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Exiled Cymro, LUFC sufferer, beyond the mainstream music obsessive.

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much winning...
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A very decent performance from Cymru against a full strength Portugal - particularly 2nd half - considering the missing players and the only 5 of the starting 11 are regular starters for their clubs. Koumas was a standout and Da Silva was very good. Ben Davies rusty of course but a rock. #cymru
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.
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Stuart Grant @mcclumsy84.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I did some sums the other day. Daniel Farke has spent around £240m on new players since he arrived at Leeds in the summer of 2023. But we've also recouped about £205m in player sales over the same period. So a net spend of around £35m. And we're currently 5th in the PL. Not bad going. #lufc
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A nothing game - 2 teams cancelling each other out. Murhamovic outstanding - Amps excellent as usual and Tanaka and Okafor were good when they were on. But overall we were sloppy and lacked intensity. This is our next step, to find ways to win games like this. #lufc
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...
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Soldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilian
Bradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Owain Glyndŵr Day: Why 16 September Matters
Learn why Owain Glyndŵr Day falls on 16 September, how his revolt grew, what the Pennal Letter proposed, and why his legacy still matters.
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Up to 3rd. Super performance 👏🏻👏🏻The Saudi sportswashers couldn’t handle our physicality and intensity. Played some lovely football. Difficult to pick a MOTM but I’m going for Amps on his birthday. #lufc
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
nothing says “party of the ordinary workers” than taking a £36m donation from a crypto tycoon convicted in the US in 2022 for failings in an anti-money laundering programme before being pardoned by Donald Trump
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
‘Nigel, what first attracted you to a convicted money launderer’s £36 million?’
Mrs Merton
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What sort of society are we living in that RNLI volunteers are being told not to wear their insignia in public in case they are confronted by ignorant scumbags 🤷‍♂️
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Rodgers and Palmer are world class but that’s what £200m gets you. That said that’s the very definition of throwing away a game - stupid penalty to let Chelsea back in after a superb 2nd and complete dominance. Also Trafford stops at least 2 of those. Frustrating to say the least. #lufc
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m thinking likely 6 changes tonight with Bard and Zetterer getting debuts and likely Longstaff, Bijol, Wilson and Nmecha starting. #lufc
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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
fun little selfie with a bunch of masked nazis really symbolises everything there is to love about great britain 🇬🇧 paddington bear picky bits josef mengele
Times article headlined: “We were on a day out. Then masked migrant protesters got on our train”
Subhead:
Activists who brought Dover to a halt on Saturday refused to remove their balaclavas but were 'very polite', say fellow travellers
By George Odling
Monday September 07 2026, 8.40pm, The TimesSelfie of women on a train carriage with tinned alcoholic drinks and several masked men. Photo caption:  “The women posted a selfie surrounded by masked men, with the caption: "Safest train in the country right now"
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A point away from home in the prem is always a good result but really disappointing that we didn’t go in at least 2 up after being much the better team in the first half. Elvedi Motm - outstanding. Ao and Gabbi not far behind. #lufc
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As a very basic thing, we as citizens should not accept the presence of a private army of masked racist thugs on the streets of our towns... intimidating others and threatening to overthrow the state... There are some fairly obvious precedents for this stuff.
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s not going well for Kinnear at Everton - the job done by our recruitment team this summer and last is stelae in comparison and even more impressive considering their lack of experience 👊 #lufc www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Everton's transfer deadline day debacle leaves owners facing fan mutiny
Everton's transfer deadline day debacle over Folarin Balogun leaves owners The Friedkin facing fan mutiny, says chief football writer Phil McNulty.
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I like the quote from Andrews “We knew the storm was going to come” #lufc www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Calvert-Lewin cancels out Schade’s opener as Leeds salvage point against Brentford
Dominic Calvert-Lewin rescued a point for Leeds in a 1-1 draw at Elland Road after Kevin Schade’s clever finish had given Brentford a first-half lead
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Much better 2nd half - credit to Farke for changing it - all the subs made a difference and could well have won it but will definitely take a point after that woeful first half. Brentford will take points off a lot of teams this season #lufc
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
So Lampard believes he’s a mix of Mourinho and Ancelotti as a Manager 🤣 Absolute fraud. #lufc
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Comprehensive performance - 2 nil flattered them. DJ Motm - played really well.Super impressive debut from Elvedi - looks really calm. Great save from England’s #1 #lufc
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What are we thinking tonight? I tend to agree with Bryn and the @thesquareball.net boys - likely 7-8 changes. It would be good to if Cresswell and Lineou get some game time - not least to see if they are valid squad options for the season; particularly Lineou for LB cover. #lufc
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Sam Byram: Middlesbrough sign former Leeds United full-back
Middlesbrough add Sam Byram to their squad, the ninth summer signing they have made in the transfer window.
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Premier League News @plnews.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Leeds United's Anton Stach has now scored four direct free-kick goals in the Premier League since the start of last season. Only Dominik Szoboszlai has scored as many as this in that period (also 4). (Opta)
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Tight game - having a better keeper than they did meant a very welcome away 3 point season opener 👊manu losing away at Hull is just a very nice bonus 😅 Stach motm for his goal and all round performance. #lufc
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Harry looks lost playing wide right for the Wendies this evening. Doing an impressive amount of tracking back though #lufc
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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Farage and Jenrick’s latest attack on a minority - aiming at autistic and disabled people - is grotesque. A pair of rich & privileged men attacking some of society's poorest and most marginalised people to divert attention from financial sleaze My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...
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Farage and his sidekick Jenrick's latest attack on the most vulnerable is grotesque
Ian Birrell: They want to open a fresh front line in the culture wars
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There’s something deeply repellent about Reform’s vengeful and racist obsession to take money from the most vulnerable when they’re under multiple investigations for breaking rules, dodging tax and gorging on £millions for themselves. (And trashing our EU agreement is just so thick it hurts) iPaper
EU'would retaliate on welfare plan'
By Arj Singh
The EU could launch a trade war against the UK and would probably strip British expats of benefits in retaliation to Reform's plan to ban foreign nationals from nearly all welfare payments.
Nigel Farage was warned that Brussels was likely to react with fury to his party's plan to bar foreign nationals, including EU citizens with settled status, from claiming most benefits in Britain.
Under the terms of Brexit, the EU could also launch economic retaliation, for exampleby suspending parts of the trade deal between the two sides including putting up tariffs that would hit the economy. Anand Menon, the director of the think-tank UK in a Changing Europe told The i Paper: "The proposals would breach the terms of the withdrawal agreement and the EU will doubtless retaliate, whether that be by making life harder for Britons in the EU or by triggering retaliatory trade measures.
"Either way, it will impact severely on UK-EU relations."
Reform's Treasury spokesman, Robert Jenrick, insisted that the ban was necessary because
"forcing British workers to pay for the benefits of foreigners is not just economically illiterate but plain immoral".
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Reform voters aren't interested in the issues, they just want the people they hate to be miserable. Labour needs to stop trying to win their votes. They can't be reached.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Taking the piss out of all of us. Laughing in the face of democracy, decency and respect for our country. Utterly unfit for public office. A strutting, peach-trousered, profoundly arrogant disgrace of a human being. An insult to our country and everyone who ever fought for it.
Laughing Farage at his stupid speechless in front of his stupid fans where he couldn’t be told what an arse he’s been.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Reform’s electoral record at parliamentary by-elections: win by five votes when the previous Labour MP had literally decked one of his constituents. Lose. Lose. Lose. Lose. Lose. Beat a novelty candidate with no ground game while doing worse than the Tories in the same seat in 2019.
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In the Clacton by-election a comedy bin managed 27% of the vote - 1 in 4 of all votes cast. Farage has moved from Grifter to laughing stock🤣🤣
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tokenwelshman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @tokenwelshman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The absolute fucking state of this cunt. Truly the People's Millionaire.
A cunt in pink trousers
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
No surprise our attacking play went up a level when DCL came on 2nd half last night but it is clear that it is Okafor who carries the most threat for us which he showed last season. Challenge is to keep him fit. Absolute quality player. #lufc
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Brendy, DJ and Murhemovic looking good first half. Bogle his usual quality self. Bijol rusty. Trafford, not much to do but oozes class. #lufc
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Whatever happens in Clacton tomorrow Farage is going to end up looking absolutely ridiculous He wanted to prove himself to be the hero of the hour, taking on and taking down the mythical "establishment". Instead he's going to look like an absolute clown - surrounded by clowns at a clown convention
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Here’s a NYT image of the President of the United States fleeing Turkey *inside an airport catering cart* as he leaves members of his own staff and the entire White House traveling press pool to die in a warned-of Iranian military attack over Turkey Impeach this m*therfucker now
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wonder with West Ham pushing hard to get a deal done for Troy Parrott whether a move to AZ for Piroe - who won the Dutch cup last season and are in the Europa League - might become an option #lufc 🤷‍♂️
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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It just keeps on coming… Farage struck deal to return as leader long before Sunak called surprise 2024 vote, so his claim that he wasn’t involved in politics when he got his £5million “gift” is, of course, another grubby lie. The man is garbage. Grifting, lying, cheating garbage. (Sunday Times)
Farage struck deal to return as leader long before election
Reform chief had insisted he was not involved in politics until Sunak called surprise 2024 vote

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Nigel Farage struck a secret deal to return as Reform UK leader months before the general election.
Farage negotiated the pact with Richard Tice, then the leader, in March and April 2024. George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who had been secretly bankrolling Farage, supervised the discussions.
Under the terms of the deal, Reform agreed to repay or write off more than £1 million in outstand ing loans it had taken from Tice's company upon Farage becoming leader.
The deal was first presented by Farage and Cottrell to the party's treasurer in mid-May. Its existence undermines the Reform leader's claim that he had no intention until June 2024 of returning to politics. Farage has used this to defend his failure to declare
donations made to him in the year before he was elected as an MP, which triggered two parliamentary investigations.
Last night, Reform sources
acknowledged the existence of the deal but insisted it had been drafted for if, not when, Farage became leader. Asked why he would have signed such an agreement if he had no intention of returning as leader, they said it kept his options open. They said Farage had assumed he would focus his energies on campaigning for Donald Trump in that year's US presidential election.
Farage has claimed repeatedly that he did not need to declare a £5 million gift from the crypto--billionaire Christopher Harborne or in-kind benefits from Cottrell, as he was a media personality at the time. MPs must declare any benefit in any way connected to their
"political activities" received in the 12 months before their election.
He told the "anti-woke" Trigger-nometry podcast last month: "At that period of my life, from 2021 to the third of June 2024, I was a broadcaster… I was somebody that promoted financial market products, I was an influencer, I wasn't in politics."
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Among the very many dim takes around the Ceuta incident... the very, very dumbest must be the assumption in Reform circles that all those people were somehow trying to make it to Britain. How exceptionalist and indeed exceptionally stupid can you get?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Reform scores hat trick of losses in Manchester despite the hype, the polling and the noise around Farage. Over to you now, Clacton. Deal the killer blow and vote Count Binface in August. The country could do with the laugh. And without that grifting loser. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Bev Craig elected mayor of Greater Manchester in huge Labour victory over ReformMeanwhile, it is Reform's third disappointment in Greater Manchester this year, after failing to win in Gorton and Denton or Makerfield.
Nigel Farage's party were made early favourites by the bookmakers when this by-election was first mooted, having performed well in the local elections here, winning 24 of 25 seats available in Wigan in May.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Well, they're on their way back to Morocco actually, as they never had any way to reach mainland Spain, let alone the UK, but who needs facts when you're Bobby J the King of Bullshit.
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Plaid Cymru have delivered in a matter of months what Labour failed to do in five years. Every local authority in Wales is on track to provide 12.5 hours of free childcare for all 2 year olds by March 2027. A step closer to a universal childcare system.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
As though Farage has any worthwhile contribution to offer to the social care debate. Might as well ask my gerbil to answer the Schleswig Holstein question.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 28/07/2026
It’s made far worse than it needs to be because we allow the price of gas (set by global markets) to set the price of our own wind and sun. Until we ‘break the link’ we’ll continue to pay more than we need to, add to inaction and lending rates and levels of poverty.
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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Don’t get me wrong, Trafford would be a statement signing for #lufc but £35m plus is a huge amount for a young, unproven in the Prem (4 appearances), keeper. Plus City and Pep decided early on that Trafford would be their long-term keeper only to ditch him after 4 games for a more established one.
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