Alan
@ramblingalan.bsky.social
Have spent most of my adult life working in equality and football, sometimes (including just now) in a combination of the two. Dad, husband, militant pragmatist and realist about everything except whether I can still play football at 38…
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This is just simple queerphobia. Utterly nasty. And to do this days after Jamie Greene, a gay MSP, left the party? Absolutely proving his point.
The absolute state of Scottish politics right now. Completely and utterly shameful. Physically sickens me.
The absolute state of Scottish politics right now. Completely and utterly shameful. Physically sickens me.
April 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is just simple queerphobia. Utterly nasty. And to do this days after Jamie Greene, a gay MSP, left the party? Absolutely proving his point.
The absolute state of Scottish politics right now. Completely and utterly shameful. Physically sickens me.
The absolute state of Scottish politics right now. Completely and utterly shameful. Physically sickens me.
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“There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson
March 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson
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There's a worrying link between this & Labour's position on asylum & immigration.
They know that populist & far right forces are targeting these minorities, but instead of challenging the right's hateful rhetoric they are trying to copy it.
This isn't just directly harmful, it's also doomed to fail.
They know that populist & far right forces are targeting these minorities, but instead of challenging the right's hateful rhetoric they are trying to copy it.
This isn't just directly harmful, it's also doomed to fail.
NEW: Anas Sarwar has said Scottish Labour 'regrets' supporting the Gender Recognition Reform bill.
'Knowing what we know now, we would not have supported the bill,' the Scottish Labour leader told the Holyrood Sources podcast in a screeching U-turn
'Knowing what we know now, we would not have supported the bill,' the Scottish Labour leader told the Holyrood Sources podcast in a screeching U-turn
February 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
There's a worrying link between this & Labour's position on asylum & immigration.
They know that populist & far right forces are targeting these minorities, but instead of challenging the right's hateful rhetoric they are trying to copy it.
This isn't just directly harmful, it's also doomed to fail.
They know that populist & far right forces are targeting these minorities, but instead of challenging the right's hateful rhetoric they are trying to copy it.
This isn't just directly harmful, it's also doomed to fail.
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Plymouth beating Liverpool and Queens Park beating Rangers in the space of an hour. Nothing beats domestic cup football. Straight knockouts. No two legs or elongated leagues for a big club safety net. Randomness and unpredictability are what make football so brilliant.
February 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Plymouth beating Liverpool and Queens Park beating Rangers in the space of an hour. Nothing beats domestic cup football. Straight knockouts. No two legs or elongated leagues for a big club safety net. Randomness and unpredictability are what make football so brilliant.
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Thirty years ago today
January 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Thirty years ago today
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FIFA couldn't find a broadcaster for its Club World Cup.
Miraculously, DAZN stepped in late (at a fraction of the price FIFA intended to get).
But DAZN (operating loss of $1bn + in 2023) would need help to finance the deal. Who'd step in?
Lo and behold...
www.financemiddleeast.com/news/saudi-a...
Miraculously, DAZN stepped in late (at a fraction of the price FIFA intended to get).
But DAZN (operating loss of $1bn + in 2023) would need help to finance the deal. Who'd step in?
Lo and behold...
www.financemiddleeast.com/news/saudi-a...
Saudi Arabia's PIF in advanced talks for $1 billion stake in DAZN - Finance Middle East
The potential deal would involve PIF acquiring approximately a 10% stake in DAZN.
www.financemiddleeast.com
January 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
FIFA couldn't find a broadcaster for its Club World Cup.
Miraculously, DAZN stepped in late (at a fraction of the price FIFA intended to get).
But DAZN (operating loss of $1bn + in 2023) would need help to finance the deal. Who'd step in?
Lo and behold...
www.financemiddleeast.com/news/saudi-a...
Miraculously, DAZN stepped in late (at a fraction of the price FIFA intended to get).
But DAZN (operating loss of $1bn + in 2023) would need help to finance the deal. Who'd step in?
Lo and behold...
www.financemiddleeast.com/news/saudi-a...
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🥳 COMPETITION
Yo, it's Xmas-ish and our shop is full of wonkily doodled football nonsense - SO as we're new here & still trying to rediscover our Twitter pals (& hopefully vice versa) if would be ace if you could share this post & we'll chuck a free set of mugs to 2 lucky RTers
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Yo, it's Xmas-ish and our shop is full of wonkily doodled football nonsense - SO as we're new here & still trying to rediscover our Twitter pals (& hopefully vice versa) if would be ace if you could share this post & we'll chuck a free set of mugs to 2 lucky RTers
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December 6, 2024 at 8:39 PM
🥳 COMPETITION
Yo, it's Xmas-ish and our shop is full of wonkily doodled football nonsense - SO as we're new here & still trying to rediscover our Twitter pals (& hopefully vice versa) if would be ace if you could share this post & we'll chuck a free set of mugs to 2 lucky RTers
🛒 noscoredraws.com
Yo, it's Xmas-ish and our shop is full of wonkily doodled football nonsense - SO as we're new here & still trying to rediscover our Twitter pals (& hopefully vice versa) if would be ace if you could share this post & we'll chuck a free set of mugs to 2 lucky RTers
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I genuinely don't know where to start with this bizarre suggestion. Badenoch seems to think that a decade and a half of hard right austerity economics was secretly a communist plot.
An excerpt from a new Kemi Badenoch speech in which she says the Conservatives “talked Right, but governed Left” and appears to accuse her opponents of “smuggling” in communism:
December 6, 2024 at 12:05 PM
I genuinely don't know where to start with this bizarre suggestion. Badenoch seems to think that a decade and a half of hard right austerity economics was secretly a communist plot.
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During the war, much of that charity went towards injured servicemen and their families.
Post-war, these charitable causes widened to include striking miners - which didn't go down particularly well with The FA.
nationalfootballmuseum.com/stories/women-footballers-supported-striking-miners/
Post-war, these charitable causes widened to include striking miners - which didn't go down particularly well with The FA.
nationalfootballmuseum.com/stories/women-footballers-supported-striking-miners/
The women footballers who supported striking miners
Exactly a century ago struggling striking miners received support from an unlikely source - women footballers.
nationalfootballmuseum.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:43 AM
During the war, much of that charity went towards injured servicemen and their families.
Post-war, these charitable causes widened to include striking miners - which didn't go down particularly well with The FA.
nationalfootballmuseum.com/stories/women-footballers-supported-striking-miners/
Post-war, these charitable causes widened to include striking miners - which didn't go down particularly well with The FA.
nationalfootballmuseum.com/stories/women-footballers-supported-striking-miners/