John Brewin

John Brewin

@brewin.bsky.social

Freelance journalist, semi-regular at Guardian Sport from Macclesfield, Cheshire in London, England. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/john-brewin Collected writings from the distant past at https://johnbrewin.substack.com/

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Libero: Libero 104 | Where’s Your Famous Atmosphere? The Premier League’s Sanitised Matchday Atmosphere is one of the Premier League’s biggest selling points to broadcasters, but ask anyone who regularly goes to games and they will tell you that atmospheres in English grounds are in star...

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Where’s your famous atmosphere?

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Libero: Libero 104 | Where’s Your Famous Atmosphere? The Premier League’s Sanitised Matchday Atmosphere is one of the Premier League’s biggest selling points to broadcasters, but ask anyone who regularly goes to games and they will tell you that atmospheres in English grounds are in star...

Enjoyed talking about atmospheres and what happened to them on today's @liberopodcast.com with @brewin.bsky.social and @jameshorncastle.bsky.social

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Twitter spat between us, and a random twitter user, that flames up, and almost instantly de-escalates

Four years ago today, in the other place, here's us getting involved in a Twitter spat that......really DIDN'T escalate, at all.

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🚨 Football Weekly live at SXSW 🚨

🎙️Join @maxrushden.bsky.social and @barryglendenning.bsky.social, alongside @anabnos.com and special guest @brendanhunting.bsky.social co-creator and “Coach Beard” of Apple TV’s Ted Lasso for a live podcast recording.

📅 Kick off: 11.30am, Monday 16th March.

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6 days ago

“beyond football” is a decent description of Spurs in 2026.

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1 week ago

When was this?

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Haha, yes

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Dubai, as a colony of estate agents, car dealers and buff social media influencers living their “best life”, feels like a planet invented by Douglas Adams.

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As in 2003, the same people demanding the government joins a war in the Middle East will be the same people decrying taking part as a mistake. But, for the moment, they hope it will sell newsprint. Thing is, many still remember 2003. And such actions would be even more unpopular than back then.

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This TNT montage of Tottenham fans is epic stuff.

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Any questions for the panel?

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Tele revert to using Heath generator.

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02104-25 Fraser v Telegraph.co.uk - IPSO Ian Fraser complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that Telegraph.co.uk breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) of the Editors’ Code of Practice in an article headlined “We earn £345k, but soa...

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

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Libero: Libero 101 | Spurs In Peril... No Longer Too Big To Fail? In recent years it has felt as if the Premier League was permanently stratified, with the poor teams unable to win and the rich teams unable to lose. But Tottenham Hotspur have the ninth biggest re...

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Are Spurs too big to go down?

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Dorian Gray fronts up

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INXS new material sounds lit

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The thing is, he's right.

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So Your Party has a faction called The Many? I'm already confused.

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My name is Kalulu
My first rule of thumb
I don’t say where I'm going
Or where I’m coming from

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Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

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“The Tudor period. Is it Edward VI? Is it Lady Jane Grey?”

Will Spurs see a renaissance or will the plague continue?

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Libero: Libero 099 | Has Jose Mourinho Burned His Bridges At Real Madrid? Jose Mourinho will take his Benfica team back to Real Madrid on Wednesday night, trying to get through to the last-16 of the Champions League.It is now almost 13 years since Mourinho left Real Madr...

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Has Jose Mourinho burned his bridges at Real Madrid?

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Libero: Libero 099 | Has Jose Mourinho Burned His Bridges At Real Madrid? Jose Mourinho will take his Benfica team back to Real Madrid on Wednesday night, trying to get through to the last-16 of the Champions League.It is now almost 13 years since Mourinho left Real Madr...

Discussed the Jose Mourinho / Real Madrid relationship on today's @liberopodcast.com with @migueldelaney.bsky.social and @brewin.bsky.social

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“They're in trouble, there's no doubt about that.”

Tottenham find themselves in real relegation danger after a crushing 4-1 defeat to Arsenal over the weekend.

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“Put wood in th’hole.” Call yourself a professional northerner?

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Keysey makes the common mistake of confusing Macclesfield for Mansfield.

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"Lou had an obsession with the allure of sex symbol and actress Jayne Mansfield – particularly her humor and rumored involvement with Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan."

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Saga of the Silkmen: calm before the storm in Macclesfield as Brentford await After Macclesfield’s FA Cup giantkilling, the quiet Cheshire town remains suitably unassuming in the spotlight after years of heartbreak

More on Macclesfield.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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