David Sink

Dad to 2 boys, Ex-Chairman of Weirside Rangers AFC, gout sufferer who enjoys a drink, loves all sport & Symi in Greece

[David Sink @weirside2000]

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[David Sink @weirside2000]

First breakfast in Symi and my view down the Pedi valley.b

[David Sink @weirside2000]

Couldn’t agree more
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[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Vinicius Junior refusing the mandatory halftime interview with FIFA at the World Cup:

“People are shocked that Vinícius walked away from a halftime interview. I am shocked that anyone thinks he should have stopped in the first place.

Halftime is not a television studio. Halftime is not a podcast. Halftime is not a red carpet. Halftime is the heartbeat of a football match.

For 45 minutes, players are warriors in a storm. They run, they fight, they suffer, they bleed. Then they get 15 precious minutes to recover, to breathe, to listen, to think. And FIFA wants to spend part of that time chasing soundbites? That is like pulling a Formula 1 driver out of his car during a pit stop and asking him how the race is going.

And FIFA’s idea is to shove a microphone in the player’s face and ask, ‘How do you feel?’

How do you think he feels? He’s exhausted.

This is modern football’s biggest disease. Everything is content. Everything is sponsorship. Everything is television. The match hasn’t even finished and they’re already trying to manufacture headlines.

They tell us they care about player welfare. Really? Then why are players playing more games than ever? Why are tournaments expanding? Why are injuries increasing? And now they want halftime interviews too? The hypocrisy is unbelievable.

Halftime is sacred. It belongs to the players and the coaches. That’s where games are won. That’s where tactics change. That’s where injuries get treated. That’s where leaders speak. It is not a media circus.

And don’t tell me this is for the fans. Fans want better football, not a tired player giving a robotic 20-second answer because somebody sold another broadcast package.

Vinícius understood that. He chose football over public relations.

The funniest part? They threaten him with a fine. A fine. As if that changes the principle. If I were there, I’d pay it too. Because some things are worth more than money.

If FIFA really had their way, they’d put microphones in the dressing room and call it innovation.

Football should come first. Not content. Not commercials. Not corporate greed.

For once, a player pushed back. And that’s exactly why so many people are angry.”

[David Sink @weirside2000]

@GaryLineker @GNev2 can one of you gentleman explain why you need a drinks break, when you’re playing in the largest air conditioned stadium in the world?🤷‍♂️

[David Sink @weirside2000]

@reece_dinsdale A guy this morning on the radio said he’s in a WhatsApp group and one of them is in the US. They were all watching a game when the water break happened. The guy in the states asked if it was sponsored by Gatorade over here like it was for him!!

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🚨 Jürgen Klopp has launched a scathing attack on the cooling breaks being used during this World Cup. 👊

"Football is being held hostage by executives sitting in air-conditioned offices.

These breaks are being presented as a shield for player welfare, a noble weapon against the heat. In reality, they are nothing more than a golden cage built for sponsors.

When I saw players standing around during cooling breaks while television timeouts dictated the rhythm of the match, I couldn't help but ask myself: who is the World Cup really serving?

The supporters? The players? Or the advertisers?

A World Cup match should flow like a river. Instead, we are building dams in the middle of it so commercials can be shown.

It's dangerous for the spirit of the game. Football used to be the main event, but it now risks becoming background music for an advertising show."

He didn't hold back. 👏👏

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

Man of the people, my arse… he’s having your pants down!

Wise up… or lose again. 🤷‍♂️

[David Sink @weirside2000]

@superpaddiepads If you can I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.

[David Sink @weirside2000]

@superpaddiepads It certainly was when I went. The new town of Oradour-sur-Glane is right next to the old one.

[David Sink @weirside2000]

@superpaddiepads Love France, a friend used to own a 17th century Chateau near Poitiers years ago. If you’re interested in second WW, there’s a village called Oradour sur Glane; it’s North West of Limoges. They’ve kept it exactly as it was at the end of the war. It’s an incredibly moving place.

[David Sink @weirside2000]

@superpaddiepads Nice, unfortunately I don’t have any Irish or Maltese! I’m doing something different in September, im going to drive down then drive back beginning of November. Very excited, I sometimes think I’m too old but you have to do these things when you can.

[David Sink @weirside2000]

@superpaddiepads Hopefully Brexshit won’t spoil your dream. I’m managing to see my girlfriend in the 90/180. She’s English so comes back with me sometimes.

[David Sink @weirside2000]

@superpaddiepads It’s my favourite place too. I seem to remember you’re a Crete fan or was it Cyprus? I love a small island called Symi, luckily I’m off there next week for a month.🇬🇷☀️😃

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

November 1971. Chiswick, West London.
Erin Pizzey is 32 years old. She is not a lawyer. Not a politician. Not a doctor.
She is a woman who talked Hounslow Council into lending her a cold, rundown building on Belmont Road — a former community hall — for almost nothing. Her original plan was modest. A warm room. A cup of tea. Somewhere for mothers with young children to simply get out of the house.
Then the door opened.
A woman stood in the entrance. She was covered, head to foot, in bruises. She was holding two small children. She was shaking.
She didn't want tea.
She needed somewhere to hide.
Erin let her in. She didn't turn her away. She didn't tell her to call the police.
Because Erin had already called the police. They told her the same thing they told every woman in Britain at the time: they could not enter a private home over a "domestic dispute." That was the law. The home was private. What happened inside it was a family matter.
When Erin contacted a female civil servant to report what she was seeing, the response was astonishing. The woman told her flatly: "There wasn't a problem of battered wives until you made one."
Erin put down the phone. Then she went back to her residents and made sure they were fed.
Within weeks, 40 mothers and children were sleeping in four tiny rooms. No funding. No staff. No legal authority.
She didn't stop.
By 1973, word had spread through quiet whisper networks — one woman telling another, "There is a place. Go to Chiswick. She won't turn you away." That same year, Erin hosted the first National Women's Aid Conference in the UK. Women from across Britain arrived, and they all recognized the same thing at once: what she had built needed to exist everywhere.
In 1974, the council set a maximum of 36 residents. At peak times, 150 women and children were living inside those walls — sleeping on floors, on chairs, in hallways. The building smelled of cooking, fear, and something else entirely: relief.
Erin was taken to court for overcrowding. She appealed all the way to the House of Lords.
She kept the doors open the entire time.
That same year, she wrote a book. Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear. It was the first published account of domestic violence in British history. It used real stories from real women inside the shelter. Overnight, a problem that had no official name was on front pages from London to New York.
The movement spread. Refuges opened across the UK. Then Australia. Then Canada. Then the United States. The pattern she created in four small rooms in West London — no blueprint, no permission, no funding — had been replicated in hundreds of shelters across the Western world.
MP Jack Ashley stood up in Parliament and said: "It was she who first identified the problem, who first recognised the seriousness of the situation and who first did something practical."
She was ranked 14th in a poll of the 100 women who shook the world. She was awarded the Italian Peace Prize. She received a CBE. The charity she founded — Chiswick Women's Aid, which became Refuge — grew into the largest domestic violence charity in the United Kingdom, with over 460 employees and an annual income of more than £33 million.
Erin Pizzey passed away on October 4, 2025, aged 86.
She never stopped.
It all began with one woman, one borrowed building, and an absolute refusal to say no.
Forty women and children showed up with nowhere to go.
She made room.

Share this if you believe one ordinary person, refusing to look away, can build a shelter that holds the whole world.

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[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[Scotland’s Story @80_mcswan]

If you want Baroness Michelle Mone removed from the House of Lords and to repay the £136,000,000 owed to taxpayers, please RT!

[David Sink @weirside2000]

Went for a walk in Bushy Park yesterday and came across these two magnificent creatures.

[David Sink @weirside2000]

@ambergambler_ Kali spera apolamvano

[David Sink @weirside2000]

@superpaddiepads @elliecpfc My mate was filmed on French TV outside the stadium!!🤣

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Reform MP Sarah Pochin has been caught out and has now deleted a video from her social media showing her helping Ethel McGill, once dubbed “Britain’s biggest benefits cheat”.

Ethel faked dementia and mobility problems, hid her father’s death for 12 years, and claimed around £750,000 in benefits.

She was receiving her father’s pension and other benefits after failing to report his death. She also falsely claimed disability allowance for more than a decade.

She even asked Liverpool Housing Trust for a bigger property, claiming her family needed to live together to provide round-the-clock care for her father, who was already dead.

She also got someone to pretend to be her late father and told social workers not to speak to him because he could become aggressive.

She was jailed for six years in 2019.