Jonathan Liew

just flicked onto gb news to see how they’re covering the by-election

van gerwen v price one of those rivalries that is never, ever shit

Noni Madueke backs Arsenal’s push to tackle knife crime: ‘It’s so important to try to share the community’s pain’ England forward was among Arsenal heroes in attendance at event commemorating fan who was stabbed to death

noni madueke does seem like a real top top lad

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obviously i had to look up what a patronus was, and now wish i hadn't

Excellent introduction by Andy Hunter to his report from Hill Dickinson Stadium for @sport.theguardian.com last night. 🧑🏾‍🍳💋

where is HMRC of Football Podcasts when you need him, I am 100% certain this didn't happen

little known fact, but if you say eusebio’s name three times to defend yourself against racism, he re-enters the living world, walks over and hands you a history book

Matt Goodwin is running: the search for Reform’s elusive byelection candidate Nigel Farage’s man in Gorton and Denton has a huge public platform, and a taste for culture war. What happens when he concerns himself with bin collections?

Slightly buried in this excellent piece is the fact that Goodwin shares Stephen Miller’s love of the US 1924 Immigration Act - the one admired by Hitler and the reason why so many Jewish refugees (including Anne Frank’s family) were turned away

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my “I am not elusive” t-shirt

Matt Goodwin is running: the search for Reform’s elusive byelection candidate Nigel Farage’s man in Gorton and Denton has a huge public platform, and a taste for culture war. What happens when he concerns himself with bin collections?

spent a couple of weeks in manchester on the trail of matt goodwin. why has nobody seen him? how do you fight a politics that lots of people absentmindedly agree with? and - you know - does he secretly want to remigrate me?

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I would say a very fair point about the media in general, and a very cheap shot at The Guardian, which has gone out of its way to inform people of the dangers of the far-right and what they really mean and represent, often risking huge legal repercussions in doing so

declan rice is one of those rare players who gets worse with confidence. the key is to deflate him at every opportunity. do not believe in yourself, bro. you cannot do anything you set your mind to. leave his tyres unpumped. make him feel like zero dollars.

in France they call it “le crocodile”. once more English football disgraces itself

Matt Goodwin is running: the search for Reform’s elusive byelection candidate Nigel Farage’s man in Gorton and Denton has a huge public platform, and a taste for culture war. What happens when he concerns himself with bin collections?

spent a couple of weeks in manchester on the trail of matt goodwin. why has nobody seen him? how do you fight a politics that lots of people absentmindedly agree with? and - you know - does he secretly want to remigrate me?

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew The Brazilian has seen this before, football has seen this before, and yet why does it feel like nothing ever changes?

on vinicius, jim ratcliffe and bad immigrants

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Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew The Brazilian has seen this before, football has seen this before, and yet why does it feel like nothing ever changes?

on vinicius, jim ratcliffe and bad immigrants

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not sure aston villa are ever going to have a better chance of winning the league, to be honest

Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew The Brazilian has seen this before, football has seen this before and yet why does it feel like nothing ever changes? José Mourinho: against provoking opposition fans. José Mourinho: in favour of restrained celebrations. José Mourinho, once of the poke-in-the-eye, sprint-down-the-touchline, accost-the-referee-in-the-car-park school of footballing expression: now apparently very big on showing respect to the game. Well, it seems like we’ve all been on a journey here. “I told him the biggest person in the history of this club was Black,” Mourinho recounted when asked about his conversation with Vinícius Júnior on Tuesday night. “This club, the last thing that it is, is racist.” And doubtless these words will have been a profound source of comfort to Vinícius in his lowest moment, having been insulted on the pitch by an opposition player in a Champions League playoff. Continue reading...

Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew

the "some of my club's best ever footballers are black" defence

ah don’t make me root for real madrid for chrissakes

james wade swerves the bunting fist bump before their semi-final decider in wigan. the real people’s champion

cricket is really a very simple game, the trick is to use the freshest ingredients you can find and save a little bit of the pasta water to use later

the hardest burton to burton

Do the Strand: the Manchester United haircut guy exposes our lust for content | Jonathan Liew As ‘the pressure of the haircut’ enters the game’s lexicon, the extent to which football revolves around winning and losing games appears to be fading

nobody:

me: here’s a column on the guy who’s not getting a haircut until Manchester United win five games in a row, but written through the prism of the capitalist attention economy www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Do the Strand: the Manchester United haircut guy exposes our lust for content | Jonathan Liew As ‘the pressure of the haircut’ enters the game’s lexicon, the extent to which football revolves around winning and losing games appears to be fading

nobody:

me: here’s a column on the guy who’s not getting a haircut until Manchester United win five games in a row, but written through the prism of the capitalist attention economy www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Do the Strand: the Manchester United haircut guy exposes our lust for content | Jonathan Liew As ‘the pressure of the haircut’ enters the game’s lexicon, the extent to which football revolves around winning and losing games appears to be fading “I don’t care about his haircut at all,” Matheus Cunha said this week. “I don’t really look at other people if they need to go to the hairdresser or not,” Bruno Fernandes said at the weekend. Michael Carrick, for his part, said he was aware of the haircut issue. But the Manchester United coach insisted it would not factor into his team’s preparations for their game against West Ham on Tuesday night. And so, here we are. Many games of football end up being remembered for reasons far outstripping their original significance: the 1914 Christmas Truce, the 1962 Battle of Santiago, the 2020 pandemic curtain‑raiser between Liverpool and Atlético Madrid. To these we can add the Haircut Game: a mildly arresting 1-1 Premier League draw at the London Stadium that posterity will nevertheless recall as the game when a man did not get his hair cut at the end. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Do the Strand: the Manchester United haircut guy exposes our lust for content | Jonathan Liew

it's a top-six squad when fully fit with a good coach. the lack of goals this season has absolutely killed them. son gone, johnson gone, solanke, maddison and kulusevski injured. that's about 70% of their goals from last season

wouldn't argue with that. but also the bad recruitment stems from the lack of an identity. it's a squad assembled for six very different managers.

of those only eriksen, lloris and alderweireld (maybe vertonghen?) were anywhere close to the finished article when they arrived. they were better tools because good coaching and sound culture turned them into better tools!

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