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Dan King

@DanKing_1974

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Come for the football clickbait, stay for the half-arsed sociopolitical gush and 100% objective music, book and cultural musings. All views my own etc

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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
2 years
@SkyScottBeasley What sort of person do you have to be to go out of your way to make a day of trying to crush other people's joy and make them feel bad about themselves? Although, in a perverse way, I guess it shows why Pride is still needed in the 21st century.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
2 years
At ยฃ8m, Armel Bella-Kotchap, Southampton's centre half, is an early contender for signing of the summer. Superb again tonight.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
1 year
@premierleague @SpursOfficial @Oracle No, Brighton were robbed by appalling officials
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
6 years
Drama here as Jamie Delgado is ordered by All England chiefs to take off coloured shirt on a match court then to turn new all-white one inside out cos logo too big. "Sorry about him," says Murray.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
8 years
No words needed
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 years
4-1 in a major final may not even be as bad as it gets for Arsenal fans this week.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
Don't you mean that you're disgusted that three black men have been subjected to vile racist abuse, REGARDLESS of what they have or haven't given for our country? You're as bad as the trolls. You're a disgrace to your office and the country you no doubt claim to love.
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Priti Patel MP
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I am disgusted that @England players who have given so much for our country this summer have been subject to vile racist abuse on social media. It has no place in our country and I back the police to hold those responsible accountable.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
8 years
Bronze for Sally Conway - her first medal in a world event! What a place to do it!!!!!!
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Dan King
9 months
@AdamCrafton_ Control of roast potatoes and gravy. Opening second bottle of wine while others wash up. Asleep by 3.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
7 years
Being branded a "virgin" by Maria Sharapova is up there with my career highlights. For the record, my first visit to Stuttgart has been good
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
9 months
@Natpirks โ€œโ€ฆretail version of a goalkeeper jerseyโ€™sโ€??? They canโ€™t even produce a grammatically correct, intelligible press release to justify their decision.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
7 years
And that, by the way, is why questions to Djokovic (and anyone else) about ball smashes and racquet tosses are entirely justified.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
Andorra stadium on fire
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 years
@mrdanwalker I think Dominic Raab is a dangerous sociopath.
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Dan King
1 year
Argentina fans at Lusail metro
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
Serious question: what is the penalty in dressage if your horse takes a dump, and how do they stop it happening?
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
If you ever lose your passion for football - or for life, even - then ask Wycombe Wanderers to send you footage of Gareth Ainsworth's press conferences this afternoon. I genuinely feel better about the world than I have all week.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
7 years
@Arsenal I have watched this 1000 times and still can't describe what he did and how he did it. Mesmerising.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 years
@FroggySimon This is the wet dream of the Brexiteer nutters - a British PM flying to Brussels in a Spitfire, flanked by bombers, to force Johnny Foreigner to surrender.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
Andy Wigmore. Gets Covid testing contract. Flees Swiss ski resort to avoid quarantine. Perfect illustration of what's wrong with this country. Bad boy of Brexit? No, he's a complete and utter c**t. And a mate of some of the c**ts in the Govt. Who won't condemn him, of course.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 months
@prodnose Especially when Prince doesnโ€™t make the top 20
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
1 year
For the big finish we need Argentina to be about to score and a Poland player having to decide whether to keep it out with his hand.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
6 years
After 4hrs 48mins of hell, a proper champion gave me my medal. @RSTrust
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
2 years
Let 'em come, let 'em come, let 'em come...to the
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Dan King
3 years
Novak Djokovic is sometimes tough to like, but my goodness, what an incredible athlete, incredible player and all-round alpha human being. Conducting an interview in his (?) third language, speaking so graciously and emotionally. In awe of people who function on so high a level
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
If Uefa are serious about opposing the Super League, they shd be throwing Man City and Chelsea out of the Champions League tonight. Just saying.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
11 months
Absolute joke from BBC. Cutting away from Svitolina interview to watch Djokovic walk on court. Who decides these things? Awful.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
2 years
The world is a smaller, quieter, much less fun place without Paul Jiggins. Behind all the obvious characteristics that made him such a great tabloid journalist and such good company, Jiggo was also wonderfully kind. I just cannot believe I won't sit next to him at a game again.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
7 months
Two fine journalists but, more importantly, two great blokes, after reporting on a game for probably the last time. Tom Hopkinson and Rob Draper, itโ€™s been a pleasure.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
1 year
Letโ€™s also acknowledge a good decision by a football governing body. The ECL gives more clubs and players the chance to dream.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
10 years
Behind the scenes in the new sky sports news studio, which goes live on Tuesday. http://t.co/WImpF07awR
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
4 years
@MsHelicat I can't be arsed with commenting on the splash. But if Philip thinks whatever damage Harry has done to the monarchy is in any way comparable to what Andrew has done, he's an even sillier old twat than we all thought.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
7 months
@RobHarris As the great Jerome Valcke noted, itโ€™s just so much easier to organise a World Cup in a dictatorship.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
7 years
Tennis, bloody hell. Less than year since ND wins FO and fourth Slam in row, he is Slamless, now coachless. And RF and RN the men to beat.
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Dan King
3 years
So, if Djoko goes on to win title, he'll go to Wimbledon with the chance to level it up at 20-20-20. What a time to be alive.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
1 year
@JohnRentoul @SpacesSteve They are shameless scumbags. Same thing happened in my area. Tories are the Sewage Party. Their leaflets should be in turd brown.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
6 years
If you don't want someone as gifted and exciting as Kyrgios to get his s**t together and win Slams, then you don't really care about the future of tennis.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
4 years
Just finished Broken Greek with tears in my eyes, for all sorts of reasons. I'm sure it's an irony not lost on @petepaphides that this book is making him the "legend" he thought he wanted to be as a boy. Music and our shared humanity will get us through. Too-rye-fucking-ay.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
9 years
#safc fans: possible double loan swoop. Deal for striker all but done, attacking mid move looking positive. See online later or buy paper!
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 years
Serena being very gracious in her press conference. The fact remains that even when lacking match practice she is still so good she can reach a Slam final. If she can stay fit, US Open final is a realistic goal. But can she still beat the very best when it matters?
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 years
If it's about to go to pens, Sarri can't sub Kepa. Which is a shame.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 years
You have to feel for Serena. But delighted for Halep. She had the "stigma" of being a No 1 without a Slam but has well and truly buried that in the last 13 months. And she's good to deal with, in my experience.
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Dan King
4 years
@Jaynesharp @clairecohen Just hope she is gullible like I was. What my parents told me was a new headboard for my grandparents' bed, strapped to the top of the car, happily turned into a 5' snooker table on Christmas Day.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
4 years
Night going from bad to worse for Fabianski as he spits on his own chin.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
2 years
A Cambridge fan I first met in 1985 on a static caravan park in South of France, whose late dad was closely involved with club, today took his young son to St James' Park and saw the Us beat the richest team in football. Try telling them - and me - the FA Cup has lost its magic.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
6 years
@Bridgey1982 @thehistoryguy People didn't know what they were voting for and/or don't want what is emerging. Why are Brexiteers afraid of People's Vote? Make your case on basis of Brexits that are actually available, not on fictions of 350m/week for NHS, end to immigration, a new empire based on marmalade.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
The most succinct explanation of the Tories' low funding to help kids get their education back on track. And when I say kids, I don't mean Etonians.
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Dave Haslam
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
@GFFN Announce that Real Madrid, Chelsea and Man City are expelled from the Champions League, then I'll believe you're serious.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
2 years
Fuck you, haters. Let It Be. Live and Let Die. Hey Jude. Fuck you, and goodnight.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 years
Just caught end of When Andy Won Wimbledon. What a day that was.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
#ImVotingGreen It's time for change. For a happier, healthier, fairer, greener world.
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The Green Party
3 years
๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ The polls are open! Are you voting for a #GreenFuture ? ๐Ÿ’š Tell us why you're voting Green with the hashtag #ImVotingGreen .
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
6 years
@BBC6Music I never thought it would happen with me and a girl from Clapham - Up The Junction, Squeeze. Or: caught between the twisted stars, the plotted lines, the faulty map that brought Columbus to New York - Romeo Had Juliette, Lou Reed.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 years
@amolrajan @sportingintel You feel like he's thanking him for every long drive to a kids' game, for every kick up the arse when the effort dropped, for every match watched in pouring rain. And, probably most of all, for believing in him when others didn't and being around to see him prove them all wrong.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
4 years
@RichardDawkins I find it strange that God has not intervened, especially after that lady spoke in tongues and asked him so nicely to send his angels to help brave Donald.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
8 years
The stars align.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
As he heads into retirement, all hail the great @kevinmitchell50 He writes as he talks, like a great storyteller with a bit of the blarney and all the other ingredients of heritage and experience that he inherited or picked up on the way. And a lovely man to boot.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
4 years
Such an Andy Murray point. No more appropriate way for that Davis Cup to be won. Second greatest moment of my professional career.
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LTA
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We asked you what epic @andy_murray @DavisCup hot shot you wanted to see... And you chose the greatest match winning shot of all time ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
Punching the air as Tom Daley finally gets his Olympic gold, with Matty Lee.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 years
Got a PB, Vikki! 1:47:22 by my watch although official timekeepers yet to declare it a world record.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
8 years
3-0. Danson from another penalty flick.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
@NickSzczepanik Absolutely. Recalibrate the domestic game. Reclaim it. Let them go.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
2 years
Can't help but agree with the Arsenal fan whose verdict on the referee is "dogshit". That was a foul or a goal kick. Not a corner. (It was a clear foul)
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 years
Matt Dunn asked legitimate question. I bet similar was put to Murray when he kept falling short in Slams. Tough having job performance dissected in public. But all athletes get it. To call it sexism is ridiculous and self-defeating at time when USWNT have exposed real inequality
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
4 years
Will forever be one of top 10 sporting moments of my life, let alone career. Without this, Davis Cup 2015 probably doesn't happen. And his celebration and hug with @LeonSmith was almost as good as his tennis and his attitude.
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LTA
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Happy Birthday @JamesWardtennis ๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‰ Giving us the perfect excuse to look back at one of GB's greatest @DavisCup wins ๐Ÿ˜‰
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
7 years
West Ham sign Montenegro wonderkid.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
That is a red card all day for Arnautovic. He's lucky Gilmour was made in Scotland from girders.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
6 years
The Serena whataboutery misses the point. No-one shd speak to an umpire like that and get away with it. Where male players have been treated leniently, that was wrong, too. But as a player screamed in his face, pointed and questioned his integrity, was Ramos supposed to think 1/2
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
10 years
Selfie at Sky Sports News from the "soft area" for more camera-shy guests. http://t.co/SUkjd2jKAd
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
7 years
Just as I was about to write that this was a worse first half than Saints v Hull, Can does that. Debate in press box as to what to call it
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
6 years
@antoni_UK @DominicRaab It is the most incompetent, mendacious, self-serving government of my lifetime. Barely an ounce of charisma, ability or integrity between them. And Labour is letting it happen. Shame on them all.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
7 years
@andy_murray will walk out on Centre Court on Monday and do this
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
1 month
Remembering this great man today. Comforting to see so many people paying tribute. Still hard to believe or accept. But such wonderful memories.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
2 years
#Ziggy50ListeningParty the first time I played this record, at my friend Paul's house, the fade in made us think there was something wrong so we turned up the volume. The first chord of Five Years shook the house. @LlSTENlNG_PARTY
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
1 year
Premier League bosses praying for a Bournemouth goal here. Otherwise another expensive legal case or two is coming.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
Have we all been played? If Super League just a diversion tactic, then don't forget to protest against nonsense new CL format that's going to be approved tomorrow. All it is, is a staging post to this SL. Cancel your Sky and BT and Amazon. It's the only language they unserstnad
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
1 year
At present Mexico going out cos they have seven yellow cards to Polandโ€™s four
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
7 years
@DGB259 @DavidLawTennis Stan Wawrinka has right idea: just hold on tight as you smash your racket, then snap it over your thigh. Job done.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 years
View from the tunnel at Wembley. #WFC v #MCFC Here for announcement of new @KensingtonRoyal @FA mental health campaign #HeadsUp
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
1 year
#bhafc Denied two goals and two pens. If Brighton donโ€™t get Europe nowโ€ฆCanโ€™t wait to hear how PGMOL justify this. Awful.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
@DarrenWalton369 @RafaelNadal @DjokerNole @rogerfederer Nah. Between Rafa and Novak. Fed only won RG when Rafa was mentally off. Djoko has done the King of Clay twice now. If he wins RG this year, he'll join rare group that's won each GS at least twice. Fed and Nadal haven't. Argument cd be over end of this year.
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Dan King
1 year
FFS. Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Andrew Barron Murray. Astonishing. Inhuman. Legendary.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
@shreyaskompalli @DarrenWalton369 @RafaelNadal @DjokerNole @rogerfederer It can't be just numbers. But when/if Novak goes past 20, nearly all the numbers will be on his side. For me, winning a second RG would really tilt the balance.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 years
I'm told Huddersfield are closing in on a deal for Ipswich's Dylan Crowe, England U18 international right back.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
5 years
@hendopolis LATEST: Western democracy 0 Putin 6 (SIX).
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
8 years
GOld for Skelton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
OGS getting dog's abuse from away fans after going over to clap them. Fernandes so upset he gestures to them to stop and has to be led away by a United sub. This must be the end.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
2 years
@mrchrisaddison Best series ever. Life-changing well beyond the dancefloor.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
1 year
@NaJu71392188 @PJHC11 And if I remember rightly, the war against uprising in Haiti cost France so much they agreed to the Louisiana Purchase. Which paved way for massive expansion of US and of slavery.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
1 year
Watching Jarvis again on Britpop at the BBC. What a perfect pop star. Them were good days. @Britpopmemories
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Dan King
7 years
Djokovic humiliated in the final set 6-0. His game totally fell apart. More worryingly, his spirit did, too.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
6 years
I've discovered some people in football worse than Sergio Ramos: the LFC "fans" (and/or gamblers) wishing death on Karius and his family. It was just a football match, you utter scumbags.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
8 years
Mahama Cho wins by golden point and will fight in the heavyweight semi finals at 9.45pm British time. Bianca Walkden QF next.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
4 years
Because they are all by now hopefully a few drinks in, all hail the British press tennis posse at the 02. Especially the great @kevinmitchell50 whose retirement will be journalism's loss, but golf's gain (sic). Have a great night.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
3 years
@jmcginn7 @IanDoyleSport @OllieHolt22 @HashimCole1 Spot on. League tables with their names left out. Sponsors' names on shirts blacked out. 3-0 defeats in their remaining games. Places in CL/EL for next season exclude them. No mercy.
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
4 years
ExCel owners charging for the Nightingale hospital? Sunday Times. Scotland's CMO breaking her own rules? Scottish Sun on Sunday. If you want to know what's going on #buyapaper
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@DanKing_1974
Dan King
8 years
Holy Toledo. Andy Murray is two wins from being world No 1.
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