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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can see that. I’m not sure there’s a great demand for drinking during a match. Might be different at different grounds. Have to say I’ve seen far more “moderation” at football since retiring. (No reflection on the press box!)

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Different scenario entirely. Cricket lasts six hours, often in sunshine. A quiet lager or two is pretty common. Nothing like the energy of a 90-minute football match - but, as I’ve said here, I don’t see a lot of drinking during a match, even at half time. Fans save it for the pub, usually.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I rarely drink during a match, or before it. I save it for after. Interestingly, most chat on my Spurs app group has been about fans throwing their beer in the air. I don’t get that. It might be a thing at some American golf tournaments but I can’t remember seeing at football in the UK.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Whwn it’s tough to feel sorry for millionaires … Sleepless nights, $1.4m owed: Aussie golfer’s LIV nightmare - The Australian

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I miss him in the football discourse.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social If the citizens of Piddington village think they’re in some modern version of Passport To Pimlico, they are not quite getting either irony or post-war existential angst.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I can agree with much of this, but not all. KP has never been an easy item. He is passionate, a good thing in a sea of, let’s face it, mediocrity. But he has a bit of “victim” about him: never wrong, always put upon. Cricket does not encourage the whinging rebel. So this rebel has much to prove.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ferguson was long ago a discredited hack for the right. No change,

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yep. Reminded me of Brearley doing similar in print for the Observer with nearly every England captain - and Smith of SA, as I recall.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Probably true. Do you think that might be because the education system is so dreadful most kids don’t know who won the Civil War?

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you don’t have a, “somewhat favourable view of socialism”, you don’t have any public health care, transport, pensions, garbage collection, clean streets, a police force your can trust, an army to defend you… and a president with at least half a brain. So, good luck, guys!

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I do not believe for a minute that 26 per cent of the population are so deluded they would vote for the corrupt and incompetent shower of Reform to be in charge of this country. Not in a month of Sundays are these gangsters fit to run a whelk stall.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Anyone who chooses to get in a driverless car has to be … mad.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

@paulhayward.bsky.social did you watch the burying of the priest’s curse in the GAA final! And probably the longest victory speech by the Mayo captain since Castro was in his pomp.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

What a win by Mayo! If you know the story, you know the story. And it’s some story

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Refusing to own the tactical blunders that the entire watching world could see will be his legacy when he eventually leaves post - and I can see every one of these players wishing him a hearty farewell.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

How Cole Palmer “missed the boat” is also a mystery. He would have brightened up the attack no end.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Despite the Tory media bending over backwards to laud her generally ordinary performances at PMQs, Badenoch will be one of Labour’s biggest assets if still the Leader of the Opposition at the next General Election. She is unelectable.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Are we seeing last nail and coffin here for Reform?

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Doesn’t look like it. Meanwhile, I’m getting back to the cricket.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Yep. Drama beating commonsense at the minute.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Every day is, “the here and now” in politics, as Harold Wilson almost said. It was sad to see Starmer step down but, as a realist, he knew the jig was up. No PM leaves on a high. Ever. He knew, too, Burnham was the man to see of Farage. And so it is proving. And that’s, “the here and now” of it.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

They also knew Reform were still the biggest electoral threat, after the May local elections. And, yes, Farage was digging his own grave, day after day. But, if you’re leading a fight on points, you can still go for the knockout.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Burnham was far and away the best candidate- as Starmer and everyone else with a functioning brain knew.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Gobbledygook. He won by a mile. Reform is dying on its feet.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

And of course he immediately takes a wicket! In retirement!

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

BREAKING: Stokes retiring from international cricket - announced while he’s still bowling! Weird.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Hard to disagree with any of this. He was like a boxer on the ropes for much of his premiership, when he should have been on the front foot. Not all his fault, but his judgment was found wanting too often. Gaza, winter fuel allowance and Mandelson did for him in the end.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I’m not a Starmer basher. Nor am I blind. Loving eyes can never see.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If you’re going to warp what I said, there is little room for dialogue. So I’ll leave you to your monologue.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Maybe take a look at the way Streeting lobbied to block Burnham - not in support of his prime minister but to clear a path for his own challenger. Starmer’s inability to galvanise cross-factional support with such a huge majority was his downfall.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

So you’re happy with the way he responded to the genocide in Gaza - falling in to line with Trump in support of Israel. That was not leadership, that was weakness. He has many strengths; decisiveness is not one of them.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“Bloody opinion polls” might well be an irritant, and not always right, but they should not be ignored. As for “how to deal with Israel”, you have to be joking. Israel is a rogue state, aided by arms from the UK and other purblind supporters. Starmer waited way too long to respond to IDF excesses.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Fine. Look at that history then. While the media have unfairly worked Starmer over for two years, he did not set out his stall with conviction, he failed to articulate his many achievements, he gave Israel a pass over the Gaza genocide and generally lacked political sharpness. Good man, wrong job.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Keep looking back and you’ll never see what’s in front of you.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Just get behind him. Starmer has. Fighting lost battles is futile. The future is brighter than it was.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Agree and disagree. Starmer has done a lot of good things and not received proper credit. But Burnham is the man to see off Farage and the shambles on the far right, as he showed in the impressive by-election win.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

But it will be Burnham who will land the killing blows.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

He has a v poor grip on the gubbins of government. Not fit to rule, but ok for headlines.

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Kevin Mitchell @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

And still not a single word on what it was all about. Beyond mysterious that the alleged attacker escapes any punishment ( no assault charges laid), while the supposedly innocent Atkinson and his unaware captain are suspended and vilified.

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