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Rob Shirley

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Sheffield Wednesday addict. Former Twitter user seeking bluer skies.

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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Avoiding tax that pays for schools and hospitals to enrich himself. A true patriot 🇬🇧
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 17/10/2025
"Nigel Farage can call himself a populist all he likes. He's bastardising the word," Zack Polanski tells Lewis Goodall. "The real problem is a small elite group who own the media, who donate to political parties, who are trying to distract and divide" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
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Zack Polanski: 'As soon as we overtake the Tories, we're coming for Labour next' | The News Agents
Zack Polanski, leader of the Greens, tells Lewis Goodall why neither the right or left in UK politics knows how to deal with his party’s rise in public opinion since becoming leader, and why he…
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Giving the Police powers to decide if and how often people can protest? Really? Whatever your views are and whatever the issue is, this looks like another really dangerous and potentially sinister step to me. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests
The move is not a ban on protests but
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Nearly a year after Keir Starmer promised it, the Hillsborough Law is yet to be introduced. Families deserve honesty and accountability. Can you join me today and sign the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...
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Keir Starmer: Don't Break Your Promise, Introduce the Hillsborough Law NOW!
The new Hillsborough Law is aimed at improving transparency and accountability of public bodies in the aftermath of major disasters. Keir Starmer promised last year, the new law would be introduced be...
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em @civetta.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I feel like a proud parent tonight. Heaven knows how their actual parents feel. #swfc
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Phenomenal #swfc support yesterday and big thanks to the #lcfc fans for their solidarity. Every foxes fan we spoke to was top class. You'd like to think that any prospective owner watching the passion and love for the club would be impressed 🙏
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Leicester bound. Hoping for the best and expecting the worst, but the result we really want won't be happening on the pitch. #ChansiriOut #EnoughIsEnough #swfc
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Diane Messias @comedywriter.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Ban the Burqa say, er, people in face masks. 🤔
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Loyalty like this is not normal in modern football. Bannan is an exceptional footballer and an exceptional human being. Legend. #swfc
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
#SWFC www.gofundme.com/f/swfc-trust...
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Donate to SWFC Trust Campaign Funds., organized by SWFC TRUST
Support Our Fight – GoFundMe for SWFC Protest & Action Fund The Sheffield Wednesday Supporte… SWFC TRUST needs your support for SWFC Trust Campaign Funds.
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
No new #swfc news today? What a relief! Live pictures of @yeswecrann.bsky.social and Alex Miller right now 👇😂
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ALT: two men are sleeping on a couch with the words `` good night '' written on the screen .
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Really hope bridhes can be rebuilt and the Röhl situation can be resolved. A supremely talented manager who I would trust 100% to lead us into what will hopefully be a new era on and off the field. #swfc
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
@yeswecrann.bsky.social hi Joe, you'll probably have seen this but thought I'd flag in case not. No idea what tbe situation is at Newport, or if there's any similarities with our position, but an interesting outcome from the transfer window ban appeal. efl.com/news/2025/ju...
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EFL statement: Newport County
The Official home of the English Football League
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Not clear how closing the care worker visa can be compensated by recruiting domestic workforce. The predominant problem in care sector recruitment is low pay (due to poor funding) and difficult work, rather than training. NICs rise makes it harder to recruit U.K. workers.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The UK is facing a desperate shortage of care workers with an already completely overwhelmed social care sector struggling to meet the demand for services. This plan is the very definition of self harm inflicted to chase Reform voters
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 11/05/2025
We have a desperate shortage of care workers. This has a catastrophic effect on the NHS too. Labour’s decision to close the care worker visa scheme for overseas recruitment is appalling, kneejerk politics that - yet again - will penalise the most vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
theguardian.com
UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans
Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Another season over in the blink of an eye. As usual, great laughs and fun times with great friends is the constant, regardless of what's happening on and off the pitch. WAWAW 🦉 #swfc
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Now even the water companies themselves are admitting they can't be trusted and the Environment Agency that they can't do their job. We've been failed at every level for years and still, it seems, the companies laud it over us. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Water industry admits sewage monitoring damaging public trust
The industry says powers to self-monitor water quality should be handed back to the regulator.
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Still. Good news about the blue passports
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Chansiri's open letter and our confirmed championship status seemingly fired the starting gun on a summer of this. Sheard, Mammadov, Alonso have all come and gone (thank god) but I'm sure there are a lot more of their ilk out there. For fans, it's close your eyes and hope for the best 🙏 #swfc
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Miserable day, miserable performance, miserable place. #swfc
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 18/04/2025
Watching obscenely rich people and their friends blast off into (not quite) space for a jolly is bizarre when there’s so much to fix here on earth. This song by Gil Scot Heron song does a good job of summing it up…
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
36 years ago today, I was at Hillsborough, on the Kop, for the FA Cup semi-final. I was lucky, in so many ways - too far away to be involved in or see what was happening. But I still guilt that I presumed it was Liverpool fans fighting amongst themselves and anger that their misbehaviour ... (1/2)
Liverpool fans who escaped the crush in the Leppings Lane end of Hillsborough on the pitch
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Sheffield Wednesday FC Community Programme @swfccp.co.uk · 08/04/2025
We're delighted to welcome Luke Horton as one of our corporate supporters! 🌐 www.lukehortonart.co.uk Fans can enjoy 10% off on Luke's website using the code 'SWFC10' Find out more about our CSR opportunities here: www.swfccp.co.uk/support-us #SWFC #WAWAW
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... "We had an opportunity of breaking a club record that has lasted about 350 years" says Wilder. They were formed in 1889 😂 🐖 🐖 🐖 #swfc
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Chris Wilder: Sheffield United boss calls fan abuse 'a disgrace'
Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder calls the travelling fans who abused the players after Saturday's surprise 1-0 defeat at Oxford
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Refreshing social media apps and the @thestar.co.uk website today it is then. Similar to the transfer window deadline, except this is the cash transfer window deadline for @swfc.co.uk What a shambles our club has become #swfc
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Owlsonline.com @owlsonline.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
That game caps off a shite Wednesday week it had to be said…
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Blackburn and Stoke tickets sorted. Just Watford to go then. Has anyone else noticed the depressing symmetry in having Watford away as our last game of the season? Danny Röhl's first and almost certainly last game in charge will be at Vicarage Road 😳 #swfc
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 01/04/2025
💷 Millions of Brits are paying ever higher energy bills, while oil and gas companies gain billions from a crooked market mechanism. Money from the many to the very few.
theguardian.com
World’s largest oil companies have made $281bn profit since invasion of Ukraine
Global Witness says the five ‘super-majors’ are the ‘main winners of the war’ while many struggle to heat their homes
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Millions of Britons brace for across-the-board bill rises in ‘awful April’. Unchecked profiteering destroying lives. 16m people live in poverty. More will be added by benefit cuts. Wages taxed at higher rate than wealth. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
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Millions of Britons brace for across-the-board bill rises in ‘awful April’
Ministers urged to act as energy, water, car tax, TV licences and a string of other increases squeeze households
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Just in case it was in doubt, evidence again that we live in a very warped country 😳 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Amanda Spielman: Ofsted boss at time of Ruth Perry's death to get peerage
Her peerage is yet to be formally announced but a Conservative source says she will be a
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We have scored from a corner. Repeat. We have scored from a corner. This is not a drill. #swfc
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Patriotic Millionaires UK ‘Tax our Wealth’ campaign visits Bristol. 👏👏👏 @patmillsuk.bsky.social
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Patriotic Millionaires UK ‘Tax our Wealth’ campaign visits Bristol
Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The Special Relationship 🇺🇸🇬🇧
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 26/03/2025
Sir, you've just been accidentally added to Osama Bin Laden's stag weekend group chat.
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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Rebadging welfare payments given in support to those who are looking for work or are unable to work as ‘handouts’ is a page right out of the Tory playbook. While at the same time accepting free clothes and concert tickets. I keep having to check to make sure this is Labour.
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
LOL www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
MPs’ pay to rise to £94k in inflation-busting increase
The rise is an inflation-busting 2.8 per cent increase this year
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
UK govts failing to curb corporate tax abuses. People forced to pay more for a crumbling infrastructure, and losing hard-won social rights. The Criminal Finances Act 2017 gave govt powers to prosecute companies for tax evasion. There have been no prosecutions. Need people centred govts.
leftfootforward.org
UK governments are failing to curb corporate tax abuses and leaving people to pay the price
Governments remain obsessed with austerity and choose not to inconvenience the rich or curb tax abuses by corporations.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
If you cut foreign aid, you are hurting the vulnerable. If you cut or freeze PIP & other disability benefits, you are hurting the vulnerable. The recipients can’t push back, & have little power to resist. If you increase wealth taxes, you’re not going to hurt anyone. But the rich, push back
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Sheffield Wednesday @swfc.co.uk · 09/03/2025
Enjoy! 🎬🍿
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INSIDE MATCHDAY! PLYMOUTH V WEDNESDAY
YouTube video by officialswfc
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Brits disapprove of Donald Trump by *63%* to 22%. Yet this is the line being pushed by GB News... actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... GB News does not speak for Britain - pass it on...
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
In defence of the referee, he may have been put off by the Ednesdsy v Sunderland caption behind him 😆 Seriously though, what a shambles. He couldn't have had a better view. The same with the earlier incident of the Sunderland defender playing basketball in their penalty area 🤬 #swfc
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Why countries should not be able to own football clubs, part 45: They can have high-level governmental meetings about sport and rely on their contents being kept secret.
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🤣🤣🤣
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Just America & Israel voting with Russia, Iran, North Korea... ...against Ukraine.
Screenshot of UN vote on just & lasting peace in Ukraine
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Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In journalism it's important to reflect both sides,listen, understand nuance,be aware of your bias It’s also important to call out facts that aren’t true Trump suggested Ukraine started the war with Russia That is not true.Facts matter.If you want to end a war,you need to face up to how it started
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 19/02/2025
New billboard in Clacton, Farage’s constituency. He’s still the UK’s #1 grifter. No other MP takes more from second jobs while being employed to represent their constituents in Parliament
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Rob Shirley @robshirley.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Do as we say, not as we do 🤬
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dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @davemacleod.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation” George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt
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