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Dónal Curran

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Dad. Doctor (GP). Dónal. Dope. Dublin. G'wan Arsenal!

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Rohan Patel @gunnerohan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
TH14 🤝🏽 PV4! ❤️🤍 What a sight to behold! 🥲
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Suggest you google this guy" Manchester City Council responded to my 2013 Freedom of Information request for details of their deal with Manchester City by flagging my background to City's chief communications officer. Deeply inappropriate (and that's being generous).
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
just want to highlight the talking points here again, they're amazing again, this is Ronaldo's instagram essay, his recitation of the talking points he gave to his coach, shared with the intention of making Ronaldo look like the good guy it's incredible
The notes I had approved were as follows:

‘I think it is important, because it is the truth, to clarify a few things before talking about Denmark:

I myself, and no one else, proposed a plan to Cristiano for this season with the national team. It was a long and very good conversation.

I know how much he lives and breathes the national team and the stature he has in the world — and, even more importantly, the weight and positive influence he has had on the national team for 24 consecutive years.

Cristiano accepted the plan I proposed to him.

He never questioned my decisions. He was exemplary, loyal and professional.

The plan I laid out for him did not include the Norway match. However, I felt that he had managed to recover physically from the first match and told him that I might need to use him. Cristiano agreed.

I made a mistake by asking someone of the stature of Pelé or Maradona to warm up and then not putting him into the game. If it happened today, I would not do it.

To bring the matter to an end: I want Cristiano in the national team. In fact, I do not just want him a little; I want him very much. Fortunately, he also believes in me. He believed in me at Al Nassr and he does here as well.

As for not greeting the supporters: we have already spoken about it. Someone who has played more than 230 matches for the national team does not need lessons from me about loving Portugal. It was a moment of frustration that erases nothing. He is the player who signs the most autographs, takes the most selfies and gives the most affection to the supporters. Let us not invent problems where none exist. When we are unhappy, we react. That is all.’
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Rohan Patel @gunnerohan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
20 and bossing the hardest position on the pitch... oh, and he's ours! 😏🔴⚪️
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 06/10/2026
Aaaah that Ronaldo statement is insane, how can he be such a tit
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It makes me feel mental, we're subsiding predatory gambling companies that destroy lives, and doing so in a way that forces thousands of dogs to be killed and dumped every year
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every time I see a greyhound or a lurcher in Sweden, I try to ask the owner where they got it, and the answer is ALWAYS that it's a rescue dog from Ireland.
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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mikel Merino for Spain 🇪🇸 • Before 20/03/25 - 31 games (1412 mins) , 2 goals. 0.13 Gp90 •After 20/03/25 - 24 games (981 mins) - 13 goals. 1.19 Gp90 #Arsenal 🔴⚪
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Rohan Patel @gunnerohan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Big Zubz assisting Merino for an absolutely disgusting finish! A brace for the Gunner tonight. 😮‍💨
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Amy Lawrence @amylawrence.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Look at that team repping Arsenal at Robert Pires’s Jubilee match at Metz tonight. First two goal scorers? Henry and Vieira Come on Lord Bendtner
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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
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Kent Brockman: Welcome Insect Overlords
Alt: Kent Brockman: Welcome Insect Overlords
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Manchester City is run by, and in the interests of, the United Arab Emirates, a state whose appetite for conflict and violence is matched by its contempt for rules and norms." New op-ed for @josimarfootball.bsky.social by @ncgeehan.bsky.social of reboot.fifa and @fairsqprojects.bsky.social.
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Mob Rule - josimarfootball.com
Manchester City is run by, and in the interests of, the United Arab Emirates, a state whose appetite for conflict and violence is matched by its contempt for rules and norms. By Nick McGeehan, the dir...
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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
to use a simple workplace analogy, workers have a responsibility not to put themselves in danger and employers have a duty of care to safeguard employees. the risks involved with playing these games were eminently foreseeable and the failures have been utterly chronic
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Context

Re half-time incident - Ireland fitness coach
Damien Doyle has alleged he was spat at by an
Israeli player.
Gavin Cooney
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mrs leaves for work before me and gets home first. I blocked the loo with a huge dump, but was late for my train so left it for her to find. Blamed it on postie asking to use the toilet. Thanks to my disgusted wife he's now known as "Postman Shat" to the neighbours. Sorry mate.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In DELIVERANCE (1972) Billy Redden played the banjo-pickin’ backwoods mountain boy. Only problem, he couldn’t play the banjo. So John Boorman had him fitted with a special shirt that allowed Mike Addis to slip his left hand through the sleeve and finger the fretboard.
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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
City commercial revenue by year: 15/16: 177m 16/17: 218m 17/18: 232.3m 18/19: 227m 19/20: 246m 20/21: 271.7m 21/22: 310m 22/23: 341.1m 23/24: 344.7m 24/25: 340.4m The press are currently reporting as if City's inflated commercial income stopped in 2018. Look at these numbers. A thread.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
* And no one, of course, believes that City's cheating was confined to the period under investigation.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
* Which players got robbed by Man City? * City won the title three times in the years 09/10-17/18. The three teams that came second contained 33 players, including Gerrard, Suárez, Zlatan, Rashford, Pogba and Mata, who never (or haven’t yet) won a Premier League winners medal. It's quite a list.
Man U finished second in 2011/12 but every single squad member who made 5 or more appearances had already won or would go on to win a Premier League title.

Liverpool – 2013/14
Steven Gerrard
Luis Suárez
Philippe Coutinho
Daniel Agger
Lucas Leiva
Martin Škrtel
Simon Mignolet
Joe Allen
Martin Kelly
Jon Flanagan
José Enrique
Mamadou Sakho
Luis Alberto
Iago Aspas
Aly Cissokho

Man U – 2017/18
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Marcus Rashford
Scott McTominay
Paul Pogba
Juan Mata
Romelu Lukaku
Daley Blind
Luke Shaw
Ander Herrera
Alexis Sánchez
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Marouane Fellaini
Marcos Rojo
Anthony Martial
Jesse Lingard
Victor Lindelöf
Eric Bailly
Matteo Darmian
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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@hansmollman   

So many true crime podcasts are just like “a young woman went missing, the police took a week to respond, she was last seen with a man the community call Creepy Murdery Steve, he has never been questioned”
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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gus Fring’s impact: 🍗 Built Los Pollos Hermanos into a success, creating jobs 🤝 Supported local law enforcement & community 📈 Generated millions 💵 🧹 Maintained some of the cleanest restaurant in America 🩺 Helped contributing Walter White's cancer treatment. Legacy bigger than a drug mafia.
Sheikh Mansour's impact on Britain and Manchester goes far beyond football:

Helped rescue Barclays during the financial crisis

Thousands of new homes in

Manchester

Major regeneration of East Manchester

Helped deliver the £365M Co-op Live

arena

New hotels and commercial developments

Thousands of jobs created

Bought City's first FA Cup trophy and

donated it to the National Football

Museum

Transformed #ManCity into a global football powerhouse

A legacy far bigger than football.Guess fring in breaking bad
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This was a two act play by the Russians. It’s both a tragedy and a comedy.
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Gespenst MK-VII @callgespenst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
tweet from @topherflorence

peanuts is a cool comic cause the babies are always unsupervised in a dirt field saying stuff like "suffering is the cantaloupe in the fruit salad of life" and then the dog does a skateboard trick
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Gunners Subreddit @rgunners.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Viktor Gyökeres Goal vs Bosnia & Herzegovina 0-1 Sweden redd.it/1ww3twb
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u/TurebergPirates on /r/gunners
Viktor Gyökeres Goal vs Bosnia & Herzegovina 0-1 Sweden
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.
A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion 
E extreme shivering or muscle pain 
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured
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Rob Kenton @robkenton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Since Abramovich arrived in 2003 & Abu Dhabi Inc in 2008 Chelsea & Man Cty have won 13 out of the 23 league titles. Their previous combined total was 3. Chelsea in 1955 Man Cty in 1937 & 1968. They had no history of league success in any era. English football was sold 23 years ago.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm half-British and half-Thai. A random right-winger verbally racially abused me in the street for no reason at all. That same man was in my A&E ward a couple of days later due to a cardiac arrest. I was the doctor who saved him. There's a moral in that story somewhere.
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 01/10/2026
Portugal just put up their highest xG in almost a year, wonder what changed
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The message from outside the Dáil today is crystal clear. The FAI must not give up its second chance to not cross the Palestinian picket line, it must not play Sunday's 'home' game against apartheid Israel. Join us at the Aviva Stadium tomorrow at 6.3pm. #StopTheGame
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Birds of a Feather 👇 👇 👇 👇
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 30/09/2026
Burnham "I would be really concerned to lose them. "They've been such a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester and obviously the building of Manchester City into the global force that it is." BY CHEATING AND PISSING ALL OVER EVERY OTHER CLUB IN THE COUNTRY
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 30/09/2026
"I do actually thank the City Football Group and the wider ownership for the money that they didn't just put into the Etihad [Stadium] and the campus around it but also into the city". It cost £112m to build. It cost £42m to convert into a football ground. City paid £20m. Taxpayers paid the rest.
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Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @tim-stillman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the revamped Arseblog app you get in game live updates for men’s and women’s teams 🙂
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tomorrow FAI CEO David Courell and members of the FAI Board are before the Oireachtas Sports Committee at midday. Join us at Leinster House from 11.30am. They must not cross the Palestinian picket line again. They must not play the second match against apartheid Israel. #StopTheGame
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reading the independent report into Man City's financial "arrangements" now, stopping after every paragraph, saying "Jesus"..."JESUS!"..."Holy fuck!" and again. This is beyond anything anyone imagined. Also started to wonder whether criminal proceedings are in the picture now.
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YankeeGunner @arsenalvisionpodcast.com · 29/09/2026
🚨New for Patrons🚨 The Premier League Unloads on Manchester City @philcosta.bsky.social @clivepafc.bsky.social Covering every angle of the PL statement and released findings www.patreon.com/arsenalvisio...
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The Premier League Unloads on Manchester City | ArsenalVision Podcast
The Premier League Unloads on Manchester City by ArsenalVision Podcast on Patreon. Join ArsenalVision Podcast's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Daily Cannon @dailycannon.com · 29/09/2026
'Pep has spent his entire career standing next to scandal'
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Daniel Storey @danielstorey85.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Concerted, deliberate, calculated cheating is the conclusion. A Premier League heist. So throw the book at them and run the owners out of town. And Manchester City supporters should want to lead that movement. Column (free to read) inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Throw the book at Man City - and force the owners out
The verdict leaves City facing questions that money and bluster can no longer drown out
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1.76 Acres @onepointsevensixacr.es · 29/09/2026
The PL may have many flaws as an entity. Lack of courage isn’t on the list, now. The league just self-immolated, torching almost two decades of its own history. The statement the PL released today is one of the braver things I’ve ever seen from a major sports league.
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Si Lloyd @smnllyd5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good thing City’s owners probably stopped all this in 2018, mind 👀
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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 29/09/2026
Funny they're still surprised. Surprised in 2023. Surprised last Friday when they gave an on-the-record quote to Ornstein. Surprised today when the verdict they knew about in July was announced.
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Orbinho @orbinho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
However, we concluded a) That evidence given by a number of important factual witnesses called to give evidence on behalf of the Club was false in a number of key respects, and b) That certain of those factual witnesses had given evidence ... that they knew to be untrue and so had been dishonest.
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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“SHAM”
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Shame Walk: Game of Thrones
ALT: Shame Walk: Game of Thrones
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 29/09/2026
www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727... This is incredible. £900m. Almost a billion that we know about, between 2010 and 2018 (if it stopped right there). The scale of it is enormous.
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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
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Hayters TV @hayterstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"They [Man City] bought all my players!" 🙃 "If there’s no respect for the rules then it’s not real sport!" 😤 Back to this classic Arsene Wenger interview on FFP 🧠
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million." That is an absolutely massive sporting fraud. www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...
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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
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now.arsenal @nowarsenal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don’t forget it.
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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We don't use a lot of graphic design as we're a coffee roaster and we're pretty bad at marketing/Instagram etc. When we do need something designed, we use a person and not an AI. They're skilled. It's their job and I don't want to be part of the reason someone loses income. We all need to pay bills
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