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“This is not football, Mr Kendall”
- Udo Lattek, 24th April 1985
Why I saw it very differently from pitchside as ball boy on the greatest Everton match Goodison Park has ever seen
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Author of Futsal📕 🛒➡️amzn.to/3aIZZPu ⬅️🛒 Guardian journalist. Uefa B coach & analysis/technical report writer. Mentor. Evertonian
- “Iliman is so creative. He loves the ball at his feet… he’s like a futsal player… so comfortable. He plays like he’s in a school playground” Phil Jagielka praising Ndiaye and recognising the composure & ability to thrive in tight areas futsal gives players #FutsalTheStory📕
00:00 - “And the Everton boys are there…” Loving goalscorer @anthonygordon singing It’s a Grand Old Team at the end of the victory against Leeds #EVELEE
00:00 - Andre Gomes Create space to receive the ball ✅ Pictures in the head of options ✅ Open bodyshape ✅ Futsal oriented sole control ✅ Two-footed ✅ Pass of the match ✅ #EVEARS
00:00 - “The disposable one was Justine Greening, a woman, gay, modern, Rotherham-born, comprehensive-educated, the perfect image Tory detoxifiers claim to seek. But May couldn’t stomach Greening’s anti-grammar school, pragmatic approach to education”After this reshuffle, Theresa May will never detoxify the Tory party | Polly Toynbee trib.al/TUQi8L4
- Breaking news: The English FA reveal intent to create a women’s futsal team for the first time ever and to restart the men’s national team pathway with the under 19s competing in @UEFAFutsal Euros next year ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #FutsalTheStory #futsalfeminino
- I wrote some words on class, prejudice and the many (hidden) barriers facing working-class youngsters seeking to infiltrate a world where it pays to be richer, privileged & privately educated @guardianopinion
- £30m sounds like a lot but Fenway are paying in dollars so he's only costing the price of a big mac and fries in NYCLiked Mane at Southampton but I do think 30 mil is expensive but if he delivers it'll be worth it like every transfer. It's 30 not 38.5 mil!
- Me in the tunnel with the other ballboys as Lothar Mattäus’s Bayern Munich & Everton go into battle in the biggest night in Goodison history Finally got round to watching @HowardsWayFilm 👏⚽️ A reminder of how it simply has to be again at Everton one day soon #efc
- “A backbencher’s salary of £86,584 places them in the top 5% of earners … If an individual considers that as a deterrence to political service, they shouldn’t be thinking about being an MP in the first place” @owenjones84 on the UK’s tinpot democracy
- The internal politics of the West Derby CLP are beyond me. But I hope the huge success of the l MP of the year & strident anti-poverty campaigner @IanByrneMP isn’t rejected in the reselection vote today. There are too few working-class voices in the Commons. Ian is one of them👏
- Why Conservative ideology is the "critical pathway" from low intelligence to racism A decade old. Pre-Brexit, President Trump, PM Johnson, 30p Lee, Braverman & golliwogs in pubs - but this @GeorgeMonbiot piece on refuge of the dim is even more apt today
- Fifa suspends Luis Rubiales from all football-related activity for 90 days over Hermoso kiss How deluded & power-crazy must the Spanish FA hierarchy and the happy clappers cheering #Rubiales’ defiance be if Fifa emerges as the moral compass?
