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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 15h

It was obvious after the Millwall that a stand needed to be taken. Most Luton fans I talk to think the wholesale banning was wrong (but, boy, if you were there that night.....), and a strict ticketing policy would have been better.

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James Woodward @jw00dward.bsky.social · 1d

www.fourfourtwo.com/features/the...

Proof will be in the performances, but everything I’m reading or hearing from this guy is giving me hope.

He’s here for the right reasons. He’s ambitious. He’s had a v good schooling. He “gets” the club without necessarily being one of us directly.

V excited.

'There's only two clubs that I’d feel completely comfortable walking in and saying ‘hello’ to everyone' Exclusive: Jack Wilshere speaks to Henry Winter about marathons, mistakes and managers he's work...

Henry Winter sat down with former Arsenal man, Jack Wilshere, in his first in-depth interview since taking the Luton Town job

www.fourfourtwo.com

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 2d

This is a quite fabulous thread

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 2d

The Peter Cushing films should be incorporated into the franchise. They could have made a brilliant Bernard Cribbens connection.

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🎃Simon Threadgold🎃 @dimwittedly.bsky.social · 2d

Dr Who died in 1966 and was secretly replaced with an actor.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

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George Smiley @ian-parsley.bsky.social · 2d

The problem with Tories (and all conservatives worldwide) is that they can never understand the impacts of their actions until something bad happens to them.

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Jeremy Clarkson backtracks on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 3d

YouTube "recommends" Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson to me. My viewing history would give them absolutely no reason to recommend this. We are monumentally fucked.

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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 3d

He won a trophy at Luton, which he didn't at Brighton or Villa. Unfortunately for Foster, Luton weren't allowed to play in Europe.

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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 4d

I want to know who the "close friends who are long-term season ticket holders at Kenilworth Road" are. And what they've said to him.

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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 4d

Good spot! Meep meep.....

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Simon @hungryhatter.bsky.social · 4d

The sans-serif letters in Wilshere's name spell Wile E, the name of a coyote who ambitiously jumped into situations he couldn't handle that ended with him falling into a ravine. I hope that's not an omen! Good luck, Mr Wilshere.

Luton Town FC @lutontown.co.uk · 4d

Jack Wilshere is our new manager 🧡

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Simon Darwen @darwen88.bsky.social · 4d

#COYH

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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 5d

Welcome to the Hotel California......

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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 5d

Marvellous! Many thanks.

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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 5d

I think that was it! Had a Sticky Wicket Burger and a beer for breakfast every morning.

Other pubs I think I remember: The Duke Of York, The Duke Of Kent? Every day we went to the bus station to go to Niagara Falls, but stopped in the pub on the way.....

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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 5d

Hold on, what? I always assumed the H from Steps was female.

How many other historical *facts* have I got wrong?

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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 5d

Ah, thanks! Stayed at a B&B opposite a pub called the Sticky Wicket, is that still a thing?

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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 5d

In 1981 I went to a club on the corner of Yonge and Bloor called the Turning Point, saw a group called the Forgotten Rebels. Is any of this still a thing?

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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 5d

Good players don't always make bad managers.....

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 5d

Why we need to build new train stations – and how they could improve issues from the housing crisis to poor health.

Could building new train stations help get Britain back on track?

www.bigissue.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 5d

Oh bloody la-de-da.

Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you, Diane Keaton, for showing us a way.

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Roger Holdstock @rogerholdstock.bsky.social · 5d

Back where he started, a very Lutonesque move.

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Alan Baldwin @alansayscoyh.bsky.social · 6d

Look, I was holding off on posting this but the bustards are going to announce it Monday and I won't be able to then...so welcome back Jack (Probably).

Oh and by the way if any journalist dares to call us 'Jack Wilshere's Luton Town' I will post very used cat litter through their letterbox.

Ta x

A very proud Jack Wilshere in his Luton Town kit, aged 9 ish. Ta x

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 7d

this was on my wife’s timeline and she said to me, how long did it take you to realize it was a paw? and I said it is what

A FB post about a new tattoo that has a hand reading for a paw but the paw just straight up looks like a penis idk

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