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Mark Watson

@markwatson.bsky.social
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Tech person, interested in software engineering. Not the comedian. Also #LUFC + Games + SciFi + Books + History + Politics. Something for everyone then! Opinions my own, not my employer's.

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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sky commentary team heaping praise on Arteta's tactical genius for bringing on subs who cost more than #lufc's entire team
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
would like to see longstaff and bahoya but will probably see aaronson and nmecha #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Aaronsson IMO wrong for this kind of game and Ampadu having an unusually poor half. Have to change at half time surely. As for Brentford, it's Leeds always saying the right players aren't available in window but another area where they are being outplayed here.
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
British railways (and that includes the infrastructure, the trains, the management and the vibe coded, half written crap that is Trainline) are a national embarassment
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Went to see the Odyssey yesterday - it's as brilliant and clever as everyone says. Not sure the "it's not about Helen, it's all about the trade routes" works (feels a bit Star Wars prequels) but in general it sticks pretty closely to the myth and the story
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
c'mon Thomas Christiansen All Panama Aren't We #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Directors' Box at West Ham #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If you want to understand the current state of the Labour Party, consider that of Streeting, Nandy and Burnham, only Streeting has ever had a job outside politics - just under a year at PWC. We're basically being run by the ents ctee of the NUS.
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I think Bulgaria just saved Eurovision
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I guess I'm marginally pro Citeh in this but I've got this manc next to me who keeps shouting "grr too easeh" every time Chelsea counter attack and his accent is so annoying i might switch sides #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Is it possible for them both to lose? #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I seem to remember Meslier being bundled into the net by 3 Spurs players and VAR not intervening to rescind their goal, last time we were in the EPL. So typical "big club decision" and feel more than a bit sorry for #whufc. But #lufc staying up!
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Villa look godawful. I'd be even more annoyed by this if I supported WHU. #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
If #lufc aren't safe then Palace aren't either. Despite their game in hand, they still have to play City and Arsenal.
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Georgie you beauty #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
the idea that Fulham are "pushing for Europe" having seen them several times this season shows how much of a mediocre mush the middle of the EPL is these days #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I recently resurrected my long-dead SF & Fantasy blog and have been posting sporadic criticism. Here's one for my #lufc friends. On the last Celtic kingdom in England, what was under Tolkien's feet in Leeds, and wizards who disappear to their true home in the west. Vamos Elfed Carajo!
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Vamos Elfed Carajo!
Vamos Elfed Carajo! Of Tolkien and Lothlórien and Leeds United There's a tradition, running from the medieval Kabbalah through Le Guin's Earthsea and beyond and between, that names hold power, an...
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Awful game, missed Gudmundsson. Not blaming Farke on this one, though Okafor looked not really up to it when he came on (Nmecha isn't a left winger either) and think we'd have been better off with Gnonto. Feels like a useful point tho #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
10 men against 12. Well done for holding on but I think we'd have won that if the ref hadn't been so terrible. Also, Canvot - what an embarrassment to the game he is. #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Refereeing was better in the Championship, which is saying something #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
God that was painful #lufc Hard on Birmingham, they were the better side. Well done Perri.
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Difficult to figure out which of the #lufc middle 5 is the most disappointing but I'm giving Longstaff extra disappointment points for wasting set pieces.
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Feels from the commentary like TNT is showing the West Ham game with the intention of syndicating it to WHUTV. Course it was a red. TBH feels like West Ham staying in cup and taking a straight red on a key player is a good result for us though #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I think we should bring on Gnonto for Darlow #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Arsenal have a far more expensive squad than us, having done well out of PL/UCL football (and up until 2018, Russian oligarch blood money) but it also feels like Farke misjudged tactics and personnel on this one #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Wonder what the XGA was on that one #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Well I'm increasingly glad we didn't get Slot 🙄 #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Thoughts? #lufc www.theguardian.com/football/202...
theguardian.com
Callum Wilson in talks to leave West Ham after five months as Nuno problems mount
The striker Callum Wilson is in talks to leave West Ham five months after joining on a one-year deal, with new forward recruits signed
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
My god I love Aaronson 😍😉 #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
In a Costa in Rosario, an old man peers over his glasses and smiles softly. "Bueno", he murmurs. #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Goal from a player who shouldn't still be on the pitch. Ref pausing to twirl his red and white scarf #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Fulham look terrible but Forest look truly godawful. Can't believe I've managed to sit through this #lufc
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so. This is very long overdue.
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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
A scene from the twilight zone episode MASKS with the family holding the masks they have been wearing that deformed their face (these family members are all a-holes so don’t feel bad for them)
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
On the positive side (deperately looking), I think this is a better set of 1st team players than those that made up the squad of self-regarding RB losers under Marsch/Gracia/Allardyce etc and a decent manager could still turn this around in the second half of the season #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Turns out Victor Orta was really good at spotting unbuyable players #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
His Holiness the Pope grabbing the opportunity to reenact a classic scene from Airplane (1980)
His Holiness the Pope wielding a baseball bay on a plane
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Someone give Marcelo a ring. I don't care how toxic he is, I just want him back. Nor, if he's in charge, do I care if we go down #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Farke has just got to go. His selections and subs are just brainless, much like Aaronson. Admittedly our buying strategy hasn't helped but ... #lufc
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Alex Proctor @alexproeu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Repost with an iconic fictional band (if you feel like it)
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a group of people in white dancing in front of a checkered wall
ALT: a group of people in white dancing in front of a checkered wall
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Haven't been in the FarkeOut camp & think he was dealt a terrible hand by the recruitment team, but that 15 mins waiting to bring on subs, because of his 70m rule, during which we lost control of the game, then bringing on Harrison to see him get repeatedly skinned, is why we need someone else #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
if that's a penalty what's the point of VAR #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Subs should have come 10, 15 mins ago. Poor management, home ref (that last goal from FK that wasn't an actual foul). As for Aaronson, bloody hell. #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Leeds currently being schooled in the difference an experienced recruitment team can make (over a number of years tbf) #lufc
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 25/10/2025
"You left Europe because you wanted less boats, you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment." Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union. Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Nmecha must look like Pele in training to keep getting games #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Checks notes: - Ramazani sent out on loan [ check ] - 3 wingers injured [ check ] - Attack muted [ check ] - But we have 4 goalkeepers [ check ] #lufc
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Come on Leeds ... um Wales #lufc
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