Aaron Rai is from Wombourne and his caddy is from Stoke. We’re claiming that win 🥨

Lump in the throat stuff, watching Brian Moore pay tribute to Scott Hastings there. #W6N

Signed off the season with another win (35-28 I think), away somewhere near Rochdale today. Exhausted. A lot of us with injuries or bleeding by the end. It’s been a long tough season, but I’m so proud of this bunch. A couple of months off until 7s tour 💪🏻

@timarnold1977.bsky.social That’s the lucky pub! 💪🏻💪🏻

Controversial Reform UK councillor quits Staffordshire County Council www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...

Previous post didn’t work. Deleted and tried again. Still not sure. Sad.

It’s like transfer deadline day.

We nip out for some tea, come home and see another Reform Cllr has gone from Staffs.

Mrs has taken to checking the Facebook profiles of potential builders in the area, as we’re planning some work on the house. A lot of misogyny and racism on display from almost all of them. The shortlist is indeed very short.

Sunderland Reform councillor David Barker beat up his girlfriend and abused child www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

In Sunderland, Reform stood David Barker. Who beat his girlfriend “black and blue”. He also neglected and burnt his child with cigarettes. He was handed a suspended sentence. It comes up when you Google him. He won in the council election. A vicious domestic abuser is now a Reform Councillor.

Starting to see why Boro dropped into the playoffs - they cannot finish. They look brilliant going forward, so quick and controlling the game so well. Nothing going in though.

Liverpool, Bradford, 2 x Brum. All gone already apparently. Crikey.

Kid A had her first 🥂 sleepover with some of her team last night 🤣 Funnily enough, an old friend and I reconnected this week, and we both had our first 🍻 sleepover together and reminisced about it.

Aaaannnd, he’s already been sacked. He lasted long.

What a country we have. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

English teams in all three European finals. Cracking, really.

My bro in law won a corporate golf match today. A signed Will Greenwood shirt was the prize, he got it to be made out to me and Kid A 😍 not too sure about the COYBIG though 🤣

He was different gravy. He knew talent when he saw it too - he once told me I was the best keeper in a football tournament. Good lad.

‘So, instead of just 20 seconds you have a minute and a half of legendary television.’ The accidental BBC news guest, Guy Goma, and the man who put him on air, @elmog.bsky.social, tell @mrjamesob.bsky.social what really happened.

The Trentham Gardens trip obviously included a trip to Cheese and Wine. The Plum Porter chutney is lovely.

As a neutral, that was a thoroughly enjoyable game of football. Could’ve gone either way in the end.

Frosty family trip to Trentham Gardens today. Can’t remember the last time I saw it so busy, it was great to see.

16,264 fans attended #NottsCounty v #BristolRovers in #LeagueTwo a fantastic turnout and atmosphere for a fourth tier match you’ll get nowhere else in the world. Come on You ‘Pies!!?

Hard fought 28-26 win away at Bolton today. Second match running I scored a try and got oppos player of the match. Every single part of my body hurts. It was a very tough match in very muggy weather. Various parts of my body had blood on afterwards 🙈 I’m absolutely exhausted.

An early finish for me today, the sun is shining and I’ve been thinking about a beer garden for about 6 hours. Wife: My mum is coming up for the weekend, can you tidy the house. The whole thing. Should’ve carried on working…

In a post promoting the British Army and their actions, Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, actually used footage of Bloody Sunday. There are no words.

Stoke looking better than us in the surrounding shire. Might nip over to NI to fill my car up.

Without the paywall, if needed: archive.is/2026.05.01-0...

An article in the FT about Reform’s first year in charge at Staffordshire County Council. www.ft.com/content/3c05...

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Colleague at first job brought in cake every time Stoke won. Didn't have much interest in football but started looking up results to see if I'd get cake. Her Pavlov training worked: 20 years later - no longer in touch with her, but this London boy is a Stoke season ticket holder.

She really forgot about what happened to him so quickly.

#horror #memes

The big divide in Britain today is between working people and the privately educated, rich, greedy, tax-dodging, selfish, grifting gobshites who try to manipulate working people by pretending to give a shit about them.

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Just seen this posted elsewhere. Bit desperate, this.

8.33% of the managers at the World Cup have been sacked by Chelsea. What a mad stat 😆

17.82% turnout for the Barton and Winton Salford by-election. Reform will thrive when people don’t want to get out to vote. Sad to see. Apathy is the last thing we need right now. REF: 34.9% (+34.9) LAB: 33.2% (-29.1) GRN 18.7% (+4.0) CON: 6.1% (-8.2) LDM: 4.9% (-3.8) IND: 2.3% (+2.3)

That lot in the north of the city are in division four next season.

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No banners. No protests. Just empty seats. That silence says everything — fans have had enough. This isn’t anger anymore, it’s indifference. And that’s far more worrying. Things have to change. Now. #StokeCity #SCFC #EnoughIsEnough #FanVoice

Ten years since Prince died.

Two youth players debuting tonight. Both currently on 5.9/10. Yikes. Even for our lot, that’s bad.

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

My OneDrive suggests random pictures to me each day. Apparently I’m a time traveller.

From a sublime Man City goal to an absolute howler from Donnarumma.

This Merseyside derby has had zero atmosphere. Neither team have exactly helped to create an atmosphere though.

At least one team from Staffordshire won away in North Wales today. Scored a try, pulled out the Ellie Kildunne cowgirl celebration, got MOTM. *takes a bow*

Colwyn Bay away for me today 😩 far too long a journey for a Saturday morning.