Michael Shackleton
@michaelshackleton.bsky.social
Proud to come from Teesside. Let’s have a cup of tea. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Some fantastic pressing, some fantastic movement and some great through balls and driving runs so far. Ayling’s eye for a pass has been SUPERB. Yes yes Tommy Conway!!!!! #utb
January 24, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Some fantastic pressing, some fantastic movement and some great through balls and driving runs so far. Ayling’s eye for a pass has been SUPERB. Yes yes Tommy Conway!!!!! #utb
ALAN BROWNE IS CAFU (Yes I know he’s more in midfield today)
January 24, 2026 at 12:40 PM
ALAN BROWNE IS CAFU (Yes I know he’s more in midfield today)
Should we sign Sarmiento… Idea for a song to tune of Despacito…
Sarmiento
Pressing with the team it’s Sarmiento
Assisting every game it’s Sarmiento
Scoring goals for fun it’s Sarmiento
AND REPEAT.
I will charge £6 for this song.
#utb
Sarmiento
Pressing with the team it’s Sarmiento
Assisting every game it’s Sarmiento
Scoring goals for fun it’s Sarmiento
AND REPEAT.
I will charge £6 for this song.
#utb
January 22, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Should we sign Sarmiento… Idea for a song to tune of Despacito…
Sarmiento
Pressing with the team it’s Sarmiento
Assisting every game it’s Sarmiento
Scoring goals for fun it’s Sarmiento
AND REPEAT.
I will charge £6 for this song.
#utb
Sarmiento
Pressing with the team it’s Sarmiento
Assisting every game it’s Sarmiento
Scoring goals for fun it’s Sarmiento
AND REPEAT.
I will charge £6 for this song.
#utb
Kim Hellberg gives such a great interview. I absolutely love listening to him.
January 21, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Kim Hellberg gives such a great interview. I absolutely love listening to him.
I wanted a scruffy Conway winner for my birthday and I got one. LET’S GOOOOOO.
January 21, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I wanted a scruffy Conway winner for my birthday and I got one. LET’S GOOOOOO.
SIGNIFICANT. Well done to Hellberg for making the changes. Alan Browne MVP.
January 21, 2026 at 9:56 PM
SIGNIFICANT. Well done to Hellberg for making the changes. Alan Browne MVP.
Alan Browne is basically Cafu now. Conway needed one off his arse and that was essentially it. COME ON BORO!!
Thinking back to the Brynn save as well now.
Thinking back to the Brynn save as well now.
January 21, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Alan Browne is basically Cafu now. Conway needed one off his arse and that was essentially it. COME ON BORO!!
Thinking back to the Brynn save as well now.
Thinking back to the Brynn save as well now.
HERE. WE. GO. Already a ton better.
January 21, 2026 at 9:10 PM
HERE. WE. GO. Already a ton better.
Malanda has given it away more in this half than he has in all of his other appearances combined. Morris is coming too deep for it, Gilbert not deep enough. Balance off but we’re still very much in this.
January 21, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Malanda has given it away more in this half than he has in all of his other appearances combined. Morris is coming too deep for it, Gilbert not deep enough. Balance off but we’re still very much in this.
Fair fucks Sol. Brilliant save. We’ve got to move it forward quicker. There’s space in behind.
January 21, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Fair fucks Sol. Brilliant save. We’ve got to move it forward quicker. There’s space in behind.
Definitely should have saved that BUT if we beat their press there is a lot of space to exploit… Need to step things up here. It’s my birthday tomorrow for goodness sake…
January 21, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Definitely should have saved that BUT if we beat their press there is a lot of space to exploit… Need to step things up here. It’s my birthday tomorrow for goodness sake…
FUCK ME I NEED SOME QUEER EYE TODAY.
Goodbye, Queer Eye: pure comfort TV that’s too fabulous to exist in this world any more
Goodbye, Queer Eye: pure comfort TV that’s too fabulous to exist in this world any more
The fab five convene in Washington DC for the show’s 10th and final season – and one last, escapist feelgood hurrah
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:12 AM
FUCK ME I NEED SOME QUEER EYE TODAY.
Maybe I’ll just look at the news one day and see “World Leaders decide to work together for good of the planet and the rest of humanity instead of corporations and adopt Anti-Arsehole policy. Countries to stay as is but only for purposes of international sport and travel.”
January 21, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Maybe I’ll just look at the news one day and see “World Leaders decide to work together for good of the planet and the rest of humanity instead of corporations and adopt Anti-Arsehole policy. Countries to stay as is but only for purposes of international sport and travel.”
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Take a look at The Telegraph's view on Trump. Every single 'columnist' (I use the term loosely) utterly wrong and totally disproven. Never read again.
January 21, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Take a look at The Telegraph's view on Trump. Every single 'columnist' (I use the term loosely) utterly wrong and totally disproven. Never read again.
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The USA is planning to pay $706bn to buy Greenland.
That is more than the cost of nationalising healthcare in the USA which would cost $300-400bn.
But you can't have that, killing you is too profitable.
That is more than the cost of nationalising healthcare in the USA which would cost $300-400bn.
But you can't have that, killing you is too profitable.
January 20, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The USA is planning to pay $706bn to buy Greenland.
That is more than the cost of nationalising healthcare in the USA which would cost $300-400bn.
But you can't have that, killing you is too profitable.
That is more than the cost of nationalising healthcare in the USA which would cost $300-400bn.
But you can't have that, killing you is too profitable.
I wonder what would happen if I went into my end of year review with a binder containing 365 “achievements” from the previous year.
Sadly my review was today so I’ve got a whole year to consider the effectiveness of that as a possible strategy.
Sadly my review was today so I’ve got a whole year to consider the effectiveness of that as a possible strategy.
January 20, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I wonder what would happen if I went into my end of year review with a binder containing 365 “achievements” from the previous year.
Sadly my review was today so I’ve got a whole year to consider the effectiveness of that as a possible strategy.
Sadly my review was today so I’ve got a whole year to consider the effectiveness of that as a possible strategy.
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
I have never seen anything like it. So many heads went on both sides. Unreal. Didn’t think it was a penalty. Diaz should’ve been booked for his protest and chasing the ref. If the decision to award the penalty was poor, Diaz’s decision to try a panenka after a 15 minute delay was even worse.
After all the chaos and furore from the decision to award Morocco a penalty, Brahim Diaz dinked his effort straight into Edouard Mendy's arms. A failed panenka.
Simply extraordinary.
Simply extraordinary.
January 18, 2026 at 9:27 PM
I have never seen anything like it. So many heads went on both sides. Unreal. Didn’t think it was a penalty. Diaz should’ve been booked for his protest and chasing the ref. If the decision to award the penalty was poor, Diaz’s decision to try a panenka after a 15 minute delay was even worse.
FUCKING HELL THE END OF THE AFCON FINAL…. UNBELIEVABLE
January 18, 2026 at 9:16 PM
FUCKING HELL THE END OF THE AFCON FINAL…. UNBELIEVABLE
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every provocateur who wangs on all the time about Britain being “broken” should be sent to an actual failed state or autocracy for a month as a learning experience, there’s no shortage of them
January 17, 2026 at 3:12 PM
every provocateur who wangs on all the time about Britain being “broken” should be sent to an actual failed state or autocracy for a month as a learning experience, there’s no shortage of them
This is the version of Carrick at Boro when the team had pace to get in behind and stretch the game. Picking pockets and bursting into space. United look decent.
January 17, 2026 at 1:07 PM
This is the version of Carrick at Boro when the team had pace to get in behind and stretch the game. Picking pockets and bursting into space. United look decent.
I’m going to send this to the White House if that’s what we’re doing with all our accolades.
January 17, 2026 at 11:30 AM
I’m going to send this to the White House if that’s what we’re doing with all our accolades.
Burgzorg now surely worth at least £60 million.
January 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Burgzorg now surely worth at least £60 million.