Football journalism

God love 'im

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/aug/02/frank-lampard-resolve-chelsea-defensive-issues-arsenal-fa-cup-final

jonathon wilson raises the bar on himself

In July 1971, Apollo 15 approached the moon. After the lunar module detached bearing the mission’s other two astronauts, Al Worden was left alone in the command module. When he went behind the moon, breaking transmission with Houston, he entertained himself by playing the Beatles, Elton John and John Denver and the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Orbiting 2,235 miles from his companions on the moon’s surface and quarter of a million miles from Earth, Worden was for three days the most isolated human to have existed since Adam. Or at least he was until the 67th minute of the FA Cup final on Saturday.

lol at daniel harris's premier league likeability 11 including hamza choudhury, possibly the dirtiest player in the league.

BBC liveblog incapable of referring to 'Nicolas Pepe' without inserting '£72m' first

I've never encountered Melissa Reddy before but she makes me feel like my brain is broken

Enter the gushing over not the player who produced the decisive goal at a pivotal moment, nor the one who significantly prevented one with his first spot-kick save since 2016.

Lingard’s delicious drive on 89 minutes secured the precious points, a huge W, but as we keep being told they are title contenders, can we evaluate their credentials as such?

But the Hammers were without the talismanic Michail Antonio, such a puncture to their blueprint, and yet still, they threatened United until literally the last kick of the match.

Thats fucking horrible stuff

gah

give me nult

Wood’s perhaps surprisingly eclectic taste in music variously encompasses the Kings of Leon, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra and Howe must trust his formidable aerial presence will bring similar breadth and diversity to a struggling, frequently one-dimensional, Newcastle XI.

nothing wrong with 1d.

Is that from The Nult?

louise taylor the guardian's goto newcastle correspondent i think

https://deadspin.com/marcelo-booted-from-lyon-locker-room-for-excessive-fart-1848906148

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhLfNdWBYhU

alfie potts harmer is by far my favourite football journalist

fuck a video, what's he say?

erudite challenging of stereotypes, detail-filled encomium to AFCON and why it's a good tournament that gets hideously misrepresented by a lot of media, etc

everything gets hideously misrepresented by the media tbh im kind of over cardigan journalists looking for pats on the head for this angle

"non-European football is good actually" feels like just another version of your bog standard pundit patronisation tbh

sorry imago not stamping on the video i havent clicked on or anything but the saminess of football journalism along guardian football weekly lines seems v forced to me lately is all 😕

awww he's so nice though

everything is well-written, acerbic, detail-focused. he's done some other great videos. guardian journalism it is not, it's got a lot more bite

Maybe I'll take a look, I am trying to cut down my internet browsing outside of work hours though lol

is that his voice or is it an ai generated read of a piece he wrote?

tbh honest I didn't get too far into it by the time I stopped it he hadn't mentioned football.

It's his voice!

i couldn't decide on the right thread but this'll do, fill your boots

End of week tally: 4285 fully scanned football programmes, annuals, specials and magazines (including nearly 70 full Shoot! magazines)

To access them all in a free online library, below is the link to click and share - #oldfootballprogrammeshttps://t.co/G42qCRaf5f pic.twitter.com/6bfU7eD14U

— Miles McClagan (@TheSkyStrikers) March 29, 2024

i guess i dont love henry winter but the times making their chief football writer redundant must be noteworthy

Is it cos football is too woke now?

post itt writers you think are bad