Matt Lee @MattMLee

Adam Wharton has more major trophies in 12 months than Burnley has in 50 years.....let that sink in " He's one of our own 🔵⚪"

So essentially, the only thing stopping Venkys running Rovers properly (within the rules) are Venkys themselves & the puppets. No excuses now - (not that I'm expecting anything to change!) #Rovers 🌹🔵⚪️

Elliott Jackson @_ElliottJackson

2 weeks ago

🚨 Breakthrough in India as Court of Delhi end Rovers-related restrictions. 🔷 VHPL can send money overseas as they wish - for any use 🔷 £9.6m released from personal guarantee 🔷 What it means for Rovers and transfer window #Rovers🌹 lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/26138631…

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A piece that encapsulates the arrogance of Rudy Gestede Under his guidance, the club went from 7th to having the third worst record in the league. Tore apart a competitive squad. A toxic relationship between him and the fans of the club. A bluffer of the highest order. His arrogance is his primary trait, he is currently in a job, that he is failing at, without the required experience and here he is pimping himself out as some guru to get a move. Ligue 1 can have him, we certainly don’t want him. He should have resigned already.

Dahbia Hattabi @DahbiaHattabi

2 weeks ago

Entretien avec Rudy Gestede, directeur sportif français de Blackburn courtisé par la Ligue 1. Il raconte son travail au quotidien dans un club de Championship, la gestion du mercato et évoque aussi son avenir. footmercato.net/a4062253840922…

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STARSHIP FLIGHT 12 A side by side look at the the launch of Starship flight 11, the final launch on Pad 1 and Starship flight 12 the first launch of the new and improved pad, engines, and vehicles. @NASASpaceflight | nsf.live/starbase

• well run club in prem • taken over by clueless Indians • relegated in a year • rotting in the champ • lambert left cause clubs a mess • appoint Coyle • relegation to L1 • promotion to champ • manager walks away • multiple more walk away •staring to L1 again.

Chris Dixon @chrismd10

2 weeks ago

22 years of hurt

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Any Rovers fans who renewed on basis of MON staying. You have a 14 day cooling off period with any purchase. The club must honour a refund. Send a message.

Suhail and Gestede couldn’t get the job done. Again. Despite MON all but screaming he wants the job. Failure after failure. Lie after lie. And still I’ll see posts on here from “fans” continuing unwavering support of this.

To those #Rovers fans who are frustrated that Alan Nixon got this wrong, it is worth remembering that he once lost an argument to a pie.

This is obviously hugely disappointing. MON gave the fans a chance of some competence at the club. He either didn’t get the backing, or he didn’t trust the project. The most depressing thing is the thought of Rudy, Suhail and Adam completing another managerial process. Since February last year, that’s 3 managers, soon to be 4 and two caretakers. It’s not normal.

Blackburn Rovers @Rovers

4 weeks ago

📰 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗢'𝗡𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗹 Blackburn Rovers can confirm that Michael O’Neill will not be extending his current agreement to become the club’s permanent Head Coach beyond the conclusion of his existing period with the club. #Rovers 🔵⚪️

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Top work everyone… really well done 👏👏👏🤦‍♂️

Blackburn Rovers @Rovers

4 weeks ago

📰 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗢'𝗡𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗹 Blackburn Rovers can confirm that Michael O’Neill will not be extending his current agreement to become the club’s permanent Head Coach beyond the conclusion of his existing period with the club. #Rovers 🔵⚪️

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I despise how badly run my club is. How can you not get anything right #Rovers

Next few weeks are pivotal for rovers. The 150th year has been a complete disaster on and off the pitch. A clear out of the clowns in charge at ewood, would be the best statement of intent from the club, for the hard reset required. It would bring hope that mediocrity will no longer be accepted , it may sell a lot more tickets, and we may get a manager who trust what they are told and can trully reignite the fan base

The Forties Pipeline System (FPS) This is the pipeline system that carries most of the oil from the North Sea to the UK. It collects the oil from 85 different North Sea oilfields, and flows around 550,000 barrels of oil per day back to the UK mainland. For context, in total the North Sea has around 400 offshore platforms between the UK and Norway, producing and exporting both oil and gas. FPS is a British oil pipeline system. Exploration drilling for North Sea oil is currently banned on the UK Continental Shelf. It has been since the current government came to power. As a result of the drilling ban, the Forties Pipeline System is currently uninvestable according to its owner INEOS. They haven’t invested in its upkeep for 2 years. INEOS have said the pipeline will close by 2035, but without investment maybe as early as 2030, which is now just 3.5 years away. 550,000 barrels / day is equivalent to 38.96 GW of primary energy. This is 10x more energy than the UK’s new Hinkley Point C nuclear power project, which is projected to cost £48 billion for 3.2GW of electrical power. Electrical energy is joule for joule more valuable than chemical energy, but the comparison of scale is real. 38.9 GW is more energy than the entire National Grid carries. The largest energy system in the UK is not the grid it is this underwater pipeline system. With drilling banned, and the North Sea entering a period of forced closure, the Forties Pipeline System is going to close in the not too distant future. Once the pipeline is no longer economical, the entire Central North Sea oil production will collapse with it. This isn’t something that closes down gracefully, the entire Central North Sea basin reaches market through a single pipe. BP recently announced they are selling up their remaining assets and getting out, Exxon, Chevron, etc are all already long gone. Nobody wants their brand near this collapse. The tax rate is 78%, the government wants this national infrastructure to shut down. It will. The German Chancellor recently called their nuclear fleet closure a “Strategic Blunder”, interesting choice of words. But I think it was obviously a blunder to anyone outside their propaganda bubble. Likewise the UK’s North Sea. The German nuclear fleet averaged 10.3 GW of primary energy output over its operational life, which is around 1/4 the primary energy of the Forties Pipeline System. The UK has a few other pipeline systems but this one is by far the largest and the most critical. Now this infrastructure, isn’t supposed to last forever. But when it goes you should have a plan. In the UK nobody talks about this. It’s taboo. A lot of people think “yeah but they won’t let that happen”… well it happened in Germany, and it happened in Japan. A lot of people want it to happen, and a lot of those people are in politics. So what replaces this? Nothing? Is the UK just going to go silently into the night?

At the request of Tony’s daughter Natalie, supporters who would like to make a donation, in lieu of flowers, can do so to her chosen charity, @BRFCTrust, to support their award-winning work in the local area. Tony was a much-loved member of the Community Trust’s ‘Remember the Rovers’ family and will be incredibly missed by everyone in the group. To donate to Blackburn Rovers Community Trust, in memory of Tony, please click here: memorygiving.com/tonyparkes Supporters can also make a donation to the Community Trust when purchasing tickets online for Saturday’s game. Discussions with Tony’s daughter will continue over the coming weeks regarding a fitting and permanent tribute to Tony, to recognise his outstanding contribution to the club and where his life and legacy will always be remembered.

If you have been there all season, you just have experienced the worst home season on record.

The most shocking thing about this is that Trump falling asleep in public at the age of 79 is a very regular occurrence, and yet the same journalists that tweeted weekly about Biden’s age & fitness just don’t really care

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

a month ago

Trump is about to hit REM on camera during an Oval Office event. It's just incredible.

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When you tell the Mrs your just having the one pint tonight

Rename the Riverside Stand to the 'Tony Parkes Riverside Stand' at Ewood Park - Sign the Petition! c.org/r2FSV5FGTk via @UKChange

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue. On April 21st, the left screen moved first. I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug. At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy. On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me. At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire. Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83. I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags. My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports. The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026: Reviewed. That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. Let me show you my flags. March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it. March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it. April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it. April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it. April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it. That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one. The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March. Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012. Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence. Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets. The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade. I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email. The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action. One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared. One account is a coincidence. But there were six. Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000. My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger. March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes. The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event. The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting." Then the White House sent the email again. I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread. I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated. But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed. Zero prosecutions. As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations. The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still. In my field, we call this price discovery.

Very sad to hear about the passing of Tony Parkes. A fantastic man who I had the privilege of working alongside at Blackburn. Loyal, dedicated and someone who gave everything to the club. My thoughts are with his family and everyone connected with Blackburn Rovers. RIP Tony.