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Evertonian, on the left proud NEU member. I love reading and am a fan of Rugby league. Springsteen fanatic of course. 🇪🇺🌹

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ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 5h

Musings on the Mestalla. Levante to follow at a later date.
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Mestalla memories

World cup 82 and the mysteries of Spain.

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ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 5h

Football ground of the day. The incomparable Vallecas in Madrid.
Scruffy, dingy but at the heart of the community.

ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 15h

FFS 🙄

ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 16h

I qualify for a passport

a close up of a man with a beard and long hair .

ALT: a close up of a man with a beard and long hair .

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ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 16h

Well done to them 👋

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Nick Ames @nickames82.bsky.social · 17h

Mjällby have just won the Swedish league with three games left - and they haven’t simply won it, they’ve absolutely ripped it up. No asterisks or sugar daddies here, just the best story European club football will produce all year. From August, this is their tale: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Mjällby making minor miracles in an extraordinary Swedish football story

The former third-tier club with no financial muscle from a remote municipality of 14,000 inhabitants are leading the country’s top flight

www.theguardian.com

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ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 16h

Communism 🙄

ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 18h

Goes with the moniker. Nice drop.

ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 23h

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

Rugby League Ashes: 'I'd love to see a great Wembley try so they don't have to show mine'

Thirty-one years ago this week, Jonathan Davies scored arguably Wembley's greatest-ever try. This Saturday, he wants to see England produce a memorable moment to match it.

www.bbc.co.uk

ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 1d

Millhouse

ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 1d

Cracking castle at Berkhamsted.

ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 1d

They will have to explain to MAGA what a library is.

ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose at least it's regulated in the shops. It's online that seems dangerous to me.

ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 1d

Nice people.

ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 1d

Who are these weirdos, filming themselves watching TV?

ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 1d

I love this sort of thing. What's there now?

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ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck mate. 🤞

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d

So if I understand UK right wing policy proposals properly, we're going to cut off ties with the world's two most populous countries, one economically and the other by trying to deport large numbers of people there.

Genius.