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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 · 11h
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 I think there’s always been a sense of snobbishness towards Oasis. I think this has been fuelled at least in part by a faction of fans who are violent, piss-chucking, racist dickheads (see their treatment of Cornershop at the Finsbury Park gigs in 2002, for instance).
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yeah, I do get that. There is something in the “where were you when we/they were ‘shit’” argument. I remember going to the Oasis gigs at Wembley in 2009 and touts were flogging tickets for a tenner. A couple of years later, Beady Eye couldn’t even sell out the Birmingham Academy.
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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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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m not sure it’s classism in the sense that Oasis fans now are drawn as much from the middle-classes as they are the working-classes. The way Oasis transformed British indie in terms of its wider social appeal is probably analogous to the way the Premier League transformed English football.
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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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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Exactly. Of the MANY white academics that have discredited the profession with their plagiarism, shoddy data, misconduct and impropriety, not once has anyone gone, “think of all the decent white academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having X as a colleague/figurehead”.
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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 · 16/08/2026
This is excellent.
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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
It absolutely *is* about race. If Arday had been white, he would not have been subject to this level of media scrutiny or an investigation from a discredited racist academic. Even if Arday’s claims were “b/s”, it was the responsibility of Cambridge to ascertain the facts before his appointment.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Wishing for a kinder world”. And then you go and post something like this.
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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 · 14/08/2026
The ethics don’t sit right with me, it feels like there hasn’t been a meaningful dialogue with supporters and, announced at 5pm on a Friday evening, it just feels rushed.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
😂😂😂
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Hahah! Incredible isn’t it?!
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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
“Do Macca but make it look like he appeared on ‘Boys from the Blackstuff’”.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hahah! Indeed!
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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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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Burnham, yes. A good guy talking to the wrong people. But it’s a stretch to call Starmer “a decent bloke”.
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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
Can we see that little prick in tears, please? Please?
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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
Nah, Romesh Ranganathan’s cameo in Hey Duggee was infinitely better than that half-time show.
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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
Congratulations Will! Richly deserved!
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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
Exactly this. 🎯 Make them chase the game, keep the pressure on them.
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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It was like landing a punch on the school bully and then waiting for him to come back at you.
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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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David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Spot on. And UEFA exploiting Artan to clearly get one over on FIFA is almost as grim.
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