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Kenny Wastell

@kennywastell.bsky.social

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Financial journalist. Failed musician. Football enthusiast. Boyhood St Mirren and Atalanta fan. Keep a close eye on 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 players in Serie A. Springsteen disciple. Raised in Milan. Two decades in London. Five years in Edinburgh. Now a migrant in Lisbon 🇵🇹🇪🇺

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Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · Feb 12

Unbeknownst to me, my six-year-old has been copying text from items lying around my desk (including my Modern Toss coaster) 😬

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Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 1d

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Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 1d

Completely. I guess the point people make about xG is exactly that. It is just one useful metric and has to be analysed in conjunction with others. I personally feel you do always need to allow room for the human element of contextualising the data. That’s true of data analysis across the board.

Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect! Far better than the Greek tragedy line that was doing the rounds last night.

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Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 1d

For sure! My questions have always been: What level of player is used as a base line for xG? Does the gap between xG and G widen as you go down the levels? And I guess, what impact does goalkeeping standard have on the gap between xG and G?

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Craig @craiging619.bsky.social · 1d

“Gunn and Dykes won that game tonight. An absolute disgrace of a performance.”

Alex Ferguson rages after Aberdeen win the 1983 Scottish Cup (to go with the Cup Winners Cup).

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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 1d

Tactical genius sees ‘lull them into false sense of security by plumbing new depths of shiteness for 63 minutes’ gamble pay off

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Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 1d

I have absolutely no idea how Scotland won that game. Daylight robbery, and I’ll take it all day long!

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Lorenzo @amazinglorenzo.bsky.social · 5d

I hear the problem is how extreme the left has been in their views and their rhetoric

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

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Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 6d

I am also not a Milan fan, but Modric in a Milan kit is just [chef’s kiss]

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Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 6d

I am not a Celtic supporter, but I have to say this is wonderful.
👏👏👏
(from Bullsquirt on Reddit)

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Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 8d

What’s the worst opening line to a song ever? I’ll go first: “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?”

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Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 8d

Me (to 7yo daughter): It is never nice to call somebody an idiot. Don’t do it ever.

Also me: [watches Badenoch interview] 🤐🥴…

UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 8d

Badenoch, wannabe PM who campaigned for Brexit, claimed “NI voted Leave.” Reality: NI voted Remain. A proper sociopathic Tory: called out, she carries on, no apology, no correction, no shame. Never admit wrong, just lie louder and hope people swallow it. #ukpolitics

Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 8d

The old firm really are a total shambles at the moment, but it will never cease to amaze me how grown adults can behave like this. “Furiously” confronting total strangers in a hotel lobby. Good god man. Get a grip.

Herald Sport @heraldsport.bsky.social · 8d

Rangers chiefs accosted by furious fans at hotel reception

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/255142...

Rangers chiefs accosted by furious fans at hotel reception

Kevin Thelwell & Patrick Stewart confronted by fuming Rangers fans at hotel reception.

www.heraldscotland.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 9d

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.

Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."

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Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 11d

Agree totally

Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 11d

Yes. Inclusive growth, and not growth that further exacerbates regional and socioeconomic inequality. Growth for growth’s sake doesn’t solve division, as we are seeing borne out around the developed world.

Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 11d

Nah mate. Inclusivity and brave leadership are the ‘antidotes to division’.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11d

Keir Starmer to tell Labour conference growth is the ‘antidote to division’

In a combative speech, the prime minister will pledge to raise living standards and ‘face down’ threats of a volatile world Keir Starmer will attempt to brush aside critics of his economic strategy by insisting it can be the “antidote to division” being sown by the populist right. Under pressure to be more radical, the prime minister will tell the Labour party on Tuesday that economic growth “can either build a nation or it can it pull it apart” depending on who and which parts of the country might benefit. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 11d

Exactly this. The more Labour pushes back against the Greens, the more likely I am to vote Green. The more Labour pushes back against Reform and Tory narrative and policies, the more likely I am to vote Labour. And calling out Reform while adopting many of their stances on immigration doesn’t cut it

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11d

Dear Labour, people aren’t leaning towards the Greens because they don’t know what the Greens are, but because they see what you, Labour, are doing.

The best way to stop them going to the Greens, is to have more left wing, less xenophobic, less stupid policies.

Attacking the Greens doesn’t help.

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Sue @sueafc.bsky.social · 12d

London under sharia law

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Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 14d

Great point in Turin that, for Atalanta. Particularly in the circumstances. But far from a vintage performance. Shame about the manner of Juve’s equaliser, but felt it was coming the deeper Atalanta defended

Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 14d

Sensational Sulemana!!! 😱💙🖤

Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 15d

Immigration is not the problem. An obsession with immigration, which has been allowed to become engrained nationwide over the past 15 years, is the problem. The UK and the Labour Party need a new leader. I don’t know if Andy Burnham is ‘it’, but Keir Starmer definitely isn’t.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15d

That "progressive fightback" in full

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Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 18d

And, let me tell you, step one is to stop sending your ministers to broadcast interviews with the message that they “understand the concerns” of racist mobs.

Kenny Wastell @kennywastell.bsky.social · 18d

Oh, is he now? Because he should only have been doing this for the past five years, since he became Labour leader.

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