This is a younger me

🚨 THE ULTIMATE WESTMINSTER COVER UP. Keir Starmer is desperately parading around a Russian oil tanker today to hide the absolute meltdown happening inside his own government. Two top defence ministers have just walked out in total disgust. Labour is offering a completely insulting 0.08 percent increase to our military budget by 2030. 🤡 They will happily bleed the working class dry to fund a spiralling welfare state and luxury migrant hotels. 💷 But when our brave armed forces need the basic kit to actually defend the realm, the establishment suddenly claims the treasury is empty. He is a total fraud playing global tough guy for the cameras while leaving Britain completely exposed. RT if you see right through this charade and demand we fully fund our military! 🇬🇧🔥

2nd little known fact, Teddy Beckham married my father’s sister st Hillsborough Baptist Church on Taplin Road

An early #swfc number plate?

Just imagine Vardy onthe end of that pass

This applies to all clubs- fans are the club

Our 5 day cycle trip across Korea curtailed because of forecast bad weather. We squeezed 4 planned days into 3, 160 km covered, not bad for 77yo! Luxury bus back to Seoul very welcome, only £8.50 for a 130 mile journey.

VAR I enthusiastically welcomed it. Was sold on the higher percentage of right decisions so we could all go home knowing football justice had been done and we could concentrate on which player was crap instead. But I was wrong. Woefully and completely wrong. Waiting 5 minutes for a decision to be made alone means the system isn't fit for purpose. Why? Because I sat with TV producers who said everything would be wrapped up in 10-30 seconds. It has literally taken the spontaneous joy from the most important part of the game. A goal. Then, one thing completely blindsided me and many others. Subjectivity. I thought there would be science and a nailed on guarantee of a successfully and universally accepted decision. How wrong we were. Instead, arbitrary lines are drawn that simply can't with any certainty say whether a player is offside or not. So a human in a portacabin, 200 miles away only does what the referee can do, make a best guess. Likewise handballs, dives, any penalty decision to be honest. A subjective decision decided out of stadium allowing an increasingly small and poor refereeing pool a get out of jail free card. Instead of them making a shit decision and owning it, they just pass it on 200 miles away so 3 men in a portacabin can make a shit decision instead. Lunacy. For the love of the game, let's go back to investing in getting more referees, respecting them so that they join the trade and don't feel constantly abused. In short, treat them like rugby referees. Ultimate respect. Then, fuck VAR off, it's ruined the game, made it petty and chaotic, and taken that one ingredient that you simply can't replace, instantaneous joy. As a player and fan I accepted a referee making a bad decision in a game in the same way I accepted fucking up a shot or pass. We're all human. Let's get back to that, humans doing their best, everyone walks away from the ground accepting that and less unrealistic pressure put on officials to be perfect when perfection doesn't exist in any walk of life. VAR stinks. A system designed to help is a massive hindrance and it's about time pundits, fans, players, referees, clubs put pressure on authorities to get rid of it. We only need goal line tech, the rest can and should be refer refereed by humans making their best judgement. A best judgement that was over 98% right( audited fact pre VAR). Enough is enough, fuck it off.

Made to feel my age tonight: a young lady offered me her seat on the Seoul metro

Yes a d Seoul are top

There won’t be many of these in S Korea

Tour of Seoul World Cup Stadium with a cheeky little #swfc message on opponents training wall