David Clark
@david-k-clark
Ex-Foreign Office adviser to Robin Cook. Politics, foreign policy, football. Scottish 🏴. Firmly left. HMFC🇱🇻MUFC🇾🇪.
Exibit A. The item is “delivered” but also “may still be on its way”. All bases covered. This saga has been going on since Friday when they claim to have attempted delivery three times. It’s a lie. I was at home. There were no attempted deliveries.
Let’s hear it for Spain, deserved World Champions. 🙌 Football wins. Infantino, Trump, Milei, dodgy refereeing and negative tactics lose. Not a great game, but certainly a great outcome.
Didn’t know xG could be so low for two teams. It makes me think there should be a rule change. If it’s 0-0 at half time, for every 5 minutes in the second half without a goal, both teams should have to remove a player. Just thinking outside the box. Like these teams, come to think of it.
I’m getting mixed feedback from family about the advisability of wearing this Naples holiday purchase.
I’m a lot more woke and optimistic than I expected. But I don’t get the Davos/Dubai thing. Is the future a binary choice between two execrably awful versions of capitalism? Because if it is, I’m definitely a doomer whatever the survey says.
The 2030 World Cup is due to be hosted by Spain, Morocco and Portugal. Will outdoor summer sport even be possible in the future?
Imagine giving this ridiculous speech today of all days. Badenoch should have been made to deliver it outside, without shade or access to water. She could have croaked her line about Ed Miliband’s villainy as she fainted with heat stroke.
It was still God Save the Queen when I went to my first international. I like Scotland the Brave as a pipe tune, but you can’t really sing it and the lyrics are twee and silly. That said, this passage feels horribly appropriate today.
You refer to multiple polls giving RN a commanding lead. Are you seeing polls not captured here? These ones, at least, look very close and mixed. Not doubting your overall point that a far right win is a real risk, just wondering if you’re being too gloomy.
Three different names being touted as “favourites” to take the Hearts job. I have no objection in principle to Robbie Keane. He might be good or rubbish. The problem is that we know CeItic would poach him in 12 months if he turned out to be good, so they would need to insert a £££ release clause.
I was at Scotland’s last World Cup game in St Etienne in 98. I’ve raised three kids to adulthood since then. That’s how long it’s been. I learned not to expect too much a long time ago, but I’d love them to change the script tonight.
My favourite hailed me from the shelf as I was passing. It will be needed tonight one way or another.
I wouldn’t recommend turning up for a Scotland game wearing one of these. You’d be lucky just to get laughed at.
It took forever to put my Fantasy Football team together. It’s become more complicated than a tax return with all the new features. But I’m off to a flyer with 20pts, so time well spent.
So Badenoch, who has rightly insisted that more needs to be done to protect the Jewish community from hate crime, is now saying that tackling hate crime against other communities should not be a priority. She’s basically advocating two-tier policing, isn’t she?
We don’t need smears and lectures from America, the land of actual two-tier policing.
Would be genuinely funny if Shankland won nothing at Rangers. It’s not impossible. They’ve only won the cup and the diddy cup in the last five years. And no manager will know better how to play Shankland out of a game than McInnes.
Farage has now named the “counter-espionage experts” who examined his phone.
Marco Rubio: Cuba is a threat to the US because it has Russian arms and intelligence facilities. Guess who also has Russian arms and intelligence facilities.
I see old Bagpuss is sticking with such Galacticos as Grant Hanley and Che Adams for the World Cup. This is one best approached with the lowest of expectations. Anything above dismal failure will be a bonus.