Alan 'I heard 2 versions' Brazil showcases his Golden Shot credentials for a buoyant #Ipswich side, while Peter Shilton has a day to remember...or do we mean 'forget'? You decide. @scraggy74.bsky.social & @themagicofthecup.bsky.social tell us more #ITFC podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

England F.... can only mean England taking on Bulgaria. Likely lads @scraggy74.bsky.social & @themagicofthecup.bsky.social talk international football in today's instalment. What a load of Balkans. yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/para-110a-...

@stevehacketthq.bsky.social Interesting interview here: guitar.com/features/int...

50 years of decline stem from this obsession with 'British right'. All we have now is a 'British right'. Lab is to the right of Major in 92, their talking points shaped by Reform. 50 years of attacking 'the loony left' & sucking off the rabid right.Look where it got us www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You can’t "lone wolf" your way to 93%.

Big tie knots, big lumps on the head, & a big barrel of fun as #Chelsea entertain #CharltonAthletic. Geoff Hurst ruins it all by handing the No11 shirt to the most unNo11 of players. Play @scraggy74.bsky.social & @themagicofthecup.bsky.social yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/para-109c-...

The death of a legal observer in Minnesota by ICE is a warning to the UK in so many ways. We’re tying ourselves to a violent, corrupt, racist nation which does not care about its citizens. Reform believes in its model, Labour is appeasing it. It is the public who will suffer.

From Filbert Street to The Netherlands. @themagicofthecup.bsky.social & @scraggy74.bsky.social talk us through a brilliant #IpswichTown side that, at one point, looked on for a unique treble. Can they do it? 66 games later, we find out #ITFC yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/module-12-...

The word is that I’ve a 'movie' out shortly. It's true. My 2022 theatre show The Beatles / Evolver:62 was filmed, and selections from that + new material shot in Liverpool and London comprise a feature that'll be streaming from Feb 2026. More details to follow, sample here vimeo.com/1023543808?f...

HAPPY NEW YEAR. Where else could we start than with Aston Villa v Stoke City. Mud, dogs on the pitch, and Jimmy Rimmer throwing the ball into his own net. And so much more. @scraggy74.bsky.social & @themagicofthecup.bsky.social talk you through it all. podcasts.apple.com/eg/podcast/p...

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

The World Cup draw, giving us the rich promise of about 3 weeks worth of pointless football to eliminate 16 teams who shouldn't have been there in the first place before it all starts properly.

The UK has gone quite, quite mad. It's ridiculous that we (just about) survived 14 years of the Tories, only for Labour to allow the madness to take hold and spread. Some of the stuff in those bullets is just breath-takingly evil. And it's not winning Labour ANY votes. Just helping Reform.

I wish I was surprised. Buried in this Budget is a plan to slash the Digital Services Tax, giving a multi-billion tax cut to US tech giants and the likes of Elon Musk. That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.

🚨 Rachel Reeves JUST unveiled “the most complex government budget in history.” But without a proper wealth tax we’ll never fix the NHS or fund schools properly. So we HACKED a billboard in her constituency with the real solution: TAX THE F*CKING RICH

In case you missed it ... Workers with a migration backgound recorded this powerful poem during the pandemic. They feared the UK and its politicians would soon forget how they helped the country survive. And they were right. Fickle politicians who clapped for them then now call them "strangers".

What's dividing our country is gutless politicians, without a principle between them, jumping a bandwagon they think will get votes, rather than denouncing this as the absolute drivel it is. In the 70s, Tories shunned Enoch, now Labour parrot Enoch Farage. Pitiful. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.

Today is not the day to argue "oh so you want Reform to win then" as an argument for Labour's indefensible and inhumane anti-asylum policies. At least be honest and own that you're defending racist policies promoted with genuinely far right talking points. Don't try and pretend this is "progressive"

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

UK government tried to override police assessments – thereby exposing British Muslims to racism – and made violently racist Israeli football fans synonymous with Jewish. If you wanted to tackle antisemitism, you sure as hell wouldn't go about it like this rachelshabi.substack.com/p/the-maccab...

I am so tired of 24 hour news about small boats. I simply don’t care how many migrants arrive in the UK any more. No matter how many, they’ll never be as big a threat to British values, our way of life, or indeed women‘s safety, as the bigots who make yelling about migrants their entire personality.

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Looking forward to this applying to the English as well. Unemployment will hit about 15 million. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And so by the use of plumbing, we hope to demonstrate this to the world... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv7U...

I say it a lot, but... All that was ever required for the 1930s to return was that enough people who lived through them, and the consequences of them, had died off. Here we are, bang on schedule.

A lengthy, but very necessary thread, from one of the millions of immigrants into this country, who have given more to it than any Farage, Tice, Jenrick or, yes, Starmer ever could. Read and share widely.

www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/there-a... My sixth book is now available. Liverpool 2004/05, the glory and dysfunction of a campaign that brought Champions League success in the most dramatic way possible, offset by domestic difficulties, plus managerial and squad upheaval. Spread the good word.

Starmer finally calls Farage racist and immoral, and then we get this. How many of the Farage army speak English to a high level while looking after 'are cuntry'? How many volunteer for anything (flagshagging doesn't count)? And pay NI but don't claim benefits. What? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

Delighted to launch my latest book, THE SLUM SPORT - the story of the 1985/86 Football League season, as told by those who were there. "It truly is a cracking read" - Barry Davies MBE Out mid-October. To pre-order your copy please go to: www.curtis-sport.com/all-programm...

Perhaps it's a turning point. Mail and Express too embarrassed to put Farage on the front page after yesterday. All we need now is a PM that stops appeasing him but exposes his immorality. Nothing is ever enough for the likes of Farage. Humiliate him back into nonentity. Stop #FaragesFinalSolution

I've never done a "Dear Points of View, why oh why", but after reading Chris Mason's conference blog, essentially giving Farage a blow job while ignoring the convicted felons they platformed, I finally broke and complained. This was the response. God help us all.

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

In 2016, the Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT offered Nigel Farage his own show. It is clear that the Kremlin regarded Farage as a useful tool to serve Russia and weaken the UK and EU. Farage has fulfilled exactly that role and continues to do so. He is a traitor.

You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.

One result in the County Championship last week, all others rain affected. Play only possible in one game so far on first day of this round off CC games. How to destroy the interest in first-class cricket in England in one easy lesson. Why are we playing this late in the year after 2 months off?

This week: the Manchester derby, with Big Mal's #MCFC taking on Dave Sexton's #MUFC. That's followed by a trip down to the Dell for #Forest, before we return to Brian Moore, who takes a sledgehammer to GDPR rules. #MCFC #MUFC Enjoy! yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/para-109b-...

I'm no expert, but somebody who admits openly to being gullible enough to be "taken in by a charismatic, criminal liar" probably shouldn't be the UK's ambassador to the US. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They haven't shown it on BBC4 for a while, so here's some Friday night viewing for you via YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0DV...

Superb

The sooner every single bloody flag on earth is burned to the ground, the better.

Luton Town and QPR, 1979/80. Two promotion hopefuls, Brian Moore, Eric Morecambe, what isn't there to love with these mad Hatters? Wise up, and give this a listen. #LUFC #QPR yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/para-108a-...