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Jun 25 6 tweets 2 min read
🧵 Wow.

Maybe this is an emotional response to a player I like leaving the football club, but this absolutely fucking stinks.

We can wonder: "Perhaps there's a good replacement lined up." And whether there is, or there isn't, it still stinks. Selling Andre Brooks... ...to a divisional rival, and a club without parachute payments, is one of the most brain-dead bits of business I can remember.

Sure, if a West Ham came in, or a top-flight club, we would take the money. But even in that scenario, I would disagree strongly with anyone...
Mar 4, 2024 12 tweets 2 min read
Quick thread🧵| #twitterblades

The simpering apologists for failure – winding each other up week after week and blaming everything on Paul Heckingbottom – are now getting what they asked for.

They always missed the point.

It was never about Heckingbottom or Wilder. (1/12) It’s not even about attacking or defending the ownership. The truth is that it never had to be this way. I don’t think Prince Abdullah is an asset stripper. He’s never ground fans’ faces into the dirt by raising ticket prices during a cost of living crisis. (2/12)