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Kelly Welles

@kelly_welles

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Football obsessive. Author. Novels 'The Fear' & 'If I Were You' She/her.

UK
Joined March 2009
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Kelly Welles
3 years
To commemorate #InternationalWomensDay , some of my favourite pics of women being badasses. First up, Saffiyah Khan.
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3 years
You annual reminder that Rage Against the Machine are a political band. The clue is in the name so I probably wouldn't be shocked if they make political statements.
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2 years
Big fan of Venezia FC. Huge.
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3 years
Danuta Danielsson.
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3 years
Rosa Fucking Parks.
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3 years
Elizabeth Eckford.
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3 years
Kathrine Switzer.
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Tess Asplund.
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3 years
Pussy Riot on trial in Russia.
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3 years
FEMEN, generally.
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6 months
Genuinely one of the most unhinged sentences ever committed to the page.
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6 months
APPEASE THE LESBIANS
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4 months
Itโ€™s hilarious how weโ€™re living in The Thick of It now. Ahem.
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4 months
Press photo from his flight to NI. Seriously, though. His handlers really, *really* hate him, donโ€™t they?
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3 years
Apparently Aliens is 35 this year. I always pretend to be Vasquez when I get the big hedge trimmer out.
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4 years
Oh mate.
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2 years
The sins of the father apparently extends to haircuts.
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2 years
Sad to report that we're still in the 'but they've got mobile phones & big tellies' phase of discussing poverty.
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5 years
Trump: Megan should WIN first before she TALKS! Finish the job! Megan Rapinoe:
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4 years
Ahem ๐Ÿ‘€
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9 months
Among his finest work, this. RIP Shane ๐Ÿ’”
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3 years
The Spectator's article about Rashford is late because they had to remove all the unsupported 'facts' and parts that made them look a bit racist. Here's what it looks like now.
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2 years
When he was ten years, Phil Foden was told he could have incredible football talent but only if he kept this haircut forever. He accepted.
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2 years
I love him. The question was 'name something with a door' and he looks like he's forming an explanation of quantum theory.
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2 years
Someone was going to. Might as well be me.
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2 years
Karen on the Nicky Campbell phone in is in tears because this whole thing with Boris is reminding her of the bit in the Lion King with the hyenas circling. I wish this was satire.
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3 years
I've never seen this Jaws artwork before ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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4 years
Oh hello BBC Sport. You got bold. *bats eyelashes*
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1 year
Just read that Athletic piece. TL:DR He did a bad thing but he's really really good at football and we're trying to figure out a way to sneak him back on the pitch without it all kicking off too much.
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Kelly Welles
2 years
If you think Southgate is an embarrassment to England, google 'Joey Barton cigar'.
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Weโ€™re Here To Save Football
2 years
Canโ€™t believe Southgate hasnโ€™t resigned yet. Thatโ€™s two World Cups and a home European Championship we could/should have won. Stop rewarding failure. Got to go. Time to hire somebody who can win. Pizza Hut advert years ago. Enough said. ๐Ÿ“ฆ
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3 years
โ€œโ€ฆ really inconvenient allegation Iโ€™m refusing to deal with.โ€
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ESPN FC
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"I got this"
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3 years
Jasmine Golubovska. (HT @tim_brannigan )
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3 years
From this point on this is basically an Andy Murray stan account.
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Kelly Welles
3 months
What he said.
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@FabrizioRomano
Fabrizio Romano
3 months
๐Ÿ”ด๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Mason Greenwood, Player of the Season for Getafeโ€ฆ with Manchester United already working to sell him this summer. Active talks taking place to find the best solution with #MUFC determined to make profit with Masonโ€™s sale. One to watch in the next weeks.
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2 years
Man accused of rape: still widely respected in his profession, perceived as the model pro & a great influence on young players. Man refuses to do the job he is paid magnificently for & throws a petty strop: 'I've lost respect for him.' Go home, football. You're drunk.
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2 years
Itโ€™s so effing on brand for this country that The Revolution will start at Centre Parcs.
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Kelly Welles
3 years
As it's officially Rosie Jones Day, I'd like to repost my favourite image of her being pushed over in the street by the bully Nish Kumar.
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Kelly Welles
1 year
Howโ€™s he missed the target from there, Clive?
@chris_sutton73
Chris Sutton
1 year
There is no 606 tonight. I hope Gary Lineker and the BBC resolve this messy situation and Gary is back on MOTD soon but Iโ€™d have loved to have worked on our football phone in tonight and chatted about football and all of the days games.
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5 years
Gonna put this pic of @amandapalmer , @neilhimself & Margaret Atwood on my bedside table in a frame and pretend they're my immediate family. (I'm too old to be their kid but fully prepared to put my knees in my shoes for this).
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Kelly Welles
3 years
Today is a day when people pay attention to domestic violence/toxic masculinity issues in football so I'm going to drop a few articles I've written about it here.
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3 years
Lads, this is real and important. If you're out tonight and have a mate who's a bit of a prick, tell him. A lot of men don't listen to women. If you want to help us, this is what you can do.
@NCDV_Official
NCDV - National Centre For Domestic Violence
3 years
Not everyone is looking forward to the match tonight... Instances of domestic abuse increase 26% when England play and 38% if they lose. #DomesticAbuse #DomesticViolence #EURO2020
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4 years
I die.
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11 months
And then they ask why weโ€™re โ€˜uptightโ€™. You cannot even celebrate without some effing deviant copping a feel.
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6 months
Bit different when heโ€™s on the shill for Paddy Power, mind. #AppeaseTheLesbians
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2 months
@SamWhyte What would all the men who book in Teams meetings WHEN AN EMAIL WOULD COVER IT do then mate?
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2 years
You have a voice that millions of people listen to and you choose to do this with it.
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2 years
Celebrating Luka Modric by reupping the best tweet thatโ€™s ever happened.
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5 years
Modric looks like your gobby neighbour Pamela whoโ€™s the cock of the avenue cos of her three big sons
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2 years
Erling Partridge.
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5 years
Sameshima worked at the Fukushima plant to support herself during her early career. Won 2010 Asian Games, WC in 2011 playing every game, runner up WC 2015, winner 2018 Asian cup. But no, youโ€™re right. She did a shit throw in so cancel all womenโ€™s football.
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Kelly Welles
2 years
A momentโ€™s silence for Demi who is facing a tough shift.
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Kelly Welles
3 years
Few people realise how inspiring it is for young girls to look up and see a woman doing stuff. When I was growing up there were so few. Now look...
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Kelly Welles
2 months
DAY OF THE TRIFFICS ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
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2 months
This looks like some harrowing glimpse of the future from an 80s BBC sci fi drama.
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Kelly Welles
4 years
This is the most beautiful way of telling people they should be fucking ashamed of themselves that I've ever seen.
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Kelly Welles
4 years
Your weekly reminder that Piers Morgan is not a good bloke because he's saying obvious things during a pandemic.
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Kelly Welles
1 year
'How is British Twitter reacting to the baffling takes by the gun lobbyists after the Nashville shooting?' 'They are doing god's work.'
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Kelly Welles
5 years
I'm thinking of starting an account on which I just post pics of men being massive pricks on #PoliticsLive & women reacting. It makes me so happy.
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10 months
Reading this thread is like being beaten to death in slow motion. Enjoy!
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Using AI, I was able to take some old painting and make it better. First the painting. Notice how you can barely see what's even going on. Where even is this? Who are the people? Huh? You're too far away to really see the setup. Whole left side blank. Nothing here to grab onto.
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3 years
Shirley Manson from @garbage . Her willingness to discuss imposter syndrome and self-harming was really influential to me & how I write.
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3 years
Gonna wear this and a mask. Iโ€™ll probably be battered to death in the queue at Tesco โ„๏ธโ„๏ธ
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2 years
Photo of the day.
@ProjectEPL
Project Football EPL
2 years
Thiago doesnโ€™t want another Haaland to dominate football in 20 years time ๐Ÿคฃ
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4 years
Phil Neville here, genuinely surprised that women have mad ambition too.
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6 months
As a feminist and a pacifist, I say let the seven time world kick boxing champion and the desperately embarrassing misogynistic ex-footballer sort it out in a pub car park. Tops off.
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4 years
Have to assume they discovered this while looking for a Covid vaccine.
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9 months
An adult has entered the chat.
@HaytersTV
Hayters TV
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Emma Hayes responds to Joey Barton ๐Ÿ—ฃ ๐Ÿ”—
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4 years
Rebecca Front's follower count when everyone sees how she spoke to Laurence Fox in private and he screengrabbed it and cried.
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Kelly Welles
5 years
Football manager effortlessly summarises everything that is wrong with the media in the 21st century.
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Tom Huelin
5 years
How good is this from Klopp though?
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Kelly Welles
6 months
Bad news, lads. Head Lesbians In Charge (HLIC) Jodie Foster, Megan Rapinoe and Kristin Stewart convened an emergency board meeting earlier and took a vote. THE LESBIANS ARE NOT APPEASED BY THE CLOTH FLAG.
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Kelly Welles
6 months
APPEASE THE LESBIANS
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3 years
Everyone even tangentially involved with @weareladyparts .
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3 years
Ref Sapir Berman officiating her first game since coming out as transgender and having her nails admired by Idan Vered. Pump this into my veins.
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5 years
I see there's a bloke on the ref team for tonight. How do we know he's qualified? Does he know the offside rule?
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6 years
This could be the gif of my life. #SEN
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8 years
They can take our princesses, our kings & queens of music & arts, but they will pry our caustic wit from our cold dead hands.
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3 years
Laura. Jane. Grace.
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5 years
Cyril Sneer, innit?
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2 years
Pick your next leader on the basis of how cool they look playing football.
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Kelly Welles
8 years
It's a new low.
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Kelly Welles
3 years
This is going to upset generations of rugby boys more than you could possibly imagine. I'm so here for it.
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Kelly Welles
2 years
Has a footballer ever shithoused their club side with the efficiency and elegance that Bale has shown Real Madrid?
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Kelly Welles
1 year
Someone just liked this and brought it back to my attention so Iโ€™m re-upping because itโ€™s so pure.
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Kelly Welles
3 years
Ref Sapir Berman officiating her first game since coming out as transgender and having her nails admired by Idan Vered. Pump this into my veins.
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iShowSpeed all over the internet in his Manchester United shirt. He seems like a fun lad until you google him.
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2 years
He's been filled with antifreeze and has his winter tyres on.
@ErlingHaaland
Erling Haaland
2 years
๐Ÿ˜ค๐Ÿฅถ
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Kelly Welles
2 years
Women writing great songs and getting buried by the laddery of Britpop in the 90s still grieves me. Sleeper, Echobelly, Salad, Elastica, Lush, Skunk Anansie, Hole, Garbage etc. Controversially none of those women turned out to be massive sex pests either.
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1 year
I can never and will never cope with a ripped Fernando. This is where the world started to go wrong.
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Kelly Welles
5 years
I really love how much this is pissing the likes of Moir off.
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Kelly Welles
6 months
He continues:
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Kelly Welles
2 years
I've been writing about toxic masculinity in sport for more years than I care to remember and if I've learned anything, it's that this image & statement will challenge more people to think about their views than anything I've ever said.
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2 years
You have to say that's world class.
@TheWorldOfFunny
The World Of Funny
2 years
Got ya! ๐Ÿคฃ
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8 years
When you go to the match with your father in law because your wife thinks you need to bond.
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Kelly Welles
4 years
Well that fucking happened.
@Femi_Sorry
Femi
4 years
What a delicious freudian slip from Republican communications director @MattsGorman . ๐Ÿ˜… @adamboultonSKY
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Kelly Welles
4 years
'A woman's larynx was left in tatters after some rich bloke in a suit throttled her'. FIXED IT. HT @harriet1marsden
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Kelly Welles
3 years
With a huge apology for being a massive sex pest.
@LearnToAttract
Learn Attraction
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You're shopping at your local wine store, and this young woman notices you checking her out. How do you open?
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Kelly Welles
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RE Mark Field story, I'm so over being told how I should react to things. I've been attacked in the street & my home, kicked in the crotch by a boy when I was 14, sexually harassed too many times to count & every SINGLE time told to lighten up or I'm too emotional. Fuck. Off.
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1 year
Literally everyone watching this game who wasn't born in England asking wtf 'top bins' means.
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Kelly Welles
3 years
They basically taught me how to be a woman and play guitar at the same time. HT @Sleater_Kinney
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3 years
Lads in the comments have taken it really well.
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3 years
โ€˜Phil Foden is 9 years old and hoping to get an Xbox for Christmasโ€™.
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