Huw Bevan

Christian, Cardiff, Arsenal, Cricket TV and stuff.

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@JesseGranger_ @spittinchiclets This was a great interview. Props to @spittinchiclets Cassidy is such an open communicator. You can recognise the ruthless will to win at all costs mentality of @GoldenKnights and still have so much sympathy for Cassidy. I hope there’s a win for both sides once the Season is done

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@dkarbass Amazing journey. Thank you.

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

This is the first video I woke to this morning. I’ve watched it so many times since. Such a beautiful day.
Champions at last

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@SinBinVegas This is excellent and provides great context. Love @GoldenKnights and am delighted with the playoff run so far. But Torts is just rude and arrogant and deserves his fine. He may be good for the team short term, but I really hope he is not retained beyond this season.

[Aston Villa Updates @avfcbreaking]

There was a time when a European final belonged to the supporters who dragged their club there.

Not anymore.

When Aston Villa were handed roughly 11,000 tickets for a Europa League final in a 70,000-plus stadium, the number itself told the story. UEFA can package the event however it likes — “festival of football”, “European showpiece”, “global celebration” — but the modern European final is no longer built around supporters. It is built around clients.

The supporters fund the journey. The corporates inherit the destination.

Villa fans will have spent thousands following the club across Europe. Flights, hotels, time off work, loyalty schemes built over years. Yet when the final arrives, huge sections of the stadium are reserved for sponsors, hospitality guests, executives, delegates and “neutral” allocations that often end up on resale sites within hours.

And supporters are expected to accept it.

UEFA’s defence is familiar. Sponsors fund competitions. Broadcasters need space. Hospitality drives revenue. All true. But football crossed a line when the event surrounding the final became more important than the supporters inside it.

The optics are awful because fans can see it themselves.

A finalist gets 11,000 tickets while corporate packages costing thousands remain available. Genuine supporters scramble through ballots with lottery-like odds, while neutral areas fill with tourists taking photos during the warm-up.

And UEFA wonders why resentment grows.

Supporters are constantly called “the lifeblood of the game” until ticket allocations are discussed. Then they become an inconvenience to work around premium inventory.

Football did not become Europe’s dominant sport because sponsors created atmosphere. The noise, colour and emotion UEFA sells globally every season is generated by match-going supporters — the same people increasingly pushed aside at the biggest games.

The “neutral fan” concept is perhaps the biggest fiction of all. In theory it promotes access. In reality it fuels resale markets, inflated prices and thousands travelling ticketless out of desperation.

UEFA could change it tomorrow. Finalists could receive 70 per cent of the stadium combined. Corporate sections could shrink. Hospitality would still exist.

But that would mean sacrificing revenue.

And modern football has shown repeatedly which side wins that argument.
#AVFC #scfreiburg

[Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @timstillman_]

A small (and probably barely significant) semantic issue with the way the CL Final is being pitched as some sort of attack v defence fest. Arsenal are not a defensive team at all. They are good at defending. There is a difference. They dominate possession, territory and shots in the majority of games they play- no PL team has scored more goals in the league in 2026. I think you can question or analyse the amount of risk Arsenal take when they have the ball and territory, but I think this description leads to a wider misunderstanding about Arsenal being a team that parks the bus, when they completely and utterly do not. They are solid structurally but any average position map would dispel the notion of a low block team. (The left-back is Calafiori!)

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@CBSSportsGolazo @GuillemBalague Fantastic interview

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@NHL_On_TNT @BizNasty2point0 @AnsonCarterLA @HLundqvist Superb 👌

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@ally_begg I’m so sorry Ally. I didn’t realise you knew Alex. What a tragedy

[Windies Cricket @windiescricket]

10 years later and it still remains one of the most iconic days in T20 history!

Read More⬇️
https://t.co/f1tCbUoQmt

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@Edged_and_taken @MazherArshad @CRBrathwaite26 @irbishi This is a magical video too.

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@SinBinVegas Exactly right. It’s nice to see the offensive jump and pace but this team and especially this team D is just too error prone to be successful long term this way

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@SinBinVegas I’ve just woken up to this insane news. This is Madness. Pure panic and I feel so sad…Like suffering a death in the family such was the bond I felt with coach Cassidy just from listening to his press conferences and interviews over the last few years.

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@TDChrisG @SinBinVegas This was super. Well done both of you. Good passionate and informed debate. More of this please

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@SinBinVegas @dotvegasinc It’s good that you present these as takeaways as I agree with them in general. All the same I thought today’s performance (all be it from 3 behind) was better and gave me a little hope. Must carry some momentum from the second half of today’s game into Detroit.

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@SinBinVegas @dotvegasinc This team needs a re-set. The Olympic Break can’t come quick enough. You called it so right on the periscope last night. We need fresh bodies back and a fresh mindset.

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@SinBinVegas So sad to see him leave. A really solid D who gave the most fantastic interviews. The ruthlessness of the trade system always shocks me when moves like this happen. Wish him nothing but the best.

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

What a Game. What a Finish!!!!

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

JACK EICHEL CALLS GAME!!!

WHAT A ROLLERCOASTER 🎢

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@emilymkaplan @NHLBruins A terrific feature

[Huw Bevan @Huw_Bevan]

@timstillman_ Tim you have provided some of the most sensible and balanced comment post the match that I have read. Thank you