Andrew MacDowall

Advisor & writer. Founding director, @TorosAdvisory. Former CEE correspondent @Guardian @FT @WPReview etc. Long-suffering #THFC & @Scotlandteam victim

[Catherine Benoist @benoistart]

#chasseurdebeauté

[Sports Financial Planner @SportsFinance]

This is more like it

Unclear which player they will move for next FC

[Cartografía Digital @digimaps]

⚽️ Todos los campeones del mundo comparten frontera terrestre (de alguna forma).

[90s Football @90sfootball]

On this day in 1996, Karel Poborsky scored this great goal against Portugal.

[Guy Walters 🇺🇦 🇻🇪 🇮🇷🇧🇾 @guywalters]

Just spent the past week travelling around central Europe on first class trains, which really don't cost very much. Vienna to Prague, for example, a trip of some 4 hours, is less than £50. The level of service and (relative) punctuality is just unimaginable in the UK.

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

Has Andy Burnham taken a tie with him to Westminster? I know it's not exactly the weather for ties, but surely there comes a moment when Burnham has to start wearing one again?

[Andrew MacDowall @andrewmacdowall]

"Global showpiece" @secondmentions

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

BREAKING Cape Verde fought back to earn a 2-2 draw with Uruguay in World Cup Group H as the African archipelago maintained their stunning unbeaten start at the global showpiece

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

In a few weeks time, Giorgia Meloni will meet her fifth British Prime Minister

[Jack The Watcher @TheWatcherPL]

🤔

[Andrew MacDowall @andrewmacdowall]

@stephengbrown @DPJHodges Because Steve Bray is an awful person.

[Andrew MacDowall @andrewmacdowall]

Steve Bray is just an awful person.

[Rupert Myers @RupertMyers]

The English speaking world should get to decide what the English names for countries are

[Andrew MacDowall @andrewmacdowall]

Andy Burnham should put this on all his campaign materials. "This is what a @FitzwilliamColl graduate can do for a country."

[Giuliano @Giuliano_Mana]

I think about this every single day.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

England v Croatia is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries have a UNESCO World Heritage Site named after a Roman emperor.

England has Hadrian’s Wall. Croatia has Diocletian’s Palace in Split.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography(ish)-based World Cup analysis.

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

C. S. Lewis to J. R. R. Tolkien, long before The Lord of the Rings or Narnia was published

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

“What’re you in for mate?”

“Cleaning a river without a permit. What about you?”

@EnvAgency is really plumbing new depths of malevolent uselessness here.

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

5 - Harry Kane has now scored the most penalties (excl. shootouts) in FIFA World Cup history (5).

Retake.

[Andrew MacDowall @andrewmacdowall]

This is wonderful.

[Colin Millar @Millar_Colin]

Cape Verde centre back Roberto 'Pico' Lopes has spent his entire career in Ireland, ignored a LinkedIn message from Cape Verde FA asking him to play for them because it was in Portuguese. A year later, they sent it in English. He accepted. An all-time great World Cup story.

[Michael Reid @michael_reid11]

Ryan Gravenberch assisting Virgil van Dijk is only the second ever World Cup goal scored and assisted by a Liverpool player, after Ian Callaghan assisted Roger Hunt for England against France in 1966.

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

The Causeway, Wiltshire Downs, Eric Ravilious, 1937. The original artwork is in the collection of @V_and_A. #Wiltshire