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The younger generation genuinely has no idea how ridiculous this man was in his playing days. 😭

I was told to take the leaks down because the club would investigate, the team could change, and I’d end up looking stupid. Well… the leak was spot on. 👀 Third time now. 🤫 #FPL

Max Dowman: some thoughts. A little bit of understanding and support would not go amiss for a targeted teenager who wants to play the game the right way, who doesn’t roll around on the ground when struck by a bad challenge, and he gets hit by a few. Officials take note. Coaches take note. There’s a balance with young talents of toughening them up physically and mentally while protecting them. There's a balance between admonishment for a mistake and encouragement to learn. Everyone wants to see Dowman fulfil his huge potential and develop into a major player for Arsenal and, eventually, England. Dowman is a special young talent, still only 16, still with the ink drying on his GCSE papers. He's still a kid, still learning. There have been (premature) calls for Dowman to be fast-tracked into England Under-21s, even the seniors. A month ago Thomas Tuchel and Lee Carsley conferred on Dowman and sensibly agreed his development would best be served by games with the Under-19s. “Max is always in the conversation because of his talent,” Carsley said. That talent has seen Dowman become the Premier League’s youngest ever goalscorer, become the youngest player in the Champions League, and also get targeted. He gets a kicking, nine times in an Under-19s international against Spain last year. On returning to Arsenal, Dowman was encouraged by his manager Mikel Arteta to learn from Bukayo Saka about the art of dealing with such aggression. It was all about avoiding contact and “to learn when to release the ball”. Arteta also praised Dowman’s “football IQ” with the “super smart” way he makes decisions, praise indeed. It’s impressive in one so young. His two red cards this month, one for England Under-19s against the USA behind closed doors in Marbella and now for Arsenal against Fleetwood Town, need placing in context. Trend or blip? Dowman, who usually has a composed temperament, suffered a number of robust challenges from the USA when he snapped and put in a strong challenge of his own. Some of those present in the game felt it was only a yellow. Dowman's not a petulant player, but his frustration spilled over at the aggression put in on him. Similar to last night. There were some robust League Two challenges going in from Fleetwood players on the English champions' winger, testing his temperament, and after 85 minutes he reacted. The focus was on his silly kick out towards Harrison Neal, a soft red but still a red under the Laws, when the focus should also have been on Neal’s challenge which could have injured Dowman. No card was issued against Neal. Michael Salisbury is an experienced referee, 16 years on the list, including now five years in the Premier League. Like all officials, Salisbury has a duty of care to all players to ensure they are not put at risk by bad challenges. Neal got the ball but the force and pace of his follow-through endangered Dowman, whose standing foot was momentarily trapped. Dowman, any player, deserved some protection from challenges like that. He also deserved some compassion from Arteta. It’s one thing having strong words in passing if a senior player was trooping off, red-carded, down the tunnel. But Dowman is 16, probably still fuming with the tackle on him, and frustration at dismissal and inevitable feeling of letting the team down. Dowman didn’t need the most important person in his professional life, Arteta, to compound his misery with a frosty few words as he headed towards the tunnel. He's 16. He wasn't being petulant. He was reacting to a bad challenge. Maybe Arteta was trying to make the point again about Dowman having to withstand such tackles, and not reacting. Arteta told reporters after the game that he had spoken pre-match to Dowman and the other players of the need for emotional control in such an intense occasion. Fair enough, Dowman will learn. Whatever Arteta's frustration, it felt harsh and small-minded by such a successful, established manager. Officials take note too. It’s worth recalling that Arteta’s club contacted the authorities when they felt Saka was being targeted with bad challenges. Talents - all players - deserve protection. #AFC

30 year old Grown man trying to break a 16 year old kid's legs

In December 2011 a man sat in front of a public inquiry, under oath, and told a story that proved his own paper had been inside somebody else's phone. Then he denied it. His name was Piers Morgan. He was giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry by video link from Los Angeles. Robert Jay QC was questioning him. Lord Justice Leveson was listening. Morgan told them about a voicemail. Paul McCartney, still married to Heather Mills at the time, had left a message on her mobile. Morgan called it heart breaking. McCartney begging his wife to come home, then singing We Can Work It Out down the answerphone. He had heard it. He admitted that. Then Jay asked the only question that mattered. Who played it to you. Morgan would not say. He refused to name his source. He refused to say where he was. He refused to say when. So Leveson made the point for him. The only people lawfully entitled to listen to that message were Heather Mills, or somebody authorised on her behalf. Nobody else. If Morgan heard it, and Mills did not play it to him, then somebody had been inside her phone. Days later Heather Mills issued a statement. I can categorically state that I have never ever played Piers Morgan a tape of any kind, never mind a voice message from my ex-husband. There it is. The message left her phone without her knowing and arrived in the ear of a newspaper editor in 2001. That is what phone hacking was. That is the whole thing. One voicemail, one editor, one question he would not answer. And what did he tell the inquiry about hacking at his own paper. I don't believe so. To the best of my recollection, I do not believe so. In August of that year he had gone further. I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, nor to my knowledge published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone. Now hold the dates. Five years before Leveson, in 2006, Morgan wrote a column describing that voicemail in detail. He knew what he had heard and he knew how strange it was. It was in his own handwriting half a decade earlier. And still he sat in front of a public inquiry and said he could not say who had given it to him. He also called the suggestion he had listened to Ulrika Jonsson's voicemails to break her affair with Sven Goran Eriksson absolute nonsense. Asked whether he had once advised her to change the PIN code on her phone, he said he did not remember the specifics. The PIN code is the entire mechanism. If it is not changed, anyone can dial in and hear your messages. Morgan explained that himself in GQ in 2006. He understood exactly how it worked. He just would not admit it had been done at his paper. This is the trick, and he has never stopped using it. He never denies anything outright. He says to the best of my recollection. He says absolute nonsense and then admits he cannot remember. He keeps just enough distance from the fact to survive it, and then he moves on before anyone closes the gap. He never explained how that McCartney message got out of Heather Mills's phone. He never had to. The inquiry moved on. Nobody made him. And when reality gets too close now, he does the same thing in a different form. He blocks it. He blocked this account. So this account can read every word he writes and reply to none of it. He cannot see this post unless somebody sends it to him. And the post he keeps pinned to the top of his own profile, the first thing every visitor sees, is a clip of him telling Cristiano Ronaldo he has good abdominals. September 2019. Still there. One hundred and forty thousand likes. Eight point nine million followers. A bio that reads Media and News Company. And the masterpiece at the top of the page is a seven year old joke about a footballer's stomach. He is dodging it the way he dodged Leveson. The facts arrive anyway. THE VOICEMAIL LEFT HER PHONE. SHE NEVER PLAYED IT TO HIM. HE NEVER SAID WHO DID. AND HE HAS NEVER PAID A PRICE FOR KNOWING.

That reporter has made him look a right cunt

Let me know any last minute questions / topics that need covering ahead of GW7 👇 I’ll cover all the injury updates etc. Dare I ask if anyone has any benching headaches 😭 Yes, I would probably start Joao Pedro…

A gardener’s iPad showed she’d won £1.1 MILLION on a Paddy Power game. They paid her £20,265.14 and said the screen was wrong. Four and a half years later, a High Court judge ruled the screen was right. – Corrine Durber was a gardener from Gloucestershire, England. – In October 2020 she was playing a Paddy Power game called Wild Hatter on her iPad. It combines a fruit machine with a wheel-of-fortune bonus round. – She won the first stage, moved to the next level, and spun the jackpot wheel. – The screen showed the “Monster Jackpot” of £1,097,132.71. – She took a screenshot. – Paddy Power paid her £20,265.14, the amount for the smaller “Daily Jackpot,” and gave no explanation. – She complained to the company the same evening. – Paddy Power said a programming error had made the screen show the wrong prize. Its random number generator, it said, had only selected the Daily Jackpot. – Its terms and conditions said the generator’s result was final and that it wasn’t liable for system errors. – That was the whole problem. Paddy Power wrote the game, ran the software that picked the result, wrote the rules, and then decided which number counted when its own screen disagreed with its own system. – A prediction market doesn’t work that way. There’s no house writing the game or choosing the result afterward. – You trade against another person at a price someone actually agreed to, and your payout comes from the person on the other side, not from a company deciding the number on your screen was a mistake. – She sued for breach of contract. – In March 2025, Mr Justice Ritchie granted summary judgment in her favor, so there was no full trial. – His 62-page ruling found that human error in mapping the game’s software caused the on-screen result to differ from the generator’s. It affected 14 plays over 48 days. – The judge said customers expect the house to pay if they bet on number 13 and the ball lands on 13. – He found the terms unfair and unenforceable under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and not part of her contract. – He also said it was unfair to place all the risk on the consumer for the company’s own errors, negligence, and inadequate testing. – She said the judge confirmed she had “fairly and squarely won £1 MILLION.” – She said Paddy Power had “tried their very best to deny me my rightful winnings.” – She said she would never bet with them again. A gardener hit £1.1 MILLION on her iPad, was paid £20,000 instead, and spent four and a half years in court proving the screen was right.