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[Hertford Town FC @HertfordTownFC]

LENE BURDEN RETAINED ✍️

The tricky midfielder will stay with us for the 26/27 season

#htfc #blues #hertfordtownfc

[Hertford Town FC @HertfordTownFC]

GOALLLL LENE BURDEN MAKES IT 6

Great finish from that man 😍

HT🔵6-0🔴FH | 95’

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him.

For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25.

Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely.

Here's where it gets interesting.

In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past.

Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him.

Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it.

Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube.

He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium.

Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius.

They're both wrong. It was a receipt.

He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine.

The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.

[Hertford Town FC @HertfordTownFC]

GOALL LENE BURDEN WE ARE LEVEL😍

HT🔵3-3🟢BT | 73’

[Hertford Town FC @HertfordTownFC]

GOAL LENE BURDEN FROM THE SPOT

AFC🔵0-3🟡HT | 74’

[Alfie @Aboflondon4]

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RT

[Live Snooker @Livesnooker]

☑️ World Seniors champ
☑️ Shoot Out champ

Not a bad 2025 for big AB of London town! 👑

#ClockIsTicking

[TNT Sports @tntsports]

ALFIE BURDEN WINS THE SHOOT OUT!! 🤯🔥
What a superb performance and what a night. 👏🎱

[WST @WeAreWST]

ALFIE BURDEN HAS DONE IT! 🏆

He only got the call to enter the tournament on Wednesday morning — now the Londoner is the #ShootOut champion and a ranking event winner for the first time in his career.

Burden defeats Stuart Bingham 63–8 in the final.

[Hertford Town FC @HertfordTownFC]

GOALLL LENE BURDEN FROM THE SPOT

Well done that man 😍

BT🟢0-2🔵HT | 17’

#htfc #blues #hertfordtownfc

[Champion Of Champions @ChampOfChamps]

✨ Alfie Burden completes the line up!

World Seniors Champion Alfie Burden will make his https://t.co/8cFuJP2xAD Champion of Champions debut next month 👊

#ChampOfChamps

🎟️ https://t.co/C8qfGQhA0O

[Hertford Town FC @HertfordTownFC]

✍️ We’re delighted to announce that midfielder Lene Burden has been signed for the 2025/26 season

#blues #htfc | @whatsonhert

[World Seniors Snooker Tour @WorldSeniors]

BURDEN COMPLETES EPSOM LINE-UP ✅

The popular Londoner and 2023 World Seniors Championship runner-up will compete in the @MrVegas_Casino World Seniors Snooker 900 at Epsom on Monday 30 December!

For tickets, please contact [email protected]

#SeniorsSnooker

[WST @WeAreWST]

THE DRAGON SLAYER!

Alfie Burden defeats Ding Junhui in Xi'an in a decider! 🔥

#XianGrandPrix | https://t.co/cMipSaKY3R

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

Justin Bieber x The Arsenal. 🤝

[Rihanna @rihanna]

since I clearly won’t be achieving my six pack til next summer, I switched my summer goal to matching my shoes to my panties! 🤷🏿‍♀️

[jnn @jenngaly]

Me + You + Shrek movies + Wingstop.
Think about it

[Kellie Bright is a Queen @KellieBrightLY]

Mood #EastEnders