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The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it #NCFC

[AM @TheMarshallAlex]

It's coming home?

[Sudanalytics @sudanalytics_]

Estos paraguayos estaban mirando los penales en un bar y, justo cuando iba a patear el penal definitorio, SE APAGÓ TODO.

JAJAJA, ES EL VIDEO DEL AÑO. 😅🇵🇾

[Max Rushden 💛🖤 @maxrushden]

Can Stokes play right back?

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

Hydration break.

[RK☄️ @mygoatiswashed]

2am - Haiti vs Scotland

5am - Australia vs Turkey

6pm - Germany vs Curacao

9pm - Netherlands vs Japan

[England @England]

Come Together.

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

Brazilian beer Brahma have just dropped their World Cup advert featuring Ronaldo and it's NEXT LEVEL advertising. 🇧🇷👏🍻

Easily one of the best we'll see.

[Rob 🅼 @Im_RobM]

The most accurate footballing view this app has ever seen.

[Football Away Days @FBAwayDays]

This is absolutely unreal! 😆🤩

Imagine not liking sports… 🤯

[Clementamania @Holtamania]

Is Clement God? I think it’s a reasonable question

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Imagine booing this young genius of the oche… @LukeTheNuke180 is the most exciting player to hit world darts since the Crafty Cockney, and the best since The Power, and he’s still only 18! I was playing for the Royal Oak B Team in Newick when I was 18.. 🤣

[AM @TheMarshallAlex]

@Gary_Gowers It's a great point you make regarding January recruitment - who on Earth is going to want to join Norwich? Majority of Championship teams look like better propositions and even high flying L1 sides ATM!

[AM @TheMarshallAlex]

Glorious

[Eddie Burfi @EddieBurfi]

The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥

[BBC Sport Scotland @BBCSportScot]

MCTOMINAY!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

UNBELIEVABLE! 😲

#BBCFootball

[AM @TheMarshallAlex]

@Gary_Gowers Give it to Captain Canary, at least he'll have the fans on side

[AM @TheMarshallAlex]

@colotbc @Gary_Gowers It's not.....but did you actually read the article? If attendances are starting to drop and season ticket sales are going down, combined with worsening results on the pitch, we'll be less attractive for youth players to join us and so the downward spiral continues

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Believe it or not, I had an old school friend on today’s marches in London. He sent me some photos from the crowd.

We went to middle school together and grew up on the same Eastern District council estate in Northampton.

I asked him why he was there. He gave me two answers:
1.“The government doesn’t listen to us.”
2.“I want to feel proud of my country again.”

He wore a Union Jack, not a St George’s Cross as he said that one had been hijacked by racists.

He wasn’t there for Hopkins, Musk, or any of the professional ‘grifters’ as he put it. He was there to feel part of something bigger, though he admitted there were a lot of, in his words, “assholes” there.

He’s an electrician. He’s smart. He’s not racist, but he’s not “PC” either. He’s not a fan of Keir Starmer but he also believes Farage would be a disaster.

Oh yes, he’s a bundle of contradictions! But aren’t we all?

I don’t know what ‘box’ we put him or the millions like him in. And I think pretending they’re all racists or fascists would be a massive mistake.

Some were. But not all.

This is about something bigger than immigration slogans or GDP numbers. For decades we’ve hollowed out our national life, underfunding and undermining the very institutions that once brought us together.

Karl Polanyi, writing in The Great Transformation, argued that when markets are “disembodied” from society, when land, labour, and life itself are treated as commodities
society pushes back. He called this the “double movement”: people seeking to protect themselves, to reclaim dignity and meaning when everything solid seems to melt into air.

That’s what I saw in my friend’s photos. Not just anger, but a demand for belonging.

We’ve replaced collective experience with atomisation. Without getting too nostalgic, programmes like the BBC’s Generation Game once pulled in millions every Saturday night, giving us something we could all talk about on Monday morning. Now we watch Netflix, Disney+, Prime, or Paramount, alone, in algorithmic silos.

Football used to be affordable and rooted in community; now it’s millionaires playing for the profitability of billionaires. The NHS, the post office, the railways - all chipped away, run down, sold off or centralised, leaving people feeling powerless and disconnected.

And don’t get me wrong: some kind of “Hovis Labour” nostalgia for the 1950s isn’t the answer. The country back then was often intolerant, grey, and deeply unequal. But what we’ve built since is a society that gives people little to hold in common, no collective story about who we are or what we’re for.

I reckon that’s partly why my mate marched. Not because he wants to turn back the clock. But because he wants to feel pride again. Pride in a country that is inclusive, fair, and offers a role for everyone. Pride in a nation that has a respected place in the world, tackles grotesque inequality, and gives people something real to believe in.

Polanyi warned that when democracies fail to provide a humane alternative, the backlash can turn authoritarian. This is how fascism grew in the 1930s, not because everyone became a true believer, but because millions felt abandoned and looked for strength, identity, and meaning wherever they could find it.

If Labour and progressives don’t offer that story of renewal, if we don’t rebuild our national institutions, restore collective pride, and re-embed markets within society, the far right will do it for us, in their own image.

And by then, it will be too late.

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

The phenomenon of Saturday football in the 1960s.