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Danny Friel

@df57.bsky.social
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Celtic, cycling, reading, European languages, walking, cooking, baking, faith and family. Enjoying retirement and everyday is still a school day. I live in Edinburgh.

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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
If it includes an option to buy, then so be it (though highly unlikely). If not, why should we develop other teams players while paying a fee for so doing? Not for me.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I haven’t read English, but comparing how a journalist talks about us v them, is that not legitimising our biggest issue? Rangers are not the benchmark. Unless & until we stop bracketing ourselves and set decent comparators, we will never progress. It’s up to us to make these comparisons irrelevant.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The book was brutal.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
“So Benji they tell me you’re a footballer. I am fascinated by criminology. If I hadn’t been a football I would have been a criminal lawyer. I’m all about evidence and from what I see you can’t run, you can’t shoot and you can’t tackle, so i find no proof. Now get out there and prove me wrong!”
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We had pace, power, and physique. We were deadly in front of goal and had the craft of Lubo. None of which he has access to now. It will be a tough shift for him to make much with what he has.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I love Martin, but he is now a phone box in an era of smartphones.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Nygren is a man down before we start. I just don’t see it.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The day that gave rise to “Seven past Niven”!
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
@maryeilmicdom.bsky.social were you watching C4 News there? Progress!
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Death is inevitable, war is not.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Of course they do, but managers will have a say in a situation like that.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
My thoughts too, but someone on the way out said they saw Rodgers and Valakari having a wee chat just before the whistle blew and they must have agreed it.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
🎵Birks Hill over the rainbow! 🎶 But no bluebirds.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We are going through Vera as well. Northumberland is just about outperforming Brenda Blethyn, and that takes some doing.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
No pressure then! I hope you enjoy it as much as I am. Have you watched Astrid: Murder in Paris (on Walter Presents - More 4)? My favourite thing on TV just now.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I have come late to @jonathancoe.bsky.social I read Bournville last month and now on The Rotters Club. Very enjoyable and some great social observation / commentary.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Haven’t read MMC, but I genuinely thought Richard Osman (who I have a high regard for), had a bet with his mate and said the could write a book and get a cliché onto every page.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I came to the Satsuma Complex with a sense of foreboding. So many books written by comedians and celebrities are a major let down - Thursday Murder Club an example. But I really enjoyed it.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I’m sitting here thinking Charlie Nic could still do a job!
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It’s a friendly. 🤷
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
So much more likeable without Neymar etc. Honest, strong and some game changing talent.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Just wish the Bhoys would introduce a horn section and ease back on the drum.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I didn’t think he was at or near his best today.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I didn’t think we played very well today, but getting nil flattered Hibs. They brought little to the game other than to stay in the match as long as possible. They were much more impressive when we beat them 3 0 back in the Autumn. Their set pieces and passes into the final third today were dire.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I saw a woman with an amazing bee hive walking down the other side of the street last week. When she got closer I realised he was carrying a guitar in a black case on his shoulders, with the neck rising above his head. 🤦‍♂️
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Tavernier moves to centre half. Who is going to tell him that we are playing Maeda through the middle! 😱
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Game was always corrupt, but sometimes someone comes along who is so clearly on a different level, it transcends the incompetence and corruption.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
He’s still ragin’ that he didn’t get an invite to join the Ferguson and his band.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
It will cost them more to keep him quiet. For that reason I would rather he stayed shtum!
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
And play on for 3 or 4 minutes every time the ball goes near the touch line because assistant refs are scared to put their flags up. Yesterday was bad enough with delayed flagging without adding to it. Simple answer is to is get back to VAR being used only in extremis.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The only person with anything approaching a true view was the linesman. He didn’t put his flag up, but a guy watching video from a camera at least 25m from the incident, on an angle, had the necessary proof positive to overturn his decision. It defies the laws of physics.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The Mirren Saints win by 2 touchdowns! 😉
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The ball doesn’t need to be touching the line. The part touching the ground can be over the line. The radius of the ball is 11cm, so the distance between the centre of the ball at that moment, to the line has to be more than 11cm for it to be conclusively out of play.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A tiny area indeed with perhaps the greatest team of the era, the Renton, sandwiched in between them!
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Must be billions of them, well at least a good few hundred thousand!
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I agree up to a point. The draw was favourable and we were largely injury and suspension free throughout the campaign. The lack of depth in the squad, of similar quality to our main players wasn’t exposed to the level it may have been. That said it has been a superb effort all round.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
If overthinking was an Olympic event, you’d be a shoe in for the gold.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Surely the purpose of the banners is to get publicity for the situation in Gaza? So why is further publicity a bad thing?
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Not going to have a go about the goal, but he forced so many passes in the first half and we lost possession time and again.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Was the right call. Kühn had run out of gas. Thought Yang played his part.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Looking to familiarise myself with Bayern players by watching highlights of their game v Croatia Zagreb perhaps wasn’t my best thought out pre-match buildup. 😱
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Nearly up there with Keevins reporting that Clement is on £50k per week! 😂
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Genius. 28 January, 1967 I was at a matinee performance of Fantastic Voyage in the La Scala in Helensburgh. I got the bus up the road to find out Berwick had beat their predecessors 1-0. Plus ça change!
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We had an old TV. On/off dial eventually broke. After a few goes at fixing it, we resorted to turning the metal rod that should have sat inside the dial with our fingers. Trouble was it gave a small shock. My siblings and I would come home from school and argue about whose turn it was to turn it on!
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Patrick looking a bit like Tavernier with Maeda on his tail at present.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The karma comedians.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Waiting for a while? The karma train has been chasing them down the line for about a dozen years now.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Yes, hence the over officiating, going both ways. The pen on the field goal was another example, but this just got serious! 2 interceptions and a pick. What is happening? 🦅🍀
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Feels like these guys are “over officiating”, still 10-0 is decent! 🦅
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Maybe time to move on there, but having said that, my clock stopped on the 6th Feb 1963 and Man Utd are only paying the final instalments this season.
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