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On the beg for help from other small businesses. Each year, some very kind people send us an item of their work, or a voucher for their shop etc. We bundle these items and raffle them to raise money towards our annual support of @SFoodbanks in which we provide struggling families with the ingredients to make a proper Christmas dinner. It means everything to us to be able to help, but we can only offer that help with the kind support from others too. We’re struggling for prizes so far this year so kindly asking again if anyone can donate a prize, usually LFC related. I’m going to tag a few LFC related pages, but please don’t feel obliged to reply, it’s just a last throw of the dice. Likewise, if you know of anyone who may want to help, then tag them please.
Any support is appreciated. Massive thanks to @proper_tees @DaveStanno and @BeersofAnfield who’ve already offered support. Means the world. Nice one ❤️
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Sickened by the news that Jeff Bezos’ consortium has bought roughly a third of Liverpool Football Club.
Many fans have rightly focused on Amazon’s anti-union practices, its treatment of workers, and the fear that Liverpool will become just another asset in a billionaire’s portfolio. Those concerns are real.
But there is something even darker at the heart of this deal.
Amazon is a central partner in Project Nimbus, providing cloud and AI services to the Israeli state. While Israel carries out a genocide against the Palestinian people, Amazon’s technology helps underpin the infrastructure that makes it possible.
And now that fortune is buying its way into Anfield.
So ask yourself: what does it mean when a club built on solidarity - a club that stood with the Hillsborough families against the establishment, that has always claimed to stand with the oppressed, that prides itself on being different - welcomes investment from a man whose empire is entwined with Israel’s system of occupation, apartheid and genocide?
Liverpool is more than a business, it’s a community.
Supporters have a voice. We’ve used it before: against the Super League, against ticket price hikes and against owners who forgot what this club stands for.
We MUST use it again.
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Tomorrow's back page:
Fans demand say over reported Bezos stake – Liverpool supporters' group calls for clarity over consortium's role at Anfield
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The pattern I'm noticing with Andy Burnham thus far is lots of lower-scale policies that are good like this but when it comes to the big policies we all want like wealth taxes, arms embargo, nationalised water etc he is silent or skirts around the issue
Too many people feel like modern life is designed to catch them out.
It should be just as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to start it. And if something is advertised as half price, it should actually be half price.
So I'm taking action.
We’re taking every opportunity to get the cost of living down. It’s about fixing the every day hassles that cost people time, money and patience.
These two are just the start.
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Jeff Bezos and Facebook's Eduardo Saverin are planning to buy a large stake in Liverpool FC.
This is terrible and should be blocked.
Football clubs should be owned by the countries they are in so the money from their supporters goes back to THEIR communities.
Thought you were a socially-conscious bunch of Guardian-reading woke lefties but 3 hours later, and plenty of tweets about Barcola and Araujo, @TheAnfieldWrap have only one word on this news: thoughts?
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Today I happen to be travelling by train through one of the most diverse areas of England, one might say its multi-racial. As I sat listening to Asian families returning to big towns from the seaside, a West African lady teaching her little boy nursery rhymes - in English, & a kind young Pakistani lad offered me use of his phone charger; my anger started to rise to bursting. Not with these people, quietly living lives that they have built here, but with the vile politicians of the right whose increasingly xenophobic & racist language must be scaring many of these people. I loathe sh*t stirrers like Lowe & Anderson, how dare they claim to speak for most of us? They don't, & hopefully they never will.
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PRE SEASON GIVEAWAY!!
As a thanks for all the support, we’re giving away FOUR t-shirts to randomly selected followers😀
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45 years ago today Liverpool 8 ( now known as Toxteth) suffered its second uprising within a month on the eve of the Royal Wedding celebrations between Charles and Diana.
3 weeks previously the area had seen the worst violence ever recorded on mainland Britain.
This second uprising would see the use of CS gas for the first time on the streets of the UK and a 23 year old man also lost his life that night when Merseyside police adopted a tactic borrowed from Belfast of driving a line of of police jeeps towards the crowds.
There was calls for the resignation of of Chief Constable Ken Oxford who described the rioters as "the product of liaisons between black seamen and white prostitutes,"
A narrative for the city had already been set , the acting Chief Constable Peter Wright would go on to be the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire at the time of the Hillsborough disaster and the ensuing cover up.
Included in this graphic is the secret internal memo Geoffrey Howe sent to Margaret Thatcher suggesting that the city should be placed into a cycle of managed decline , stating that trying to help us would be like sending water uphill.
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Kevin Keegan was a good man.
Why? Well for one, he was definitely not a bystander when it came to the far right.
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Farewell to one of England’s greats in Kevin Keegan 🏴
Clip from 1979 when Mrs Thatcher invited him to take part in a Euro rally while playing for Hamburg.
He refused - arguing that his dad, a miner - would kill him. He said he would have done it for Jim Callaghan though…
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Kelvin MacKenzie, Stuart Pearce, Piers Morgan, Nigel Farage, Jason Cundy, John Terry & his ma, David Beckham, Sausage Fingers, Fat Frank, Paedo Andrew, Katie Hopkins & Boris Johnson……. YOUR BOYS TOOK ONE HELL OF A BEATING 🇦🇷 🥳
17s between the 'foul' committed by Egypt against Argentina and a goal scored - Egypt goal ruled out.
12s between a clear handball by France and a goal scored against Morocco - France goal given.
One offence was much clearer than the other.
FIFA is corrupt as fuck.
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The cameraman even shot this like The Office. Cringiest thing I've ever seen. Ed Sheeran is in the same category as Jamie Oliver - seemingly decent blokes that you definitely wouldn't want to have a pint with for some reason you can't quite put your finger on.
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The refereeing in this World Cup has been wild. It's been pretty good until any big decision needs to be made involving one of FIFAs darlings, especially late in games. Huge calls going for Argentina, England, France, Spain and, of course, USA. Suspicious, at best.
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