Football Daily | Mary Earps and the benefits of actually having a personality

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Chris “Pacemaker” Chataway, Henry “Ammer” Cooper, Princess “John Reid” Anne, David “Bank Clerk” Steele, Steve “Kellogg’s Start” Cram, Torvill “And” Dean, Steve “Interesting” Davis, Michael “Confidence” Owen, Andy “Knack” Murray, Mark “Cav” Cavendish, Lewis “Hammo” Hamilton and, last year, Beth “Meado” Mead: winners, one and all. Yes, Spoty season is here. And the expected winner this year, to make it two Lionesses in a row, is Mary Earps, England’s they-shall-not-pass goalie in their run to the 2023 Women’s World Cup final.

As someone who rather sadly has to be on TwiXer for work purposes, I was just hoping everyone outside of the social media disgrace would ignore Barton’s latest nonsensical rants attempting to reinvent and rehabilitate himself yet again. As the late, great Linda Smith once famously said of former MP Neil Hamilton (all the way back in the days when the Conservative party was still in government but falling apart due to incompetence and corruption. Ahem …): ‘I don’t really like you saying his name, because it gives him the oxygen of publicity and I’m not happy with him having the oxygen of oxygen” –Noble Francis.

I’m surprised that no political hack has reported that ‘Sunak has lost the dressing room’” – Kevin Worley.

Kalvin Phillips should tell Pep to stick his apology where the sun don’t shine and come back home to Leeds. We should be the ones apologising for not fighting harder to keep him at Elland Road” – Mick Beeby.

Call yourself a journalist [um … Football Daily Ed]! Obviously, Everton’s win over Chelsea was not interesting enough for you to make any comments. Three wins, no goals conceded. Hello, wake up please! Maybe you could give us your thoughts on our appeal but I am not holding my breath” – Anthony Astbury.

Stop talking about sacking David Moyes (yesterday’s news, bits and bobs – full email edition) and start building a statue of him” – Hamish Brown.

With the profusion of acronyms in yesterday’s Still Want Mores may I congratulate Richard Herring on his appointment at Daily Towers” – Darren Leathley.

That’s not an acronym. It’s an abbreviation. First of a number of pedants” – Guy Redmill (and, bizarrely, no others).

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