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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In Ireland a "sham" is somebody from the town of Tuam in County Galway. Thoughts with them all at this difficult guilt-by-association time.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's What You Could Have Won: Sunderland, League Cup final 2014.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ah Dolly. RIP. A lady. One of the very best of us: unbelievably talented, brilliant, funny, friendly, and kind. "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap," is one of the great quotes. 😂 RIP Dolly 🥰🥰🥰

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There may well be - I think it all depends on Herr Jaissle, who may well be an inspired apppointment. I've noticed quite a few Mags predict relegation for NUFC as well.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It is a shock because I've never predicted it before.

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The Guardian's Football Weekly podcast @footballweekly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🚨 Premier League Preview: part one 🚨 Arsenal to go back to back? And which surprise team has Philippe tipped to be relegated? @maxrushden.bsky.social @barryglendenning.bsky.social @jonawils.bsky.social @philippeauclair.bsky.social Watch now 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=YgbKYh9KOHA&feature=youtu.be

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

He found an entirely new way to mess up, bless him!

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Serious A Question of Sport What Happened Next? vibes at the Euros in Birmingham tonight. This was less than two minutes after I'd tuned in for the first time. Has the rest of it been this good?

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

An easy mistake to make. At least I realised it would have been the old man's birthday today!

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

From a friend who is a psychotherapist: "He makes everything and everyone about him. He is so unbearably narcissistic that even his difficulties with achieving are reframed as his greatest successes. CBT gone mad." #IYKYK #ENU

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'd have Sunlun above the Mags and Everton a few places lower

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Of course. "I was just following orders"

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You are only allowed to complain about our predictions (next week) unless you post yours too. Know-all after-timers next May are not worth the paper they are not written on. Let's be having you!

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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

And what a gift to receive… Still one of the finest moments of sports TV. youtu.be/Prep4trYNj4?...

youtu.be

Eamonn Dunphy rant

YouTube video by Piaras Kelly

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I have been glued to every Tour since but i missed most of this year's, which seems to have been a bit shit. Alright, Tadej. Take it handy.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Well now. I was glued to every second of that Tour + went to homecoming. Up on bus from Birr. I would have been 13 - my first time in that there Big Dubbalin on my own. With sandwiches packed by Mamma G. Nothing wrong with it but Offaly bating Limerick was way better. I was on the beer in 1994 😂

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Happy birthday, Eamon Dunphy! 81 today - no longer a young wan! 🎉🎂🎂

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I get it - you misread the post. That's OK. 😂

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I don't know yet. That's the template.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

No, i always start with Fulham, Palace and Everton.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It's getting towards that time of year again 🙄

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Courtesy of a large slice of good fortune?

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The only difference in approach any of them mentioned was that Argentina committed more fouls. That's hardly the mother of all rebuttals.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

So you've acknowledged one similarity in approach. Any more? Time-wasting over set-pieces and goal kicks? Feigning injury? Tactical fouling? A complete lack of inclination to attack?

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's not a prerequisite but it is helpful. If you can't see some obvious similarities in the approach of the teams who lost the CL and WC finals, then maybe you are not in a position to criticise anyone else's take on what is unfolding on the pitch.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

As for the media "pile-on" - who in the media are we talking about here? Wrighty? Piers Morgan? The numerous Arsenal fans on assorted newspaper football desks? Assorted Arsenal-supporting sports TV and radio hosts? It's not like they're under-represented.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I have seen and heard plenty of people criticising Sunderland's style of football over the years, most of them Sunderland fans. And if the club spent a billion quid over five years to end up playing like Pulis-era Stoke, I would expect to hear plenty more criticism from the same people.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Name somebody who is paid to write or talk about football but is not a football fan.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

No, Ian replied to a message of mine, as he occasionally does. Then you felt compelled to stick your beak in, as is your right on this social media website, purporting to be a spokesman for "us", whoever that is.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I could not agree more. England fans and Arsenal fans - totally obsessed with what I think and i genuinely have no idea why. It is tremendous. Weirdos.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yup. Rent free. How much you paying to watch whatever *that* is and pretend you love it?

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I don't share your confidence but we get on OK. It's weird of you to drag an elderly woman into this. Is there something wrong with you?

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

No bad fouls from Argentina in that final. Just fouls. As for playing football in the "defensive style": Arsenal - two-minute corners, fouls, feigning injuries, 90-second throws. It was truly thrilling stuff but how could any of us mere mortals who watched it possibly be expected to understand? 😂

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I've given you a like. Hope that helps.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I haven't been unpleasant to anyone, Sammy Three-Likes. You're the one wildly flinging out insults because ... somebody has a different opinion to yours. You don't own football - stop dictating who gets to have a say on it. 🥰

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