A true inspiration. If only people knew his back story and journey. 🤦‍♂️

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The guy is not just amazing in football terms, he’s inspirational in life. 6 years ago he had spent 10 years as a reserve keeper and loaned out from club to club. Yet he tweeted my time will come. You always have to believe.

Sorry, not a fun or lighthearted follow up to this, but I just need somewhere to vent. He was well enough to be discharged this week. Should have been a happy occasion of him finally getting to go home after 6 months in hospital, but his mum and dad have strung him along all week and then refused to have him back. This afternoon we noticed it was a bit busy, way more staff on than usual. Then his social worker came onto the ward flanked by 4 security members who pinned him down when he didn't want to leave and gave them a bit of lip, the nurses closed the curtains on all of the bays, and we just heard him screaming like a wounded animal as they dragged him away to go to some kind of care facility. Ok he was being difficult and trying to not go with them, but the kid is 5 foot and about 50kg and what he's done wrong is be a kid with nowhere to go, but they had 4 blokes restraining him and dragging him out the door like he was some convicted criminal They wouldn't even let us say goodbye to him. The place was pretty much deathly silent for the rest of the afternoon. I held it in on the ward, but **** me, I'm in bits tonight, it was absolutely barbaric. There's no punishment too severe for the scum that have abandoned him, I don't know how they can live with themselves tbh, how can you just abandon your kid. The really heartbreaking thing is when it wasn't just raw screams of fear and anger, he was calling for his mum  

Got 2 weekends away, the next one is Delamere Forest.  I should stand on the beach and shout across to Barry that they are shithouses. 

There's a video somewhere of me just after the playoff final properly losing it in the stands. That poor family.

It possibly was a bit of a trap for Labour though. Obviously they couldn’t approve it anyway as they aren’t in power, but if they said they supported it then the Tories would have been saying “Labour are undermining the will of the people” all the way to the GE.  

We lost to Chelsea two seasons ago in the league cup on penalties but otherwise yes our record is pretty good as far as I can see (and recall).

Him, Klopp and Pep can all get in the bin. There rhetoric around replays definitely had an influence on the decision. 

I have feeling this is the latest in the series of Rishi knew and did nothing because nobody was looking.

He is comfortably our most important player. He's not just world class in terms of ability but also in mentality. He's a born winner and just a huge personality that would be impossible to replace.