Shona Black

@shonablack.bsky.social

Art, design, football. Anti-fascist. 85% feral, 100% for trans rights. Unreasonably pleased with myself. 🏳️‍🌈

Integrity is key, here. For too long, we've abided an integrity-free, repercussion-free society. Football is a tiny part of that, but - well, if the powers that have been using it as PR value it - let football be the first to say no. No more.

Martin Calladine@uglygame.bsky.social · 2w ago

You cannot run a league successfully, fairly and with integrity if you have owners who believe themselves to be above the law. Especially if some of them actually are.

Since we all really FELT that ancient pooch who wouldn’t drop the ball, I figured I may as well tell you a bit about dogs in ancient Mesopotamia. They leave traces everywhere, from bricks to burials to proverbs. Here’s a 4,000-year-old paw print of a pooch on a brick from ancient Ur

Mud brick with a cuneiform inscription near the middle and two paw prints on the left side.

Did I just get back from a viewing at Bonhams auction house in NYC of cat-themed art? Why yes- yes I did. Did I take pictures, including of these Chinese ceramic cats from the Qing Dynasty? Also yes! Will I make a thread of some of them? Indeed I will, which will include...

Two ceramic cats in a vitrine

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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An example of one of the damaging knock-on effects of the fraudulent dealings, that likely will never be held to account: City's illegal spending didn't just acquire the best players, it rigged the entire market to put good players out of reach for most clubs.

Keithy@metalgiroud.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s not Elliott Anderson’s fault that City paid £116m for him. He’s worth nowhere near that, but it skewed the market so much that every other transfer fee this summer was ludicrously high.

The offside rule in football: by virtue of where he is standing, refusing to play the team of a genocidal Israel, Gavin Bazunu has just played every other Irish squad member, the FAI, UEFA, and the Irish government, offside.

And if you're a City fan you should be even more furious because players with the grace & skill of De Bruyne or Silva could potentially win titles without a thumb on the scales. But we'll never know because Pep & the board decided they'd fix the game just in case. It cheapens everyone it touches.

A club guilty of a decade-long scheme to submit false financial information to the league, for the purpose of securing an unfair on-field advantage, should not only be thrown out of the league and have all its titles vacated, its owner should be compelled to sell the club.

These far-right jackasses boasting about their 'armour of God' or whatever. I grew up belting out 'Jerusalem' in school assembly; pretty sure I wear the armour of God better than you slobs.