Richard Buxton
@rbuxtonmedia.com
Football journalist covering the Premier League (mainly Everton & Liverpool) and beyond. Author of ‘Fine Margins’ and ‘The Worst-Run Club in the Country’ 🇪🇸🇬🇧
Piece on Everton’s summer recruitment (or current lack of), the risk of blowing another golden opportunity and ambivalent ownership for @fourfourtwo.com:
Everton are falling into a familiar trap under David Moyes with an ominous feeling of Last Chance Saloon around the club
David Moyes’s Everton return has already entered win-or-bust territory
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Rod Liddle was a piece of shit in both his private and public life, and it speaks to the state of British media that they're praising the man. He presaged the steep downward decline of British broadsheet print columnists into increasingly open racism, misogyny, and hatred of queer people.
On Eamon Dunphy’s birthday, would you believe
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoSunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies aged 66
Every negotiation between a Premier League top six team and Everton
Martyn Ziegler getting his flowers for uncovering the FIFA sell-off but he also previously rumbled the failed European Super League plot. He will deservedly go down as one of the most important investigative sports reporters alongside the late great Andrew Jennings
No messing about from UEFA with that statement on boycotting all FIFA competitions. Your move, Infantino.
There was a time when C4 used to genuinely push the boundaries of broadcasting instead of lazily shilling for right-wing plutocrats. Pissing away the budget on Hollyoaks still really must seem worth it
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
A very familiar feeling to Everton’s pre-season so far. No doubt that some gaps will be plugged before the opening game but seems to be a case of things staying the same the more they supposedly change. Even the most optimistic supporter should be having misgivings at this stage
This is basically my mentions from last weekend. Chapeau!
Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social · last wk.It is very clear to me that the economy / immigration / drilling in the North Sea / the doubling of the Neasden Dual Carriageway / the unavailability of my favourite soya bread at my local supermarket is THE issue facing our country, From the new Private Eye, out now.
Oi, Burnham, I demand that you address the issue that is top of my list in your first week in office. If you don’t, you’re just another blah, blah, blah. JFC, actual adults with no insight, just entitlement.
Well this drew some interesting responses
Richard Buxton@rbuxtonmedia.com · 2w agoNew prime ministers should get the same grace period as a freshly appointed manager. Unfortunately, most Labour leaders are treated like they’re on the brink of the sack from the get go. For once, let’s see what one with a genuine vision to transform the country can do?
New prime ministers should get the same grace period as a freshly appointed manager. Unfortunately, most Labour leaders are treated like they’re on the brink of the sack from the get go. For once, let’s see what one with a genuine vision to transform the country can do?
David Moyes on Idrissa Gueye’s Everton exit “Everyone at Everton is hugely grateful for Gana’s dedication, professionalism, and influence on the pitch throughout his two spells. His leadership qualities in and around the dressing room proved crucial”
Byrnedavid Dancing: Same As It Ever Was
ALT: Byrnedavid Dancing: Same As It Ever Was
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County Road Bobblers@cbobblers1878.bsky.social · 2w agoSo Everton have seemingly briefed the media it seems by the i-Paper story (good source close to Tfg), that Everton are prepared to 'wait it out' to get the favoured right back over just signing a warm body there. So it could go on for weeks yet, we are going to have to be patient, and suck it up.
Apparently the phrase ‘Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses’ doesn’t translate into Austrian German
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoAustria opens police station at Hitler birthplace to deter neo-Nazi tourists
There needs to be a very lengthy ban for this. Violent conduct in the extreme
JM =^D@jm539581.bsky.social · 2w agoLeandro Paredes with a red card after the final whistle
FIFA aren’t beating those fixing accusations after that call
If you thought having The Muppets there was surreal, wait until 2030 when the cast of Los Mundos de Yupi are bouncing round the Camp Nou pitch
It should be an automatic lifetime ban now
Richard Buxton@rbuxtonmedia.com · 2w agoYeah, they shouldn’t be given another World Cup after this.
In 20 years’ time, Slavko Vincic will be telling anecdotes about refereeing this final on an episode of ‘Undr The Cosh’
