I implore journalists to stop using X as their main point of communication. They must realise who is in charge of the platform & what damage it is causing e.g. it is still the page that most of the football journalists I follow & respect use, which baffles me. #X #Musk #socialmedia

Shows you how broken football is that none of us expect Infantino to pressure Trump, nor senior Fifa execs to pressure Infantino, nor national associations or governments to pressure Fifa, nor teams, players or referees to boycott. Even with such grotesque racism, it's hopelessness all the way down.

Stop. Using. X. Then. 🤯 #Starmer

Final pre-World Cup game today for the Netherlands 🟠⚽ Here's a piece for @fourfourtwo.com about their chances & whether there could be a very different type of orange person taking all the glory on July 19th 🏆 www.fourfourtwo.com/team/the-net... #Netherlands #Holland #Oranje #WorldCup

Could the future in North America not just be bright, but Oranje? 🟠 New piece for @fourfourtwo.com on the prospects of the Netherlands at the World Cup 🏆🇳🇱 ✍️ Reads & shares appreciated 👊 fourfourtwo.com/team/the-net... #Netherlands #Holland #Oranje #NothingLikeOranje #WorldCup #WC26

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

Back from my sabbatical and back into writing ✍️ New piece for @thisisanfield.com about why Arne Slot has received much less patience than Jürgen Klopp 🔴👇 www.thisisanfield.com/2026/05/arne... #Slot #LFC #Liverpool

Free Speech Loving Nigel Farage

Why did Slot want Hugo Ekitike and what can we learn from his previous strikers? 🔴👀 My new article for @thisisanfield.com on Liverpool's big-money new signing ✍️👇 Reads & shares appreciated 🙏 www.thisisanfield.com/2025/07/why-... #ekitike #Liverpool #LFC #Slot

NEW: Why Hugo Ekitike was wanted by Arne Slot – and how he will be developed #lfc

Despite his most prolific Liverpool season yet, Cody Gakpo was benched for 1/3 of their games. Yet with Diaz potentially leaving, Gakpo now has the chance to cement his place on the LW. 🇳🇱 My 24/25 review for @thisisanfield.com 🔴✍️👇 www.thisisanfield.com/2025/07/cody... #LFC #Gakpo #Liverpool

New article for @thisisanfield.com on the Liverpool enigma that is Cody Gakpo 🔴 ✍️🇳🇱 Reads & shares appreciated 🙌 #Liverpool #LFC #Gakpo

My interview with Villa No Filler regarding their new signing from Feyenoord, Zepiqueno Redmond 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elfh... #AVFC #Redmond #AstonVilla

There is a chance that Trump's bombing of Iran might turn out to be the most ludicrous use of military force in US history. Not the worst or the most destructive--just the most absurd. A failed attempt by a weak man desperate for glory.

🇪🇺 More people than ever love being a part of the EU... Just as more and more people regret the result of the 2016 Referendum.

My piece for @thisisanfield.com 🔴✍️ #Liverpool #LFC

Young Player of the Year Ryan Gravenberch was Slot's positional problem-solver 🔴 The converted defensive midfielder who simultaneously conducted the orchestra whilst keeping the aisles clean. 🧹 My season review for @thisisanfield.com ✍️ www.thisisanfield.com/2025/06/why-... #Liverpool #LFC

The far right will, of course, treat the Paul Doyle case very differently from one where the accused is darker-skinned or foreign or both. The rest of us must not. That’s kind of the point.

In an age of strict systems and styles, of the watering down of individual flair at the altar of wider structure, it was refreshing to have a battle that was just pure chaos. My article on the Eredivisie title race for @fourfourtwo.com 🇳🇱✍️👇 www.fourfourtwo.com/features/aja...

Turns out Brexit Derangement Syndrome is a thing after all.

Because they're terrified of accusations they're betraying Brexit. It's the same in so many areas. They're hiding their successes and yelling about their weaknesses.

It's not at all surprising, because Labour never dared make an alternative argument. When the Blue team was trashing UK trade via Brexit, the Red team was too frightened to say anything. It just acquiesced. And now it's trapped in its piddly 'reset' because it never socialised an alternative /6

Slot's handling of his superstar players in challenging circumstances has been a crucial, underrated and surprising feature of his Championship-winning debut campaign 🏆 New article for @thisisanfield.com 🔴 👇✍️ www.thisisanfield.com/2025/05/how-... #Liverpool #Slot #LFC #Trent #Salah #VVD

Disappointed by Starmer. He should be attacking Farage's weakpoints like Brexit, Trump, Putin, lack of an actual plan etc. Instead his rhetoric (& some policies) are almost justifying Farage's toxic, populist nonsense. He's pushing more voters into Farage's open arms. #Starmer #Farage #Labour

In electing a serious and fearless progressive, the College of Cardinals looks like pretty much the only electorate in the world that hasn't had its brains boiled by far right propaganda & toxic social media. For a Catholic of my generation, this is an almost unbelievable development.

My latest chat with @theredmentv.bsky.social , this time on his time on the right back options for Liverpool post-Trent Alexander-Arnold 👇🔴 🗣️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_LU... #LFC #LiverpoolFC

NEW: Why Jeremie Frimpong would NOT be Liverpool’s right-back solution #lfc

Why Liverpool would be making the wrong decision replacing Trent Alexander-Arnold with Jeremie Frimpong ❌ My latest piece for @thisisanfield.com 🔴👇 www.thisisanfield.com/2025/04/why-... #Liverpool #LFC #Frimpong #TAA

It sums up the state of the world right now that we have this man in charge of football. He is sickening. What is even more sickening is that FIFA has somehow allowed itself to be stuck with him. An egocentric, deluded autocratic whose only goals are power and money. #Infantino #FIFA

The perception of Liverpool's fitness has flipped. They've gone from The Avengers to The Dad's Army. Yet Slot & his coaches have done great work to reduce injuries, boding well for the title run-in. New article for @thisisanfield.com 🔴✍️ www.thisisanfield.com/2025/03/why-... #Liverpool #LFC

I am very behind with sharing my work on BlueSky, but here's a snippet of my latest interview with @theredmentv.bsky.social regarding Liverpool's search for a new number 9 👇🔴 Shares and views appreciated 👊 #Liverpool #LFC www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0lE...

www.theguardian.com/football/202... Hats off to the liked of @barneyronay.bsky.social and also @migueldelaney.bsky.social for writing about this topic. The abuse in the comments on X is concerning and demonstrates the power of regimes using football. To be clear - still very happy for NUFC fans.

Really happy for #NUFC and their fans. A great club that means so much to its community. However, I don't think it's wrong to highlight how this #EFLCup trophy is also a win for the repressive Saudi Arabian government too. Especially when you see one of its ministers holding the trophy...

Yesterday: Musk insulted the Foreign Minister of an ally saying "be quiet, small man." Today he is calling a US Senator a "traitor." This is uncharted waters. Musk is acting as a representative of the US government overseas, and de facto Prime Minister at home. Huge power w no accountability

Hello @bsky.app 👋 - totally new to this after desperately wanting another platform not managed by Musk. Any tips on usage or things to follow would be appreciated - especially for football & politics 🙏 For those interested, I will gradually share some of the freelance bits I've worked on recently ✍️