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Engineer and Lancastrian 🌹/ 🏒 Penguins ⚽️ Burnley 🏈 Steelers/ All views my own

Lake District, Lancashire
Joined January 2008
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Omelette hands strikes again #twitterclarets
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Honestly I’d just sub him off. Hologram, NPC take your pick of how you want to describe just how much of an invisible keeper he is. #twitterclarets
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A reminder that you don’t win games on xG
Replying to @MultimediaJonny
3 quick ones: 🎯 It’s the first time since Weat Ham on the opening day that Burnley have beaten a team at home on xG 🎯 It’s the most xG Burnley have created at home since that West Ham game 🎯 It’s the first clean sheet Burnley have had at home this season #twitterclarets
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Replying to @TurfCastPodcast
Someone tell him we kick off against the cricket field end
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Burnley Football Club has dismissed Head Coach Nicky Hayen with immediate effect. The Board has taken the decision following a disappointing start to the Championship season.
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Saturday’s mean 90 minutes of sweet spot on the turbo, some how less painful than 90 minutes of Burnley. Finally cold enough in the garage to not need the fan for the warm up as well 🥶
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Pannier tank 7714 from @svrofficialsite hauls a cargo special to open East Lancashire Railway’s autumn steam gala this morning.
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Yet I heard him getting pelters off some of our fans tonight? 🤯 #twitterclarets
Would kill someone to have a midfielder like Hatate #cafc
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Coudert had a stinker but equally watching Okonkwo’s distribution shows why Wrexham moved on. Could barely hit the pitch nevermind one of his teammates #twitterclarets
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Clearly we were just giving everyone a head start to make it more competitive 🤥 #twitterclarets
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Jaguar are done. What an awful car 😢
Maybe a hot take, but I think the new all-electric Jaguar Type 01 looks pretty good. Their initial marketing strategy was terrible, but this production version looks good and somewhat cyberpunk like. Now the question is, will anybody buy it. Deliveries start in 2027. $130k starting price. 400-mile EPA range. A lot at stake for Jaguar with this vehicle. It's a make or break moment for them because they've bet the future of the company on this thing.
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Not often you’ll find me firmly in Rees-Mogg’s corner but I guess anything can happen these days
🚨🚨 Tucker Carlson insists three times that Hitler "did not want to go to war with the UK," and twice demands that Jacob Rees-Mogg "acknowledge" it. Hitler "didn't want war" with Britain the way a mugger doesn't want a fight with his victim. He wanted Britain to stand aside while he took Europe. Britain publicly guaranteed Poland's independence in March 1939. Hitler invaded Poland anyway. Rees-Mogg: "I'm very surprised you're verging on defending Hitler." Carlson sarcastically remarks that he is a secret Nazi, then clarifies that he is neither a secret Nazi nor a public Nazi.
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James Bird retweeted
Today marks 125 years of the Royal Navy Submarine Service. Holland 1 - HMS Agamemnon
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Increase military tasking, while also decreasing military spending 🤯
I am often asked what my priority would be if I was the prime minister. 1. Build 5 large modern day prisons. 2. While the prisons are under construction I would recruit 10,000 police and place them through a detailed training program to make their jobs recognised professionals. 3. While the prisons are being built.Recruit prison officers and make and pay them into respected professionals. 4. I would find the money by cutting back on military expenditure. In fact I would offer soldiers to apply for police or prison officer jobs. 5. My understanding of asylum seekers is that if they are trying to leave an oppressed county where they are in danger, they are supposed to go to nearest safe county. The people arriving on the shores of the UK have passed through plenty of safe countries. I would ask the Royal Navy to stop them arriving. Comments please . No jokers thanks Lord Sugar
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Good luck this season, @penguins‼️🐧 #LetsGoPens | #HereWeGo
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I don’t want to see international PL games but this is a nonsense argument from someone who clearly doesn’t know the NFL. Home advantage is huge when the crowd has the ability to prevent the other team hearing each other at the line of scrimmage.
🛑 "No football fan wants this." ❌ "An NFL home crowd isn't as much of an advantage as in the Premier League." Andy Goldstein dismisses claims the Premier League should look to play games in the United States 🇺🇸
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On Wednesday 23rd September, a Royal Air Force Hawk T2 crashed near RAF Valley. Both pilots successfully ejected using the Martin-Baker GB10LH Ejection Seat. #EngineeringForLife
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