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Ken Early
4 years
“MCFC football club”
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David Silva
4 years
Ten years 💙
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Ken Early
5 years
i laughed along with everyone when roy keane DESTROYED the united players last week but it was guilty laughter, here’s why
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Ken Early
8 years
juanfran approaches the atletico fans to beg forgiveness. the whole stand rises to applaud him
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Ken Early
5 years
what’s lampard going for here - “tory night king”?
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Simon O'Keeffe
5 years
Me, after saving a fiver on my weekly shop at Tesco:
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Ken Early
5 years
roy keane - wasted in football
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Ken Early
2 years
lampard: everton manager gerrard: villa manager rooney: derby manager terry: head coach, ape kids football club
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John Terry
2 years
💭💭💭⚽️👀
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Ken Early
4 years
italy had 20 confirmed covid-19 cases on february 21st. now it’s almost 6000 and swathes of the country in lockdown/quarantine. ireland has 19 confirmed cases today. everything still going ahead as normal 👍
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5 years
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Ken Early
4 years
honestly impressed by what a shambles the new government has been. you simply have to admire it
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Ken Early
4 years
the surprising thing about this chart is not the delusion of the british, which is to be expected - it’s that the other three countries also give the wrong answer
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Ken Early
6 years
think sam summed it up well at the end
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Ken Early
4 years
once again the lazy chelsea players have let this guy down
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Football Daily
4 years
🗣 "Not good enough, the players have to take the responsibility" Frank Lampard vents his frustrations with his team in his post-match interview
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Ken Early
5 years
spurs banners mainly customised england flags, couple of union jacks etc. not a single england flag at the LFC end
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2 years
ronaldo is worse. the most ruinous big club signing since coutinho. highest paid player in the league but wrecked the team and when solskjaer got sacked CR7 was likely the main reason why they didn’t hire conte, a decision which is gonna cost them another £100m+
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Marcel
2 years
Can we all agree Harry maguire is the worst Manchester United signing ever
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Ken Early
5 years
i thought you were playing arrogant for laughs but turns out you were serious. the richard hammond to keano’s jeremy clarkson
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Gary Neville
5 years
Unfortunately we live in an age where presenters are paranoid about ex players taking their jobs aligned with the habit of interjecting far too often thinking people are tuning in to watch them!
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Ken Early
7 years
increasingly clear the guardiola-mourinho rivalry is a bit like the one between england and germany - only one side thinks it's a rivalry
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Ken Early
7 years
cultural sensitivity FIFA style - every country introduced with name both in english and translated into the native tongue
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Ken Early
5 years
jurgen klopp’s way doesn’t guarantee trophies, but there will be cold beers and hot tears
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Ken Early
4 years
this is what they showed the players
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Ken Early
6 years
girl at kurskaya station coffee stand handed me my americano with the words “it’s hot be dangerous” which i think i’ll remember forever
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Ken Early
6 years
can’t believe gary neville is talking about a world cup semi final after england just lost to belgium B. colombia so much more dangerous than japan. best of luck with that
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Ken Early
4 years
typical NUFC luck..
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◢ J◎e McCann 🧊
4 years
Oil just hit $0 a barrel.
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7 years
souness speaks his brexit brains
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Ken Early
6 years
reading some of the tweets about roy keane from last night. i don’t think england fans can say it’s coming home mania was all just a big joke, and then fly into a rage when keane greets their elimination with some light trolling
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Ken Early
8 years
nobody can have a complete picture of what happened in marseille, so here's how it looked from my point of view
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Ken Early
4 years
martin luther king channels ned stark
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Ken Early
3 years
“the shock of the premier league season” - BT sport’s verdict on man utd’s fourth home defeat in 10
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Ken Early
8 years
THAT'S ALL VOKES
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Ken Early
6 years
now that matic has joined mcclean, i wonder is poppy rejectionism about to spread rapidly throughout the EPL, like tattoos did a few years ago? nearly all of the foreign players (who make up two-thirds of the league) come from countries that were invaded by britain at some point.
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Ken Early
6 years
thank you for all the positive comments about the mourinho/napoleon article. it almost makes up for that guy calling me "a bald-denier... the curly gervinho" a couple of days back
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Ken Early
6 years
uruguay-saudi arabia - what a waste of time. i feel bad for the city of rostov. the 48 team world cup is such a fucking awful idea. they should be cutting it down not making it even bigger and more stupid
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Ken Early
5 years
english people - please, for the love of god, do not elect this malignancy
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The Times and The Sunday Times
5 years
EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum campaign.
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5 years
georgia coach vladimir weiss: "ireland play football, if i can say, like michael flatley dancing... his passion is unbelievable. ireland is nice country, but georgia is also nice country. we have also fantastic dancer. better? we will see tomorrow, OK?"
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Ken Early
8 years
at a wedding with @RichieSadlier
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Ken Early
6 years
trapped in a stadium toilet in moscow beating on door but nobody comes to rescue me send help
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Ken Early
4 years
here’s my sister @sarahearlys asking you to help the health service get through the crisis - financial support is badly needed - please donate at or or or whichever hospital is closest to you
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Ken Early
3 years
florentino perez, the first and only president of Super League 2021-21
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Ken Early
7 years
more satisfied customers
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Ken Early
8 years
love this new look from mcgregor, like a young george rr martin
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Ken Early
4 years
hmm haven’t tweeted anything in ages what’s this about
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Ken Early
6 years
couldn’t think what else to say about mourinho, then saw this tweet by michael and thought, hold my beer... article:
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Michael Cox
6 years
@oilysailor @anirrational Mourinho famously cited Hegel, but did you know that Hegel also said something else, that is not-really-applicable to Alexis Sanchez?
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Ken Early
3 years
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Ken Early
8 years
this mkhitaryan chap from the man united reserves looks quite a find. credit to jose mourinho for leaving no stone unturned
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Ken Early
6 years
it's possible i'm not the best judge. but i think PSG just might be the uncoolest brand in the history of capitalism
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Tom Williams
6 years
From Beyonce donning a customised away shirt to Justin Timberlake performing in club-branded merchandise, PSG have become one of Europe's most glamorous clubs. But will it help them gain any fans? My piece for @brfootball
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Ken Early
7 years
love the way brexit has made the UK so independent that their PM can't criticise anything trump does, no matter how suicidally stupid
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Ken Early
5 years
it’s what wilfred owen would have wanted
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Mascots Minute Silence
5 years
Beautiful tribute to our fallen soldiers 😢
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Ken Early
4 years
the fungi story reminds me of christmas eve when they put weather reports from the north pole on the news, only apparently this is directed at adults and is serious
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Ken Early
4 years
all mouth and no bollix
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Ken Early
4 years
i read a piece in an irish newspaper about the rise of populism, which claimed “fact checking” is a thing in irish papers & radio. it ended by quoting JFK, omitting to mention that JFK was at the time [mis]quoting hitler, with a likely-fake quote more often attributed to goebbels
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Ken Early
6 years
morocco offered compact geography, TV-friendly time zone, great weather, small carbon footprint, but in the end there were several billion more reasons to vote for the "united" bid
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Ken Early
6 years
trent alexander-arnold has been good. wonder did klopp fire him up by repeatedly asking him “are you shitting yourself?” in front of the other players
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Ken Early
7 years
"glasses bastard" 🤣
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Ken Early
7 years
when trump sidelines a news organisation, the others in the room need to stand up for it, or they'll all be picked off one by one.
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Ken Early
6 years
left bike unlocked for 10 minutes outside my front door in a dark quiet street with few people passing by aaaaand it’s gone. fuck you dublin!
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Ken Early
4 years
“that’ll teach you to leave me out”
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Ken Early
4 years
this line makes lionel messi look so bad i’m worried it may be a line that’s been put out to make lionel messi look bad
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AS USA
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Koeman apparently told Messi that the "privileges were over." For Messi that was too much, leading to his decision to leave. Reactions:
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Ken Early
6 years
in a hipster coffee place in saint petersburg. exposed lightbulbs, antique wooden dressers, rickety reclaimed wooden furniture. they just told me they're out of coffee
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Ken Early
5 years
@johncrossmirror the lads behaved even worse on d-day believe it or not. killed like 5000 germans
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Ken Early
7 years
fighting back tears at elegy from dunphy & brady for lionel messi, who's scored just 45 goals in 44 games this season #RIP #goodbyelionel 😢
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7 years
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Ken Early
6 years
german clubs still don’t have access to sugar daddy billions, which at least means their moral concerns are at a more rarefied level than “am i tacitly endorsing war and slavery”
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Ken Early
2 years
weird how this keeps happening
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James Corbett
2 years
A curious case from the world of football sponsorship. Another company, seemingly with no staff, no active products, barely any assets and whose operating company is registered to a mailbox in London, is a longstanding official partner to Manchester City
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Ken Early
5 years
watching brighton v liverpool and jordan henderson has put on an absolute clinic of crisp and decisive backpassing
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Ken Early
6 years
this is even better than i remember. and i like when david pleat refers to one of the all-time legendary displays of world cup showboating as “what i would call, old-fashioned inside-forward play”
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Panenka
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Esto era Zidane (vía @90sfootball )
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Ken Early
6 years
hey @saveciaranmurph how long have you been moonlighting with putinist biker gang the night wolves
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england v sweden - today decides whether three lions fever breaks & begins to recede, or flares into a crisis phase of delirium
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Ken Early
8 years
tottenham will never escape "lads, it's tottenham" now. they might as well get it up on a plaque over the tunnel like "this is anfield"
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Ken Early
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just noticed this nice little snapshot of nigel farage's britain in the last line of the rooney drinking hatchet job
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Ken Early
5 years
well done geoff
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Robin van Persie
5 years
This man who helped me reach wonderful heights during my career, has meant so much to me. Looking forward to joining @GeoffShreeves tonight celebrating Arsene Wenger’s career in London @legendsoffootball . In aid of Nordoff Robbins.
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Ken Early
3 years
sideways (alexander payne, 2004)
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Ken Early
6 years
i wrote a piece on mo salah for slate, & i hear that when ppl read it in ireland it's accompanied by a barrage of vote no ads. when i look at it here in ukraine the only ad is for something called "alkoclean". anyway, if i was home i'd be voting yes. now off to buy some alkoclean
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2 years
a polish woman was admiring my dog in the park and after making a few compliments about him she asked me “and does he shite?” i said “i… suppose about twice a day?” immediately after that i realised she was saying “shed”
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𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗹𝘆𝗸𝗲
2 years
A hot guy at my job asked me if I had any plans and I told him 15 because I thought he said plants
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Ken Early
3 years
the new FAI CEO jonathan hill is doing a press conference. apparently he hasn't read champagne football. sure why would he i suppose.
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Ken Early
8 years
got fucking fed up reading empathetic articles trying to "understand" trump voters. you are fascist morons. history will judge you harshly
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Ken Early
3 years
😒
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Ken Early
6 years
that final would have warmed livia soprano's lizard heart. i think she'd have loved sergio ramos. report from kyiv -
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5 years
my mate here watching the match “the only thing i can say about our team is we have a player that nobody in their right mind would go in for a 50-50 with. and we’ve got the only player in world football who’d go in for a 50-50 with him. and they’re both from the same village”
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Ken Early
3 years
imagine how insufferable bayern are going to be when their refusal to be bribed saves the people’s game from the billionaires’ plot
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Miguel Delaney
3 years
Press release from Bayern, who declare the strongest possible opposition to The Super League
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Ken Early
8 years
anyone who thinks wayne rooney gave an impressive display in midfield for england yesterday should be watching andres iniesta tonight
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Ken Early
5 years
good thread on the chernobyl show which is really worth watching if you haven’t seen yet
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
5 years
I have just finished watching Episode 1 of Chernobyl on @HBO . My perspective is that of someone born and raised in the Soviet Union who has vivid memories of 1986, the catastrophe itself and how it was handled by the Soviet politicians and the state media...
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Ken Early
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france: a cold-blooded armour-plated reptile of a team, bristling with terrifying fangs and spines. they will kill you but at least they’ll destroy your will to live first
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Irish Times Sport
6 years
Ken Early: France’s terminators set to bring football back to Paris
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Ken Early
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trying to figure out the thought process that leads you to appoint the manager you had 20 years ago
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Ken Early
6 years
well well, hello again ireland. you’re looking... brown
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Ken Early
5 years
i really believed mick mccarthy might manage to guilt trip rice into sticking with ireland, but i guess the other option of playing for the country of his and his parents’ birth in three world cups and earning way more money was difficult to turn down
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Ken Early
3 years
@MiguelDelaney yet you describe that astro league copa america as a “major trophy”
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Ken Early
4 years
lol who cares about the index? #fantastic
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Mark Tighe
4 years
Just got the updated cover for Champagne Football and the third print run ordered this morning. Looks great with reaction quotes from the trinity of @joeliveline @Dunphy_Official and @kenearlys 🍾⚽️
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