George Simms

West Ham’s future is even bleaker than its present after ... On-field revival comes to shuddering halt – and off the pitch the stench of decay is growing worse for the Hammers

West Ham’s severe and plausible future draws closer… @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Whether they survive the drop or not, what evidence is there that Sullivan and Brady can oversee anything like a sustainable recovery? The game has passed them by #COYI

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Drive to Survive is fast and furious but it’s 1% racing, ... The Netflix series that has transformed Formula One audiences returns. But is it too good to be true?

You can read me every Thursday in the revamped @observeruk.bsky.social Daily newsletter

This week’s is on Drive to Survive - a propaganda vehicle about propaganda vehicles - the pestilence of access journalism and Netflix’s concerning approach to sport…

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Cheers Adam!

Sean Dyche is just the latest victim of a Premier League ... Is the solution to the mystery of avoiding relegation simply hire David Moyes?

Sean Dyche is just the latest victim of a Premier League owner’s guesswork and hope

George Simms asks: is the solution to the mystery of avoiding relegation simply hire David Moyes?
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Sean Dyche is just the latest victim of a Premier League ... Is the solution to the mystery of avoiding relegation simply hire David Moyes?

Nottingham Forest hiring and firing Dyche begs a key question: what if most Premier League execs actually have no idea what they’re doing? #NFFC

On Marinakis, whether Vitor Pereira is actually good and why every club just needs more Moyes @theobserveruk.bsky.social

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Castigation of ‘boy king’ Brook exposes England’s hypocri... The debate around alcohol’s place in cricket is doomed to repeat because no one involved actually wants to change it

Harry Brook: it started out on the piss, how did it end up like this? @theobserveruk.bsky.social

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Sabalenka’s self-loathing takes centre stage as she loses... The world No 1’s loss to a resurgent Elena Rybakina ended her 11-match run without dropping a set

The Aryna Sabalenka experience @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Piece from a brilliant Australian Open women's final

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American athletes are learning: you can't keep politics o... National politics have always run deeply in sport, but bids to protect themselves from controversy shouldn't stand in the way of morality

Turns out American athletes don't enjoy the full rogue state treatment - but they're going to have to get used to it @theobserveruk.bsky.social

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American athletes are learning: you can't keep politics o... National politics have always run deeply in sport, but bids to protect themselves from controversy shouldn't stand in the way of morality

Turns out American athletes don't enjoy the full rogue state treatment - but they're going to have to get used to it @theobserveruk.bsky.social

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Spent the week watching Amanda Anisimova, to understand how a prodigy fell apart and put herself back together again

A truly fascinating life and person @ObserverUK

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BREAKING: Hearing reports that Elvis is, in fact, not dead...

Went to Parkes, five hours into the Outback from Sydney, for their Elvis Festival - 25,000 fanatics in 40C

On Elvis rugby, Elvis vow renewals and the lives of tribute artists

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BREAKING: Hearing reports that Elvis is, in fact, not dead...

Went to Parkes, five hours into the Outback from Sydney, for their Elvis Festival - 25,000 fanatics in 40C

On Elvis rugby, Elvis vow renewals and the lives of tribute artists

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Australian Open’s One Point Slam: a triumph of TikTokifie... The Australian Open’s new curtain-raiser delivered epic drama, and made an amateur a millionaire

The One Point Slam: Very Good

Feels very rare to have a new thing in sport that people like, so sure it’ll get ruined soon…

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Australian Open’s One Point Slam: a triumph of TikTokifie... The Australian Open’s new curtain-raiser delivered epic drama, and made an amateur a millionaire

The One Point Slam: Very Good

Feels very rare to have a new thing in sport that people like, so sure it’ll get ruined soon…

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Blonde tips, green shoots: Bethell bats beautifully to gi... Australia still in a commanding position as England close 119 runs ahead with two wickets remaining – but Jacob Bethell’s century shows way for the future

Jacob Bethell - let’s get carried away

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England bowlers left to toil as Australia pull ahead Hosts flog poor bowling attack to close 134 runs ahead on 518-7

Half a length, half a length, half a length onward, all in the valley of Death were smashed for 500

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Just where would we be without Joe Root? | The Observer Imagining an England team without the batsman is a chilling thought – but it’s one we’ll have to get used to very quickly

Hold me Joe. Hold me while the world burns

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Don’t be so quick to proclaim this Ashes as the death of ... This has been the most watched and attended Ashes series in Australia – so maybe we should lean into the chaos of it all

If Bazball is dead, how come it still seems to drive Australians insane just the same?

These are the Content Ashes, and there’s only one winner there (except the Noosa Tourism Board)…

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England vindicate and complicate everything we know about... Ashes debutant Jacob Bethell was previously more concept art than cricketer – now he’s led the visitors to a famous win

Bazball is dead. Long live Bazball.

Piece from an absurd day at the MCG
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England vindicate and complicate everything we know about... Ashes debutant Jacob Bethell was previously more concept art than cricketer – now he’s led the visitors to a famous win

Bazball is dead. Long live Bazball.

Piece from an absurd day at the MCG
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Cross disclosing his ADHD means three of the current PDC top 20 have publicly discussed their diagnoses (Wade, Cross and Noppert)

Feels pretty unique across elite sport, especially when ADHD and darts should, in theory, go together like toddlers and fine glassware…

Spurs stumble again in neverending search for a new identity Tottenham 1-2 Liverpool: Simons and Romero sent off as the Reds hand Thomas Frank another home loss

Tottenham: what’s the point?

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‘It still feels like the glory days here’: A day at the WDF World Championships | The Observer

Went to Lakeside this week out of morbid curiosity, and came back understanding the truth about darts’ relationship with alcohol in 2025 🎯

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Trump’s Fifa peace prize exemplifies exploitation. So what else is new? | The Observer

Gianni Infantino: so close to the seat of power he can sniff it

On football’s eminent exploitability and why any arbiter of a peace prize isn’t, by definition, politically neutral

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‘It still feels like the glory days here’: A day at the WDF World Championships | The Observer

Went to Lakeside this week out of morbid curiosity, and came back understanding the truth about darts’ relationship with alcohol in 2025 🎯

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These skits are improving, at least it's feasible that Rio needs the draw process explained to him by four 10-year-olds, and even then doesn't get it...

Will Jacks: the latest addition to England’s Charge of the Height Brigade | The Observer

Brisbane: The Charge of the Height Brigade

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Will Jacks: the latest addition to England’s Charge of the Height Brigade | The Observer

Brisbane: The Charge of the Height Brigade

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‘Everything made sense’, says former footballer Mark Phillips on his ADHD diagnosis | The Observer

Have spent a lot of time with ADHD footballers, but
Mark Phillips might be the most interesting and most likely to actually change how the sport views neurodiversity

Spent two hours with him recently @observeruk.bsky.social

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‘Everything made sense’, says former footballer Mark Phillips on his ADHD diagnosis | The Observer

Have spent a lot of time with ADHD footballers, but
Mark Phillips might be the most interesting and most likely to actually change how the sport views neurodiversity

Spent two hours with him recently @observeruk.bsky.social

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