Huw Davies @thehuwdavies Twitter profile

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Huw Davies

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2 months

Serbia’s inability to score just one goal against England has robbed us of an all-timer of a group

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5 years

Are we just going to ignore that somebody’s murdered John Higgins #bbcsnooker

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3 years

“And Maguire’s going up for this corner”

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3 years

Siri, show me the most vivid conceivable example of Experimental Archaeology at work

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3 years

That’s a hell of an injury

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2 years

In a very competitive field, this remains one of the most insane parts of how the government handled the pandemic. (From Private Eye)

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Huw Davies

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4 years

Well, this seems ethical.

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Huw Davies

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3 years

Thursday: this tweet Friday: no games Saturday: Ireland 0-1 Luxembourg; Slovakia 2-2 Malta (0-2 HT) Sunday: Armenia 2-0 Iceland, Georgia 1-2 Spain (1-0 HT, 1-1 90') Monday: no games Tues: Turkey 3-3 Latvia, Cyprus 1-0 Slovenia Wed: Armenia 3-2 Romania, Germany 1-2 North Macedonia

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3 years

Surely we’ve reached the stage where the lowest ranked nations should play amongst themselves to qualify for the right to play at this level. It’s become absurd. @FIFAWorldCup

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Huw Davies

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2 years

Here's Peter Schmeichel taking FFT readers' questions in 2003 and being a bit... well, I don't want to say 'arsey', but...

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Huw Davies

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4 years

Group H, there.

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Huw Davies

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4 years

Love this. (from @DTathletic ’S typically superb piece on Gascoigne)

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Huw Davies

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5 years

I may have a new favourite stat from 2018/19. Cambridge United's top scorer in all competitions didn't score a league goal for them after August 11th.

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Huw Davies

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4 years

The fuck did I do?

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Huw Davies

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5 years

Did... did Diego Godin write this?

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4 years

@joeleybean Superb. I’ve always felt sorry for Tina in this song. He doesn’t sound thrilled.

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Huw Davies

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6 years

Liverpool have the most points of any team in 2nd at this stage of a PL season. Chelsea have the most points of any team in 3rd; Arsenal, the most of any in 4th; Spurs, the most of any in 5th; Bournemouth & Watford (!), the most of any in 6th & 7th. The weak are getting weaker...

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Huw Davies

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3 years

This is the greatest use of ‘pc’ in history

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Huw Davies

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3 years

Sadio Mané missed a penalty, scored a penalty, and there were two hours in the middle that you don't need to worry about

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Huw Davies

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1 year

“There’s a man who knows how to exploit gaps in the centre-right areas.”

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Huw Davies

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4 years

We - and Frank himself - all seem to be worried that Lampard is living in a fantasy world.

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Huw Davies

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2 years

OH MY GOD, THIS BOLTON GOAL

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Huw Davies

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5 years

Ben Woodburn is 19.

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Huw Davies

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5 years

On Danny Mills being the poster boy for lazy assumptions in punditry

Sheffield United’s "Route One" style? Danny Mills, and lazy pundits preventing viewers understand...

Danny Mills’s comments about the Blades are not the remarks of a professional wind-up merchant – it’s much worse than that

www.fourfourtwo.com

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Huw Davies

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8 years

Vardy: ridiculous dive, second yellow card, then calls the referee a "fucking cunt" while jabbing his finger in his face. Fairytale.

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5 years

I hate ‘you could not make it up’ and the idea that footballers are thick is lazy, BUT, just to reiterate, Harry Arter thinks Jeremy Corbyn is Boris Johnson.

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Huw Davies

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2 years

The last ever 32-team World Cup is signing off with something that’s never happened before in a 32-team World Cup: not a single side winning all of its games in the group stage. The last time that happened was at USA 94.

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Huw Davies

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3 years

Seriously, stop it. This would be embarrassing enough from a Sporf account or whatever.

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3 years

We don’t deserve McCoist. Everyone thinks he’s just this joker, but he’s magnanimous, he cares and he analyses pretty well

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Huw Davies

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7 years

"McNulty. My office."

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5 years

It's just insulting. Seriously – insulting. Nobody with this little interest in knowing what they're discussing, as a supposed expert, should be allowed to receive payment for sharing their ignorance. He was exactly the same for the Nations League draw. He's lazy and it's not on.

Blades Mad

@Blades_Mad

5 years

Danny Mills talking about the Blades on Sky Sports News: "Not the most glamorous of clubs. It's not the most glamorous way of playing. They might play a little bit direct at times." How's about zip it ya melt, when you don't have an absolute clue. 🤐🙄 #sufc #twitterblades

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Huw Davies

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2 years

I’m enjoying Aaron Lennon and Gary Cahill choosing to retire at this precise time, as if they were just holding out one last hope for a World Cup call-up

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Huw Davies

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2 years

My wife makes a good point: FIFA have to approve all kits before the tournament. So, unless Belgium sneakily added it since (which they didn’t), FIFA either missed it or are now panicking because the hosts are throwing a shit fit, as we saw with armbands and beer in the stadium

Ben Jacobs

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2 years

FIFA have told Belgium to remove the word 'Love' from their away kit, which also includes rainbow trim. Belgium say they will wear their red kit for all group-stage games and deal with the situation if they go through.

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6 years

Plan A: "We'll play a back three to mask our full-back deficiency and get the centre-backs starting attacks, with Carrasco giving Hazard room to come inside and De Bruyne operating deeper to draw markers out of position" Plan B: "Holy shit – we're, like, a foot taller than them"

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Huw Davies

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8 years

Using FIFA rankings, here's how World Cup 2026 groups could look. Seeds listed first; top 2 go through. Hell of a draw for Wales and England

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Huw Davies

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6 years

Every player touches the ball in the move for 3-0.

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Huw Davies

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6 years

People who reply to any tweet praising Manchester City with ‘yeah but £££’ must be great company. “How ace is the new Marvel film?!” “Yeah, well, with THAT budget it should be.” “Scientists have made a robot with human emotions!” “Yeah, well, with their funding I expect no less.”

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Huw Davies

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2 years

Maybe I’m being naive but I feel as if Mike Dean should do *something* here as the situation develops from 2 players to 15

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5 years

What in the bloody hell is this?!

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Huw Davies

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2 years

We just don’t look like us. Anybody who didn’t watch Wales in qualifying must think we’re abysmal.

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Huw Davies

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4 years

Reading, here, giving the Content fans what they want.

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Huw Davies

@thehuwdavies

9 years

The Telegraph's choice of picture here is perhaps a bit misleading given the headline...

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@thehuwdavies

9 years

"Did he say Schweinsteiger or Schneiderlin?" "I thought he said Schneisteiger." "Ask him which." "You ask him!" "Oh God. Just get both."

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Huw Davies

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6 years

A snapshot from Wales' Euro 2016 squad here. God, I love international football.

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4 years

The holy trinity of Manchester City European exits: Guardiola overthinking it; refereeing/VAR controversy; and individual errors (within a minute of each other)

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Huw Davies

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2 years

The universe is insufficiently calibrated for how funny it would be if Gareth Bale wins Real Madrid another Champions League Final.

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Huw Davies

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5 years

Managed it at last. This is an extraordinary throw, and had Wilson scored, it would’ve been a genuinely brilliant assist.

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Huw Davies

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6 years

Obviously you can pick and choose statistics, and Sky have here, but even so.

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Huw Davies

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4 years

Sergio Ramos has more career red cards than the three most-sent-off players in Premier League history, combined.

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Huw Davies

@thehuwdavies

5 years

Are you fucking kidding me? Am I going to have to write an article about Garth Crooks now?

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5 years

"Their style of play is quite basic for the Premier League." Are Sheffield United going to struggle this season? Final Score, BBC Red Button #CHESHU

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Huw Davies

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5 years

Not a single League Two game on Sky today, despite it being the final day of the season and there being a winner-takes-all de facto playoff for automatic promotion, as well as five teams going for the final playoff place and Notts County fighting to avoid an historic relegation.

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Huw Davies

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6 years

Transfer spending at the world's biggest clubs since Jose Mourinho arrived at Manchester United.

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Huw Davies

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5 years

Here it is. The big one. Every player to score a Premier League goal in 2019. Anyone who names 250 in the 20-minute time frame (I can't make it any longer) earns my respect, which I'm sure is very important to you.

Every Premier League goalscorer in 2019

Can you name every player who scored in the Premier League in 2019?

www.sporcle.com

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Huw Davies

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4 years

Belgium’s last four qualifying campaigns: P40 W34 D5 L1 F125 A18 GD+107. Wales were responsible for two of their draws and the only defeat.

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Huw Davies

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3 years

This is the smallest tie knot I have ever seen.

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Huw Davies

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8 years

Football is weird now.

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6 years

Central midfielder and fraud Paul Pogba with his 20th Premier League goal or assist of 2018, four more than anyone else in his position, also becoming one of only five players in 2018 to reach double figures for goals and assists (10 apiece).

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6 years

"And so, as you can see, our Euro 2020 bonanza will see teams play group games in only two venues each, to reduce travel. Here, Group A is red, Group B green, Group C orange, Group D blue, Group E brown, Group F purple. Any questions? Yes, you from Group A." "You fucking what?"

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Huw Davies

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3 years

Callum Hudson-Odoi and Ainsley Maitland-Niles must have one hell of a WhatsApp conversation going on today.

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Huw Davies

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3 years

This may be the worst tweet I’ve ever seen. It combines club oneupmanship with entitlement, a lack of awareness and self-awareness, insensitivity to dead clubs and more, and that’s before you get to the reasoning and the use of the word ‘torture’ in this context of all contexts.

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6 years

Solskjaer’s tactics of getting Pogba, Martial and Rashford in a room and saying, “It’s not your fault” really seems to be paying off

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Huw Davies

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6 years

I love that the Champions League semi-final second leg is on BT Sport 2, with Aldershot v Ebbsfleet on BT Sport 1.

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Huw Davies

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2 years

Footnote to Brentford’s winner at the weekend: watch Haaland here.

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2 years

Oh, that’s good.

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Huw Davies

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2 years

Enner Valencia has had one of the most eventful first halves a footballer can ever have experienced. Scored the first goal of the World Cup, had it disallowed, won a penalty, scored the first goal of the World Cup again, scored the second as well, went off injured, came back on.

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6 years

@JamesMelville @YICETOR A fête worse than death.

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4 years

@Susanna_Forrest Look! Huw’s Talking!

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Huw Davies

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8 years

Sunderland don't "keep flirting with relegation". They take relegation home and fuck it senseless before withdrawing at the point of climax.

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Huw Davies

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5 years

My God, this Norwich team is fun. If possible, they seem to be playing with even more confidence than they did in the Championship. A 21-year-old centre-back just dribbling through a Chelsea midfield, for goodness' sake. They're going to concede a lot of goals but godspeed, lads.

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Huw Davies

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7 years

@Davenuttbton @Carterface_ I've a feeling he works mostly private.

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7 years

62 #MCFC 61 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 #MUFC , #LFC , #CFC 46 45 44 #COYS 43 42 41 40 39 #AFC 38 37 36 35 34 #Clarets 33 32 31 #LCFC 30 29 28 27 #EFC 26 #WatfordFC 25 #WHUFC , #CPFC 24 #AFCB , #HTAFC 23 #NUFC , #BHAFC 22 21 #SaintsFC 20 #SCFC 19 #WBA 18 17 #Swans

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Huw Davies

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5 years

Hang on, ‘Fletch’, Everton signed Dominic Calvert-Lewin for a couple of mill from Sheffield United when he was 19 years old and had played a few dozen first-team games for various teams. “He’s come through the academy system here” is a little bit generous to Everton’s academy.

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Huw Davies

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5 years

Sarri leaves Chelsea after 11 months in which he inherited an ill-suited squad and immediately won the Europa League, secured Champions League qualification twice over and took them from fifth to third behind two indisputably better teams, the embarrassing failure that he is.

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Huw Davies

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4 years

They've been great fun, only to fall short, but Atalanta have taught us a valuable lesson: never hope, never dream.

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3 years

Key battles: Antoine Griezmann (Barcelona) vs Joe Morrell (Luton Reserves), and Kylian Mbappé (Ligue 1) vs Chris Gunter (League One). Right, straight into these

GOAL

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3 years

France name their XI for tonight. Griezmann 🤝 Benzema 🤝 Mbappe Good luck, Wales 😳

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2 years

I’m a relatively gregarious guy, at least compared to the majority of serial killers, but there is nothing worse than having to discuss football with non-football-interested strangers after your team has lost.

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Huw Davies

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4 years

This is the question that needs asking immediately and, if necessary, repeatedly. “Mr Johnson, is it now OK for people to travel across the country and infect others if they believe this is required for ‘the best form of childcare‘?”

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@krishgm

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Full and unequivocal backing for Cummings from the PM. “He has acted responsibly and legally and with integrity”. No details or justification beyond childcare. Boris Johnson has effectively staked his job on that of his adviser. Anyone else can now assume they can do what he did.

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2 years

I can’t believe this. Huddersfield have been denied two definite penalties, in a game they’re losing by one goal, WHEN THERE IS VIDEO ASSISTANCE IN USE.

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Huw Davies

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6 years

@_dantheman10 @JoeBrewinFFT I’m not serious enough to tweet this ‘proper’, but I do sometimes think that if even one of Kante, Vardy, Mahrez or (for another reason) Schmeichel had been out for any length of time, Leicester would’ve finished about 7th. Nine players featuring in 35+/38 games is extraordinary.

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Huw Davies

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5 years

Brighton’s defence is so impressive, they even know how to deal with witches.

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4 years

I'm intrigued by this new Italian football ruling, which says that all transfers into Serie A have to look like Telegraph columnists.

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2 years

At least he didn't call a reader a bitch. David Seaman did, though.

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5 years

On Sunday 13 October, Wales will be play in the Rugby World Cup at 9.15am and a crucial Euro 2020 qualifier against Croatia at 7.45pm, in what scientists are calling an alarmingly long day of drinking.

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Huw Davies

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4 years

We need to stop kidding ourselves that Piers Morgan has had some sort of Damascus moment. He’s a worm who watches the way the wind is blowing. Take the extra pressure he puts on the Government gladly, but with a pinch of salt. Don’t forget who he is.

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Huw Davies

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7 years

Manchester United playing 6-3-1 against a team that has scored minus eight goals this season

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Huw Davies

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3 years

If Arsenal fans are singing, “2-1 to the referee”, then what even is the point in trying? Both of Gabriel’s bookings were right. The City penalty was a penalty. The one legitimate complaint Arsenal have is an unawarded penalty at 0-0 and they took the lead after that. Sick of it.

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Huw Davies

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6 years

My one-year-old keeps shouting, “Baba!” at the television, no matter how many times I tell her that he’s on loan at Schalke

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Huw Davies

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4 years

I actually tried, but the map listing farms in need of help covers only England, not Wales - instead, you have to fill in all of your details and apply (affecting future employment status) in the hope of maybe getting something random. So that was that. Cheers, Prince of Wales.

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"If we are to harvest British fruit and vegetables this year, we need an army of people to help." The Prince of Wales has shared a message in support of the #PickForBritain campaign. 🍓🍏🍅 @DefraGovUK

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4 years

Third-choice goalkeepers of the Big Six: Caoimhin Kelleher (academy) Scott Carson (loan) Sergio Romero (free) Matt Macey (£100,000) Paulo Gazzaniga (£2,500,000) Kepa Arrizabalaga (£71,000,000)

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4 years

@RobParrett They’re technically separate entities but it’s very murky waters

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Huw Davies

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3 years

Egypt have played in eight AfCoN finals, and are on course to having kept a clean sheet in seven of them. Two goals conceded in 780 minutes, or 13 hours of football. You boring (but effective) bastards.

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Huw Davies

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6 years

This is one hell of a coup by Wrexham, to be fair.

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6 years

LATEST - A press conference has been called this afternoon to announce the new @Wrexham_AFC manager

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3 years

So, that’s 11 goals and 2 assists in 921 Premier League minutes, or a goal contribution every 71 minutes, to round off Gareth Bale’s embarrassing disaster of a season.

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Huw Davies

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6 years

Sky's coverage of England vs Switzerland is sponsored by Bet365 and naturally features regular plugs for SkyBet, while half-time also featured adverts for Ladbrokes and Coral. Maybe there is something in this idea of the relationship between football and gambling being unhealthy.

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2 months

The alarming thing about Wales’ GK situation is that it won’t be changing soon. Ward is getting worse; Davies is similarly allergic to club football; King traded in playing to be a 3rd choice; Hennessey’s 37; and the next gen… didn’t have one. Eddie Beach, 20, is our only hope.

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5 years

This is the kind of rugby I watched on VHS as a kid.

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3 years

I know people say it doesn’t matter, but it matters to the players, and I just feel a little sad that Robert Lewandowski won’t have a Ballon d’Or to make him smile in his retirement, because of a nonsense decision to not award one last year despite loads of football being played.

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Huw Davies

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7 years

So, Marc Overmars (Ajax 1992-97) and Edwin van der Sar (Ajax 1990-99) have fired Marcel Keizer (Ajax 1987-89) and Dennis Bergkamp (Ajax 1981-93), and replaced them temporarily with Michael Reiziger (Ajax 1985-96) and Winston Bogarde (Ajax 1994-97). I love how this club works.

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Huw Davies

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3 years

Premier League goals since 1/1/2020: 17 Foden, Jota, Mahrez 18 Bamford, Greenwood, Rashford 19 Jesus, Lacazette, Wilson 20 Sterling 21 Wood 22 23 Aubameyang 24 Calvert-Lewin 25 Antonio, Ings, Mané 26 27 Son 28 Vardy 29 30 Fernandes 31 Kane 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Salah

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4 years

‘Back where we belong’ is a phrase that needs to leave football.

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6 years

This is just unbelievably shitty from Mourinho. The interviewer is asking an open question to give him carte blanche to defend or attack his team, largely because he gave her nothing to work with from the first attempt, and instead he attacks her in his response. Very, very poor.

beIN SPORTS

@beINSPORTS_EN

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Mourinho is not happy. #beINPL #BHAMUN #MUFC

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