The Assistant Professor of Football

Who is going to @footycon.bsky.social in London this June? I am, first timer, curious how many from here I’ll meet irl.

The strange landscape of U.S. college soccer, through European eyes

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Why, in 2026, is the voice dictate function in #Apple iOS so unbelievably shit?
Any apps around it?

Europe Could Kick Trump Where It Hurts: The World Cup Soccer chiefs may control Europe’s real anti-coercion instrument.

"While they may not be household names, people like Spain’s Rafael Louzán, England’s Debbie Hewitt and the Netherlands’ Frank Paauw may now have more leverage over Trump than the European Commission with its so-called trade bazooka."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Lol. The “prettiest” coach in Europe, according to that Leeds owner. Should’ve dropped Ivica Osim!

Yes, did we fail to mention that? Went there on a quick layover in Salzburg about 10 years ago.

The former Lehener Stadion in Salzburg, where the pitch and some terraces remain as part of a library and housing development.

The former Lehener Stadion in Salzburg, where the pitch and some terraces remain as part of a library and housing development.

Mad to think Sporting Lisbon were beaten here. You can stand on the terraces of @austriasalzburg.bsky.social's old ground in Lehen as they’re still there @gollnerphilipp.bsky.social #svas

I mean, bigger clubs have lost in Bodø

Back from skiing.
Not in #Salzburg or #Austria - but you can travel there today.

You'll just need to swap the skis for a ball, and trust our alpine guest professor, Stefan Wally.

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Holiday Read-Aloud & Christmas-themed Chants: "Kane and the Christmas Football Adventure" (no, not Harry) - The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History. Welcome to the 3rd Advent/Christmas/Holiday episode this year. It’s a read of a children book again, and that book involves a time-traveling boy and his dog. They time travel, through goalposts, to th...

The best Christmas-themed stadium chants, a a little holiday read-aloud for the lazy time between the years.

Regular episodes resume January 19th!

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Maximilian Senft: The poker player turned promotion-winning football manager

Then new #SturmGraz coach, portrayed in the #NYT New York Times this Summer: "I would say that poker and football are both games of incomplete information."

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Football and #SportsBettingX - and what to do about that mess.

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3rd try is the charme - final grading and a busy guest means we're finally taking on sports betting and gambling tomorrow.
My apologies for the interruoption of our usual 2-week rhythm!

Holiday surprise episode will follow on the 22nd.

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney sell Wrexham stake to US private equity group Club gets boost for development of Racecourse Ground, but move comes months after it received £14m state aid

U.S. entertainment company uses soccer club to give 14 million of state subsidies to U.S. private equity firm. #modernfootball

Unfortunately, I have to postpone today's episode of The Assistant Professor of Football to next week. Extraneous circumstances for the Visiting Professor, as they say.

We will talk about betting in soccer - and a personal journey of addiction and recovery.

In the U.S., the next soccer boom is supposedly always around the corner. But what about the game's history here? From Vermont granite cutters to Hawaiian beaches: Brian Bunk tours with us through the roots of the American game.

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Austria or Bosnia, I’d put my hat in the ring for either path’s ticket lottery.
This #FIFAWorldCup will be harder to ignore for me next year… #autbih

Harper has it, I'm surprised it hasn't come out here yet. Fall is what I heard. It will be though.

From the rockstar who brought you "The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer," and the man who brought you Tomáš Souček in The Sound of Music: a 2-part episode you better enjoy! Honored to have David Goldblatt.

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Part 2: tinyurl.com/nvd7374r

My dad was happy to share his ticket collection from #SturmGraz UEFA Cup run in 1984. It ended against Nottingham #NFFC. We play Forest again today in the #UEL.

The Assistant Professor of Catan approves.

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

All I'm prepared to say about this, for now, is that the use of pyro photo illustrations to connote "hooligans" and "riots" is really cheap, disingenuous and Murdoch-level.

And I think @jonathanliew.bsky.social knows football cultures better than this.

Strandvallen, lovely home of the new Swedish champion Mjällby IF.

… and how it is going…

If you notice the empty seats in West Ham's "soul-less bowl" next home game against Brentford, here is the backstory. #WHUFC #WestHam

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Mobilization at West Ham #WHUFC again. More in this week’s episode, in a few hours.

Before the Conference League anthem came on in #Celje in #Slovenia for yesterday's win against AEK Athens, today’s guest had a lot of work behind him already while I was was on my way via train, uber and rental car from Bosnia. #UECL

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#SturmGraz with a history lesson of a tifo, referring back to this game:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5nC... #STURAN #EuropaLeague