Founder of
@OCH1883
Family, my 3 sons, friends, Football (BRFC ⚽️), justice, music, moderation, love 💖 happy endings, laughter & kindness. Tweets are my own💙
Whether you are a royalist or not imagine any person having to attend the funeral of their partner or
#husband
after 73 years of being together. We all can only imagine
#PrincePhilip
#RoyalFuneral
@DanaSchwartzzz
@TonyGrounds
My mum turned up at the wrong funeral once and took about ten minutes to realise! My mum is very glam and elegant and we were all sure that they thought she was the deceased mistress .... 🙈
Whatever anyone’s opinions are, one thing is for sure it’s a travesty that these two boys have allegedly fallen out! This would have broken Diana’s heart
#william
#Harry
#royalcrisis
Also a big thank you to Matt Taylor who came this morning to help, showed a real interest in what
@OCH1883
is all about and is clearly a community man
#UTG
💙
@sugdone
@LoveIsland
@itv2
I really hope that
#amyloveisland
gets lots of support on the back of what’s happened previously in other years. Never nice being someone’s back up plan and to have this played out on national tv isn’t great 😢
@MarcusRashford
Marcus, so many children’s lives have been enriched by your continued hard work! The vast majority of this country has your back and the ones who don’t ….. clueless!
Thank you to you and
@England
for being the opposition in this country recently!
Fair play to the
@ReadingFC
fans who were in great voice tonight at the
#mem
and full of passion! Ruben was the best entertainment for me all evening as a Rovers fan! A manager full of character for sure. Sad times to be a
#gashead
#UTG
@XRBristol
Your protest has backfired! You have fantastically turned the general public who initially probably agreed with the basis of your protest and made the vast majority completely anti what you are protesting!
Well done for the turmoil you have created to innocent folk 🤬
#Gasheads
you are the absolute bomb!
Just wow. Amazing 🤩 I am the happiest gashead going
#UTG
Thank you to each and every one of you today! I am SO PROUD 💙
@Official_BRFC
"My emotions got the better of me, so I apologise to Swindon and Dion"
Port Vale manager Darrell Clarke apologised for his sending off on the touchline following a coming together between the two teams.
On Saturday on the pitch I met an elderly gentleman that had been supporting the gas for 75 years; he was quietly crying tears of joy! That’s what Saturday meant to people
@Official_BRFC
#UTG
💙
Anthony Evans, James Gibbons and Jarell Quansah amazing tonight although the whole team were superb! Great ref and fab to see a decent visiting team playing good football
@IpswichTown
#UTG
💙
#BarnabyWebber
mum is an absolute warrior. What a rousing speech spoken with care, kindness, passion, tolerance and love. In the midst of her grief she thought of others. I am in awe at these parents/families strength 🥲
#nottinghamattack
#NottinghamTogether
The mother of Barnaby Webber told the crowd: 'Please hold no hate to any race, colour, sex or religion in your heart... My beautiful boy - you have my, your dad and your brother's heart forever.'
Unbelievable game to be at! Felt every emotion today! The boys didn’t stop battling. Didn’t play their best by a country mile BUT they held their nerve! Complete scenes in the away end all 2005 of us! 💙
#UTG
@Official_BRFC
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This game will go down in Bristol Rovers folklore. Winning 7-nil to clinch promotion on goals scored is quite incredible. The
@Official_BRFC
players are partying hard. 🍾🍾🍾
I am aching with every bone in my body but we are almost there! Just the delivery of 649 hampers to get done tomorrow but for now just a huge thank you for the support 💙
#OperationChristmasHamper
24 years ago I gave birth to my first born beautiful son, Jacob.
A broken NHS let us down and his birthday turned into the first day of his very short 5 day life.
My love remains and there isn’t a day that I don’t think of him. Happy birthday beautiful boy 💙
#babyloss
@SandsUK
@Sajhawkins1
My son died also due to negligence during his birth. He was a full term 9.5LB baby so I understand in some ways about deserving better. Kindest thoughts to you 🥰
As always exemplary support from the club for the children that my team work with in the
#community
. Can’t thank Pete
@Official_BRFC
enough for helping make 2 childrens dreams come true. 2 little boys coming to an upcoming game, 1 who has never attended a match before
#UTG
🙏🏻👏🏼💙
I can’t do this as I’m working but if anyone else would like to light a candle 🕯 for my first born Jacob and any other baby for whatever reason that didn’t make it home it would be appreciated. It’s good to remember. Always in our hearts 💙
@SandsUK
#BabyLossAwareness
I could think of worse places to be celebrating my 50th birthday today. So blessed to be healthy, happy and surrounded by amazing people 💙Life isn’t perfect but I will take it 🥳
#UTG
Please help if you see this young man he really needs to be reunited with his family asap 💙🙏🏻
His dad, Will, is a massive
#Gashead
and he needs the
#gasfamily
more than ever to help
#UTG
please share 🙏🏻
I genuinely couldn’t have been more supported by my club today, fans, players and staff. Humbled to say the least and very very happy 💙
#OperationChristmasHamper
@OCH1883
#UTG
Yesterday we had the support of the current manager, CEO
@thgorringe
& the one we all hold dearly Darrell Clarke! Inbetween the whole team came to support
#OperationChristmasHamper
thanks to
@samfinley8
for organising - just superb 💙
#UTG
smashed it with £1200+ & so much food 👏🏼
This morning I was contacted by Josser Watlings’granddaughter, Lily. Josser is 97 & apparently the oldest remaining ex Rovers player. Lily’s business is now collecting for
#OperationChristmashamper
& I am making a hamper for Josser as it seems fitting to do so
#UTG
@geoff20man
The ref yesterday made such a difference plus loved the 4th asking JB what the clap was for on the 16th minute and joining in! Very classy! Great start to Easter weekend! Now wishing I was going on Monday
#UTG
Today my son would have been 22. Where have the years gone? I can remember everything about that fateful afternoon.
#babyloss
Time travels on, things change but the love for your child never dissipates.
@SandsUK
#chikdbereavement
💙
My son Jacob 💙28.01.99-02.02.99 quietly fell asleep in my arms after a huge fight to stay with us - 23 years ago today.
A mother holds her child’s hand for a while but their hearts forever.
Gone in body but never ever forgotten; the years pass but my love remains as strong 💔
Big thanks to
@thgorringe
for arranging the 12th minute clap for Darren today 💙who tragically and suddenly lost his
#life
before Christmas. Recent
#memories
of us in Blackpool in August I hold dear. I will be clapping loudly today 👏🏻
#UTG
@Official_BRFC
🔵⚪️
#3points
for Darren x
4 months and 6 days in and I’ve lost 42 lbs (3 stone) in weight!
More to go but I’m pretty proud so far! 😊💪🏻
I’m determined to be the best version of myself when I turn 50 next year
#goals
#nofilter
@MaxEhmer
@TheGillsFC
Good luck to you and Gillingham but there was no need for the “proper place to play football” ….. sometimes it doesn’t work out but low digs to us fans who support the club and players through thick and thin are unjust
#UTG
23 years on since Jacob died and I’ve been interviewed by the BBC for an article that they are writing that flood of grief completely floored me first thing this morning as I was being interviewed. I hope I did him and other bereaved parents proud as I told my story
#babyloss
💙
@georgePField1
Im so hugely riled by it George! People not being able to get their children to important hospital appointments, their graduations and to their dying fathers last breath! I hope they feel all that is justified because I certainly don’t!! 🤬
#rantover
🙈
Feel like a proud ‘Aunty’ watching
@elljanderson
play for
@NUFC
tonight! How lucky were we at
@Official_BRFC
to have watched him play for us last season! What a young, gifted player! Come on Newcastle 👏🏼
We went for a gorgeous birthday lunch to then return to watch the
#Leeds
game! I have a very unhappy brother 🥲 thank you
@cowandsow
for the best lunch ❤️
Yesterday was the worst working day of my career; I cried myself to sleep. 11 hour sleep and I wake to sun and a great gas result! Football is so powerful it can turn your mood! Anyone that says it’s just football really doesn’t get it
@Official_BRFC
#UTG
Thank you 💙
Myself, my team and all at
@OCH1883
are very proud of the link with
@Official_BRFC
and thank them for their help with everything again this year
#UTG
thank you
#Gasheads
for getting behind us again this year 💙
Another year, another very successful Operation Christmas Hamper campaign. 🎁
This Christmas, Charlotte and her team have able to been to expand their reach even further, curating even more luxury hampers for those most in need, using donations from the community. 👏
Contentious tweet alert 🤦🏼♀️
Football tomorrow & the club is on a roll &doing well. Pls can the fan base be harmonious whatever the result & not use this platform for dissing the things & people that they aren’t happy with!
Let’s all 🙏🏻 for a win &for the
#mem
to be rocking
#UTG
I woke up to be told that myself and
@OCH1883
have been put forward as a nomination for this. How special is that 🤩 just to be nominated and considered worthy 💙 I am delighted and have no words
#MakeADifferenceaward
Say thank you to someone who makes life better where you live! Nominate them now for a BBC Radio Bristol Make a Difference Award. 🏆
See a full list of categories and our terms ➡️
Entries close at 11pm on 10/03/24.
#BBCMakeADifference
Love Connor Taylor and think he is immense but because of his brilliance maybe James Connelly has been in his shadow somewhat? Last few games he is getting better and better! Almost impossible to pick a weak link in the team!
#UTG
@Official_BRFC
@Joey7Barton
Something is happening within this club! Something very positive again! Been gone for a good while but all you have to do is watch the way the whole bench and players celebrate together when we score to feel it! Think we have our Rovers back
#UTG
I want to go back and do that weekend all over again! Still have Irene reverberating in my ears - loved every second of Saturday. Great fans, great team, great result = great fun!
#UTG
Anyone else wishing we could do it all again? 😂💙
Not a day goes by that I don’t think of my first born son. Happy birthday Jacob; 23 today. Where have the years gone?!
#babyloss
@SandsUK
#amotherslove
💙❤️
So nice to read the respectful recognition between
@swfc
and
@Official_BRFC
fanbase tonight recognising a great game in
#LeagueOne
Wishing
@swfc
all the best for the rest of the season 💙
I know I’ve said it before but I’m yet to find anything else In life that replicates the feeling of watching your home team win! Still smiling from yesterday! So good for your mental health not just the footie but the whole social side of it
#UTG
it’s so good to be back 😊
Do you know what I’m not someone in and someone out I’m just all for Bristol Rovers.
I’m so tired of the fractured fan base and the huge division. We’ve really underperformed this season sadly and it’s galling as the hope kills you! I will be glad when the season ends
#UTG
Well that is more like it!
The
#mem
was rocking ✅
The fans were vocal and supportive ✅
#12thMan
The players played as a team ✅ and for the badge
The management showed great passion ✅
And we beat one of the top teams ✅
Haven’t felt like that walking away for ages 😀
#UTG
💙
Final total of people we are trying to help by collecting today -
235 food hampers reaching 348 adults and 517 children =865 local people in need
🙏🏻🤞🏻💙🙏🏻🤞🏻💙🙏🏻🤞🏻💙🙏🏻🤞🏻
#OperationChristmashamper
🤞🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻🙏🏻
Life is very much for living but my visit to my boy on Christmas Day can’t be missed. Time passes but as we all know the pain remains. Merry Christmas Jacob, my
#gashead
in the sky
#UTG
❤️💙
#CarpeDiem
#lifeisprecious
Saddened to see the
#BristolRovers
fan base at such loggerheads with each other! Remember we all want 1 thing &that is the success of our team! Managers come & go but we will remain so let’s not take it out on each other whatever is happening within the management structure
#UTG
Well that’s my last game at the
#mem
this year.
By the colour of the sky I thought the end of the world was looming but instead we won with the team showing that fighting spirit! That’s what us
#gasheads
like to see. Passion and commitment playing for the badge
#UTG
A personal thanks to the staff
@Official_BRFC
&
@Bristolambo
who looked after me so well today at the
#mem
thanks to the guy who caught my head when I fainted!
@thgorringe
pls say a big thank You to Maria and Mel and to the steward in the east terrace for looking after me
#UTG
A man has died irrespective of anyone’s opinions about the
#RoyalFamily
He was a woman’s husband of 70+ yrs, a father, a grandfather & great grandfather, a war veteran & a consort to the head of the UK and was a committed public servant. Be kind people &say nothing if you can’t
@Official_BRFC
He very quickly has learnt the players names which is more than the previous manager did!
Also love the way JB said Bristol and then quickly added Rovers to it after..... he’s clearly been briefed at what us
#gasheads
require when we are talked about LOL 😂
#UTG
So pleased after losing his love for rovers over lockdown my son💙seems to have come out of the abyss & will be gracing his presence at the
#mem
tmw & maybe for a drink or two with his old mum 😂
Just as a point of interest his initials are GAS ⛽️ so it has to be this way
#UTG
Home…. Thawed out ….
#Marquis
made a complete nuisance of himself all game! Got to be a solid name on the starting 11 now?
#gordon
and
#Hoole
getting better every game and
#gibson
is just brilliant!
#ward
looked lively too 💙
#UTG
think FGR are down and even DF can’t save them!
Today has been up there with 1 of my most proud!
Just activated the gift cards at Tescos for the big shop tmw & after being up for over 20 hours I think bed calls me! I’m proud to be a part of the best
#gasfamily
💙
#UTG
#OperationChristmashamper
Thank you 💙😃
I was by no way a JB hater but MT is defo getting a tune out of the players! Cohesion on and off the pitch - how nice does that feel for everyone to be united again!?Great atmosphere at the
#mem
again
#UTG
💙
What a difference a few days makes …. Jed Ward has waited patiently and today shone! Thought Conteh made a brilliant contribution considering he signed yesterday! Having some experienced players back in the team made so much difference
#UTG
Despite feeling no connection with this Rovers team and not even knowing some of their names I still woke this morning with a heavy feeling. Yes it’s ‘only football’, yes so many things are more important BUT it’s our football team
@Official_BRFC
#gutted
#UTG
💙
Big shout out to the
@Official_BRFC
team yesterday who donated so many Easter eggs to help vulnerable children.
Huge thank you to
@samfinley8
and the other players and
@thgorringe
for contributing so many eggs and their time before the game to support
@OCH1883
#UTG
💙
My beautiful, first born Jacob would have been 21 today. All I can do is place flowers on his grave and try and smile for the gift of being lent him for 41 weeks and 5 days.
#childloss
#bereavement
#neonatal
😢
After months of planning the day is now here.
Bursting with pride and energy (still) we are ready to put into action what our aim has been all along!
Let’s make Christmas for 650 local families
@OCH1883
#OperationChrismasHamper
Thanks everyone for being behind us this far 💙