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Burnham needs to read Zaffar Kunial’s response to Harrison.

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Manchester City's most modern innovation is not its spending power but its creation of a networked, data-driven, globally integrated football organisation, which resembles a twenty-first-century platform business more than a traditional football club.

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You mean the Prem watched CFG’s business model grow into the most successful and progressive multi-club system for 9 years thinking ‘we must find a way of stopping then’? It’s all on Wiki, the way CFG profited from inter club transfers. The Prem is finished.

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I love that Seven Year Itch scene. 🤣

The richest are laughing. They got off the hook again.

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve never felt such a powerful sense of anti-Mancunian injustice since I headed to London in 1985 with nowhere to live. The Prem has treated ordinary people with contempt. ‘We are not here. We don’t exist. We’re only in your head’. #chiponshoulder #ptsd #gad

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Woodland for sale has found a home in Perverse 10. It’s a poem that sits where many of mine do — between misdefinition, rural surrealism, and a kind of mild ecological unease. substack.com/@perverse/no...

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PERVERSE 10A

“release the dogs...”

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lucy Beaumont lives in South Manchester hence the funny Bramhall-Cheadle Hulme borders voice.

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Delta & Kai danced to Baianá by Barbatuques. What a fucking song.

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is it important that the BBC saying Tommy was arrested at a “BP” petrol station?

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ed Sheeran trying to look like the good guy singing solo and weeping is not going to fool anyone.

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King of the Hill: Bobby's Soccer Fail

ALT: King of the Hill: Bobby's Soccer Fail

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The funny thing about the coming AI apocalypse is that it will do for the billion pound gaming industry because you can just experience it in real time for free 🤣

We all need to cycle everywhere forever like the Dutch do to save the fens and the veg.

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No spoilers pls, I’m on catch-up 🤣

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An anagram of Ed Sheeran is Heard Seen.

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“Belonging isn’t about fitting in. It’s about standing out—on your own terms.” Bonnie Greer

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There is a greater than 10% chance of AI "killing all humans", but they said that about umbrellas.

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

True. Global warming needs to up its game. Let’s rebrand it CC. Snappy and sexy. You heard it here first.

Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’ve not missed mowing the weeds 😟

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Doing family research, I discovered Kingston Cotton Mill in my home town Stockport in the north of England. It was a sweat shop, a terrible place with a history of exploitation. Dr Claire Hilton’s book had lots. I find it appalling how little Brits know about British history. Bring in David Olusoga

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Wow. Only 8 weeks till Christmas lights. 🎄 🎅

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

No wonder he’s overtaken Reform. 😔

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Georgia Mann played Love Is Like a Butterfly by @dollyparton.bsky.social A rare moment of non-classical music Radio 3. The last one I remember was Here Comes the Sun when George Harrison died.

Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

He pronounces Rusholme incorrectly, it’s Rushem. 🤣

Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This will be same newspaper ranting about climate change sewage spills and the extra funding needed to stop them.

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Remember if you ever get invited in amongst the privileged elite, you’re only there on probation, you’re never one of them. #JasonArday

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It’s pretty obvious the media turn away from the cause of the problem and just focus on the symptoms.

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Last night, I saw three Perseus comets and 12 satellites.

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Wiltshire now has the amber warning! The bin men had stopped under a tree and were eating packed lunches of Monster drinks and Maltesers.

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Phew. That partial eclipse was only partially miserable, thanks to the tiny bit of sun that stuck around. Pesky moon. Don’t block the sun out again in my lifetime.

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

School dances before disco were called “dance hall”. I can remember Northern Soul moves from then. It’s good to see the Bristol revival going strong.

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

British men dropping in to their deserted locals on Wednesday evening saying. ‘Well, it’s not a full eclipse like the time I was shark fishing in Australia’

Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Sirens here. Thinking of what to pack in case of evacuation 😳

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Ian D Smith @iandsmith77.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What a fucking film youtu.be/3H8yXanHW1I