Alex Culvin, PhD

Director Women’s Football @FIFPRO | Snr Research Fellow @LeedsBeckett | Interested in people and ideas | La Lutte Continue | she/her

[Alex Culvin, PhD @alexculvin]

https://t.co/jO3HkvzcyU

‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number - -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you - -
Ye are many - - they are few. ‘

[FIFPRO @FIFPRO]

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has ruled in favour of a Swedish women’s footballer in a landmark maternity case that could shape how pregnancy protections are applied across professional football in future.

The case, in which Maja Gothberg was successful against her former club Lazio Women, is the first in which CAS has found that a football club unlawfully ended an employment relationship because of a player’s pregnancy and awarded salary compensation and damages on that basis.

🔗 To learn more, visit: https://t.co/fIXQhpYm0h

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort

[Alex 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @foleywoley]

Beautiful demonstration of how the proscription is designed primarily to police discourse and criticism of the government. Thanks, Mike.

[Alex Culvin, PhD @alexculvin]

Delighted to welcome @lucystan37 into our team. 🥳

[FIFPRO @FIFPRO]

We’re pleased to welcome former England international Lucy Staniforth to FIFPRO as our new Women’s Football Officer.

✍️ @LucyStan3We’re pleased to welcome former England international Lucy Staniforth to FIFPRO as our new Women’s Football Officer.

✍️ @LucyStan3We’re pleased to welcome former England international Lucy Staniforth to FIFPRO as our new Women’s Football Officer.

✍️ @LucyStan3We’re pleased to welcome former England international Lucy Staniforth to FIFPRO as our new Women’s Football Officer.

✍️ @LucyStan3We’re pleased to welcome former England international Lucy Staniforth to FIFPRO as our new Women’s Football Officer.

✍️ @LucyStan3We’re pleased to welcome former England international Lucy Staniforth to FIFPRO as our new Women’s Football Officer.

✍️ @LucyStan37

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The point of these attacks is twofold:

1. Flood people with nonsense until it feels true.

2. Grind people down until they lose hope.

We know the answer to that: fight back - with hope & a plan for change.

There is absolutely no way they win this.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[FIFPRO @FIFPRO]

The 2026 FIFPRO Women’s Player Summit wrapped 🎥

Shaping the future of the women’s game, together.

[FIFPRO @FIFPRO]

FIFPRO and FIFPRO Europe welcomes @UEFA's decision to impose a lifetime ban on former 1. FC Slovacko women's head coach Petr Vlachovsky from all football-related activity.

@CAFHcz

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Rayner has been cleared, but the media ran 30 front pages in total, averaging 4 front pages a day during the peak of the story.

Farage's £5 million gift has had two front page stories.

Why would there be such a difference in reporting standards for the two?

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

people in their 40s living in house shares is not uncommon in the london rental market! that you don't know that shows how deeply out of touch the media class are with the realities of living in the city for most.

[Bold Politics @_BoldPolitics]

Actual backstory 🧵

The elderly man whose home this was hadn't renovated - or even redecorated - for decades because he had been a long-term carer for his chronically ill wife (1/7)

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

The only reason that the NHS doesn’t have the staff or beds it needs is because a well-funded, well-staffed NHS removes any need for private healthcare.

[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

In the season FSG acquired Liverpool, (2010/11) matchday revenue was £40.9m. Last season it was £115.6m, an increase of 183%.

Matchday revenue is average attendance x number of matches x average price. Fans have to pay VAT of 20% on top of the revenue earned by the Club too.

Taking this into account, the price paid by a fan have increased from £42.44 to £82.11, which is 93.5% during the time that CPI has increased by 49.6%.

Part of this will be due to an increase in the proportion of tickets sold to corporate/hospitality/member fans, but even so, is there justification in the increases in ticket prices to STH?

Liverpool's success in attracting fans from all over the world is partly due to the vibrancy, the passion and the legend of the Kop (similar to the Stretford End, Kippax, Gallowgate, Clock End etc at other clubs historically) and current owners FSG have benefited from that.
They are standing on the shoulders of giants, but they seem to see those fans as a historical inconvenience and now want those fans to either pay up or move on.

@spiritofshankly @IanByrneMP @JamesPearceLFC

[Alex Culvin, PhD @alexculvin]

@SimonBrundish @FIFPRO @Cdunn19 @NWSL @nwsl_players Because it is so multifactorial, we could never define “a cause”. We want to take a holistic, systems approach rather looking at whether A causes B.

[Spirit of Shankly @spiritofshankly]

Big chance to send a message to Boston tomorrow - play your part at Anfield or elsewhere ✊🏼

🟨 Show FSG The Yellow Card

❌ Not A Pound In The Ground

🔎 Details: https://t.co/KvUBNLBjbN

[FIFPRO @FIFPRO]

The launch of #ProjectACL in the NWSL marked an important milestone for players, unions, leagues and researchers.

🗣️ @AlexCulvin
🗣️ @CDunn19
🗣️ Mary Long
🗣️ Andrea Kitahata

@NWSL | @NWSL_Players

[Sonny @thehonestletter]

The UK full new state pension is £11,973 a year. The poverty line for a single adult is around £14,500.

You'll work 50 years paying into a system that, by its own definition, retires you straight into poverty.

[FIFPRO @FIFPRO]

Project ACL in the NWSL launched ✅

A coordinated approach in one of the world’s leading women’s leagues to better understand and address the multifactorial causes of ACL injuries in the women’s game.

@NWSL | @NWSL_Players

[FIFPRO @FIFPRO]

Project ACL is expanding to the NWSL.

Here’s what you need to know ⤵️

@NWSL | @NWSL_PlayerProject ACL is expanding to the NWSL.

Here’s what you need to know ⤵️

@NWSL | @NWSL_PlayerProject ACL is expanding to the NWSL.

Here’s what you need to know ⤵️

@NWSL | @NWSL_PlayerProject ACL is expanding to the NWSL.

Here’s what you need to know ⤵️

@NWSL | @NWSL_PlayerProject ACL is expanding to the NWSL.

Here’s what you need to know ⤵️

@NWSL | @NWSL_Players

[Spirit of Shankly @spiritofshankly]

🕒 Saturday: @LFC v Crystal Palace.

⚠️ Show FSG The Yellow Card

1️⃣3️⃣ Raise your yellow card on the 13th minute

❌Tell them: Enough Is Enough – *NO* to THREE YEARS of price rises

🟨Pick one up outside Anfield before the match.