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In the modern game full backs have become increasingly valuable because they are so important in Both attach and defence. So I like Everton’s approach of ensuring maximum squad cost rule flexibility by building a squad entire devoid of them.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Catching up on today’s news. Sad that Kemi sacked Mel Stride and didn’t let him take a big step down in his own time.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I thought about engaging online with Cofnas’ empirical claims with arguments grounded in empirical evidence … but my (three quarters askenazi) shrewdness made me realise it would not be a productive exercise.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

He’s only been PM three weeks and he’s sliding into everyone’s DMs

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

1000 lb of Haaland is worth way more than this so no wonder they’ve tried to pass it off as him

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Reijnders to Saudi? Climate change is out of hand

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This reads like someone’s been bet they can’t get church forest school and farm into the same headline

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There’s a strange symmetry to one of the Merseyside clubs being bought by a distant echo of Littlewoods.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This Cambridge prof thing is the latest. any other candidates?

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just spent a happy 3 to 6 minutes thinking about all the online and media controversies which for perhaps just under a week were the defining issue of our age and represented all that had gone wrong in this country /the west/ Europe which I have totally ignored. And all the emotional energy saved.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Luke Tryl and Seb Payne be like

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Newsnight has just shown the Manchester (city) result and thought it was doing the full Manchester (Combined authority) result. The giveaway is Bev Craig got way over 50% of the vote and they did a second preference count. Total chaos. @luketryl.bsky.social asked to comment on just 92,000 votes

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

reminds me of a discussion with a naive group of young social democrats from sister parties around Europe 25 years ago. ‘Turnout in the European elections is low. We need to get people to pay attention: we should give the EU powers to set member state tax and benefits levels that would sort it!’

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Andy Burnham’s big speech on the Schleswig-Holstein question is going to be a banger

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

UEFA has announced they will boycott the World Cup. Italy has announced they’ll extend their boycott for another four years.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Boycotting world cups before it was cool

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

At 16 my mum with her English pen friend met a guy. He was an autograph collector. Bearing a weird resemblance to Paul McCartney (she did) and speaking passable English she used to pretend to be ‘Frankie’ McCartney his sister. This time it got out of control and he went away with her autograph.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Big Society, Champagne, Savings. Tory 2010 election slogan needs work.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Onegov, for the city streets Onegov for the hip-hop beats Onegov, oh, I do believe Onegov is all we need Louise Haigh to lead new ‘Office for the PM and Cabinet’ www.thetimes.com/article/708d...

thetimes.com

Louise Haigh to lead new ‘Office for the PM and Cabinet’

First secretary of state, who resigned from Starmer’s administration over fraud conviction, will lead body driving delivery of Andy Burnham’s agenda

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Bridget and Jonny Reynolds have only gone into no10 because they heard Peter Reid was there.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

‘They say I hate the party, and its traditions. I don't. I love this party. There's only one tradition I hated: ‘

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The Canadian and UK Prime Ministers both being Everton fans gives Tim Cahill a pivotal role in making CANZUK a reality

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Ok - place your bets for lines from the Downing Street intro speech. I’m saying he uses ‘Nil Satis Nisi Optimum’

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

‘54 Toni Turek Max Morlock (W. Germany) ‘78 Leopoldo Luque, Oscar Ortiz (Argentina) ‘82 Alessandro Altobelli (Italy) ‘98 Didier Deschamps, Zinedine Zidane (France) ‘06 Gennaro Gattuso, Marco Materazzi (Italy) Daniele De Rossi (Italy) ‘18 Paul Pogba (France) ‘26 Pedro Porro, Mikel Merino (Spain)

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The correct number is actually 12th. Folk have got **most** of the recent ones Gennaro Gattuso Paul Pogba Marco Matterazzi Zinedine Zidane (twice!)) Didier Deschamps But one recent (last 20 years) one missing. 2 in the 50. 2 in the 70s. 1 in the 80s.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Pedro Porro would be only the 11th of this very specific type of World Cup winner …what is it?

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Imagine if you managed to get a one goal lead against this Argentina side. You’d do anything not to lose it.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The Argentinians are sitting so deep I’m beginning to worry about their DNA

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Mikel merino going all ‘hey look remember in the 80s they wore ridiculous shorts like this’ and then letting them down when the camera cut to him. We all saw it.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

US Lefty academic Bluesky seems absolutely convinced that Shakira has some kind of genuine connection to the World Cup and loved the half time show.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

World Cup moments…. Carlos Alberto v Italy (1970) … hand of god…. Tardelli ‘82… Gazza’s tears..zidane head but… a teenage Pele winning in 58… all great. All memorable. But the World Cup will now forever been Wayne Rooney’s. ‘It was crap’

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wayne Rooney absolutely incredible. Absolutely incredible.

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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Them all going up to get Bronze medals and getting a big podium is quite funny

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