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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Former deputy mayor Richard Leese says in The Guardian today: ‘If I have a choice of believing the Premier League or Man City football club, I wouldn’t choose the Premier League.’ What a fascinatingly half-hearted way of putting it.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We all know what Number 10 is up to. Keep its increasingly neurotic opposition on high alert for a general election so we can all watch them foam at the mouth. Good tactic. Love it. But you’re not fooling everybody.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wonder how long it will take to dawn on the new People’s Republic of Piddington that they’re going to need people. Lots of people. Lots of outside people. I say let them have it their way. And then put the asylum centre just over the border.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Boohoo. I’m guessing they didn’t pay for this one.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think Boris might be being a little hard on himself here.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When newspapers print the results of polls and research, they should be required to print who funded the research. Always. I don’t like Reform UK. But if newspapers are prepared to print polls without asking who funded them, then the problem is the newspaper.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Andy Burnham should seize the moment. Say he wants to rejoin the European single market. Say he recognises that this goes against the Starmer mandate. So he is duty-bound to call a circuit-breaking general election. If the British people don’t want what he offers, then at least he knows he tried.

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Colin Spencer @colinspencermusic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ian hi, indeed; as it's Bruce's birthday, all being well, you don't mind me letting you know that as part of celebrating The Jam three gems featured during the second hour of my latest www.mixcloud.com/ColinSpencer... Hope you decide to listen through and enjoy it🙏 Be well, Colin

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet... What is happening with Keely? Her words are mysterious. Out of Zurich now. She says ‘get ready for the next one’ but then ‘see you next year’. That means, presumably, no Brussels Diamond League and no Ultimate World Championships. But no injury specified.

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Keely Hodgkinson withdraws from Zurich Diamond League as body "not quite ready"

Keely Hodgkinson withdraws from the women's 800 metres at Thursday's Diamond League meeting in Zurich because her "body is not quite ready".

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Maybe the camera didn’t show it. But on the back of an excellent performance from Lewis Hall, with one late error for the penalty, I think the manager should have gone straight to him at the end to show his support. Great performance overall from Newcastle, you have to say.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Do you know what? I couldn’t give a shiny sh*te about where Harry and Meghan are or what they’re doing. I really couldn’t. Please stop filling my newspaper with this drivel.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Crime figures are down, they say. That’ll be the Cost of Thieving Crisis.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Mastermind. Andy Burnham. Specialist subject: Everton FC. Keir Starmer. Specialist subject: Arsenal FC. Who knows most? I think you know what I’m saying.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Went to a conference for people with Imposter Syndrome yesterday. I’m not sure I should have been there.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Have no doubt. Hull City’s win over Manchester United … No luck involved. Richly deserved. If the away fans’ trains have been cancelled back from Hull, the least Man Utd can do is bus them home after having to watch their team play as poorly as that. Well done Hull.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Net Stupid Zero. Or Richard Stupid Tice? Difficult, isn’t it?

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

These athletics 4x800m records are surely beatable now by the current crop. Men: 7:02.43 — Kenya, set in Brussels on 25 August 2006. That averages 1:45.61 per runner. * Women: 7:50.17 — Soviet Union, set in Moscow on 5 August 1984. That averages 1:57.54 per runner.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Some heavy clues from Georgia Hunter Bell in particular suggest that we’re in for an 800 metres treat at the Zurich Diamond League on Thursday August 27. Perhaps Hunter Bell, Hodgkinson, Werro and Broeders Bol all attacking the world record in one paced race at a classic venue. Hope it happens.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The newspaper front pages feature athletics - as I wish they would more often. They focus on Amy Hunt’s brilliant four golds. But - remember - the one truly world class performance by a British athlete in these championships was Georgia Hunter Bell’s domination of the 1500 metres.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you allow a Commonwealth Games to be sold on the back of some top British names, many of whom pull out (apparently) the day before competition, don’t be surprised if the next event doesn’t sell very well.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Empty seats and 'tone deaf' £150 tickets - athletics has a big problem - The i Paper The athletes are not doing enough to sell their sport. Why, for instance, have our current glut of superb middle-distance women not made an attempt on the 4x800m world record? They need to compete more/say more.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

On the issue of why there are so many empty seats at the European Championships. It’s up to the athletes to fill the stadium.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yes, those ‘rouge businesses’ are a real nuisance. Always in the red.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I dunno. You spend all year telling foreigners to go home. And then you go on a little break to Majorca and there’s all these people telling foreigners to go home. And they mean you! But we’re English. We’re not foreign anywhere. Are we?

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Athletes from GST have now been paid - Johnson - BBC News Now, just maybe, people will get off a good guy’s back.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

What I would love to see now is a proposal for the men’s FIFA World Cup to be reduced to only eight teams. One from each continent. The previous winners. The hosts. And the team which contains the player who’s been voted the best in the world over the previous season.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I wonder if someone can tell me why this Cambridge University professor thing is important enough to be leading the news everywhere? Am I missing something?

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The FIFA president added, “We also agreed that FIFA will not tolerate any attacks on its integrity and will take all necessary measures to defend its reputation.” Joke.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’ve watched all of the Commonweath Games so far this week. The highlight: Megan Keith going to the front four laps out from the end of the 5000 metres for her brilliant bronze. Superb. We need more track athletes to show that kind of bravery.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Does anyone know if Andy Burnham - if he were to grant new North Sea drilling - could negotiate some kind of wealth tax on the relevant multinationals’ profits that would at least contribute to paying for new social care plans? If he could, then I could stomach those new licences.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It’s amazing what can be achieved with a cheap cliche like ‘football belongs to the fans’. Tell that to the season ticket holders who don’t have a clue what’s happening for minutes on end while VAR scratches its arse.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

That’s it then. Infantino backs down. And the World Cup belongs to the fans again. Job done. Really? Am I missing something here?

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’ve been a football fan all my life. I don’t think football belongs to me. Does any fan think that now?

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

All this righteous ‘football belongs to the fans’ stuff we’re hearing this week, like suddenly we’ve seen off a corporate monster. Really?

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Infantino was the wrong person to lead FIFA before the World Cup - but, nobody wanted to say it then. He was the wrong person when he gave Trump a peace prize. Wrong person when Trump waded into a red card dispute. Wrong person when a highly rated referee was denied entry to the US. Wrong.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s funny all this. There was easily enough to boycott FIFA over before a ball was even kicked in the World Cup. The cheerleading pundits will be piling in there now with their boycott agenda - but they made damn sure they got their US jolly out of the way first.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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Shell profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion, second-highest on record, as Iran war lifts prices

Shell's net profit more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by ‌higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle Eas...

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Uefa to hold emergency meeting over Fifa World Cup plans - BBC News Excellent. The World Cup needs Europe. It should take a very strong stance.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Eddie Howe set to leave Newcastle United, Matthias Jaissle poised to replace him - The Athletic I’m not sure I saw this coming. But perhaps the writing was on the wall with all that’s gone on last summer and this.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I love that Andy Burnham is not inviting Reform UK to cross party talks on ideas for social care. If all Burnham achieves before the next election is to marginalise that party, then job done. Then the serious work can begin.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Does the FA possess the courage to stand up to FIFA, to withdraw from it and to set up an alternative to the World Cup? I hope so. There was a time when we held our own home international tournament, which we figured was superior. Let’s go back to go forward.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Water leaking out of old pipes at a frightening rate for god knows how long. No new reservoirs built since privatisation. But, yes, let’s all take a shorter shower.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

No further action to be taken against Polanski over Farage guillotine post, police confirm - LBC Quite right. Reform UK trying everything to distract from their own meltdown.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How do you start a race at the Communist Games? On yer Marx …

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

World Cup. Water Industry. If it belongs to everyone, some chancer will try to flog it.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hey Chelsea. I’ve only just read you’re in for Granit Xhaka. No chance. Look elsewhere.

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Ian Dovaston @dazzle-camouflage.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Keep up the great work Shannon Jackson. Paint it all again, bigger and better!!

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