A lovely thing happened. I'm grateful to so many colleagues and friends who have helped me along the way. Thanks so much 🙏 And as I said in my speech, I LOVE radio ❤️
Ibrox, Belinda Carlisle, John Lundstram. One of the greatest nights ever.
"Ooo baby do you know what that's worth
John Lundstram is the best on earth
Silky scouser, just what we need,
He's gonna win us the Europa League."
Well played every
@RangersFC
player. See you in Seville
Leeds fans tease the warming up Kalvin Phillips "you're too fat to play for Leeds," he smiles and balloons up his cheeks, those same Leeds fans appreciate that response and sing his "Yorkshire Pirlo" song
Spurs and Newcastle going to Melbourne for a friendly 3 days after the Premier League season ends. Just for money. FA Cup replays replaced by a friendly the other side of the world on your watch. And you believed all their whining about player welfare?
London Palladium last night for An Evening With Arsene Wenger. Palladium is owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber, a Tory supporting multi millionaire who said he'd leave the country if Labour got in. Can anyone work out why the Palladium is open but football grounds aren't?
@OliverDowden
Dier with an amateur challenge in the box. Coady should've played. Straightforward decision. Coady is a much better centre half than Dier. It's that simple.
The FA just signed a cosy deal with Qatar where free speech is punishable by 3 years in jail.
The FA just charged Guardiola for wearing a yellow ribbon and supporting Catalunya.
The FA did this 2 days before City play a Cup final, when he's been wearing it all season.
World champions.
European champions.
Premier league Champions in waiting.
That's true success.
Let's give this
@LFC
squad and staff the respect they absolutely deserve.
At the start of lockdown the PM's chosen Health Secretary Matt Hancock asked footballers to help. The footballers were already mobilised and already helping.
This week Marcus Rashford asked the PM to make sure poor children have meals to eat. The PM ignored him.
Massive error.
Can't help thinking Derby over celebrated after beating Leeds. It was a semi final. All the i spy tweets from players etc. Celebrate the victory of course, but the extent of celebrations made it feel like Leeds was their final.
Shouldn't be given - Stockley Park should have the courage to see what we all see and say no pen. Otherwise what's the point of VAR? No point whatsoever.
Proud is an understatement. My friend
@DGoughie
has been awarded an MBE. For charity work alone he deserves it, but he gave his all & put his body through the ringer for his country for years. Proud to call him my friend. Congratulations pal, you deserve it. Inspiration.
STOP VAR NOW! What a total embarrassment this is. Someone with some common sense who hasn't been given a free lunch at Stockley Park, do the beautiful game of football a favour and end this farce. Joke.
Christian Eriksen still being alive & able to be dad to his kids is so wonderful. Medical professionals are incredible humans. The strength and sensitivity of my colleagues
@TheDeanAshton
@SalAhmad
@MrDavidConnolly
and
@alex_crook
on air with me during that period was immense 🙏
December - Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers asks for support managing the COVID crisis at his club
January - Leicester players turn up at the darts
Leicester City is one of the most impressive clubs around, but some of the players going to the darts mid Covid crisis is idiotic
Clear and obvious? VAR getting too involved again. Joke decision robbing Chelsea. Another joke decision. But it's beyond a joke now. Swedish football has rejected var and it's about time we did the same.
Had so many painful tournament phone ins on
@talkSPORT
cos of
@England
. The despair made me feel getting to a major final would never happen in my lifetime. Tonight was special and I felt so privileged to be there. Cheers to Gareth, the staff and the players. Thankyou so much ♥
RIP Nigel Pearson, a great man, talented, funny, supportive, a true friend & above all else a great dad & husband. Thoughts with his family. Can't believe I'll never share a beer with my buddy & talk about sport, kids, books & radio ever again. Tell me it's not real, please? 💔
Has anyone got an explanation for Chelsea not getting a penalty when Tielemans kicked Werner? Genuine question. Can't understand what the ref thinks he's seen, and can't work out how VAR didn't intervene? Anyone help?
Leeds promoted. Great club, rich history, incredible fans, some tasty players, and a legendary manager.
They'll bring loads to the Premier League.
Congratulations all
@LUFC
That was mad. It had Bielsa's fingerprints all over it.
That was Leeds without Raphinha, Meslier, Phillips, Bamford.
That's why if you love football you don't want Leeds to go down.
No surprise there are racists in our society when the PM encouraged booing the players taking the knee, and then put an England shirt on and pretended to be a fan. Proper leadership coupled with those with voices and platforms using them for the good might start changing things.
My last Drive show later. End of an era, or end of an error! 😁 Main thing to say is thankyou all for listening over the last 16 years I've been on Drive & thanks to my co hosts, especially
@DGoughie
and
@IanWright0
. I'm told there's a few surprises between 4pm and 7pm....
Boris - "GO TO THE CINEMA! HELP SAVE CINEMAS!"
Boris - "No you still can't go to open air stadia to watch football."
It's getting to the point where I'd understand if clubs sued the govt for restraint of trade.
#LetFansIn
3 lads, England fans, with Brummie accents just pitched up next to me in this cafe. Very polite with the staff, not loud or offensive and cleared their table when they left. That's how MOST England fans behave. So talk of banning fans or banning England should be off the agenda.
You can watch football matches in a cinema.
You cannot watch football matches at an open air stadium.
This is utter madness.
Our clubs need to fight this nonsense.
#LetFansIn
Technogy went wrong, which happens. But 2 things could've followed
VAR tells Oliver to wait, takes a look, gives the goal
OR if VAR have dropped off...
Oliver uses common sense, stops the play, looks at screen pitchisde, gives the goal
What actually happened was unacceptable
Luton & Barnsley would have been relegated with PPG.
Congratulations both, but spare a thought for
@TranmereRovers
, relegated from L1 by other clubs voting to end the season, send them down, jobs lost. Tranmere were 3 pts off safety, game in hand, on a run of 3 straight wins.
Bristol City fans giving a young Birmingham fan an unprompted standing ovation at halftime on Saturday 👏
(Young Bobby has been battling a brain tumour since the age of 2)
Even if Mount is offside, it's one foot, he's gaining no advantage, it penalises the attacking team on a marginal and that is not good for football. Also free kick for LFC 2nd goal was very questionable but not allowed to be checked by var. Whole system flawed 2/2
Re the fans' aggression and violence outside Wembley, the drug culture among England fans is way bigger, and far more damaging, than most people realise. It's hardly ever talked about but it's huge. Yes there is alcohol, but I don't think that's the biggest contributor.
One of the very best players in the world is that close to you and your first thought is to throw a bottle at him? These individuals are emotionally bereft.
There was absolutely no booing during the silence at Anfield. There were a handful of individual shouts, all shushed down by fans. It wasn't a minute, but rarely are silences a full minute these days. Lovely words and photos in the
@LFC
programme tonight.
"Foul" on Mahrez 20 mins 10 secs.
1st penalty taken 23.02
Re-take 24.27
Wolves kick off 25.40
No open play for 5 mins 30 secs mainly because of VAR's desperation to intervene. Unacceptable.
A reminder of the PL VAR mantra pre season: "Minimum interference, maximum benefit."
VAR is basically officials watching TV and still making mistakes. Except it's now draining more money from football than before VAR.
So why are we carrying on with this nonsense?
Nuno, Forest manager, moaned about "fixtures every day" (his actual words) when Forest had FA C up replays this season. Forest have had 2 midweek games in 10 weeks. They have NO midweek games between now and end of season. Nuno has no fixture congestion. But you believed him?
So proud of our
@England
squad for giving us great memories this summer, but also teaching politicians how to carry themselves with class, how to fight racism, and how to feed hungry kids
Man who doesn't understand anything about Everton as a club, its connection with its fans, its history and traditions, and what makes Everton so very different to the six who have signed up to this disgrace.
It was an honour to pay tribute to the Queen with
@HughWoozencro
on the radio on
@talkSPORT
tonight. She was a mother, grandmother and great grandmother and an inspiration. Sadness doesn't cover it.... X 🙏💔
@piersmorgan
@AngelaRayner
@GMB
@jeremycorbyn
Nobody should waste time analysing who watches the Queen's speech. Spend that time analysing why so many families, including some working families, still rely on foodbanks. Seriously, making the Queen's speech an election issue is totally meaningless to real people.