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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If we get relegated it might be too. Depends how they get on against Brig and Chorley and the 3 seasons after that

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Out of interest, and not at all partisan, does Cole Palmer have a Scottish grandparent?

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You got the point, second half in particular not a performance

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think there is a nervousness about "up and coming managers" Lowe and Westley were awful choices. Number 2's gave us Irvine and Simpson (by no means our least successful recent managers). Experienced gave us Phil Brown and Darren Ferguson - enough said.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not all of us living abroad use the ex-pat thing. Look at my bio. To me ex-pat was solely for government/military personnel working abroad. (Which I did) the ultimate disciplinary was to be repatriated.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Always have loved classical music. Always have loved access to classical music. Always have hated the English jingoistic nonsense that is the last night of the proms

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Why can't the media esp the BBC change "masked protesters" to "paid for ex con right wing terrorists"? Is the truth really that difficult?

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Different place, same thing. I too was delighted to capture this.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My confirmation letter says "until further notice" rather than being time found. Although I doubt I'll get it and return it in time.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

ITV Comms saying Norway beating Brazil is all down to the Premier League connections. I mean Guimarães missing a pen, Casemiro and Gabriel defending, and Alison Becker in goal. I kind of agree, but not in the way they are spinning it.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🦀 See a crab, post a crab 🦀

Red legged hermit crab with a parasitic anemone.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

According to ITV yes. The rest of the tournament is of no consequence.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Canada v Bosnia 3rd game of FIFA's showcase. Main strand barely two thirds full 5 minutes into the second half. Tell me again how much North America loves football.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Good to see that the @BBC , an organisation that only mentions Scotland when it needs to sneer, spent 16 minutes of a 30 minute apparently satirical programme making an apparently feminist comedian blame a woman for her husband being a criminal.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Looks like the EFL will be highly regarded among the "patriotic" "football fans". They've expelled more people this week than the Government. But why didn't Southampton feel the need to spy on us ( #pnefc )?

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Ok we're avoiding Euro vision (deliberately split to avoid algorithms) Watching and enjoying the new series of MasterChef. Anyone else playing the "has Anna Haugh worn that headband before" game.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Aston Villa #AVFC destroying the hopes that fans of every Championship team (apart from Coventry, Ipswich, Leicester, Oxford, Sheffield Wednesday, and one yet tbd) had. We were all looking forward to going to Spurs. #pnefc

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The pure joy of seeing time off in lieu spelt correctly! Nice picture too.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

And I imagine those in Palestine, where George is also Patron Saint, are a bit busy avoiding death to worry too much about it.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Nobody gave a shit about "Patron Saints" until Guinness' marketing job on St Patrick's day turning it into a piss up. Then the English Nationalists wanted their bit. Here in Portugal, where St George is also patron saint it has passed without notice. I suspect Georgia, Ethiopia and Catalonia too.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Good to see the @bbc news doing a bang up propaganda piece for Reform on the News at Ten tonight. 10 solid minutes on asylum fraud, nothing on tax fraud.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I'll ask a 49th, did the Guardian write this article solely for the US market? If it was written for the UK market it should possibly have mentioned that Scotland qualified. Messi mentioned 6 times, Scotland not at all.

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Messi, mascots, tickets and Trump: 48 questions for the 48-team World Cup

After Tuesday’s playoff matches decided the final six spots, the tournament field is set. We answered 48 questions as the countdown to 11 June begins

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It might go some way to convincing the British public that they no longer want a monarchy.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

And 4) a realisation that the season doesn't finish in the middle of January

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I hate to say it, but I don't think we are better than this. I can't see us beating Norwich on Saturday, in fact the only game I can see a positive result is QPR in early April.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Am I the only one starting to think that #FIFA , having inaugurated their "Peace prize" may have to cancel or relocate the #FIFAWorldCup in the same year?

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

And I look forward to a blenny staying still for long enough to get an in focus picture. As another connection I'm sorry PNE seem to have ruined Lewis Dobbin for you.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Oddly it was our first dive for a while down here today too. Loads of blennies, corvina, bass, bream, and scorpion fish on the wreck, but I prefer my little friends.

Godiva or banyulensis nudibranch. An orange, brown and white sea slug which has it's gills outside it's body.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The answer to Trump should always have been fuck off out of Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Fairford, Croughton, Menwith Hill, Fylingdales, and when you've finished off fucking out of there fuck all your NSA arsheholes out of Cheltenham, Bude, and anywhere else GCHQ is sharing with them

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Please don't be blaming me if it's shit! #pnefc

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Hopefully soon. I keep a coin in my pocket, not for the trolley at Lidl. Just in case everyone else is asking Charon if he takes card.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The only regime that works with Trump is Putin's. Plouton sounds similar enough, perhaps Hades would ally with Trump

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

There are compromises to be made whoever you vote for. Very rarely does an elector have the ease of agreeing with everything a party or candidate offers. I'm a Social Democrat who wasn't bullied into voting for Labour last time. I felt abandoned by the so called "Party of the Workers"

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Am I reading my feed correctly. Leave Starmer alone because Johnson was worse. What the actual? Labour can really just fuck off.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Any Brits been on Threads today? Just wondering if McSweeny's army of sycophants are still demanding that Social Democrats bow to his will and worship at Starmer's feet. Twat didn't realise that removing socialists from the Labour party didn't get rid of them, just stopped them voting Labour.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

1. The LEP is just click bait stories. 2. Odds change so betting companies can persuade you to give them your money. 3. Supporters can see what's happening. We don't need Reach, Opta or Bet365 to tell us

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Forgotten to put anything on recently 🦑diving on the Algarve is always good #MarineLife #DiveInPortugal 🇵🇹

A cuttlefish splaing its tentacles, pictured in front of a stone reef.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Anyone been back to Threads recently to see if the Blue Labour paid help are still calling Social Democrats' views unelectable?

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Boris Johnson was not British born. I'd argue he caused quite a few deaths. Can't wait for Hannan's opprobrium.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Andrew does still have a title. Clue: it’s pretty close to mine.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

My Algarvian cousin of yours isn't quite as vibrantly coloured, or apparently as aggressive

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The @theguardian.com have outdone themselves this week. Instead of the normal 1 sentence coverage of #pnefc Preston North End in their Championship round up, today nothing. Not a word. Truro of the National League got more coverage because they had to travel a long way.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

In Portugal we have a digital mobile key, its called "A chave móvel digital" (translates as "digital mobile key") allows access to immigration, healthcare, tax, customs, social security, driving licences, car registration and tax and testing. We have ID cards too, but they are physical not digital.

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Ian MacLeod @sam-macleod.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

"Uma caneca Sagres faz favor" You could use "cerveja" if you don't know they serve Sagres. The actual point I want to make is that the Portuguese government provides free language lessons for immigrants. Expats I don't know, perhaps they should start by calling themselves immigrants.

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