Questions raised over whether £3.8m government grant awarded to Wrexham AFC was lawful Exclusive: The club, owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac, received the grant without a contract or final state aid assessment in place

"The club has received £18m in taxpayer-funded grants – far more than any other in the UK"

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Controversial opinion: English tifos are generally a bit naff.

Last night I had to receive a 2FA text from Microsoft to restart my PC in safe mode and I'm still bitter about it nearly 24 hours later.

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I'm all for it

Well it would have been funny even before they hired The Apologist. Billion pound stadium, CL final, trophy under Ange to fighting relegation. People can argue technicalities all day long but De Zerbi should be unemployable to anyone with a spine.

Absolutely. If a club makes a decision (or in the case of Spurs: many, many decisions) that are so obviously really terrible, I reserve the right to laugh when it inevitably goes wrong.

Nothing against Spurs really. It would just be funny.

I'm not from London so why would it be funny? Nobody knows. Just would.

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Ah well. Fun while it lasted.

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Today, I will mostly be unapologetically drunkenly shitposting about going to Wembley. Until we lose.

'You there boy! What day is this?'

'It's FA Trophy semi-final day sir! Spoons brekky! No pyro no party!'

Twas the night before Christmas...

I can't envisage that I'd ever make such a faux-pas.

'C'MON CYMRU!' screams the Cardiff tannoy announcer

'PICK A LANGUAGE' screams me from the living room

Bad owners come in a variety of flavours: sure, property developers who want the land are genuinely evil, as are the outright crooks, but somehow even worse are the David Hilton types who use clubs as a vehicle to fuel their colossal egos and don't care what damage they cause along the way.

*Other controversial opinions are available..

Thanks so much, enjoy!

Yesterday on UD, on Ipswich Town and fascism, which is a sentence that I never thought I'd write.

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I heard this one is pretty good, though one of the two co-authors doesn't recognise Die Hard as a Christmas film so you have to take these things with a pinch of salt.

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Always felt bizarre to me how many people think they'd be great at owning a football club because they can picture winning a league or two in their head. The reality is much harder, much grittier, and much more expensive.

Great book on that floating about somewhere I bet.

'Govern yourself accordingly' is outstanding.

"If someone says it's raining & another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the window and find out which is true"

Mark Bullingham Chief Executive Officer The Football Association Wembley Stadium SW1P 9EQ 24th March 2026 Dear Mr Bullingham, is The FA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2028 I am writing to ask for a meeting to discuss the Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) policies within the Football Association. In November 2024, the FA published the report 'A Game Free From Discrimination The FA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2028'¹. In September 2025 the FA created a 'Diversity & Inclusion Action Plan'. These plans set a 25% target for coaching staff to be from a 'Black, Asian, Mixed or other ethic background' within the men's game by 2028. I believe that this policy fundamentally flawed, inherently racist and ask that it is scrapped. The FA has led the fight to kick racism out of football, a mission I utterly support. There is no place for discrimination of any kind in our national game. Yet your DEI strategy does precisely that, it divides rather than unites. It replaces merit with quotas and implements identity politics where teamwork, ability and hard graft should prevail. White working-class boys are the most disadvantaged in the country, they are the lifeblood of our game, but they are absent from your strategy. Why? These boys miss out on opportunities and are overlooked because of who they are. The policies within your document will increase resentment and should be abandoned. Giving everyone the opportunity to enjoy the greatest game in the world is important, but football, especially at the highest levels should be based on merit. The best coaches should get the job, not because of their skin colour, but because they are the best person for the job. I ask you to scrap your policies and replace them with a policy entitled "The best person for the job". Knowledge and talent should get you a job, not skin colour. Fans don't care about box-ticking or quotas; they care about winning on merit and seeing the best people lead…

'I ask you to scrap your policies and replace them with a policy entitled "The best person for the job."'

This intervention from Suella Braverman on DEI coaching targets is extraordinarily simple-minded. It's as though she sat down to attract some attention, but couldn't think of anything to say.

Offered without comment.

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No sod that he's a miserable divisive opportunistic hypocritical gelatin spineless leech gimp

My narrator: It's not, in fact, okay

Could I read more? Perhaps in some sort of published book?

Nigel Farage Cameo videos backed cryptocurrencies that collapsed in value Cameo videos produced by the Reform UK leader were used to drum up interest in obscure memecoins

Wait till you hear what your favourite football club did.
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