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Dave B retweeted
🚨🎙️| Thierry Henry on what went wrong for Amorim at Manchester United and what Carrick is now doing better in charge:
🗣️ “Let me say something, because sometimes in football we confuse structure with control, and control with success.”
“What happened under Rúben Amorim at Manchester United is a perfect example of that confusion.” I watched a team that had an identity on paper, very clear, very modern, very structured. 3 at the back, wing backs high, midfield controlled, rotations in the half-spaces…everything you want in today’s tactical football.”
At Sporting, that 3-4-2-1 was lethal because it was built for his players. But at United? It just didn’t translate.
“And football is not played on paper.”
“At Manchester United, what I saw was a team constantly thinking instead of reacting. And when players start thinking too much, especially in the Premier League, you lose speed not just in legs, but in decision-making.”
“You could see it in transitions. You win the ball, and instead of immediately attacking space, players were checking positions, checking instructions, waiting for the system to unfold.”
“Now look at Michael Carrick. This is what United needed. He’s keeping it simple but intelligent. He’s not reinventing the wheel, he’s putting players in positions where they can actually express themselves. That 4-2-3-1 base with fluidity, the compact mid-block, longer possession sequences, defending as a team instead of individuals winning duels… it’s balanced.
Bruno has freedom again, the young ones like Mainoo are thriving, Casemiro is protected, and they’re playing with courage. No over-complication. He’s empowered them, built trust, and the results are following, big wins against the top sides, momentum, belief.
Carrick understands the DNA of this club. He’s calm, he’s clear, and he’s making football look fun again at Old Trafford. That’s the difference: Amorim tried to fit the club to his system. Carrick is fitting the system to the club and the players he has. And right now? It’s working.”
Football is simple sometimes, man. Adapt or die. Carrick is adapting and United are flying because of it.”
Dave B retweeted
A British company called Skycutter, based in the East Midlands, just finished first out of the entire field in the Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program. Score of 99.3 out of 100. The largest order goes to them: two and a half thousand units, an initial Pentagon contract of twenty million dollars, with an option to scale up to two hundred million.
Read that and really soak it in. It's something that rarely happens anymore. A small British startup beat the entire American defence-tech industrial complex on its own home turf, in a competition the Pentagon designed itself, against companies that get whatever they ask for from Washington on a Tuesday morning.
It looks likely to be followed by something that always happens - Skycutter are, by the looks of things, going to pack up their talent and their operations and move all of it to America.
Why? The MoD, they say, is too slow. The procurement cycle is too long. There is no clear pathway from "British company that builds something the world wants" to "British company that the British state buys from in serious quantity at serious speed." No byway through which you move from "A potentially world-toppling IP advantage" to "Complete and deserved domination of the global market."
So we are about to lose them. Not because they want to leave, but because the country that produced them cannot organise itself fast enough to keep them. The MoD's response, by the way, was to issue a statement saying it wants the UK to be "the best place in the world to start and grow a defence business."
It does not want to do this. Indeed it is difficult to convey, in polite English, how galling that sentence is when read alongside the news it is responding to.
You're a serious country? You'd fight for a company like Skycutter. You'd fight to take them if they weren't yours, and you'd fight like mad to keep them if they were.
A serious country has someone in Whitehall whose entire fucking job is making sure the next Skycutter doesn't end up in Virginia.
We have, instead, a Defence Office for Small Business Growth. Which is the kind of name you give a thing that you created for no purpose other than taking the piss out of it.
Dave B retweeted
Someone posted this on Facebook...so true!
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
It's time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Airline surcharge tax
Airline Fuel Tax
Airport Maintenance Tax
Building Permit Tax
Cigarette Tax
Cooking Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Death Tax
Driving Permit Tax
Environmental Tax (Fee)
Excise Taxes
Income Tax
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Petrol Tax (too much per litre)
Gross Receipts Tax
Health Tax
Heating Tax
Inheritance Tax
Interest Tax
Lighting Tax
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Mortgage Tax
Pension Tax
Personal Income Tax
Property Tax
Poverty Tax
Real Estate Tax
Retail Sales Tax
Service Charge Tax
Telephone Tax
Value Added Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Water Tax
Tax (VAT) on Tax.
And Now they want a blooming Carbon Tax!
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world... We had absolutely no national debt, had a large middle class,a huge manufacturing base, and Mum stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the happened? Could it be the lying parasitic politicians wasting our money?
Oh, and don't forget the relatively new bank charges....
And we all know what we think of Bankers.
I hope this goes around the UK at least 1,000,000,000 times!!!
YOU can help it get there!
Dave B retweeted
Jerome Brisard has been the VAR in up to 14 matches involving Madrid.
Among them: the day of Valverde’s strike against Benfica, the day of Brahim’s goal with Viní in positional offside in last year’s derby, Liverpool’s final in 2022, and yesterday against City. UEFA 💰💰💵
Dave B retweeted
Abu Dhabi is straight-up class right now. Government just told hotels: "Keep the stranded guests comfy... extend their stays, we'll cover every extra night and meal. No charge to them." All because of the flight chaos from the regional mess. That's some real hospitality flex ..... Props to DCT Abu Dhabi for looking after people first.
What an amazing and insightful commentator Robin Cousins is. Being an ex Olympic gold medallist you know he feels what each skater is going through. An absolute joy to watch, who explains everything in detail and is so passionate about the sport of ice skating. Excellent!
Dave B retweeted
This shows the net worth of politicians over the years compared to the average person.
Dave B retweeted
Alone in the wild after she Notty lost her mother in a cliff fall. Alone, she couldn’t fend for herself. That’s when we donned our striped coats and stepped in to guide her from rescue to reintegration.
Why the coat? They enable foals to imprint on a consistent pattern, helping them settle and bond with their caregivers. It's a small detail that has a big impact, and donations make it possible funding specialist Keeper care (and coats).
This month, what difference do you want to make? For the price of a pay day coffee, could you donate a nutritious milk feed to an orphan, or a blanket to keep an baby warm. Find out more: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/s…
Dave B retweeted
This is staggering. A Freedom of Information request has revealed that 80% of suspects arrested for theft offences on the British railway network in the year 2024-25 were foreign nationals. gbnews.com/news/migrants-cri…
Dave B retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV calls out the EU and British government:
"A new Orwellian-style language is developing which, in an attempt to be increasingly inclusive, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fuelling it."
Well said 👏👏
Sometimes I feel almost personally targeted by the government.
I own an EV, and they’ve decided to introduce a mileage tax to punish me for that.
I run my blog as a sole trader; they are forcing much more onerous reporting through “make tax digital” which also means I have to pay for tax software.
My eldest started secondary school in September; we put him in a fee paying school (a struggle on our income) and they cynically whacked an extra 20% tax on fees. Our savings won’t stretch as far now.
They continue to run an inflationary policy, throwing money at the undeserving to buy their votes, which drags more of my income into the higher band and thus increase my taxes despite the promise not to.
Now they threaten to ban X, which is both my major news source and an additional income which helps a bit in these strained times.
I have done everything right. I got a good education, I worked hard, raised a family - and I feel as if I am being punished for it. Everything they do is almost calculated to make me miserable and my life harder.
Outrageous, pure theft!
This is truly insane. Listen to @ChefTomKerridge explain the massive 115% increase in business rates on pubs.
Thousands will collapse as Labour er … “fixes the foundations”
Luke Littler 18, wins the World Darts Championship for the second year running and takes the Ballon D'art 🙂
