I have some news. In April I’ll be running the London Marathon for
@macmillancancer
. They helped my amazing Aunty so much and any donations would be amazing. I’m going to raffle a series of prizes over the next few months to really add to the admin (1/3)
Just to be clear, you’re only allowed to mock Paul McCartney if you’re also 80, have written Eleanor Rigby, She’s Leaving Home, Blackbird, Yesterday, Let It Be, Can’t Buy Me Love, Helter Skelter and Band on the Run, and still feel like getting out and playing live
So today is my last day after 12 years at
@talkSPORT
. A new challenge awaits, but I leave with amazing memories of the best office in the land and the ten years I’ve spent with H&J - the best radio presenters anywhere. Long live
@tshandj
and long live
@talkSPORT
.
And there we are. Nothing could prepare me for how tough that was. And to paraphrase Steve Redgrave, if you see me in a pair of running shoes again - shoot me. But what an experience, a reasonable 4:33 time and £3500 raised for
@macmillancancer
!
London Marathon, over and out.
Whatever happens next season, we now have our club back and a property developer spent six million quid and seven years to achieve absolutely sod all. Let’s agree today is a good day 💛
Well my mentions got interesting. Mostly lots of nice Macca love. A fair amount of I HAVE A RIGHT TO AN OPINION which of course you do. And a light sprinkling of utterly absurd logic (see below for details)
Not often I get to chat about Torquay at work but what a guy
@Angus_Mac15
is. His positivity in the face of adversity is inspiring, no doubt he’ll be back even stronger 💪🏻
Took my six year old nephew to his first
#TUFC
game today, the same age as when my uncle took me. He got to meet Gary Johnson and Lewis Collins and saw Frank Nouble score two. I was hooked then, he’s hooked now and that’s sort of all that matters. Oh and we’re staying up
I’m very lucky and just saw my team play a football game for the first time in a year. And we scored an 80th minute winner. I absolutely love football 💛
In case you were wondering how much fun supporting Torquay is, we played a 2010 Spain-esque, False 9, no-striker formation tonight and lost at home to Altrincham
Here’s the absolutely useless decision from Saturday that should’ve seen Welling’s keeper sent off at 0-0. Could’ve seriously injured
@jake_andrews1
but referee Ryan Atkin gives a yellow
We easily WIN this game with LEGAL GOALS SCORED. We had such a big lead late into the game, only to see the lead miraculously disappear. Crawley are trying to steal the FA Cup. STOP THE FRAUD!
Despite the fact Neil Warnock has seemingly walked off the end of the harbour (and we’ve all been there on a rainy day in Torquay), I’m in love with my club again
I can’t pretend to know what happens now, but I do know it’s the day I feared ever since Clarke Osborne walked in, and I’m very, very happy to see him go.
Anyone want to buy a football club?
🟡 Message To Supporters
Following Clarke Osborne’s statement confirming the intention to appoint an administrator, the club wishes to update supporters.
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#tufc
I’ve worked on the show for seven years now and still have the most fun each day. From Russia to Cheltenham and all points in between, Paul and Andy are just the best
🎉 𝙃𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮 𝘼𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙧𝙮! 🎂
Paul and Andy are today celebrating their 20th birthday presenting on talkSPORT!
Got a question for the guys? 🤔
Tweet us below and they’ll answer the best questions on Twitter after the show today!
That was….bad. Unfortunately I can’t tell you how bad as, thanks to Dorking’s tinpot secondary school PE pitch ground, I couldn’t see a thing. But it sounded very very bad.
#TUFC
Shane Warne was my hero. The man who made me obsessed with cricket and had me spending all day in the garden trying to copy him. 20 years later I opened a door to the balcony in the media centre at The Oval to find him stood there. I could barely speak. This is such a sad day.
My final game of this wretched, cursed season, and a 200 mile, 5 hour round trip to see a 1-0 defeat with no shots seems an appropriate way to see it off. Get in the fucking bin.
Setting off for Havant & Waterlooville as the lovely folks at
@bbcdevonsport
have asked me to be their expert
#TUFC
summariser again. I now lay bare the full horror of the last 10 years of the Gulls in the FA Cup…
So after a mere 30 months of waiting, and several thousand forms filled out, I’m now officially an Irish citizen. And incredibly proud to be so. Slàinte! 🇮🇪
This was the most shocking news to get. This is the last time I saw Andy, at Cheltenham in March where of course he’d given us all another winner. What a life, one lived totally and utterly to the full with his unmistakeable laugh. He had it right.
Shocking news.Andy Smart has died. We the Comedy Store Players are utterly heartbroken. We cannot say how much we will miss him. He was a joy. He laughed more than anyone we knew. He did so much crazy stuff but mostly he made our little world way more fun. We loved him so much.
Here’s a lovely picture of The Gulls just after they went 2-1 up against Hemel Hempstead in the 84th minute. If you like, join me in just imagining we saw the game out from there nice and easily like the full time professionals we are
Through what I can only assume is sheer desperation,
@bbcdevonsport
have asked me to be their expert summariser at Notts County today. We’re on the BBC Sounds app. Come on the boys!
#TUFC
I asked Gary Johnson to come on
@talkSPORT
earlier but didn’t hear back. He just phoned me whilst I was in Sainsbury’s to apologise. He’s a top guy, massively enthusiastic about the job ahead and desperate to turn things round
#TUFC
I’ve checked the weather forecast for Old Trafford so obsessively over the last four days I’m now close to qualifying as a meteorologist. And let me say now if AccuWeather is right about today and we get some cricket, I promise to never use any other weather app ever again.
@TheTorbayWeekly
This isn’t an interview, it’s a barely disguised press release without a single challenging question in sight. A complete waste of everyone’s time
🎙️The Telegraph is delighted to announce our new daily news podcast, The Daily T
Launching in May, this flagship show will feature agenda-setting news, interviews, debate and discussion from The Telegraph’s newsroom.
Every Monday-Thursday at 5pm
@CamillaTominey
and
FULL-TIME | United extend their lead to 7 points at the top of the league after securing a 3-1 victory against Chelmsford City, courtesy of goals from Lemonheigh-Evans, Reid and Andrews.
#tufc
#TORvCHE
From Bristol Rovers to Reading to Milton Keynes to Poole to Swindon. Across football, speedway and greyhounds, Clarke Osborne has never built a single promised new stadium. And that’s probably all that needs to be said
🟡 Chairman Provides Update Following Club AGM
Following Torquay United AFC's Annual General Meeting on Friday, Chairman Clarke Osborne provided an update to the Club's shareholders.
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#tufc
The morning after and it’s still hard to summon the words. So this is what I’ve got - join the
@TUSTCOYY
. I did it this morning and it’s £2 a month. If you’re as suspicious of/worried about the state of our ownership and what comes next as I am, it’s the best thing you can do.
Well this is sad news. Murray came in and recorded My Sporting Life with
@dannykellywords
in 2012 - I was totally starstruck, but he was everything you wanted him to be. An iconic voice, and WHAT a life!
Former Formula 1 commentator Murray Walker has died at the age of 97.
He commentated on his first grand prix race for the BBC at Silverstone in 1949 and became a full-time
#F1
commentator in 1978.
I was one of the 77 tonight and honestly? We deserved a point. We actually weren’t that bad. Or at least Maidstone weren’t that good. But 1 win from 9 speaks for itself, a very very long way from being good enough
It’s great that the whole country is currently getting to experience the absooute misery of a 0-0 against Boreham Wood. Welcome to our world. Love, the National League
I’ve been on a plane that took off when we were 1-0 up, and I think a mid-air cabin depressurisation would have been only marginally less painful than landing to this brand new absolute low point in our history
An absolute doughnut of a referee. The usual Woking antics. And this
#TUFC
side battled away, got a great point and could very easily have nicked all three. Yellows 4 Life
BREAKING: Lib Dems GAIN Tiverton and Honiton
Lib Dems: 22537
Conservatives: 16393
Labour: 1562
Majority: 6144
That’s extraordinary. The Conservatives had 60% of the vote at the last election. The Lib Dems have won it. And won it by a big, big margin.
Not how I’d usually spend St Patrick’s Day but with the London Marathon 5 weeks today, 30km it was. Amazingly we’ve reached my target for
@macmillancancer
thanks to your donations, but I’d love to push on to £3000! Anything you can spare ☘️🇮🇪
This is a brilliant piece by Daniel on our utterly miserable existence under Clarke Osborne. Things on and off the pitch must change, we have to keep the pressure on, and that starts with
@TUSTCOYY
’s protest on Saturday
For 79 unbroken years, Torquay United were a proud Football League club. Now, thanks to a doomed stadium plan, declining results and a refusal to communicate with desperate supporters, they have reached their lowest ebb. And fans are angry.
We’re Boreham Wood. We issue a statement saying the game’s definitely on the day before, encourage fans to buy tickets at £20 a pop, and then call it off with an hour to go. Forever tinpot.
❌ 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐃
We can confirm that today's
@TheVanaramaNL
fixture with
@TUFC1899
has been postponed due to the match referee having concern around an area of the pitch
We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused
#WeAreTheWood
Yes we lost 1-0 at home to Maidstone but Devon confirmed itself as the most beautiful place in these isles and that’s got to be worth at least a point if not more
Can I encourage all TUFC fans to bombard
@TheVanaramaNL
with complaints. As ever, rather than own up to an unwatchable streaming service, they show total contempt for fans and send hundreds of identical replies blaming user error. They won’t be getting another penny from me
This coat
@BakersTweet
got me as a lovely present is brilliant because it is a) very warm and b) gets you in to any lower league football ground as a member of the backroom team
Have you ever been mistaken for a footballer like producer John was last night wearing this?
Or have you ever blagged your way in with an item of clothing?
Let us know 👇
Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, making it legal for market stalls, shops and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system post-Brexit
⏱ FULL-TIME: City 0️⃣
@ntfc
4️⃣
Ten-man City are comprehensively beaten by Northampton at Wembley Stadium.
Report and reaction to follow.
#ECFC
#OneGrecianGoal
He was so kind. He learned the name of
@talksport
’s security at Cheltenham and fetched him a secret whisky as it was his birthday because that’s what he did. I’ve donated to
@crisis_uk
today as that was another huge passion. We should all be more like Andy. I’ll really miss him.
37' | Goal. Jamie Reid taps home, however was almost certainly offside. The Woking players and staff are protesting to referee James Durkin. The goal has stood.
2-1.
#COYCards
Remember this day. Torquay United - a side who regularly go through long spells of being unable to pass to a teammate - have officially been declared as an elite sporting outfit
We’ve clarified guidance for organisers of non-elite sports events to help them admit spectators safely - with social distancing.
The
@FA
definition of non-elite means
#football
clubs from Level 7 (below National League N/S) can admit some spectators.