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Sports historian MA writer and lover of boxing/LFC. Author 5 books you haven’t read. Block 306 Views=my own. Support @teenagecancer

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Look what you could’ve won…
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The grand old duke of york He had £12million quid He gave it to a girl he’d never met For something he never did…
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5 years
@EmmaBurnell_ No. This is heartbreaking.
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2 years
One of the most underrated @lfc players ever. Fact. You dont get into that early 80s side without being shit hot.
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8 months
The journey continues
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5 years
Hello @SkySports @BBCSport @talkSPORTLive just to let you know football existed for a loooooong time before 1992. I remember it. I was there. So was @Realaldo474 @LFC
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4 years
Shankly lives forever. @LFC
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5 months
Never get tired of this ha. Need to put it up again somewhere soon.
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3 years
@LFC we’ve come a long long way together
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2 years
Journey continues. #PEWL
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3 years
Gutted that Liverpool’s first loss in 25 games sees us relegated and knocked out of every cup competition at the same time. Who knew?
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Gary Shaw
4 years
@brhoades88 @maobxby People have every right to ask police why they are asking for ID. if it’s not a legitimate one - which this obviously isn’t - then you don’t have to. If they arrest you (for what tho?) all that happens is you will get off and get compo at some point. Waste of time & illegal.
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7 years
Just in case you need reminding LFC have won 1 trophy in 10 seasons. One of worst runs in our history. But it makes owners money. Lots of it
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4 years
Life. Goes on day after day. Hearts. Torn in every way. So ferry, cross the Mersey. Cos this lands the place I love And here I’ll stay. RIP
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5 years
@bbclaurak No. This is brutal. Get a grip.
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3 years
Missed connecting train. So why the fk not? @liverpoolcrown
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8 months
Journey continues. On the rooftop bar. 2
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3 years
Lijnders over gerrard all day every day. For ever. Sorry.
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2 years
@_JakeeLFC_ we also win it in 2005 with djimi traore. its not about the long ball or the short ball - its about the right ball.
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4 months
Since. Nineteen. Ninety Five.
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9 years
Never forget. Paisley. Boss of bosses
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8 months
the journey continues
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4 years
@wmarybeard @DouglasCarswell please do. i love it when experts win. i doubt the non-expert will take you up on this though!
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Gary Shaw
2 years
@MikeReigns4 @KayBurley spot on. people generally believe the evidence of their senses. for all the supposed nuance & calmness you say you showed here thats not what most people saw. the fact someone in your position is gaslighting the public in this way & refuses to see it is both startling & dangerous
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Gary Shaw
3 months
Increase ticket prices without considering or consulting fans groups. Including the official one on the board. Said groups down flags. Atmosphere shite. Starting 11 even worse. This is what happens. without fans no club is anything.
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3 years
@david_conn so police officers - and lawyers - amending statements after the fact so as to reduce culpability of inactions that led to deaths AND to enhance positive reactions that just WERE NOT there on the day.... is ok? joke
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2 years
Going the match tmrw? Minutes silence? Stay on the concourse and have a bevvy or a pie with your mates. No need to stand for a silence you dont want for a media who despise you. Just stay out the way. See you at the lift. Bring a hip flask.
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Gary Shaw
7 years
Bob Paisley. 3 times in 5 years #capoditutticapi
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7 years
Finally got them all
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Gary Shaw
4 years
Just a reminder that Jacob Rees mogg said Grenfell residents died because they lacked the ‘common sense’ to flee the blazing building. One was a 5 yr old boy who said he’d be ok cos SpiderMan would rescue him. & people still vote for these fkn lizards? & give them airtime? Fk off
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Gary Shaw
5 years
@jonawils @mrjamesob ‘We love Churchill cos he advocates gassing other races and killing striking workers and their families’ doesn’t quite have the same ring tho.
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Gary Shaw
2 years
@BBCHelena Gutted. I really am. Said no one. As footy fans from a provincial NW english city speak truth to power more than your employer has in half a fkn century. Do one.
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6 years
@EmiratesFACup @LFC He’s just a teenage right back baby
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Gary Shaw
2 years
Yep. Loved the way tyler actually ejaculated the moment grealish touched the ball in our box too.
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Jim Boardman
2 years
The disappointment in the commentary box as Mahrez fired over.
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Gary Shaw
4 years
@william92118505 @0Calamity Plaque commemorating it in Liverpool. Not much but it’s something.
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2 years
We climbed the hill in our own way
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4 years
Not just sausage egg and chips. Madrid Sausage egg and chips.
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4 years
@StuBrennanMEN hahahahaha jesus wept.
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1 year
@Keir_Starmer Lad. Seriously? Do one. Do you not get it yet? Look at the ratios for this. Do you not get it yet? In the staunchest labour city in the country we see you. You’re a liar. And a fraud. You make me sick.
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4 years
He does.
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@piersmorgan please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please
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Gary Shaw
5 years
@TonyBarrett Best defender I’ve ever seen. He has redefined the position. Not many players get to do that. Him and allison are the main reasons for our current standing.
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Gary Shaw
2 years
Just a reminder for @LFC fans that @wembleystadium semi finals for @fa cup are scheduled for this easter saturday - 16 April. The same weekend that there are engineering works on the west coast mainline and NO trains to/from euston are on. AT ALL. Putting fans first eh?
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2 years
30 years la. Still miss you. See you again one day hopefully and we can talk about the reds over a decent warm bitter.
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@gardens90 @BareLeft Hahahahaha wow. It Literally says socialist on the fkn membership card.
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Gary Shaw
5 years
Every time I’ve been to Germany it’s been boss. People are sound. Food good and beer even better. WTF is up with these fkn loons at leave shouting like the arl racists we’d thought we’d cast off for good in the 70s and 80s. Fkn shameful it really is. Get a fkn life
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Gary Shaw
3 years
There’s a football club in Thailand called Anfield. Their kit manufacturer? Deffo.
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@charles_stevo Singing where mate? At what game? I must have missed us playing in the middle of the night. Who knew?
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Watched the reds since 76. Regular since 79. This is one hell of a side. In fact they’re fkn brilliant. @HuytonFattie @mackin_john @TonyBarrett @TonyEvans92a @LFC @TheAnfieldWrap @TheRedmenTV @TheFarm_Peter @BrianReade @MarkPlatt73 @bruceyleas up the wonderful table topping reds!
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3 years
How are we?
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klopp's meaning to me? no gushing, no sentimentality, no over the top romanticism. I enjoyed winning games. Lots of them. Some mediocre. Some jammy. Most pure fkn top class togger. Thats it.
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Gary Shaw
3 years
@MaddockMirror Can’t shake the fact that Liverpool’s defensive record since we lost VVD is second best only to city. Then again. Why let facts get in the way of sensational headlines. It can’t be the forwards can it? Checks notes. It is. Yawn.
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Gary Shaw
2 years
@AaronBastani @Effiedeans Dont detest people who caused this. Sound.
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Gary Shaw
5 years
You didn’t get it wrong. You did exactly what you always do simply repeat what so called Tory sources tell you without verification. You have failed level 1 journalism. Wtf is the point of you anymore? You’ve destroyed your profession. Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.
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It is completely clear from video footage that @MattHancock 's adviser was not whacked by a protestor, as I was told by senior Tories, but that he inadvertently walked into a protestor's hand. I apologise for getting this wrong.
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@mcfc_jim Spurs lost a third of their games. 19/57. Finished 3rd and got to a CL final. Let’s just give the trophies to city and Madrid and Barca before a balls been kicked eh? to not understand this is to not understand the meaning of sport or the competition.
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3 years
Who knew?
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2 years
Journey continues #PEWL
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Gary Shaw
10 years
@ClassicPict @Powerfulpixs it isn't tho is it? Not a cure. Not a secret. Guy whom owns it is a quack. U can buy from him. Doesn't work.
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5 years
@Simon_Hughes__ Biggest club in the world.
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3 years
Just a reminder. Having the NHS app on ya phone and downloading your vaccination/booster status AND wearing a mask is not the end of the fkn world. Was in milan last week. Italians can do it without resorting to fkn hyperbole & utter bollocks. Why cant we FFS? Gang of fkn melts.
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Gary Shaw
2 years
@ItsBigZuu Check the date mate. Not really on tbh. Could you jot have done this yesterday?
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Gary Shaw
4 years
so derby where reds can win league set for goodison not neutral ground other end of country. lets make it clear now. if u turn up outside the ground with ur mates to 'celebrate' either a title win/rare derby win then you're a bad melt. watch/listen elsewhere. keep everyone safe
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Clemence was our keeper when I first started going game with my dad uncle and cousin. Seemed to last forever. Grew up with him between the sticks till I was a teenager. Another link with my past and my dads gone. RIP. Thoughts with family. A proper legend. One of England’s best.
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8 years
Gonna win this 5-4.
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@NotTheToryPress @OwenSmith_MP so bad things happening to labour is fault of leader but when good things happen its down to others? Sound
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3 years
Time for a long break. Everything is toxic. Country damaged beyond repair for me. simple requests to reduce inequality & simply act fairly is met with sneers of pure venom. Even from supposed liberals. Can’t see way back. Somethings got to give. it won’t be those in power.
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Gary Shaw
5 years
Don’t care if Messi is the greatest player football has ever seen. I want him crying his tax avoiding eyes out on Tuesday night. That’s the way I see football. That’s the way I see life.
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4 years
How are we?
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Gary Shaw
5 years
Liverpool’s current top 3 is the best I have ever seen. I am near 50. Lads I know ages 70-80 say the same. Anyone disagree? We at unbelievable and unbearable. Long may it continue. Up the pool!
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4 years
Local pubs congratulating @lfc on winning league in 76. How many are left? ⁦ @mackin_john ⁩ ⁦ @HuytonFattie ⁩ ⁦ @angiesliverpool
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2 years
Shouting shoot at the match whenever matip gets the ball proves you wash your hair in hot dog water. Meffs.
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3 years
Sorry to let all of you fkn LFC virgins know but Chelsea are a fkn very good side. Yer we had hard luck against 10 men but this isnt fkn fifa. They will be hard to beat. They’re champions of Europe for a reason. Get a win there and I’ll be made up. Draw ok.
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6 years
Any chance @LFCTV can postpone season ticket payment deadline by a month due to Kiev final? Would go down well. It’s expensive for most. @LivEchoLFC @TheAnfieldWrap @bbcmerseysport @TonyBarrett
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@FT you ok? this isnt new? we have called this 'capitalism' 'thatcherism' 'conservatism' for a while now...
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@paulmasonnews i consider myself politically attuned - insightful even - but anyone saying lab are gonna go some way to privatising the NHS isnt wrong imo. and is pretty much the opinion of everyone i know - some of whom actually work in the NHS. so (checks notes) wind ya neck in.
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@DavidVeevers1 Immediately after the war and up until the late 60s i think, this was asked regularly and the answer was always the soviet union. Which of course is correct.
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Gary Shaw
8 years
Meanwhile. Somewhere in Liverpool.
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Gary Shaw
10 years
Scott quigg beat hidenori othake of japan @EchoArena tonight. The visitors cornermen wore these t-shirts. #respect http://t.co/EbnflbAVUy
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4 years
No words. If you know you know.
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Callum on verge of greatest ever victory by a British fighter abroad. Good luck lad. If he does it does he leapfrog @TonyBellew to be Liverpool’s greatest ever fighter? Discuss.
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John Dennen
4 years
I will say @CallumSmith23 has improved his Blue Steel pose for the cameras. An important addition to his repertoire
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@praisehonk @KevJames27 @NickColbert @Martintenorsax @BorisJohnson I don’t get to vote for my head of state either. Nor can anyone of my religion be the head of state. Just saying.
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Gary Shaw
4 years
@davidschneider You’re comparing joy with apathy mate. I’m neither happy/sad. just not arsed a paper that often went out of its way to reinforce blatant lies about a labour leader who was democratically elected twice - thus helping the tories maintain power - has now met the real world.
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Gary Shaw
5 years
former Liverpool middleweight joe Lally passed away 2day after long illness. Tough fighter had 2 great fights v Robbie Davies snr. 1 amateur 1 pro. latter gone down in Mersey boxing folklore. 10 bells 4 him 2night on @MTKGlobal show. Privilege 2 interview him 4 Mersey fighters
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5 years
Up the pool.
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Gary Shaw
4 years
Clemence is our goalie the best there is around. And keegan was the greatest that shankly ever found. Heighway is our favourite a wizard of the game. And heres’s the mighty toshack to do it once again.
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Gary Shaw
9 years
Good luck to @VentureBoxing Chloe Watson this weekend in Elgin. English champ v Scottish champ. Zzzt zzzt BOOM @coachdank @seantrodden
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Gary Shaw
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Lost you 27 years today. If there’s anything after we go then just a 10 second hug will do me. See you soon la.
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@greggevans40 @adjones_journo Newcastle? Really? Erm that would be a no. sorry mate. you're wrong here.
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@UKLabour @Keir_Starmer seen some disreputable politicians in my time - but you're right up there lad. right up there.
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Gary Shaw
8 years
Sakho needs a flag. His image plus a quote....'win it for the Liverpool country.' #LFC
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