭🇰 https://t.co/qhC985v9m1

#Boro | #UTB | #BBCFootball

[Dan Perry @thedanperry]

@nocontextfm1 Linthorpe Academicals. I couldn’t get them out of the 11th tier… #nonleaguedatabase

[Boropolis @Boropolis]

The Gaffer.

#Boro | #UTB | #MUFC

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

I love how everyone’s so confused by the new UCL format tonight, whilst Football Manager players know exactly what’s going on

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Quick story about Sven-Goran Ericksson (RIP). Such a good man, open and easy to talk to. You needed humility being the first “foreign” England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 manager, but one night we realised just how humble (and witty) he was.

At a charity dinner after the World Cup in 2006, when he was no longer England manager, I was lucky enough to be on his table. Finding my moment, I asked “why did you include a 17 year old Theo Walcott in the World Cup squad when he hadn’t played a single game in the Premier league?”

I didn’t want to upset him because it was a controversial decision at the time - he took an injured Wayne Rooney and a struggling Michael Owen but left out a fit and well Jermaine Defoe. But he replied “no, it’s a good question. Many would like to know. I could not say then, but I can now…” and explained his thinking with a measured response:

“You know, the countries that do well at World Cups always have a ‘secret weapon’. A player unknown to the other teams, to bring on as a substitute to help win a game in the latter stages. This was Theo. And we agreed to use him only in a semi-final or the final.” He and his assistant Tord Grip had seen Walcott in a reserve game at Arsenal and said Theo had “lightening pace” and was “extremely skilful.” Theo was “the perfect unknown quantity to surprise teams and steal a goal and win a championship. That’s why we took him, not Jermaine” he concluded.

I then offered “but Sven, in the quarter final v Portugal we lost on penalties. After Rooney got sent off, surely that was the time to bring on Walcott - not Peter Crouch as you did - to use Theo’s pace and score an extra time winner when we were down to 10 men?”

He looked at me as if it was the first time anyone had ever suggested the idea. He looked ruefully at all of us on the table and said “well now that you say it, yes maybe I should have. In retrospect, this was a mistake.”

The table went silent. We all seemed to be contemplating what could have been, for England and for Theo Walcott. Sven broke the silence with “Omid. Tell us a joke.” I laughed coz it was a delightfully off beat way to deflect, and without thinking, I did. A really inappropriate joke that got absolutely nothing. With a wink and a smile Sven then said “you see, it’s not always easy to think of the right thing to do in the moment, as Mr. Djalili just showed us, and so well.” Cue big laugh.

We understood at that moment, sometimes even the best laid plans can go to cock. And that’s life. It was new information and no one judged him.

Personally I was just thrilled he knew my name.

#SvenGoranEriksson

[Dan Perry @thedanperry]

RIP Sven. Probably my favourite England moment, going nuts in Crooksy’s living room, huddled together, a load of us in a circle and erupting into overjoyed cheer when it went in. Amazing times from Sven and Beckham.

[Dan Perry @thedanperry]

RIP Sven. I vividly remember watching this down The Highland Lad (before it got turned into a Wetherspoons) in a proper spit and sawdust pub as a teenager. What a time.

[Prime Video Sport UK @primevideosport]

Sven-Göran Eriksson’s farewell message ❤️

Our thoughts are with Sven’s family and loved ones as they navigate this difficult time.

Thank you for everything, Sven.