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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 16h

Self indulgent fans messaging England women's rugby players to say they are disappointed because they couldn't get a selfie - the world has gone mad. Many of these women are out on the pitch chatting to supporters long after the game is over.

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Marvellous news: Tom Curry signs a new Sale Sharks contract. I had the wrong idea that he may decide to follow the Euro to France following the World Cup.

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Meant to be working but have spent the last hour going down a rabbit hole on Modern Monetary Theory.

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Is this the two tier policing Tice, Farage, etc talk about?

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When Burnham speaks he doesn't go in hard on the other party leaders. He simply says we got it wrong and we need to do something about it. Whatever your view on the various parties, it's a good thing. We should probably all try to do the same.

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Weird weather. It's suddenly gone warm.

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Initially made me laugh but it's outrageous that someone takes the top job of Director of Rugby and won't do media duties. It isn't as if Rugby Union doesn't need the coverage. He must now post weekly wine reviews!

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All together now...was Burnham channelling scouse band the Farm?

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What a brilliant speech from Burnham. Electoral reform, support for care workers, scrapping VAT on electricity, council house building, and more. He is proving to be someone who I can get fully behind unlike any recent Labour leaders.

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Out now in October's Cheshire Life magazine. My piece on Michelle Orange and interviews with a group of Sale Sharks women players including Red Roses World Cup winning captain Zoe Stratford. Match days at Heywood Rd are 'joyous'.

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I'm watching the N Ireland game. A question: Do any Catholics in the north of Ireland support them or is it a sectarian split?

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ridiculous caterpillar ruck. Why hasn't it been banned yet?

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Burnham is right on dementia as anyone apart from very rich families with mums and dads in care homes well knows #bbclaurak

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Barnstaple away - just a *short* trip today for the RU men of Lymm, Cheshire. Crazy mileage, the RFU needs to stop this.

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We wouldn't have football titles decided in the courts if we went back to the days when Man City were owned by a shop owner in Wilmslow selling records and things to play them on. Who loses? The fans.

Blimey, what has Henry Pillock done to his hair?

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Man City decision: Can Stoke now claim an FA Cup win? Up the Potters.

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Sunset now just before 7pm. Looking over the Greenway towards Goldenhill.

Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sale Sharks going strong for their opener tomorrow. I wouldn't fancy running into a back row of tacklers with the power of Lawes, Curry (T), and Vermuelen.

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Two things today: Tories want to stop benefit claimants buying beer and fags. X full of right wingers protesting an idea that drinking beer may return in football stadia. I thought these people were against the nanny state telling us all what to do?

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Should Portugal still be playing Ronaldo?

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Could you have beer drinking and none beer drinking parts of a ground? Currently, you can buy the same seat at Ashton Gate for Bristol Bears and Bristol City, you'll be able to drink beer one week and be banned the next. Hardly any difference in average matchday crowds.

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

According to the Daily Mirror, Stoke City tried to buy Alan Ball for £110,000 just after England won the World Cup. That would be around £2,659,965 in 2026. What a remarkable signing it would have been. We got the bad manager version many years later.

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sorry, I am washing my hair (singular) 😀

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nice to hear a bit of nostalgia on @bbc5live.bsky.social on Saturday sports finals. As a young reporter working in a town with a strong (at the time) RU club, I did 9 pars for the Manchester Evening News Pink on Saturdays. 3 sentences after 20 minutes, 3 not long after half time & 3 at the end 1of2

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Has it really come to this?

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Henry Pollock now on £400,000 from club plus £150,000 from country. Add in any advertising stuff he does and we're probably around £700,000. Not bad for a 21-year-old.

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Go on Shaun, crack a smile! Legend Shaun Edwards joins the Red Roses on a short term contract. Hopefully, they might get him involved with the men next. Pic from England RU.

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Prince Charles and Charles Spencer. Two bald men arguing over a comb.

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Just found this crumpled newspaper page from 1995. The only time I wrote a Stoke City report. I was the newspaper's politics reporter but clambered off the subs bench as SCFC reporter Ian Bayley was sick & I was going to the match anyway. Obviously, Stoke lost.

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Sept 19, 1986. Who remembers this awful rail crash at Colwich, near Stafford? I was a Sentinel (Staffordshire) reporter, the first to get to the crash site. There were scores of people lying on the grass waiting for treatment. It was a miracle only one person died.

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The new Echo & the Bunnymen CD has arrived.. . and I have suddenly realised the new car doesn't have a CD player!

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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Swap the headline round and say the people of the UK have lost confidence in Jim Ratcliffe. Why listen to a fella who supported Brexit and then took his money off to Monaco? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A grand day out and the lunch was decent

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Prices for next summer's Ashes Test at Edgbaston. Sponsored, I assume, by Dick Turpin. #highwayrobbery.

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pet hate, and it was coincidently mentioned on radio today, is people and especially anyone in journalism calling politicians Kemi, Andy, Jeremy, Boris, etc. Use their bloody surnames.

static.klipy.com

Stop Stop That

ALT: Stop Stop That

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Nigel Howle @howler123.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just ordered the new Bunnymen album, more out of nostalgia than anticipation. Will it appear regularly on my CD player?