David Webber 🇵🇸
@drdavewebber.bsky.social
#6MusicDad to Daniel, Evie, and Reuben. A lifelong Red playing on the Left. Thinks a lot and writes a bit on the political economy of football.
Fair play to Galatasaray there but my word, that was woeful again from Liverpool.
He surely has too much quality not to come good eventually but Wirtz looks well off the pace. He’s not produced anything like what we saw Harvey Elliott do in a red shirt.
He surely has too much quality not to come good eventually but Wirtz looks well off the pace. He’s not produced anything like what we saw Harvey Elliott do in a red shirt.
September 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Fair play to Galatasaray there but my word, that was woeful again from Liverpool.
He surely has too much quality not to come good eventually but Wirtz looks well off the pace. He’s not produced anything like what we saw Harvey Elliott do in a red shirt.
He surely has too much quality not to come good eventually but Wirtz looks well off the pace. He’s not produced anything like what we saw Harvey Elliott do in a red shirt.
The fierce, astounding and life-affirming @selfesteem.music-social.com dazzled Manchester on Saturday night.
September 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The fierce, astounding and life-affirming @selfesteem.music-social.com dazzled Manchester on Saturday night.
This thread. This is the thread. 🧵
Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵
September 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This thread. This is the thread. 🧵
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Tomorrow’s front page of the @liverpoolecho.co.uk on a momentous day
September 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Tomorrow’s front page of the @liverpoolecho.co.uk on a momentous day
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It's not just the violence they need to condemn. It's the politics. They condemned the violence last summer and then spent the entire subsequent year pandering to the politics. That's why we are where we are.
Everyone saying PM shd condemn far right violence in London yday (Shabana Mahmood already has)/ leave X is right. But same for Kemi Badenoch. No Conservative Party can condone thugs attacking police horses & calls for violent uprising. Even Farage has gone up against Yaxley-Lennon ffs.
September 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
It's not just the violence they need to condemn. It's the politics. They condemned the violence last summer and then spent the entire subsequent year pandering to the politics. That's why we are where we are.
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I see Stone Island co-opted by the far Right.
If only these fascist pricks knew that Massimo Osti was not only a fully paid up member of the Communist Party of Italy, but he was *even more radical* and even more left-wing in his views than the official CPI.
If only these fascist pricks knew that Massimo Osti was not only a fully paid up member of the Communist Party of Italy, but he was *even more radical* and even more left-wing in his views than the official CPI.
September 14, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I see Stone Island co-opted by the far Right.
If only these fascist pricks knew that Massimo Osti was not only a fully paid up member of the Communist Party of Italy, but he was *even more radical* and even more left-wing in his views than the official CPI.
If only these fascist pricks knew that Massimo Osti was not only a fully paid up member of the Communist Party of Italy, but he was *even more radical* and even more left-wing in his views than the official CPI.
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*PSA Blog* Has the Green moment finally arrived in UK politics?
With Zack Polanski’s rise, the Greens could be on the verge of a historic breakthrough — but can he be popular without being populist?
Read Matthew Flinders’ new PSA blog:
With Zack Polanski’s rise, the Greens could be on the verge of a historic breakthrough — but can he be popular without being populist?
Read Matthew Flinders’ new PSA blog:
Has the Green Moment Finally Arrived in the UK? | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
The tectonic plates of British party politics appear to be shifting at an ever-increasing rate. Long suppressed public frustrations are being vented by a new breed of populist insurgent parties.But…
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September 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
*PSA Blog* Has the Green moment finally arrived in UK politics?
With Zack Polanski’s rise, the Greens could be on the verge of a historic breakthrough — but can he be popular without being populist?
Read Matthew Flinders’ new PSA blog:
With Zack Polanski’s rise, the Greens could be on the verge of a historic breakthrough — but can he be popular without being populist?
Read Matthew Flinders’ new PSA blog:
Made up that @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @mothinali.bsky.social have been elected as leader and deputy leader of the @greenparty.org.uk
Big personalities and bold politics to not only take on but overcome the failures of Labour and the threat of Reform.
Big personalities and bold politics to not only take on but overcome the failures of Labour and the threat of Reform.
September 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Made up that @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @mothinali.bsky.social have been elected as leader and deputy leader of the @greenparty.org.uk
Big personalities and bold politics to not only take on but overcome the failures of Labour and the threat of Reform.
Big personalities and bold politics to not only take on but overcome the failures of Labour and the threat of Reform.
You have to laugh at Coral’s shameless “even the ref’s at it” line in their latest ad.
It just underlines the absolute contempt the betting industry has for football.
It just underlines the absolute contempt the betting industry has for football.
August 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
You have to laugh at Coral’s shameless “even the ref’s at it” line in their latest ad.
It just underlines the absolute contempt the betting industry has for football.
It just underlines the absolute contempt the betting industry has for football.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
August 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Absolutely no way are we retaining the title with this defence. I’d lash the Isak money on Guehi, and quick.
August 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Absolutely no way are we retaining the title with this defence. I’d lash the Isak money on Guehi, and quick.
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Maybe Newcastle fans singing “Premier League, corrupt as fuck” is encouraging in terms of a recognition that the PL probably shouldn’t have allowed their club to be owned by ‘Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund’? 😃
August 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Maybe Newcastle fans singing “Premier League, corrupt as fuck” is encouraging in terms of a recognition that the PL probably shouldn’t have allowed their club to be owned by ‘Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund’? 😃
Another 4-3 incoming here. 🙃
August 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Another 4-3 incoming here. 🙃
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It’s fucking disgusting
Framing the honouring of Palestinian rights as a punishment for Israel and the denial of them as a reward is not conducive to any "peace process", on multiple levels.
July 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It’s fucking disgusting
There’s doing the things the hard way…and then there’s the Lionesses’ way.
My word. 😮💨
My word. 😮💨
July 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
There’s doing the things the hard way…and then there’s the Lionesses’ way.
My word. 😮💨
My word. 😮💨
Remember when everyone was falling over themselves to tell us how amazing and ‘proper’ Leicester’s owners were. Real fairytale stuff.
New.
Leicester were set to unveil their kit for the new season last week, but the announcement was postponed. Was it because their new sponsor KBET is a hitherto unknown – and illegal – online bookmaker?
By @philippeauclair.bsky.social
josimarfootball.com/2025/07/21/r...
Leicester were set to unveil their kit for the new season last week, but the announcement was postponed. Was it because their new sponsor KBET is a hitherto unknown – and illegal – online bookmaker?
By @philippeauclair.bsky.social
josimarfootball.com/2025/07/21/r...
Running like a fox - josimarfootball.com
Leicester were set to unveil their kit for the new season last week, but the announcement was postponed. Was it because their new sponsor KBET is a hitherto unknown – and illegal – online bookmaker?
josimarfootball.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Remember when everyone was falling over themselves to tell us how amazing and ‘proper’ Leicester’s owners were. Real fairytale stuff.
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📣 New BJPIR article out now!
'Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport' by Paul Michael Brannagan, Jonathan Grix & Alessio Norrito
Find the full article in #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/zjv7m4s
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
'Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport' by Paul Michael Brannagan, Jonathan Grix & Alessio Norrito
Find the full article in #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/zjv7m4s
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport
buff.ly
July 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM
📣 New BJPIR article out now!
'Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport' by Paul Michael Brannagan, Jonathan Grix & Alessio Norrito
Find the full article in #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/zjv7m4s
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
'Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport' by Paul Michael Brannagan, Jonathan Grix & Alessio Norrito
Find the full article in #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/zjv7m4s
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
Now *that* is a penalty shootout. Incredible quality from both France and Germany.
What a performance from Ann-Katrin Berger 🔥🧤
What a performance from Ann-Katrin Berger 🔥🧤
July 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Now *that* is a penalty shootout. Incredible quality from both France and Germany.
What a performance from Ann-Katrin Berger 🔥🧤
What a performance from Ann-Katrin Berger 🔥🧤
How the hell have England won that.
July 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
How the hell have England won that.
We’ve reached the point where taking penalties really should be on the school curriculum.
July 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We’ve reached the point where taking penalties really should be on the school curriculum.
Forget the hype, the ticket fiasco, the cash-ins and the collaborations… the only thing that mattered last night was the music. And Oasis returned to Manchester at the peak of their considerable powers.
July 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Forget the hype, the ticket fiasco, the cash-ins and the collaborations… the only thing that mattered last night was the music. And Oasis returned to Manchester at the peak of their considerable powers.
On the 35th anniversary of the final of Italia ‘90, now is as good a time as any to plug my chapter in ‘World Cup!’.
It offers a Gramscian analysis of the cultural politics of ‘Nessun Dorma’, ‘World In Motion’ and the trasformismo of English football that followed.
vernonpress.com/book/2320
It offers a Gramscian analysis of the cultural politics of ‘Nessun Dorma’, ‘World In Motion’ and the trasformismo of English football that followed.
vernonpress.com/book/2320
World Cup! History, Politics, and Art of the Beautiful Game
Explore 'World Cup! History, Politics, and Art of the Beautiful Game,' a global look at football’s culture, politics, and impact.
vernonpress.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
On the 35th anniversary of the final of Italia ‘90, now is as good a time as any to plug my chapter in ‘World Cup!’.
It offers a Gramscian analysis of the cultural politics of ‘Nessun Dorma’, ‘World In Motion’ and the trasformismo of English football that followed.
vernonpress.com/book/2320
It offers a Gramscian analysis of the cultural politics of ‘Nessun Dorma’, ‘World In Motion’ and the trasformismo of English football that followed.
vernonpress.com/book/2320
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"He’ll always be alive to us. He’ll always be 28 in our hearts. He’ll always be lifting that trophy, those trophies. He’ll always wear the number 20. He always did lead us to victory."
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Diogo Jota's Legacy Will Live On Through Liverpool
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July 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"He’ll always be alive to us. He’ll always be 28 in our hearts. He’ll always be lifting that trophy, those trophies. He’ll always wear the number 20. He always did lead us to victory."
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