Jared Thompson

Wait what, they aren't? That's always a song playing away in my inner monolgue 🤯

"It was shocking for Mourinho to use Eusébio's name."

Listen to the full discussion on today's OTC 👉 lnk.to/OTCPod

I tend to use Flashscore

‘We are more successful than they wanted us to be’: Chloe Kelly on team squabbles, scoring that penalty and surviving sport’s gender wars Women’s football is booming – but the bigger it’s got, the messier it’s become for players. Through it all, the hot tip for Sports Personality of the Year has kept a cool head

Chloe Kelly: 'There’s definitely misogyny when women are successful. People don’t like women being successful. People don’t like women being in an environment where maybe you don’t think we should be. We are exactly where we should be, and we’re here to stay'

Nigel Farage won't apologise for his history of racism because "if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too,'" a Reform source tells the Times.

So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too

FT Leeds United 3-3 Liverpool

Absolutely magnificent. From 2-0 down. Elland Road roars. Substitutions changed it completely.

#lufc

Only just realised it's an 20:15 kick off tonight?

Going bold with a 2-2 prediction #lufc

This is what real journalism looks like. More of this, please.

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

The men who raised the flags Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

"Farage told us the flag-raisers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the system. A few months worth of local journalism later, that now looks like a shaky claim."

A great read from @manchestermill.bsky.social about the kinds of people who put up flags around the UK.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Stepping barefoot on Lego

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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This is how dictatorships behave

Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van

This is a well-written article. We need more like this in a national level. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

Outstanding.

Lions GM talks Za'Darius Smith, waiving rookie, Hutchinson extension talks and why team kept only 50 on initial roster Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes and assistant general manager Ray Agnew met with the media Thursday morning to discuss the recent establishment of the team’s initial "53-man" roster.

Lions GM Brad Holmes covered a lot of ground this morning. Here's a recap of his comments on Za'Darius Smith, waiving Hassanein, Hutchinson extension talks, keeping 50 instead of 53 players, trading Patrick and more: www.detroitfootball.net/p/lions-gm-t...

Then I saw his face, now I'm a believer I know, I know, I know. Honestly, I do!

Then I saw Presley Cassell's (and Keenan Palasia's) face, now I'm a believer

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Did he just realise he left the oven on?

Kelly's heroes

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Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners’ strike — The Guardian Move follows decades of campaigning over violent policing and collapsed prosecutions at South Yorkshire coking plant

Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners’ strike - The Guardian

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Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura

Hannah Hampton: From serious eye condition to England goalkeeper Hannah Hampton on overcoming a serious eye condition to rise to become England's number one goalkeeper at Euro 2025.

What a story, after being told she wouldn't be able to play football by doctors!

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Royton has recently made such headlines as “Man glassed inside bar” in December of last year, and “Ugly brawl erupts outside popular nightspot as woman ‘dragged down street screaming’” as recently as February.

It's also being hailed as Greater Manchester's new night life mecca🧵

Is this really the argument against a wealth tax?

Why do we tax money made with a pair of hands differently to money made with money

Gary Stevenson perfectly explains how Billionaires can afford to pay more.