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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 · 02/10/2026
Maybe it's just very badly lit
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Finally Shed Seven winning the Most Surface Area Brit award they have long deserved
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you're colour-blind like me, this map looks like everything's fine
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Xmas elf
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Melvin Bard and friend (maybe agent) holding his Leeds United shirt, numbered 26.
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's 26 on the signing video
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It says €35m in the actual article, which whoever wrote the headline didn't bother to read, by the look of things (unless there was another undocumented bid).
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Not on a regular basis. Think he's already expressed that preference
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
(#lufc grr)
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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 · 26/08/2026
I wonder if these "agree personal terms" things are going on in case there is a last minute price drop in which case easier/quicker to pile in. The issue with him was always the OM price, not sure salary is the problem.
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Tbh same thing happened to me
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Raphinha if he's still up for it
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Good to know the government's on top of the disposable barbecue situation though
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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 · 09/08/2026
Struijk is technically last season, no? BTW Gemini is at least a generation behind the other frontier models, and prone to speaking utter crap.
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
He's saying he's a classier sort of crook
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Get him in and he'll learn
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Also former vice president, if he needed to make himself sound more attractive
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Donald Trump Jr has already proposed to it
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Also the hero's ultimate response to the back-tick (not in the book, obviously) of "the Sea Peoples are coming and Bronze Age civilisation is collapsing" being to take a much deserved vacation when effectively he's just got back from one
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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 · 20/07/2026
There ain't no such thing as a lunch (free)
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Quite amused that the Odyssey is one of the best ten books of 1996 as well
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Don't know about you, but much prefer Fitzgerald to all the others
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
As Samuel Butler would have said, ton eruoy on ho
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
As Samuel Butler would have said, ton eruoy on ho
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Probably Iraola also, as we'll continue to see. Ditto (he was Bielsa's captain at Bilbao).
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Genuinely no idea what this means
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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 · 30/05/2026
It's in the BBC article Sunderland penalty not awarded Arsenal penalty awarded (Dowman) Cole Palmer escaped 2nd yellow (Chelsea at Leeds) Gudmundsson awarded 2nd yellow
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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 · 23/05/2026
Think he's carrying an injury tbf
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Previously buzzing with drones.
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Leeds were effectively kept in L1 for an extra season for having a crap owner. As if having Bates as an owner wasn't punishment enough. Also look up Swindon Town 1990.
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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 · 12/05/2026
Rolling stone roses
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Yeah but so is everything
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Bowen is 29. Not sure they'd get £60m for him. You can see Transfermarkt values here - www.transfermarkt.com/west-ham-uni... .... if true they'd only make a profit on Summerville, Bowen and Diouf. Most of the recent buys will still have outstanding payments. Would still prefer they stayed up tho.
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West Ham United - Detailed squad 25/26
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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 · 06/05/2026
Surely he can piece it together from his whatsapp history
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
There's still that Man City points deduction to kick in 🙄
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Mark Watson @markwatson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I think every season he's had a slow start - in fact at the start of his 1st one he said sth like "yeah, I always have a slow start, was same at Norwich" - which strikes me as him taking 2-3 months to work out best side. Cost promotion in 1st season, nearly cost his job this. Hope not the case next.
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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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