Reposted by Adam PowleyMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 16970761943
Reposted by Adam PowleyTom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 12hEveryone responsible for allowing the 2008 Man City takeover to happen - and every other foreign govt club takeover - bears huge responsibility for all this and owes us all an apology. 093
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Citeh's brief Lord Pannick is reportedly on £5k per hour. £5k. How many hours of his work do you think you'd do before you thought you had enough FO money and could retire? I reckon 10-hour days, five days a week for month should just about do it. 220
Reposted by Adam Powleyjules.foddy @julesfoddy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Bandcamp Friday again so time for another ep…back on the ‘brutalist’ tip again… katakana2024.bandcamp.com/album/brutal...katakana2024.bandcamp.comBrutalist Reconstructions vol05, by katakana5 track album 1125
Reposted by Adam PowleySteve KIW @stevekiw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And, once I’ve completed a six hour track race this morning (don’t ask!) I’ll be having a nap then heading to Alphabet, in Brighton, to play tunes alongside Balearic Mike and Damian Harris. Hit me up for friends and family list if you’re in town 221
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Braverman is mad. Not just useless, unqualified, deluded, and a liar, but demented. 6160
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yeah, and? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukMan City appeal: Club will argue sponsorship deals came from Abu Dhabi governmentManchester City's appeal against the Premier League's verdict hinges on the club's claim that its sponsorship deals came from the Abu Dhabi government. 330
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Burnham's comms have generally been sure-footed. This wasn't and needed fixing. 292
Reposted by Adam PowleyTom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The re-poshification of cricket continues … 101
Reposted by Adam PowleyOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We're repeatedly told that asylum seekers pose a threat to the good people of our country... Reading about the threatening and violent treatment of elderly and open minded locals in Crowborough I get the impression that the real threat comes from closer to home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... 51696335
Reposted by Adam PowleyRob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Huge blunder by UK bookmakers that have railed against the dangers of the black market, as it emerges that a company part-owned by Ladbrokes, Entain and Betfred boss Fred Done has a deal with Santeda, singled out as perhaps the biggest black market operator targeting UK customers.theguardian.comUK bookmakers that warned over illicit market had deal with offshore casinosContent provider part-owned by Ladbrokes, William Hill and Betfred owner signed deal with Santeda network, Casino Secrets leak reveals 2188
Reposted by Adam PowleyRob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yet Chelsea have successfully created a PR narrative that they fessed up, hence the paltry fine. Fact is, the FA appears to have believed that using hidden fees to land players like Eden Hazard, Willian, Nemanja Matic didn't confer a sporting advantage. Make of that what you will. 3216
Reposted by Adam PowleyRob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What's more, after we initially put our questions to Chelsea, they appear to have leaked some of our findings to another newspaper before we could publish, raising questions about whether they used the opportunity to "self report" some of what we were about to expose. 1133
Reposted by Adam PowleyRob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Getting a bit sick of the narrative that Chelsea FC received a lenient punishment because they self-reported. Many of the offshore payments exposed by the Guardian and media partners were not self-reported (possibly because the new owners didn't know, although we can't be sure of that).theguardian.comChelsea FC face new questions over how Roman Abramovich funded successLeaked files reveal secret payments that may have breached football’s strict ‘financial fair play’ rules 96020
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A much-merited shout out for the dogged journalists who pursued the Man City story, often under huge pressure and subject to disgraceful abuse. We see a lot of criticism of sports journalism, sometimes merited, but the likes of @sportingintel.bsky.social @tariqpanja.bsky.social, Rob Harris et al 1132
Reposted by Adam PowleyTariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Nasser al Khelaifi, the PSG president, top of clubs body, UEFA board member after Independent Panel find Man City guilty of years of cheating Premier League rules. “You're using cheating, but for them they didn't cheat.” 3233
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026'He's such a visionary, such a progressive, and so moral, too.' 270
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What was significant in Burnham’s speech was IMO not so much what he aims to deliver (pretty modest, really) but what he said has not worked. He challenged fundamentals beloved of the right that have dominated political orthodoxy for more than 40 years. 190
Reposted by Adam PowleyDanny Kelly @dannykelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If I was City I’d just sell the club to someone else who can then claim no wrongdoing. #Chelsea www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukMan City guilty charges: Which transfers and trophies happened during Premier League 'sham'?BBC Sport analyses Manchester City's dominance of English football during the period in which they were breaching financial rules. 5274
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Another day, another drip-drip of info making some over-excitable people look pretty stupid. 230
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This goes back to the formation of the PL and the preceding commercialisation of the game, led by the leading clubs though not instigated by them alone. All are tarnished by degrees. If you wed sport to ‘the market’ this is the consequence. 031
Reposted by Adam PowleyIan King @twoht.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They had 25% more coming through in slush funds in 2014-15 than they made in tv and prize money 154
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Burnham's speech was predictably moderate. Essentially a re-run of the post-war social contract and consensus, aiming to dull some of capitalism's sharpest edges. Not much different to Corbyn's, really. That it will be framed as socialism, raw in tooth and claw, says much about how we have declined 241
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This feels like a PM who remembers he’s got a huge parliamentary majority. 230
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Lots to pick apart. Lots to be sceptical about. But fuk me, it’s a bit different to Starmer’s gloom, Johnson’s lies, Truss’s lunacy, and Cameron’s ‘work harder, plebs’ arrogance. #burnham 0132
Reposted by Adam Powleypaulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yesterday we had Liam Halligan, the current director of the Centre for Policy Studies. Today we have Alys Denby, former deputy editor of CapX which is owned the Centre for Policy Studies. Small world... #politicslive bsky.app/profile/paul... 77031
Reposted by Adam PowleyPrashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Fair play to Arsenal skipper Martin Ødegaard's father, he refused an offer from a law firm to set up an offshore company in a tax haven to manage his son's image rights when Martin signed for Real Madrid, saying everyone should pay taxes. 🔴⚪ 11632104
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The rows over triple lock are a classic case of 'take tough decisions NO, NOT THOSE TOUGH DECISIONS!' but also classic divide-and-rule. UK pensions are way below that of comparable countries and the UK is a rich country. There's plenty of money to go round for everyone without the need to play one 482
Reposted by Adam PowleyRob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Javier Bardem? He often seems like a baddie when I've seen him in films. 2225
Reposted by Adam PowleySarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession. 631164454
Reposted by Adam PowleyForza Bahab @forzabahab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026THIS IS HOW YOU STOP THE BOATS. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN HOW YOU STOP THE BOATS. 2185
Reposted by Adam PowleySteve Emmo @steveemmo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So let me get this straight. You want me to invest my money in something that's "High risk" and I could lose all of it so that I can vote for a design of corner flag. You can fuck right off! How about win some football matches then I consider buying your overpriced Matchday Tickets 394
Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We should have waited to see how the Fairford story played out. We still should. But while chumps like Farage have made absolute clowns of themselves, too many in the media have as well. 'Wrong but not for long' is no excuse when you're just wrong and mistaking speculation for actual journalism. 1100
Reposted by Adam PowleyRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron. 103564200
Reposted by Adam PowleyTommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On hidden camera, pardon brokers Jack Burkman & Jacob Wohl told a 60 Minutes source $300,000 could help a felon get a presidential pardon. Three hundred grand. Wild. When a pardon has a price tag, justice is a luxury item & you can't afford it. #TrumpsCorruptCongress #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory 44697483
Reposted by Adam PowleyAlasdair Gold @alasdairgold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Absolute pleasure to speak to a true Spurs legend in Pat Jennings. Loved how honest he was about one thing that really annoys him about modern football, which happens at Tottenham. I know some people will agree. Amazing that he's 81 and still coaching. www.football.london/tottenham-ho...football.londonSpurs legend admits one thing about Roberto De Zerbi's team that 'drives me mad'The legendary Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper has been speaking about his modern counterpart currently between the sticks in north London 59415
