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Head of Content @BrewDog . Father of two glorious, beautiful nutjobs. Once tried to nutmeg Paolo Maldini and got shot at by Taliban (not at same time)

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4 years
This is Ben. He’s 3 today. We’re doing our best to give him a special day at home, but he’s just said “where are my friends on my birthday?”, which has broken my heart a little. Anyone out there want to show this little guy some birthday love?
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Richard Innes
4 years
The best advert the BBC have ever run. Could do worse than creating a 2020 version?
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Richard Innes
2 months
Nadine Dorries when Alistair Campbell starts slagging off Boris #C4BritainDecides
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Richard Innes
7 years
Never thought Liam Gallagher would be the person who’d perfectly encapsulate my political outlook, but guess that’s the world we live in now
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Richard Innes
5 years
Ever noticed Boaty McBoatface (aka the Sir David Attenborough) looks exactly like Hulk Hogan?
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Richard Innes
5 years
PETER CROUCH WINS TWITTER AGAIN
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Richard Innes
17 days
Absolutely DELIGHTED to learn that George Mills is genuinely the son of notorious “start a fight in a phone box” right-back Danny Mills
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Richard Innes
2 years
A reminder that Phil Foden plays every key game for the best football team on the planet. But apparently cannot even get off the bench for an #ENG team which can’t string three passes together #ENGUSA
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Richard Innes
4 years
As Anne Robinson is back on TV (presenting Countdown, no less), time to dig out this beauty from the archives “Jesus Christ... she’s even got new tits...”
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Richard Innes
4 years
What happened to the politician who guided New York through 9/11? How does a man go from that... to this Alex Jones, infowars style nut job ranting at @piersmorgan ?
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Richard Innes
6 years
When a Year 10 student who lives in your neighbourhood proves he should be the one with the newspaper column, not the angry old racist
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Richard Innes
5 years
Sterling’s face as Kompany’s shot hit the back of the net... YEP.
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Richard Innes
5 years
Can we please arrange an award of some description for the writer of this paragraph in this story?
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Richard Innes
5 years
@samcunningham Absolutely approve of this type of shithousery
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Richard Innes
4 years
Timo Werner suffering with an increasingly nasty looking case of Torres-itis
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Richard Innes
5 years
When you are defending the rights of ACTUAL NAZIS (the ACTUAL soldiers of Hitler), you do have to wonder what sort of politician you have become:
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Richard Innes
4 years
Jack Charlton’s finest moment. RIP Big Jack
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Richard Innes
4 years
Can’t believe I’ve never seen this: the other side of the Hand of God game. By today’s standards, at least three or four of these England challenges on Maradona would probably be red card offences.
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Richard Innes
3 years
Jose Mourinho will 100% manage Newcastle United at some point in the next five years
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Richard Innes
4 years
@Emmabarnett @RishiSunak Yeah, because as a dad of two young boys, I’ve just spent the pandemic smoking cigars and yelling at my wife to cook me food and keep the kids quiet. Jesus, what world do these people live in?
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Richard Innes
2 years
I don't care if you're left, right or somewhere inbetween. Some things aren't about political opinions, they're just about fairness. And £32 billion in profit while vulnerable people are getting fleeced on their energy bills is about as unfair as it gets
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James Melville 🚜
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Shell have announced record profits of £32 billion, a rate of £90 million profit every day in 2022. Meanwhile, we are getting absolutely fleeced by energy companies and the government is doing fuck all about it. They are taking the piss out of us.
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Richard Innes
4 years
Huge thank you to everyone for replying to this - you’ve made our day!
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Richard Innes
2 years
Think this debate reached its natural level when Liz Truss couldn’t figure out how to shake her head
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Richard Innes
2 years
Anyone who watched @GNev2 's Countdown to Qatar on Sky knew this already - one of the tournament bosses said very clearly on the show that beer would not be sold in the stadiums. Seems odd that is only now being made official
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Richard Innes
6 years
If you think there are four players in the world better than Messi right now, you might as well say I’m one of them #BalonDOr
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Richard Innes
3 years
@ShaunBaileyUK I hope that, at some point, you at least come to realise why what you've done here - invoking the murder of an innocent young woman to serve your own purposes - is utterly shameful.
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Richard Innes
4 years
The number of angry nutters ranting about the BBC in the replies... given what it is currently doing for the nation, you really have to be a special kind of brainwashed weirdo to not the see the value of the Beeb right now. (And I’m technically in competition with it!)
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Richard Innes
1 year
Huge fan of Elton's "I never said you could come on and do a speech, you little shit" face when Stephen Sanchez started rambling #Glastonbury
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Richard Innes
1 year
What do we think Lineker's opening gambit will be Saturday's MOTD, then? I'm going a cheeky "Did I miss anything?" and a trademark knowing grin
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Gary Lineker
1 year
After a surreal few days, I’m delighted that we have navigated a way through this. I want to thank you all for the incredible support, particularly my colleagues at BBC Sport, for the remarkable show of solidarity. Football is a team game but their backing was overwhelming. 1/4
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Richard Innes
4 years
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Richard Innes
5 years
Ah, Billy McNeill. Remember being blown away by the story of the 1967 Lisbon Lions as a young boy. All but one member of the squad born within 10 miles of the ground! Try explaining that to a 12 year-old football fan of today...
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Richard Innes
2 years
Best summary of #ENGFRA I’ve seen so far, from @alanshearer
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Richard Innes
7 years
@BeardedGenius Huge fan of Silva’s serene, unflappable parenting style
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Richard Innes
4 years
I could have lived without Christmas if required. But to have it dangled under my nose, to tell my three year-old about all the plans we had to see his relatives... and now to have to tell that excited little boy we’re taking that away from him? Fuck you. Fuck the lot of you.
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Richard Innes
5 years
The @themichaelowen episode of @Carra23 ’s podcast is BRILLIANT. Two best mates being brutally frank with each other - an interview no journalist could have got. Makes you realise Owen was seriously unlucky at times and gives you whole new insight into all sorts. Listen to it!
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Richard Innes
4 years
Souness going on about ‘Latin’ behaviour? Here he is confirming everything we suspected in the last few seconds of this clip:
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Richard Innes
7 years
@scottyince Dunno. What if everyone in London decided to stop wearing trousers? What if every dog in France started speaking English? WHAT IF, SCOTT?
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Richard Innes
3 years
@stuheritage This is glorious. The Hey Duggee vs Bluey thing feels very ‘Messi vs Ronaldo’ Clearly both miles ahead of everything else, but v difficult to decide which of the two is best (I’m a Bluey man, FWIW)
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Richard Innes
5 years
Always think @DavidJonesSky is the most underrated man on TV. Unflappable, conducts and controls often spiky conversations, total professionalism and crucially - unlike many others - has no interest in making himself star of the show. Proper journalist, proper broadcaster.
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Richard Innes
4 years
Can we please take a moment to acknowledge that John Terry has had 26 added to the back of the hi-vis jacket he wears while checking out his building work
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Richard Innes
3 years
A reminder here of what poor-excuse-for-a-human-being Desmond Swayne actually looks like. 100% the type of privileged, delusional prat who would start sucking his thumb and crying for mummy if he was ever confronted by 1% of the terror the people of Afghan currently face
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Richard Innes
2 years
A reminder that Mike Tindall sank 50 beers on the flight home from Australia after England won the 2003 World Cup. FIFTY. BEERS. #ImACeleb
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Richard Innes
4 years
It’s 5.20am on a Sunday morning. HOW BLOODY BUSY CAN IT BE?
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Richard Innes
6 years
Paul Ince: "I could have done what Solskjaer has done at Man United." Also Paul Ince:
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6 years
Paul Ince: "I could have done what Solskjaer has done at Man United." Also Paul Ince:
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Richard Innes
4 years
What is the song that will most quickly have you in tears? In My Life by The Beatles for me. In bits after the first few bars
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Richard Innes
4 years
Well, this is utterly surreal. Thanks again, everyone!
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3 years
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Richard Innes
3 years
Even if England win the whole damn thing, Declan Rice succumbing to cramp while trying to join the goal celebration will forever be the highlight of these Euros
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Richard Innes
4 years
Can someone please explain to me why @Rylan and his mum have not yet been given their own show? *Essex voice* “I’d faackin’ watch it, I tell ya” #Gogglebox
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Richard Innes
2 years
Imagine being so good that you can literally not touch the ball for 20 mins… and your team mates are totally OK with it #CHEMCI
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Richard Innes
5 years
Tommy Robinson saying he’s a journalist is like me saying I’m a chef because I know to put milk on my cereal
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Richard Innes
4 years
Huge parent-of-toddler discovery: just realised Happy from Hey Duggee and Bob from Bitz and Bob have the same voice. MIND. BLOWN. @CBeebiesHQ
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Richard Innes
5 years
Will never understand some of the stick people give Nigel Owens. The perfect referee. Control, communication - he’s got the lot #ENGvNZL
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Richard Innes
4 years
@drpsquared @BBCRadio2 I will send not just love, but also respect, admiration and an open invitation to buy you a pint/beverage of choice if we ever cross paths. After all this nonsense, no-one in your line of work should ever have to pay for a drink again…
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Richard Innes
5 years
Nothing sums up this week’s football like a man worrying a dramatic goal might actually finish off his mate with the heart condition
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Rio Ferdinand
5 years
Glenn, Are you ok...are you ok ❤😂 #Spurs #UCL #NoFilterUCL
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Richard Innes
1 year
Lizzo is a great dickhead test. An incredible person who sensible people should admire, revere and celebrate. Anyone who doesn’t? Probably a dickhead. #Glastonbury
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Richard Innes
5 years
When the Labour Party can’t keep a former mining community from falling into Tory hands, well... Christ Almighty #blythvalley #GeneralElection
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Richard Innes
5 years
@JimMFelton @TomLatchem Do you think there will come a time when commentators like Dale and P*ers M*rgan will finally realise THEY are actually the biggest, most delicate snowflakes of all? What will happen then? Will they collapse into a pit of self-loathing? Start punching themselves in the face?
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Richard Innes
7 years
What has to have gone wrong in a person's brain/life for them to troll a terminally ill little boy?
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Bradley Lowery Foundation
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We have seen a lot of trolling about Bradley, it's a shame we have to read it as it's not like we have enough going on 😢 #hurtful
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Richard Innes
2 years
Just a bloody good bunch of bloody good lads having a bloody good laugh
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Richard Innes
9 years
The Herrera through ball for the Mata goal. #LIVMUN http://t.co/uM9llhukK1
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Richard Innes
5 years
The point here: he’s a thoroughly decent chap. End of story.
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Richard Innes
6 years
You could just about justify saying Yaya Toure, but no-one else is even in the same ballpark as Drogba
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Mirror Football
6 years
Who is the greatest African footballer to have played in the Premier League? Mirror Football writers decide
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Richard Innes
4 years
Imagine being in the 11.7% of knuckle draggers here
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Richard Innes
3 years
@DawnHFoster Have watched this approx 10,000 times since it first aired and I swear to God I have cried each and every time. Not sure there is anyone currently more deserving of 'national treasure' status than Wrighty
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Richard Innes
3 years
I hesitate to use this phrase, but… "BIT OF PERSONAL NEWS!" After 7 years at Reach (where I moved from @DailyMirror & @MirrorFootball to the commercial dark side)… I'm leaving! I start next month in a massively exciting new role, as Head of Content @BrewDog . Can't wait!
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Richard Innes
4 years
@mattyglesias Other things we don't have on this side of the pond: huge bills for anyone who dares to break a leg, regular mass shootings, a crippling opioid crisis, Fox News… I could go on… (Oh, and I have plenty of ice cubes in my freezer right now. But you do you, babe)
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Richard Innes
4 years
@mrnickharvey Amazing, amazing, amazing! Just showed it to Ben and he cackled with laughter. Very, very kind of you - please thank your dog for us too!
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Richard Innes
2 years
This is absolutely crackers. I would happily pay £5 a month for CBBC & CBeebies alone. Have always tried to push my kids towards these channels, where you know the shows have some value (unlike a lot of the brainless mush you get for kids on streaming platforms)
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Ricky Boleto
2 years
::::BREAKING:::: 📺The CBBC TV Channel, which launched in 2002 is expected to close. 🗓No exact date, 2025 at the earliest. 🗣Director General, Tim Davie made the announcement to staff today. 📈He says younger audiences are streaming: Netflix, Disney Plus etc.
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Richard Innes
5 years
It gives me no pleasure to say this is a DEEEECENT kit launch video
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Richard Innes
4 years
@EnchantedTrifle I'm so sorry you grew up without your dad around, but I hope the pride you must have got from knowing he was a genuine hero has helped fill that gap over the years. He must have been an extraordinarily brave and decent man.
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Richard Innes
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This is the message we should we be teaching in schools right now
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Richard Innes
2 years
@RussInCheshire Every week, I immediately scroll to find the latest Jacob Rees-Mogg description. Every week, I cry with laughter and then go back and read the whole thread. Then cry with laughter some more. Then cry some more when I remember it's all true.
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Richard Innes
5 years
So is Carlsberg's new social strategy all about self-deprecation and 'humility'… or have they just fired a social media executive and forgotten to revoke their access?
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Richard Innes
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@davidschneider A massive 👏👏👏to @C4Ciaran for the way he handled this absurd hissy fit, didn't waver and JUST KEPT DOING HIS JOB
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Richard Innes
5 years
@Jim_Jordan Question from the UK: does 'socialized medicine' mean giving everyone the right to stuff which might keep them alive?
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Richard Innes
7 years
People often scoff at tabloids, but this week's front pages are why I'm proud to be a @DailyMirror employee
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Richard Innes
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@SmnLlyd5 "These are established international players. It's shocking. Pulling your socks up and doing your laces at that stage? Disgraceful. This is the Champions League. I wouldn't have let them out of the dressing room if they behaved like that. Shocking."
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Richard Innes
6 years
Azpilicueta quite rightly the last man off the pitch. I love that man in a way that may be inappropriate #cfc #CHEMCI
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Richard Innes
3 years
Trying to think of equivalents from other sports. A 147 in a deciding frame at the Crucible? 35 needed from the final over of a T20 and hitting six sixes? Beyond bonkers
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PDC Darts
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🚨 𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗔 𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗘-𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗥! 🚨 UNBELIEVABLE SCENES AS WILLIE BORLAND STRIKES PERFECTION TO WIN THE DECIDING LEG AND ALLY PALLY HAS ABSOLUTELY ERUPTED! SIMPLY SENSATIONAL 🤯
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Richard Innes
5 years
Everyone involved here, on both sides of the argument, ends up looking like a complete twat. If that's not an allegory for the Britain of today, I don't know what is
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Matthew Thompson
5 years
A Trump supporter is milkshaked by a hostile crowd in Parliament Square. And then it all kicks off... @LBC #TrumpVisit #trumpprotests
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Richard Innes
2 years
Pep Guardiola attempting to tell off Haaland for not getting a touch in the first 20 mins #CHEMCI
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Richard Innes
5 years
@spectator Imagine not liking Lauren Laverne. IMAGINE. She is undoubtedly one of the most naturally, effortlessly likeable people on radio. That’s why so many people (myself included) love listening to her. Your argument is just silly.
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Richard Innes
3 years
After 7 years, just left this office for the last time - and got banged out by the @DailyMirror team, which felt like a bit of an honour and (i don’t mind admitting) got me a bit choked up
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Richard Innes
4 years
Are we all agreed the true star of the last 12 hours is Phil Mattingly - the fast-talking fella operating the CNN 'magic wall'? I know it's a TV, but MAN this guy is good. Makes Jamie Carragher look like a touchscreen novice
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Richard Innes
2 years
As Brian Blessed is trending, here is the transcript of an interview I did with him MANY years ago (one of the first magazine interviews I ever did). It was a lesson in foul mouthed genius
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Richard Innes
4 years
@morganjeffery I just found my transcript of the interview! 16 years ago. Jesus, I don't think 23 year-old me realised how wonderful this madness was…
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Richard Innes
5 years
@BeardedGenius 80s computer geek, 90s porn star, 00s evil henchman, 10s intellectual romcom lead
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Richard Innes
3 years
@joelgolby Not sure anyone has ever despised a group of people based on their property ownership the way you despise landlords
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Richard Innes
3 years
The full interview is well worth every second of its 58 minutes. Worthy of a top journalist or broadcaster - entertaining, insightful and will genuinely change your perception of the subject. Casts Keane in a whole new light
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Gary Neville
3 years
I’m so glad to finally share my full interview (and dog walk) with Roy Keane to you all. Head to The Overlap on YouTube to watch the full episode, if you like ❤️
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Richard Innes
6 years
@sportingintel @shattenstone I find this line of argument a little bizarre. Isn’t it clear to everyone from the outset that this is the club inviting a filmmaker in, rather than an investigative reporter forcing his way in? Of course this wasn’t going to be an exposé - doesn’t make it any less interesting
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Richard Innes
2 years
the idea that Financial Fair Play has any real power
@FootyAccums
Footy Accumulators
2 years
Finish this sentence. ⚫️ Newcastle will finish .......... in the Premier League next season.
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Richard Innes
7 years
27 years ago today… happy "'AVE A WORD WITH HIM" day, @GaryLineker !
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