Dominic Fifield

Senior writer turned commissioning editor @TheAthleticFC. Previously spent 20 years at the Guardian and Observer newspapers

[Dominic Fifield @domfifield]

“Why Vince? I’ve waited all my life to talk about this…”

🎶Billy Corkhill, Vince Hilaire
Freddie Flintstone and Fred Astaire🎵

An interview with Jon Marsh (@deepoking) of The Beloved on Hello, #CPFC and how a Palace icon ended up in a cult hit song

https://t.co/0Yy8RXOQQo

[Paul Newman @Paul_Newman66]

Emilio Gay has played for Italy and might have represented West Indies — but will debut for England at Lord’s https://t.co/ILA5AaypqS

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

The extraordinary level of detail in Southampton’s orchestrated spying operations have been revealed, including deleting a LinkedIn account and obtaining CCTV training footage from a non-league ground.

It was proposed that Southampton’s media team delete a photo from their site of Eckert winning a Manager of the Month prize with Southampton’s analyst William Salt, the person tasked with spying on Middlesbrough, among those in the background.

“𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗖𝗧𝗩 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 (𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗻) 𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗲’𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗜𝗻 𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿,” one message read.

@PJBuckingham has the details — free to read ⬇️

https://t.co/1cuRx226qW

[Nick Miller @NickMiller79]

We're running extracts from The Soccer 100, the book put together by @domfifield and written by a bunch of us.

Among others, I wrote the profile for Ronaldo Nazario, about his season at Barcelona and how we classify greatness.

Free to read

https://t.co/4V5up2gnt7

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Forty-eight nations, each with a distinct football culture.

The fans who believe their team is cursed.
The country where early adopters were ridiculed and abused.
The supporters who will bring 'the whip' with them.
The nation where football has united the people when all else has failed.

Over recent months, The Athletic has been speaking to supporters of every team that will compete at this summer's World Cup to explore each one's rich and diverse football culture.

From Algeria to Argentina, Canada to Curacao, the Netherlands to New Zealand and all other corners of the globe, this new series takes in traditions, psychology, food, history and much more.

Welcome to The Language of Soccer.

🔗 https://t.co/38GZcz6npe

[Matt Davies-Adams @MattDaviesAdams]

On today’s @TheAthleticFC we chatted about #CPFC’s Conference league win and what it means for the future of @CPFC

With @MattWoosie and @domfifield

Meanwhile, we’re live with today’s show…

Audio: https://t.co/JH6VBZm0Mk

[matthew j i wood design @matthewjiwood]

Crystal Palace European Champions

As a Palace fan it feels like I'm losing my grip on reality

Get 10% off until midnight with the discount code:
THE-EAGLES-EUROPEAN-CHAMPIONS

🛒: Link in comments below 🔽

#CPFC #Eagles @HLTCO @FYPFanzine @ThePalaceWay @TCPalacePod @CEO4TAG @domfifield @BobbyManzi

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

The story of Crystal Palace's tumultuous season and Oliver Glasner's farewell:

🔵 Bridges rebuilt at a Soho restaurant
🔴 The players' mid-season regroup
🔵 How the Conference League galvanised the group
🔴 The role of Paddy McCarthy
🔵 Leipzig, redemption, victory

A manager who might have left under a cloud mid-campaign exits instead having claimed a third piece of silverware in 12 months. He departs in glory.

📝 @MattWoosie

FREE READ: https://t.co/dq3vzheSM8

[Steve Parish @CEO4TAG]

Champions of Europe !

🦅❤️💙🦅

Congratulations to Oliver, to the staff, as well of course the players .

Huge thank you to the fans for the incredible support, the town has been a carnival and the stadium was simply electric - You are the best .🦅

[Dominic Fifield @domfifield]

@jruscavage Thank you!

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

As part of our buildup to the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, we are publishing excerpted chapters from The Soccer 100, @TheAthleticFC's definitive book on the 100 greatest players of all time, courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers.

The 10 players we will feature are the highest-ranked World Cup winners of our 100, starting today with the man ranked 20th in our full list, and the greatest ever to wear the England shirt.

@OliverKay on Bobby Charlton and how he was changed by the Munich air disaster.

Free to read: https://t.co/TJZFTwQ4Rz

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Jean-Philippe Mateta's campaign has become a story of redemption.

This season had threatened to veer away from the forward as injury and an aborted mid-winter transfer to Milan appeared to have wrecked momentum at precisely the wrong time. But it has been transformed over recent weeks.

Now, with bridges rebuilt at Crystal Palace, he will go into a first major European final on Wednesday night as Oliver Glasner's side take on Rayo Vallecano in the UEFA Conference League in Leipzig, having already earned himself a place in an impressive France squad who will travel to the World Cup hoping to go one better than they managed as beaten finalists in 2022.

@MattWoosie charts the striker's remarkable recovery.

🔗 https://t.co/NnDTNEJKOS

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Winning the title will be seen internally at Arsenal — and by some outside observers — as the culmination of six-and-a-half years’ work, not one season’s corner kicks. But that they effectively clinched it with a header from a corner against already-relegated Burnley feels emblematic.

Will Mikel Arteta care that Arsenal have not made neutrals glad? Probably not.

Will he and Arsenal evolve from here? Probably.

But reputations, deserved or otherwise, endure and can taint memory.

@mwalker2771 talks style, from Don Revie's 1960s Leeds United to Johan Cruyff's Netherlands, and asks how we remember.

https://t.co/5AaWZBiH5G

[James Wallace @Jimbo_Cricket]

Real pleasure to spend some time with Joe Root and talk about life on and off the field 🏏

For @TheAthletic | @nytimes

@root66

https://t.co/6Y2e808d6G

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

“Unai Emery, mate… genius.”

After Aston Villa won the Europa League - their first trophy in three decades - @J_Tanswell tells the inside story of how their season was turned around by a manager who is now immortalised in club folklore.

▪️ Crucial talks with Morgan Rogers
▪️ Complete faith from hierarchy
▪️ Doubling down on principles
▪️ Flight times changed by Unai Emery
▪️ Minimal celebrations after Champions League qualification
▪️ Extra player bonus for Europa League win

🔗 https://t.co/gsyTZ3YIWw

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

“This is not how it was supposed to be.

“This is not how the most gripping Scottish title race in two generations was meant to end, with Celtic fans on the pitch confronting Hearts’ beaten and dejected players and with sufficient chaos around the two dugouts for referee Don Robertson to effectively stop the match without blowing a final whistle.

“Hearts manager Derek McInnes had predicted ‘bedlam’, but not like this.”

From the “carnage” ahead of Hearts’ 2-1 win over Hibernian to Daizen Maeda's decisive late strike which sealed Celtic's fifth title in a row.

This is the story of the Split in the Scottish Premiership.

✍️ @mwalker2771

FREE TO READ: https://t.co/F29SQ3oaRW

[Paul Newman @Paul_Newman66]

Lancashire and Middlesex: How county cricket’s fallen giants turned mutinous https://t.co/30sZACGPH9

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

For once, Oliver Glasner could shift his focus and listen to the noise spilling out from every corner of Selhurst Park. He knew his Crystal Palace team had done what they needed to do on the pitch and he could simply take in the moment.

This was the moment Palace reached the UEFA Conference League final. Selhurst Park had not witnessed anything of the like in its 102-year history.

✍️ @MattWoosie

🔗 https://t.co/J9I2ssQQuc

[Jacob Tanswell @J_Tanswell]

Interview with Lee Child, the author of the Jack Reacher series:

Villa players used as character-names in Reacher (John McGinn as national security advisor), other Villa "Easter Eggs", "falling in love" with #AVFC 64 years ago and more: @TheAthleticFC

https://t.co/EjiHQEdRaZ

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

This is the making of Michael Olise, a unique kid who became a football genius:

📈 A football IQ way above his peers at the age of six
🔟 Putting the No 10 shirt on before the line-up had been announced
🧠 Why coaches had to rethink how to manage him
🔵 The reasons spells at Chelsea and Manchester City did not work

@TBurrows16 & @stujames75

🔗 https://t.co/zbnjCW5MJM

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Keith Andrews was favourite to be the first Premier League manager to lose his job this season following his elevation from set-piece coach to head coach at Brentford.

Now, with a few games to play, the club are level on points with west London neighbours Chelsea and Fulham - and Andrews is in consideration for manager of the year.

He talks exclusively with @OliverKay about Brentford, set plays, authenticity and the “bus stop in Hounslow” that could compete in Europe next season.

https://t.co/sHueMNn8JK