News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
The English FA's over-zealous policing of 'racist' jokes has landed it facing racism allegations of its own. It's all part of the relentless rise of 'compelled offence', says Steven Tucker.
For more than a year, footballers took the knee in solidarity with George Floyd, says Brendan O'Neill. "Yet after the racist slaughter of a thousand Israelis, the FA can’t even be bothered to light up the Wembley arch."
A 27 year-old footballer, Maddy Cusack, has died, and suddenly a media that is awash with speculation on all kinds of tenuous subjects has no curiosity to find out why, says Dr David Seedhouse.
Football Focus is in peril due to plunging viewing figures ahead of its 50th anniversary with the show struggling to recover since Dan Walker was replaced by Alex Scott. Go woke, go broke?
Spanish football Chief Luis Rubiales has sent FIFA a copy of newly released footage showing the women's football team celebrating and joking about his infamous kiss with Jenni Hermoso.
The song ‘Delilah’ becomes the latest victim of the woke central planners. Aside from the sheer stupidity, and the deliberate ignoring of context, banning such songs is an attack on our harmless communal rituals.
Has Jeremy Clarkson been red-pilled by his recent punishment beating at the hands of the progressive thought police? He’s written a blistering piece in the Sunday Times about the woke-ification of Britain.
Fourteen-year-old Hull City fan Jack Watson has solved the puzzle of why his team keep losing at home and winning away: they always take the knee in front of the home fans, but rarely when playing away.
Robert Jackman writes about his recent trip to Qatar for a World Cup 'test run' match, where he found a country still in the grip of Covid theatre, mask mania and digital discrimination.
The decision by the footballing authorities to cancel all games this weekend was typically brain dead. What better way for fans to pay tribute to the Queen than observing a minute’s silence and singing the national anthem?
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