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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 1h

"I'm here because I sniff out liars for a living" is a bold play for a host of the Today programme #CelebrityTraitors

They’ll probably hang onto her for a bit. Not as bad as expected (the bar was low) and there’s really no one else. Literally.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 5h

Sure it is. He’s got some big funders willing Brexit to happen who can’t wait to give him some more money.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 6h

Here’s hoping it continues to be a positive experience. Will take pressure off you as well.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 7h

I saw this. And now so have you.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 7h

I say this as a Newcastle fan but never ever again can a state ever be allowed to have involvement in owning a football club.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. Although although Chelsea did at least cooperate with the PL. But I bet the sanctions imposed hamper City for maybe a season or two but probably no more.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 9h

Remember all the outrage in the early 00s about the Taliban in Afghanistan, who they were and what they purported to stand for? The US Christian right is no different.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 9h

Still waiting to hear the outrage from the Free Speech Union

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 9h

They didn’t get the ESL (yet). So this is the next best thing.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 10h

Despite our Catholicism there’s definitely a provocateur spirit in our family. Apocryphal, but my granddad apparently sang “The Sash” at someone’s wedding. Apparently it didn’t go down too great.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 10h

My mum likes to remind me that during the 80s we wound up in Ballycastle during Lammas fair week and there was a small Orange parade. Despite our family being *very strongly* of a Catholic persuasion, apparently toddler me absolutely loved a flute and lambeg drum band. That’s bridging the divide.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 11h

The people who run America are basically the Taliban but posing as Christians.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 11h

Obviously the odd anomaly (Leicester winning the league, Arsenal getting smashed at Brighton) is nice because it keeps “legacy fans” engaged. But you wouldn’t want that all the time. Imagine a world where the “best players” lost out to a better team for silverware. Perish the thought.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 11h

Money is the bottom line. TV deals aren’t lucrative on the basis of a competitive league where anything can happen. The “customer” wants a league where a few teams can hoard world class players and be guaranteed their place in a footballing hegemony.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 11h

If City survive this with only a fairly moderate points deduction and a fine it’ll be a slap in the face to supporters of every other club. But I can see that happening. Too many vested interests. The PL brand is not about competitive sport. It’s all show. Just like wrestling.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 11h

As far as I know - you’ll know better than me - there have long been pockets of Catholicism in N’land (possibly explaining support for the 1715 rising). I think Rothbury has been an example?

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 11h

“Importance to the brand”. Fuck me indeed.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 11h

Built 1829, so contemporaneous to Emancipation I guess…

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 11h

I once went to mass in that Church! We had a school residential at WalkerWalls (just outside of Wooler) and they took us to that church. I also remember them driving us in a minibus up into the Harthope Valley. Suppose I would have been 9 or 10.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 12h

Was more impressed by the video than the interpretation of the badge.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 13h

Really good line up: looking forward to seeing where it goes.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 13h

It’s too “muscular”.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 14h

They don’t spoil another pair do they?

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 14h

It really isn’t mind-boggling.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 23h

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I’ll be astounded if City get anywhere near the harshest punishment. This isn’t just about Manchester or a football club cooking the books, it’s about state investment in UKPLC. Feels as if there’ll be huge pressure on the PL from the government.

bbc.co.uk

Andy Burnham 'really concerned' if Man City owners sell up after rule breaches

The prime minister compares the allegations against Man City to the plight of his own club Everton.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 23h

May want to sleep away from windows for a few nights.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He made deals but there’s no evidence that they were corrupt (yet).

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even if they do, they’ll never top Honest Bob and the Westferry printworks.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How long before there’s accusations of corrupt deals made by Andy Burnham with the Emiratis?

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is this the BBC having run one of their silly little vox pops in Hastings or something?

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She’s normally well-behaved if somewhat noisy in her carrier but last time we did this, she hadn’t been out that morning to do her constitutional so decided to do a dirty protest inside her carrier. I had to drive to the vet with the car windows down. Potent.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Poor thing. Poppy has the same ahead of her on Monday. Poppy does not know this yet.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I suppose the Free Speech Union will be all over this… won’t they? Is anyone there?

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can you imagine the fury from an organisation, set up by someone know in the HoL, to defend Free Speech? Me neither. Because this isn’t the sort of free speech they were set on defending.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All the time the American voters and media spent worrying about Joe Biden’s health and coherence. Because that was worthwhile wasn’t it?

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is it too much to hope that Carrick will still be there? If he is, we smash ‘em.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a good point. £3.6m or £15m for Alan Shearer seems like nothing now, but compare it to relative spending power of other clubs at the time. It was still doping.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How the f- is any of this normal? Labour can choose to undo this immediately. Deproscribe Palestine Action. It was a disastrous decision by the Starmer admin and Burnham can undo it.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe I’d have given you a different answer 5 yrs ago but I’m pleased that the extent to which NUFC have been able to go down the same route city did hasn’t really been open to us. We’ve now got (in theory at least) a direction of travel to get to be the club we all want us to be. Sustainably.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This deserves an honourary knighthood

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Den Perry talking to Brian Potter off Phoenix Nights.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

John Lennon shouting “Fucking hell” at 2:57 on “Hey Jude”. AI could never.

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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Probably not a heavy shirt for someone who always wears a gillet.

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