During Covid there was a trend of football fans asking their their non-football-fan relatives to name an XI of players they knew. It was a fun, silly game, so I asked my mum to do one because I missed her.
Two years since her passing feels like a good time to share it. โค๏ธ
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani wants answers from FIFA after the World Cup organizer reversed a policy at the last minute, meaning fans are no longer permitted to bring plastic water bottles into venues this summer.
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Brian Cox speaks to @AdamCrafton_ for the first of The Athletic's special World Cup series, ๐ช๐ต๐ ๐ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐ณ๐๐น ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ
"I was a f***ing disaster as a player. The worst player ever!"
"Embarrassingly, whenever a team was picked, I was the last one called. I started to be known as, 'I suppose we'll have to have Cox', because I was disastrous. Sometimes, I didn't get picked at all."
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FIFA make last-gasp change to World Cup stadium rules: BANNING fans from bringing refillable plastic bottles, so fans must buy water in stadia
As of May, empty bottles permitted so fans could refill amid heat concerns. Not now
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@gazborangers Rustled a few feathers in January but otherwise made such a strong connection - clearly thinks about football in the right way, and gave us our best ever memories
Lo estabais esperando y aquรญ los tenemos.
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@acjimbo, @oilysailor, @Millar_Colin & @jacklang cover the quest for silverware๐
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๐ฆ Palace Euro glory with @ReubenPinder
๐ง Why do Barca want Gordon?
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Wharton was the best player at 0-0 as he created Crystal Palaceโs best chances to score.Wharton was again the best player at 1-0 as his quick passes after the ball was turned over gave his team crucial territory. He scans every inch of the pitch & executes his passes accordingly.
Cannot believe that Adam Wharton is being left at home for this World Cup. He should have been the first backup to Anderson in midfield at 6. There are game-states where England will be drawing or losing that Whartonโs incisive passing will be exactly what they need. Baffling.
Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life
โIt's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink againโ
โIt ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it causedโ
โI got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoopโ