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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 3h

Current problems notwithstanding, some major rewriting of #ncfc history on Canary Call.

Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 3h

November 5 is the key date - if you can't beat Sheffield Wednesday with all their issues it's just like losing to Charlton in the FA Cup in 2009.

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 7h

You'd sincerely hope that when the Euro 2028 qualifying draw takes place in 2027 no home nation is going to be drawn in the same group as Israel. With an election only two years away by then the political reaction to that would be off the scale.

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 23h

The British political & media establishment have come out in defence of ultra-right-wing Israeli football hooliganism. And now fascist Tommy Robinson is to have the full protection of the British state. Guess there is a kind of idiotic logic to this.

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 1d

Your club isn't alone - this is mine!

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 1d

Certainly does on Facebook.

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 1d

Prediction: Rupert Lowe will stand in Great Yarmouth in 2029 for the Tories.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tories give ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe seat on top Commons committee

The Tories say Rupert Lowe - who is set to join the public accounts committee - shares their

www.bbc.co.uk

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 1d

Also 1985, Thatcher just accepted Heysel as one of those things...

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 1d

Have a closer look at this, Stephen. Jenrick was born in 1982 and is a Wolves fan. If he was in the away end the only times they played there after he was aged two were in League Cup ties in 1989 and 1996 and in the PL in 2003. Like everything else this shapeshifter says, I don't believe a word.

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 1d

More than somewhat, I'd say. An utterly pointless choice in every way, but of course it wasn't influenced by the venue, despite what one of the judges was saying last night.
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. I must have missed Starmer & Co calling for Scotland fans to be allowed into the Belarus away qualifier recently. Starmer's entire outlook now is governed by "What would the Daily Mail and GB News think?" rather than considering the trouble Maccabi fans caused in Amsterdam last season.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1d

It is remarkable to note how widely the position is being entrenched across UK party politics that millions of people need to be bullied "back to work" in jobs that don't exist.

The jobs. Don't exist.

This is a fact.

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 1d

Call me out of touch - I'm sure you will - but I honestly can't see the mass appeal of the winner. Lifting the prize would have been far more beneficial for quite a few of the other shortlisted acts.

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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 1d

1981

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 5d

🦸 It's a Super Thursday Council By-Election Week with TEN Seats up for Grabs:

Defences:

🔶 4x LDM (Babergh, Reigate & Banstead, Surrey, Tandridge)
🌹 2x LAB (Preston, Trafford)
🎗️ 1x SNP (South Ayrshire)
🌍 1x GRN (Spelthorne)
🌳 1x CON (Surrey)
🏘️ 1x Localist (Surrey)

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

Given FindOutNow polls keep making news it's worth saying a bit more about their methodology.

Unlike other online pollsters it doesn't use a panel of people who've signed up to do polls. Instead they ask a small number of Qs to people playing the Pick my Postcode lottery. (Thread)

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 3d

They're unlikely to go for the same high level, but I wonder if sales such as this will ever flush out onto the open market any old #ncfc memorabilia, especially medals or tankards from 1934, 1962, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1985 or 1986.

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 3d

1973 winners' tankard (League Cup didn't award medals until the 1980s) - £4,200

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 3d

1973 tracksuit - £4,200

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 3d

1973 match worn shirt from Wembley - £26,000 plus commission. This surely has to be the highest price ever paid for a shirt from a match involving Norwich.

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 3d

#ncfc memorabilia update:
I've never seen any Norwich items from Wembley 1973 or 1975 ever come up for open sale. However, Pat Jennings has sold a lot of stuff at auction today.

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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 3d

How come so many Tories are suddenly adamant they’ve seen China as a threat for years?

#PoliticsLive #PMQs

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/media/2009/j...

Clarkson crashes into trouble with C-word attack on PM

Top Gear presenter makes more offensive remarks about Gordon Brown in front of studio audience

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 3d

He shouldn't last five minutes in the Commons because he wouldn't follow any parliamentary procedures. Mind, given how the world has changed over the last 16 years he knows he can get away with being an absolute tosser now.

www.theguardian.com/media/2009/f...

Jeremy Clarkson apologises for calling Gordon Brown 'a one-eyed idiot'

Top Gear presenter says sorry for comments after complaints from Scottish politicians and disability groups. By Oliver Luft, Deborah Summers and Caitlin Fitzsimmons

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 5d

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