Mike Landers
@ukplissken.bsky.social
8 minutes and 20 seconds from stardom. Vlogs about Burnley FC. Swears a lot. Proud Socialist. Runs One Touch Football, the ex-forum for When Saturday Comes. (https://www.onetouchfootball.com) Often wrong, never in doubt.
In Dec 2024, Mazraoui refused to use a Man Utd jacket with support to the LGBT cause because it was against his religion. Today, Man Utd has announced a partnership with a betting company & yes, he was seen wearing a shirt with the sponsor on it So just a raging homophobe hiding behind religion
Mazraoui recusou-se e jogadores do United não usaram casaco de apoio à causa LGBT
Campanha da Premier League envolta em polémica
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Bluesky is not a "liberal bubble". It's just one of increasingly few public spaces where Nazis get called out, and if that makes you uncomfortable, you need to think about that.
Brand new on Dirty Feed: Mary Tyler Moore's long-misunderstood 1978 variety series, Mary. Part One: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/05/some... Part Two: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/06/some... Part Three: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/06/some... Part Four: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/08/some...
Toniiiiight! Previews season is over, and it's back to regular funny business at XS, and we're starting our August with the amazing @abigoliah.bsky.social! With support from Ben Stead, Gabriel Featherstone, and Abbie Hale, plus, of course, plenty of @tobyhadoke.bsky.social wegottickets.com/f/24189
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Given we are approaching that time of the year, my big piece from years back on the 1983 Cold War Crisis (and the role of Stanislav Petrov in it) over onto authory as a free-to-read. Over the years, the myth of what happened has been simplified. The reality was scarier. Because: Ronald Reagan.
The Day the World Didn’t End
At the height of the Cold War, with alarms screaming, one Soviet officer stopped to think. It cost him his career. It may also have saved the world. The morning of the 26th September 1983 had started ...
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Forgot the instruction to avoid blowing my nose for a few days. All I’m saying is it was a good job I was in the shower at the time. #nightmareonelmstreet
Being dead is not some kind of state line where, if you can just cross the border, all your trespasses evaporate. The flowers still wither where you poured salt. The living continue to suffer the consequences of your actions. People are entitled to say, he made the garden worse, and now he is gone.
Ah, there must always be balance. RIP to Jimmy Cricket, who was both tremendously funny and wonderfully kind.
Rod Liddle. A man kicked off the earlier version of OTF for being unbelievably racist.
This weekend's opening match of the season was a post-funeral trip taking in rainbows, a fort and a BLOODY MASSIVE BOAT. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-weeken...
The Weekend Match: Newhaven 1-1 Crawley Down Gatwick - Once More in the Name of Love
The start of the new season comes at the end of a period of big change in my life, but non-league football is one constant that helps to keep everything else in line.
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Walking around a food festival in the park when @valleyguitarist.bsky.social starts giggling at this WELL SHIT ALIEN PIZZA
Saw the Torino goal. Now rocking back and forth saying “it’s only pre-season, it’s only pre-season” #burnleyfc
The new football season's here, so it's off to the other side of the county for some Pride, a mediocre football match, and a MASSIVE FUCKING BOAT. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-weeken...
The Weekend Match: Newhaven 1-1 Crawley Down Gatwick - Once More in the Name of Love
The start of the new season comes at the end of a period of big change in my life, but non-league football is one constant that helps to keep everything else in line.
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com
In 1919, league cricket in England became a genuine competitor to county cricket, able to attract the best players. For a time, administrators feared the effects of the Lancashire League and Bradford League. It was largely, but not entirely, a question of money. open.substack.com/pub/oldebor7...
"There is only one question — a financial one"
County Cricket and the Lure of the Leagues
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All I’ll say about this COVID revisionism from The Sensibles is they conveniently forget 227’000+ died in the UK. Every iota of that statistic was someone with family, friends, dreams, and a life (no matter how long or short) abruptly ended due to shocking incompetence and corruption from the state
“I’m fine” thinks I. “Well on the road to recovery.” Except I’ve just had a ten minute phone conversation with my dad and by the time I got to the end I was slurring my words and feeling drowsy.
Qatar FA coming out and saying they 100% back Infantino is one of those "Thanks lads, but you're not helping" moments for him.
“What have you done today, Mike?” “Slept, ate a little, slept, ate a little more, slept” “And plans for the evening?” “Sleeping, I think”
A seemingly decisive victory, on a reduced vote share and a low turn out being heralded as a new dawn for progressive politics? I feel like I've heard that somewhere before. Anyway, now to take a big sip of coffee and review the last couple of years of British politics.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d agoThe Manchester mayoral result holds the key for the future of progressive politics | Neal Lawson
Finally had much needed nose surgery. Can breathe properly for the first time in 30 years. Weird feeling. Currently have one of those under nose swab things on. Feel like Albert Finney’s Poirot looking after his moustache.
My son was out in Soho today and saw a copy of the punk fanzine I was involved in 1977. £100! We put ourselves on the cover after CBS withdrew permission to feature Clash. See also me and Mark on TV at the time with not much idea what we were doing...but neither did anyone!
Whether you like it or not (personally, I think it is excellent) there is no argument that the marketing has knocked out of the park. youtu.be/vOj5pwYDsSo?... #burnleyfc
The Cream Rises | Burnley Away 2026/27
YouTube video by Burnley Football Club
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For Football Italia generation fans you imagine Baresi's name announced by Peter Brackley. You see the glossy azzurri blue of the Italian 90 italy, you see the smokey San Siro and there calmly, socks rolled down, in red and black Baresi 6 looking up ready to unleash that forward line again. RIP
The public are IMO entitled to ask why, if it was quite straightforward to wreck Nigel Farage with maybe six weeks of half-committed noticing things, why that was not done at any point in the last two decades instead.