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🚨📉 Manchester United are 18th in Premier League, entering the international break in relegation zone.
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On Halloween 1984, Jono Lancaster was born in the UK with Treacher Collins syndrome, a rare genetic condition that affects how the bones of the face develop.
He was just 36 hours old when his parents, horrified by his appearance, left the hospital without him.
Two weeks after that, a foster carer named Jean took him home, and when he was 5, she officially adopted him.
Growing up, Jono was bullied and hated seeing his own face in the mirror.
In his mid-twenties, Jono wrote to his biological parents. He wanted them to know he was doing well and asked if they'd meet him.
They rejected him for a second time, mailing back a cold, one-sentence note signed by both of them that read: "Regarding this subject, we do not want any contact and further attempts will be ignored."
Instead of giving up, he founded a charity supporting people with facial differences and began traveling the world to meet children with the same condition, to show them they weren't alone.
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🚨Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall on why he left Chelsea for Everton:
🗣️ Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall: “When I left Chelsea for Everton, people acted like I had destroyed my career.
I remember the comments.
‘Why Everton?’
‘Why leave Chelsea?’
‘He’s gone backwards.’
Honestly, some of it made me laugh.
Because people were looking at the badge instead of looking at my career.
Chelsea is a massive club. I respect that.
But being at a massive club doesn’t automatically mean you’re developing.
Sometimes you can be surrounded by £100 million players and still feel like nobody is really watching you.
That was my reality.
I didn’t want to spend another year trying to convince people at Chelsea that I deserved an opportunity.
I wanted to play football.
Real football.
Important football.
And Everton gave me that.
People talk about Everton like it’s some small club.
I’m sorry, but have you actually looked at the history of this football club?
The stadium, the supporters, the expectations — this isn’t a holiday destination.
You walk into Everton and you immediately understand what responsibility feels like.
Then I met David Moyes.
He didn’t treat me like a player who had come from Chelsea looking for somewhere to hide.
He looked me in the eyes and said, ‘If you’re good enough, you’ll play. If you’re not good enough, I’ll tell you.’
I respected that immediately.
At Chelsea, I sometimes felt like I was fighting to be noticed.
At Everton, Moyes made me feel like I had something to prove every single day.
He gave me responsibility.
He gave me freedom.
And he gave me something I desperately needed confidence.
I made mistakes in training and expected him to destroy me.
Instead, he’d say, ‘Again.’
I’d look at him like, ‘What do you mean again?’
He’d say, ‘You heard me. Do it again.’
That changed me.
He didn’t want a player scared of making mistakes.
He wanted a player brave enough to demand the ball when everything was going wrong.
That’s the player I wanted to become.
So when people say I left Chelsea for Everton, I don’t see it as a step down.
I see it as the moment I stopped waiting for somebody else to decide my value.
And maybe that’s what bothers some Chelsea fans.
Because I didn’t leave and disappear.
I left and started becoming the player I believed I could be.
David Moyes gave me responsibility Chelsea couldn’t give me at that moment.
Everton gave me a reason to fight for my place every weekend.
So if you ask me whether I regret leaving Chelsea?
Not for one second.
I didn’t leave Chelsea because Everton was bigger.
I left because Everton was better for me.
That’s the difference.
Sometimes the club with the bigger name isn’t the club that gives you the bigger career.
Chelsea gave me a big badge.
Everton gave me belief.
And David Moyes gave me my football back.
So people can keep calling Everton a small club.
I’ll keep playing for them.
And maybe one day they’ll understand that I didn’t step backwards.
I simply stepped away from the noise and found a manager who actually believed in me.
That was the best decision I could have made.”
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Michael Barker was supposed to be the next great thing to come out of the Everton academy. In 1998 his world was shattered in a split second.
He was a wiry, fearless kid from Garston, Liverpool, who shared a dressing room with a young Wayne Rooney. He had the talent, the hunger and the drive to make it. He was just 14 years old. He was doing what teenage boys do — pushing boundaries, taking risks. He was climbing on a railway bridge. He fell. As he fell, a moving bus hit and dragged him underneath.
The injuries were catastrophic. A fractured skull. A compound fracture to his leg. A crushed foot and heel. His body was described as “battered.” He was left disabled, acquiring cerebral palsy from the trauma. The dream of playing professional football, the dream he had chased since he was a boy, died on that road.
For months he faced agonising rehabilitation. He had to learn how to walk again, how to live with a body that was no longer the same. It would have been so easy to let the bitterness consume him. To watch Rooney’s career skyrocket from a distance and wonder, “Why me?” But Michael Barker refused to let that be the end of his story.
During his recovery his gran showed him an article in the local paper about Everton’s PAN Disability programme, a community initiative for people with disabilities. He went. He was sceptical at first. “I was like, ‘I’m not disabled,’” he later admitted. But when he started training he realised something incredible. The standard was higher than he had imagined. These were not token gestures. These were real footballers with real talent.
He threw himself into it. He played for Everton’s disabled team. He progressed rapidly. Then one night a man in an England tracksuit was watching from the sidelines. That night changed everything. Michael was called up to the England CP squad. He made his debut. He never looked back.
He went on to become one of the most experienced and respected players in the England CP set-up. He won over 75 caps. He won the Golden Boot at the 2011 World Championships in the Netherlands, finishing as the tournament’s top scorer. He represented Great Britain at three Paralympic Games: Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016. On the pitch he was a forward, a goalscorer, a leader.
But his greatest legacy is not the goals or the caps. It is the message he sends to every child who has ever been told they can’t do something because of their body. Michael Barker didn’t just survive a horrific accident. He rebuilt his life from the rubble. He found a new way to play the game he loved. He found a new family in the England CP squad. And he did it with a smile.
Wayne Rooney, his old teammate, once said: “Michael’s story is inspirational.” He was right. Michael Barker is not a “what if.” He is a “what is.” He is a Paralympian. He is an international footballer. He is a survivor. And he proved that even when your body is broken, your spirit can still soar.
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A Evertonian from Russia 🇷🇺 and a Evertonian from Ukraine 🇺🇦 sitting side by side celebrating an Everton goal who needs war when Everton does this to you . As a famous Evertonian JOHN LENNON once said ‘ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE’
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In 1904, Everton were beating Arsenal 3-1 but the game had to be abandoned with 10-15 mins to go because of fog.
Everton lost the replayed match 2-1, which was the second of 3 away games in 4 days. Everton lost the league title by 1 point.
Not bitter about it or anything. #EFC
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When Marcia Wallace died in 2013, The Simpsons retired her character, Edna Krabappel. In the next new episode, Bart went to the chalkboard and wrote one line: “We’ll really miss you, Mrs. K.”
Wallace was 70 and had voiced Bart’s teacher since the show’s first season. The episode ended with a second tribute, this time to Wallace herself.
Months later, the show gave Edna a goodbye of her own. Ned Flanders pictured himself dancing with her, then said quietly, “I sure do miss that laugh.”
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Some of the most morbid stories about Stephen King aren't in his books.
When he was about 4, King went out to play with a friend near the railroad tracks. He came home alone, speechless and in shock.
His family later learned that his friend had been hit and killed by a train. King has no memory of it.
In the 1980s, he did so much cocaine that he wrote with cotton swabs stuck up his nose to stop the bleeding. He barely remembers writing some of his books, including the 1981 classic Cujo.
Then, in 1999, while he was out for a walk in Maine, a distracted driver in a minivan hit him and threw him 14 feet into a ditch. Almost every bone on the right side of his body was broken.
While King was in the hospital, his wife bought the van so nobody could sell pieces of it as souvenirs. King planned to smash it with a sledgehammer. The van ended up in a car crusher.
The driver died a year later, on September 21, 2000. It was Stephen King's birthday.
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One of the purest bonds in the world is the love between father and son. Precious moments ❤️
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In 1998, Sofía Vergara’s older brother was shot and killed in Colombia. Just a few years later, a doctor felt a lump in her neck during a routine checkup. She was 28 and had thyroid cancer.
Vergara was already living in Miami when her brother Rafael was killed. After his death, she brought her mother, sister and younger brother to live with her in Florida.
When tests confirmed the cancer, Vergara was raising a young son.
She went to bookstores to learn what she could about the disease, then had her thyroid removed and spent several days in hospital isolation while receiving radioactive iodine treatment.
In 2009, she began playing Gloria on Modern Family, the role that made her a household name.
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Why are Sky pundits still crying about that shirt pull last week but when THIS happened we were basically told to shut up and stop crying......??
