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Sam Smith

Sam Smith

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Palace fan, former Express and SLP football reporter

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2h

New by me: A read on the Zack Polanski-spearheaded Green surge, what it might mean for Labour, and why even previous Zack-sceptics inside the Greens are onboard now.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘We have to book bigger rooms’: Green membership surge causes novel problems

Party rides high with new leader Zack Polanski winning media plaudits and supporter numbers doubling to 140,000

www.theguardian.com

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 21h

thick cobwebs to make a house look spooky, mysterious and untouched in decades? yeah. full on whacking great big spiders? fuck off

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 21h

Feel like absolutely enormous fake spiders on front gardens as a halloween decoration is a totally new phenomenon and it needs binning immediately

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 22h

Definitely agree. It just... wasn't very Palace.

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 23h

v true

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 23h

"we're the boys who will win your little game" though

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 23h

19 unbeaten can so quickly become three defeats and no wins in four

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 2d

kind of expected the guy who casually started a sentence "as they said in mein kampf..." to be challenged tbh

youtu.be/-IdA-rWzKXk?...

Is this the end of Labour in Wales? | Caerphilly by-election report

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 2d

If we're the team having to control possession, I really prefer Nketiah as the striker. Whole system moves more fluidly around his movement.

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 5d

Lots of the coversation regarding closing schools during Covid seems to revolve a lot around children being low-risk, and much less about the vulnerable people they would have spread the virus among. Children also aren't the only people in schools. It's very surface-level discourse.

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 6d

"Liverpool last lost a game that mattered to them on 15 January..."

Bin off Drury

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 8d

Been worried about today's game since Everton. It's a big test of character to respond positively to a first defeat in a long time.

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 9d

Completely missed that. Think that's a good first step but I'd like to see it implemented a few more times across the season

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 9d

+ More jeopardy for players who can currently miss the odd international break for spurious reasons. But if they miss one of the very few international breaks I'm proposing, they risk someone taking their place. Could lead to fewer drop-outs and probably incentivse better performance week-to-week.

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 9d

and clubs can use those periods to take their remaining players to whichever random part of the world for a few friendlies. Everyone wins.

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 9d

Is fewer but longer international windows not a possibility? Would mean national head coaches get more time with players, more consistency across more matches in shorter bursts, but we also don't have to break club football every three weeks at the start of every season

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 9d

Second international break since leaving journalism and I've learned exactly why everyone despises them

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 14d

Good man. Dont back down. Don't let these thugs intimidate you.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 14d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 19d

don't think there's anyone on the left of British politics as interesting and refreshing as Polanski

youtu.be/SwZ0JcXsAhM?...

He’s Got Starmer Scared w/. Zack Polanski

YouTube video by Owen Jones

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 22d

Love that. It's taken me three years to lose roughly 7 stone. Lot happier for it too.

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 23d

Such a good performance that even Nketiah is receiving praise. What a time to be alive.

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 23d

Also can't work out which part of Nketiah that wasn't his arm was offside

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 23d

Bit silly from Sosa to throw himself into those two tackles but that's an extremely soft yellow card

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 27d

Yeah, that is largely what I'm saying - apologies if it was poorly worded. Intriguing that the data has us playing that deep as anecdotally quite a few big chances seem to come from an interception as the opposition make their first few passes.

I've praised our direct play lots in other threads!

Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 27d

I'd only be willing to accept Guardiola, Slot and Arteta above him out of PL head coaches. I think Glasner can be a little more adaptable with his formation when we're dominating a game (esp in Europe this season), but otherwise he's walking into a top job in the summer.