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Award-harvesting cricket writer for Merseyside Cricket Online and Liverpool ECHO... thinks he's funny but really isn't... he/him tom.evans @merseysidecricket .com

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Tom Evans
4 years
This is true, the exploits of Liverpool FC - a professional football club based in the north-west of England - have been shamefully underreported by the media for the past 18 months.
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GDon
4 years
What a ball from Salah but we won’t hear anything about it because it’s not Kevin Be Bruyne.
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1 year
Ex-footballers forming a picket line in front of the BBC (with one lying down just behind them)
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1 year
"This was Spurs' first 0-0 draw at home to Nottingham Forest since September 1932 - not that we're allowed to compare things to the 1930s any more."
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5 years
Amid all the #WAGathaChristie hilarity of the Rooney/Vardy thing, it shouldn't go unnoticed that the Sun has been caught absolutely bang to rights publishing stories straight from social media without even the barest attempt at fact-checking.
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1 year
Again: Wealthy, privileged people are *exactly the right people* to be putting themselves in harm's way by performing stunts like this. They're much more likely to be able to bear the financial and social cost of being prosecuted.
@HennieInglis
Hennie Inglis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 💚🤍💜
1 year
Any comment, now Ash @AyoCaesar ? He's Edred Whittingham and his dad is a venture capitalist.👇 #WorldSnookerChampionship #crucible #juststopoil
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5 months
Regardless of football, the last train from London to Manchester being at 10pm is nonsense
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Amos Murphy
5 months
Tottenham vs City in the FA Cup confirmed as a Friday 8pm kick off. The last scheduled train from London Euston to Manchester departs before the match is finished. Disgrace. 🚮
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8 months
“Deliberately operating beneath the criminal threshold” you mean “not breaking any laws”?
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Paul Brand
8 months
Here is the clip. Suella Braverman is branding all the pro-Palestinian marches as “hate marches” which have the aim, in her view, of “wiping Israel off the map”. She includes all the tens of thousands of protestors in that statement.
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4 months
Root reading all your tweets last week about how he should learn to play the situation
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1 year
Weird that Just Stop Oil have disrupted something I like and yet I still think they have a point.
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2 years
Choosing to believe Joe Root is in some kind of hostage situation here
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1 month
England and Zimbabwe
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Wisden
1 month
According to the Guardian, James Anderson will retire from Test cricket this summer. His Test debut came 21 years ago, against Zimbabwe at Lord's. Can you remember the teams from that game?
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4 months
Pretty cool that they’ve lined up for this match in order of how many runs they’ve made this series
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1 year
Begging anyone in London who says "the Tube doesn't work" to spend a week travelling around any other city without a car.
@brokenbottleboy
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1 year
Sadiq Khan is to blame for you wanting to have egg on toast delivered to you? It’s a wild theory.
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17 days
Jason Roy after the first ball of England's innings in the 2019 World Cup final:
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hannah hampton super fan
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fuckkkk me that ball by trent
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2 years
An actual genuine bona fide “why would Jermoly Cromblyn do this” in the wild. Haven’t seen one of these in ages.
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8 months
Feel like pure shit just want Crawley and Duckett back
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Ally Fogg
8 months
Most hilarious interview combo
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3 years
@vineyille Watching a hippo documentary where they spin their tails in order to spray their faeces everywhere: This was the only rational course of action
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4 years
@mpagemap @MarcusRashford They can feast on this nourishing word salad you’ve provided.
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2 years
@steinkobbe My "I don't really have an opinion either way on Hitler" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions
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4 years
Imagine going down in history as the Conservative Prime Minister who lost the cricket vote.
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2 years
Honestly I would rather England never played Australia in white ever again, if it would stop this completely self-defeating obsession with "planning for the Ashes".
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Sky Sports Cricket
2 years
🗣️ "If England want to go to Australia in four years time with a side that is capable of winning, they've got to start making decisions now" Former England cricketer and selector, Angus Fraser, talks to Sky Sports about the team changes ahead of the West Indies test 🏏
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1 year
👀
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Tom Evans
4 years
Agar to Broad, no run
@JeffEisenband
Jeff Eisenband
4 years
Describe your favorite sports moment, as boring as possible.
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5 years
In the Hundred, everyone will be waiting for the umpire to give them out because none of them are Walkers.
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Tom Evans
4 years
The “Salah” he refers to is Mohamed Salah, an Egyptian forward who plays for Liverpool FC. You won’t have heard of him.
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9 years
This is what it sounds like... http://t.co/KEn8Ypln0v
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2 years
@Yas_Wisden Either way that’s a lot of wickets to take in one day.
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1 year
“Good luck at Lord’s” “I’m not that one.” “Good luck at Lord’s” “I’m not that one.” “Good luck at Lord’s” “I’m not that one.” “Good luck at Lord’s” “I’m not that one.” “Good luck at Lord’s” “I’m not that one.” “Good luck at Lord’s” “I’m not that one.”
@Chance2Shine
Chance to Shine
1 year
On the playground at @BykerPrimary with @OllieRobinson7 where year 5 are taking part in a super striker session, after a few autographs of course #NationalCricketWeek #ExpressYourself
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2 years
@fed_up_phil @NickMiller79 Also they hack their Twitter rather than, say, their online banking.
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7 months
Am I going mad here or is this exactly the sort of thing you’re not allowed to do to goalies in the six-yard box?
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Macho 🇨🇾
7 months
What’s the bet @Carra23 thinks it’s a foul? One of the softest decisions you’ll see all season….
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9 months
@tristandross 500 blueticks under the graphic footage of his death going “ah another clout-chasing cyclist I see”
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Tom Evans
6 years
Cook's centuries, broken down as to whether they were in a dead rubber or not. Melbourne was the first, today the second.
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4 months
Ben Duckett not quite making the fastest England hundreds graphic - not the first time he’s missed out on a table
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Tom Evans
9 months
New York having only just discovered the wheelie bin is wild. Like there being no televisions in Tokyo or something.
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Mayor Eric Adams
9 months
Beginning next spring, EVERY NYC business will be required to put trash bags in containers. You heard that right.
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11 months
"ooh look you're angry and frustrated because you support a team that's been denied a win by the weather" Yes? I am? How am I supposed to react? Sorry for not being magnanimous in defeat when the only thing that's defeated us is a cloud.
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Tom Evans
4 years
OK which Cabinet minister is married to a missile
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Sky News Breaking
4 years
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to announce tomorrow a £16.5bn increase in defence spending over the next four years in what is being billed as the biggest programme of investment in Britain's armed forces since the end of the Cold War
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1 year
Personally played in dozens of games in which a teenage girl has been playing against and alongside middle aged cis men. It’s never caused a problem. Please don’t let these ghouls open a cricket front in their culture war.
@oliverbrown_tel
Oliver Brown
1 year
EXCLUSIVE: Six first-class counties are demanding urgent answers from the England and Wales Cricket Board as to why a middle-aged player who transitioned from a man to a woman is being allowed to compete against girls as young as 12
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11 months
The thing I’m most rattled about is the idea that only English people have been rattled by the Rattled Ashes. Two wickets and an entire nation goes running to the teacher.
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Glenn Maxwell
11 months
Beware the 2nd newy #ashes
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Tom Evans
3 years
@jrc1921 @BaneNook What the hell has being an LFC fan got to do with anything? Not the first time I’ve seen that.
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Tom Evans
1 year
Has there ever been a more “guys it’s the cricket season” occasion than this
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Channel 4
1 year
European Qualifiers™ Malta v England on Channel 4, Stream or watch live Friday 7pm
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Tom Evans
10 months
It’s not a “moral maze”. From the moment those recordings were made public, there was a signpost pointing down a straight road marked “the obviously right thing to do” and United have chosen not to follow it.
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Samuel Luckhurst
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United have a duty of care to female fans and players over their Mason Greenwood decision #mufc
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4 years
Oh look, this was possible all along.
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1 year
Anyone over the age of 12 who thinks “materially comfortable people occasionally hold left-wing views” is some kind of unplayable argumentative doosra should log off and never return imo
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Tom Evans
6 years
LOOK ON MY WORKS
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9 years
Once-in-a-lifetime story, breaking very late. Hope I did it justice. Tomorrow's @LivEchonews back page... #LFC http://t.co/E8M9qKDO06
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11 months
@danielstorey85 The only thing cleverer is all the men in your replies going on about the goalkeeping
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11 months
Yeah play it safe Virat, match is on a knife edge
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11 months
Marnus Labuschagne still has only one overseas hundred where he hasn’t been allowed to actually choose who’s bowling at him for the last 20 runs.
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1 year
@TVAddictStill Ah well guess there’s no point protesting anything then, change is difficult
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5 years
@Vitu_E I just nipped out and took this.
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4 months
Not sure I have ever wanted an England player to do well quite as much as this
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Tom Evans
4 months
YES REHAN
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Vithushan Ehantharajah
4 months
Rehan Ahmed on his #IndvEng Test series so far, his relationship with Stokes, faith, Ertugrul, and hating golf
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6 months
Judas Iscariot:
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I’ll sell Jesus tomorrow. I’m tired of his bullshit
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2 years
@MiguelSmithLD @AndyBurnhamGM "I'm in Manchester and I want to get to London, but it's very expensive" "Go to Newcastle from Barrow instead"
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Tom Evans
3 years
The difference between the two sides’ spinners isn’t the quality of their best balls, it’s the frequency of their worst ones.
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3 years
OMG 😱
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@guardian
The Guardian
8 months
Tell us: will you be taking part in the pro-Palestine Armistice Day march?
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5 years
Imagine being one of the people who watched the 2005 Ashes, then no cricket for 14 years, then that.
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2 years
Excited to hear how booing the national anthem somehow doesn’t count as free expression.
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4 years
@disco_socialist @AshleyConnick Don’t want to amplify this berk beyond his 46k (!) followers, but this follow-up is incredibly revealing as to what his actual motivations are. “Pleeeeeese get mad at me, I did a controversial.”
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3 years
Not saying England aren’t capable of losing 8/78, nor that they won’t… but this seems harsh.
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3 years
@GregoryDavisHNH That first one is also an actionable slur against a protected group (people with disabilities).
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1 year
@raaleh This so-called “Glass Onion” appears to be transparent but actually contains multiple layers of intrigue, I demand a refund
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2 years
Not sure if Jos would have caught that, but I'm 100% certain that if he hadn't, everyone would have been saying "Foakes would have caught that".
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7 months
Me, waking up: Surely the discourse can’t get any worse today The discourse: The Jewish Chronicle has published a piece in which Douglas Murray says how bad the Nazis felt about doing genocide
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michael
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of course the Jewish Chronicle invite Douglas Murray onto their pages to tell us Hamas are worse than the Nazis, as the SS were actually really very troubled when carrying out the mass slaughter of Jews. amazing lengths Zionists go to to justify the genocide they're committing.
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@shockproofbeats A none burger with left ketchup!
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2 years
I understand how bad this is but it’s also objectively very, very funny
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5 years
@classiclib3ral "Have you ever seen a picture of a caveman" is an early contender for worst argument of 2019.
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3 years
@owenhatherley @inthesedeserts Just checked their TLs and one of them has literally not slept because he’s been too busy channeling the wrath of his years of legal experience into shouting at strangers on Twitter who’ve said he’s pooed his pants.
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@football_bios I for one am sick of the revisionist politically correct version of what goes on in the double glazing industry.
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Tom Evans
1 year
This has to be one of the simplest sentences ever to be followed with "if that makes sense"
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ESPNcricinfo
1 year
Steve Smith's Test record in England: 16 matches, 1727 runs, six centuries and a batting average of 59.55 💪
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5 years
Make sure you’ve set your alarms, Proper Cricket Twitter...
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Tom Evans
2 years
POV: You are Edwina Currie
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Ash Sarkar
2 years
Finding hot John Major both distracting and confusing.
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Tom Evans
1 year
Lovely, lovely man. Can't imagine anyone could have ever had a bad word to say about him. Passionate and forceful but kind and empathetic with it. RIP Dan #ynwa #JFT97
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3 years
@inthesedeserts @TheSinanKose I like how even in his fevered imagination he can’t come up with anything that would be practically different other than “there would be a mess-up with the vaccine schedule, like there is now, but it would be because trans”.
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1 year
Counterpoint: It’s ceding control of the game to the tiny minority who would react with aggression and/or violence to a dismissal they wrongly perceive as unfair.
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SaveVillageCricket
1 year
This seems sensible and logical!
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Amazon Prime Video Sport
4 years
What is the most iconic sports photo you've ever seen?
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1 year
🚨PERSONAL NEWS 🚨 After the 12 best years of my professional life at @LivEchonews , I’m excited to move on to a new role at the Daily Mirror in a couple of weeks. But I’m delighted to say I will still be writing about cricket for the Echo.
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Tom Evans
4 years
How to eliminate the far-right: 1) Pretend they're not the far-right 2) Elect them and give them everything they want 3) Pat yourself on the back
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Pete
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Who killed off the BNP? UKIP Who killed off UKIP? Brexit Who killed off the BXT party? Boris The radical/far-right have been defeated, not by restrictions on legal speech, hate crime laws, digital de-platforming, orgs like Hope not Hate, but by the centre-right at the ballot box
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2 years
OK, uh-huh, OK, sorry what?
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4 years
“Required run rate”
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Had a nice chat with an AI bot
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@LiebCricket Remember saying years ago watching Root and Stokes in a big partnership - Root at his best makes batting look easy; Stokes makes it look incredibly hard and like he’s the only person in the world who can do it.
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3 years
Remember when England won a Test in India by 227 runs and everyone moaned because they did it wrong?
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1 year
Andrew Tate 🤝 R Kelly Believing they can fly and being sex offenders
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4 years
Like, your team have gone from also-rans to the actual best in the world in the space of five years. Why can’t you just enjoy it?
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3 years
I hope he started celebrating before she’d answered.
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Stuart Broad
3 years
The best way to start 2021 @MollieKing 💍💫
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6 years
Didn’t see Cook getting hit in the balls when the series was still live. Classic self-serving ego trip from the man.
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3 years
@LiebCricket "He bowls to the left, he bowls to the right; that Mitchell Johnson, he's bowling, all right."
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@brokenbottleboy What does he mean by “the reason I was booked on United 93 was her performance issues”?
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Tom Evans
8 months
Ah, the Everyone Who Goes To The Football Should Behave In Exactly The Same Way As Everyone Else Who Goes To The Football Ombudsman has logged on
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allex
8 months
Imagine your Annie upper got cancelled, LFC won't relocate you and someone is on their phone for 90 mins wondering why ppl are shouting at a match
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@AndrewJMullen @Depheruk You've been unfair regardless of who bought him the pyjamas. Takes a special kind of mind to see a child in pyjamas, read a description of the poverty he's growing up in, and think (let alone say) "yeah but how come he's allowed pyjamas?" Congratulations.
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A lot of people say the Windrush scandal, the Grenfell disaster and the hostile environment were bad, but what they don't realise is that the woman responsible was once civil to someone who accidentally bumped into her, makes you think
@jake_swinburne
Jake Swinburne 🇬🇧🌹
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I have never agreed with Theresa May, but I think we all have to admit she was the last genuinely decent person to be PM. I remember being in Portcullis House and I accidentally walked straight into her, I was mortified, she was nothing but lovely about it. Genuinely nice lady.
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Love the way the crisp sponsorship thing has mutated
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@Milo_Edwards Plus the opportunity for Boomers to invent more hardship from their own youths, of course. Cherry on top.
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2 years
@LeftywokeMark @UnknownMe82 You can't see at this scale, but there are minuscule light brown dots for every high school in the USA
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