Urbanist socialist. Town planner, @UKLabour stooge and slightly less suffering @WestHamUtd fan. Views my own, but available to you for a good price.
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In no reasonable world would this be the main IOC election topic
The clearest sign yet that Sebastian Coe will run to replace Thomas Bach as IOC president. βThe opportunity has arisen and I will give it serious thought,β he says.
Given strength of his policy on DSD athletes in the female category, he should surely be the leading candidate.
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Just dawned on me that lots of people will be flying from London to Manchester in ten years looking at what they could have won
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Forget London 2040, give the Olympics to Manchester and make this the stadium.
80k capacity for the Games and then add half a tier where the track was afterwards - basically what happened for the Commonwealths in 2002 across town but double the scale.
Manchester United will aim to build a 100,000-seater stadium should the club press ahead with plans to move to a new Old Trafford.
The six-figure capacity is seen as a realistic number designed to future-proof the ground given high demand for tickets.
The joint task force set up to explore options for Old Trafford has assessed redevelopment but is currently focusing attentions on what a new build might look like and how it could be financed, having concluded β initially at this stage β that is the best way to transform the fan experience.
Sir Jim Ratcliffeβs preference is also for a stadium built from scratch, rather than renovation, and United believe doing so on land owned by the club adjacent to the current ground is feasible, meaning the team could continue to play at Old Trafford through the construction work.
The alternative, improving stand by stand, would mean a reduction of capacity at different points and headaches over how to house 51,000 season ticket holders should the number of available seats fall below that figure.
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My main takeaways from our first day and a half in Krakow:
1. We should demolish the Mancunian Way and turn it into a park
2. You could kill a man with a Polish apple
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Charlie Mayer π retweeted
I know Biden pulling out of the US presidential race is big news but I canβt stop thinking about how an asparagus fortune teller prediction on Jeremy Vine could be right.
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BREAKING: Joe Biden pulls out of 2024 US presidential race
news.sky.com/story/joe-bidenβ¦
Think this is broadly right. Clear way forward now with a set of excellent players and an opportunity for Southgate to hand over to someone more tactically astute with his head held high.
Losing to Italy at Wembley felt like an opportunity missed. England were pretty lucky to get to this final and lost to the team that have clearly been the best at this tournament. It sucks but itβs not as pronounced as it was three years ago imo.
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Can tell I'm tired because I just got slightly emotional about the fact that this is the first time my dog has seen a Labour government
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Oh, go on then
Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband: facebook.com/DavidCameronOffβ¦
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Charlie Mayer π retweeted
You can sense the palpable despair of most of the broadsheet punditry as it dawns on them that Liz Truss is in all likelihood going to be Prime Minister and will probably go on to smash Keir Starmer in the general election.
Cleverly seems to be having an existential crisis in real time during his speech and he won his seat!
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Given how poor the BBC coverage is and the fact that this has gone to penalties...
Broke: Getting a full night's sleep so you can be a functional human being tomorrow
Woke: Getting up at 3am to watch the key election results come in
Bespoke: Getting up at 3am to watch the second half of Argentina v Ecuador
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