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David Webber 🇵🇸

@drdavewebber.bsky.social
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#6MusicDad to Daniel, Evie, and Reuben. A lifelong Red playing on the Left. Thinks a lot and writes a bit on the political economy of football.

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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 10h
This Lacanian analysis of modern football, nostalgia and longing by Jack Black of @lborouniversity.bsky.social is very, very good. The Game’s Gone: Why Football is Always Dying idrottsforum.org/feature-blac...
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The Game’s Gone: Why Football is Always Dying
In his feature article for idrottsforum.org, Dr Jack Black of Loughborough University walks fearlessly into the quagmire of retrotopian football discourse. “The game’s gone” has become one of football...
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Edvard Munch! Henrik Ibsen! Roald Amundsen! You boys took one hell of a beating!
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
But sure, let’s proscribe Palestine Action and detain Stop Oil protesters. I fear that Britain is rapidly approaching its von Hindenburg moment where, rather than slap down the far Right, the government will accept this criminality and cede more power to these vicious thugs.
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The End of Sport @endofsportpod.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
How the Premier League is Complicit in Genocide @neilsammonds.bsky.social of @waronwant.bsky.social joins to discuss how the world’s preeminent football league sportswashes Israel’s atrocities in Palestine. open.spotify.com/episode/04uD...
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Simon Hannah @simonhannah.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I wrote this about Jason Arday anticapitalistresistance.org/what-jason-a...
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What Jason Arday’s death says about our society
A tragic death as a man is hounded to suicide by a right wing campaign and the British press. What must we learn from it, asks Simon Hannah?
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Absolutely this. I met Jason a few years ago. He was a gentle, humble soul, and the last person to deserve the vicious treatment he has been subject to over the last few weeks.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Trial and execution by media. Fucking ghouls. Rest easy, Jason.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This. 👇🏻 The very fabric of football is being cut up and sold off to already extraordinarily wealthy individuals who care not one little bit for the sport itself, its institutions or social basis. True supporters of *our* game should be alarmed at this sale.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Something doesn’t add up here. Why are we only being told this now, when Infantino is clearly a busted flush? Why not earlier?
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I have to sit in meetings and listen to “how amazing AI is”, “it’s the future”, etc, etc. And then I come across this on my socials. Absolute garbage. Zoom in for a giggle.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A lot can happen in twenty years. If someone had said to me that Wrexham would be playing Liverpool in pre-season friendly at the Yankee Stadium in New York, I’d have laughed in their face.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
You sense, at least from UEFA’s perspective, that Infantino has gone full Colonel Kurtz here.
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Very Obviously He Has Gone Insane - Apocalypse Now
ALT: Very Obviously He Has Gone Insane - Apocalypse Now
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is the only World Cup replica that matters.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The absolute state of that sack of orange shite there.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Not to be that guy, but *this* is how you defend a 1-nil lead against Argentina, Tommy lad.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Enzo Fernandez is a racist and transphobic little rat. The prick had it coming.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This half-time show is so syrupy I feel I’m developing type II diabetes. 🤢
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 19/07/2026
Who enjoys this sort of thing at any sporting event? People who don’t like sport.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Would this be the same White House that is banning anyone from entering the United States who has posted anti-Trump messages on their social media?
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The Debate - France 24 @f24debate.france24.com · 16/07/2026
🏆⚽"I don't think there's been a tournament quite like this." @drdavewebber.bsky.social tells #F24Debate this "celebrity-driven" #FIFAWorldCup has "repackaged football as a luxury product", driving up ticket demand and prices ➡️https://go.france24.com/Ocdc
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Someone at Liverpool Football Club signed off on this. Still, at least everyone still fuming that Trent joined Madrid on a free can get their hands on a cut-price voodoo doll.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“Played so dirty”. Honestly, this anti-Argentinian narrative is as tiresome as it is xenophobic. Do better. You might not like *how* they play, but Argentina are set up to grind down and outpower their opponents, and have an indefatigable desire to win.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Tuchel shit the bed there.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Borderline criminal.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Could Tuchel give Matterface and Dixon a bollocking too?
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It’s all ‘Wonderwall’ now but you get the feeling we’re not far off ‘Stop Crying Your Heart Out’ territory.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
In Madrid mate.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
That surely must be Klopp in for Nagelsmann now.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
No wonder adidas binned them off. They don’t make ’em like they used to.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
And there you have it. Conclusive proof that ‘hydration breaks’ are just ad breaks.
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Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
FIFA not wanting to offend slave-owners is very much on brand.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Jeez, George. What’s the logic here? LGBTQ+ will turn readers gay or something? If that was the case, with the amount of football books I’ve read, I should be playing at the World Cup.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Great first day at the @psasport.bsky.social conference in Liverpool. A privilege to listen to a range of fantastic papers and (re)connect with some brilliant people. A few hours kip and onwards to day 2…
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
40 years since Mexico 86 kicked off at the Azteca. I’m not sure 5 year old me realised the significance of it all at the time, but my handwriting was at least better than it is now!
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
There is something politically and culturally perfect about a Basque manager, renowned for a high intensity style of football, taking over a club and arriving in a city so fiercely independent as Liverpool.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Me, at the end of the season.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Hoping for a Villa win tonight for the brilliant Villa-supporting lads in the Ivy Bush pub in Ladywood, who celebrated with us after we’d beaten AC Milan in Istanbul.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Populism and polycrisis barely sum up just how ruinous FIFA’s upcoming jamboree will be for the planet. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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‘Green card for the planet’? Fifa’s World Cup is on pace to be a climate catastrophe
The 2022 World Cup failed to deliver on its environmental promises. From air travel emissions to heat-related dangers, the 2026 edition will be even worse
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Y’know what, if UEFA turned around and went “lads, only two sides in the top half have failed to beat you this season, you don’t deserve Champions League football next season”, I don’t think anyone would protest.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It’s been quite some time since I’ve been *this* desperate for a season to finish. Apropos of nothing, this gem of a song was playing when the halftime whistle went. open.spotify.com/track/5ArEw2...
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This Can’t Go On
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🎯 This. Last week, Reubs found himself in A&E after a poorly executed forward 4½ somersault in the pike position off my bed. All bar one of the brilliant medical team that treated and bandaged him up were from overseas. The waiting area? Every single patient was white and from the local area.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
VARsenal. Amirite folks?!
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
As pleasing as it is to see Gordon Brown return to frontline politics (*buy my book!!* 😂) I’m not sure what he does to bolster Labour’s standing in the polls. Feels a bit like King Kenny returning to Liverpool in 2011.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Senior Labour figures describing the local elections as a “tough” campaign is akin to turning up to play PSG in velvet slippers and complaining of getting beat 8-0. Lads, you won a *massive* Parliamentary majority two years ago, with a clear mandate for change. And you’ve done f*ck all with it.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Fan power works. To everyone who moaned and said it wasn’t worth protesting about, this is a reminder that fans have the power to hold the owners of their clubs to account. There is strength in unity and collective action. @spiritofshankly.bsky.social www.liverpoolfc.com/news/lfc-pro...
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Sorry. Don’t mind me. I appear to have something in my eye. ❤️
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Happy Birthday big man. 💪🏻
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Some game of snooker that. Incredible final.
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