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So excited to see our Grassroots GOATs series start this week! 🐐
First up is Ahmed Assem, who has given amateur football a huge boost in Egypt through AFC Vikings, creating a community from which so many people benefit. You can read it for free here ⤵️
https://t.co/rRWxyXDoYp
And the winner is @TheAthleticFC - an unstoppable force that is proving extremely popular among the matchgoing public.
Congratulations to everyone at The Athletic!
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Great write up of Harry Lawson’s amazing film here. I was happy to contribute an essay and poem to the accompanying publication ‘Millwall On the Page’. Catch it at Chemist Gallery, Loampit Hill, for another couple of days.
Charly Musonda was the #CHE wonderkid who had the world at his feet + scored on his first senior start for the club
Yet his career was cruelly blighted by a knee injury that ruled him out for three years
Now playing in Cyprus, he tells me his story ⬇️
https://t.co/w945uAZJWL
🥅 Putting the nets up at 7am
🧺 Washing the kit
🍶 Filling up the water bottles
Over 13 million people play grassroots football in the UK alone, but there’s invariably always someone who has helped to make the game happen.
We want to hear about your Grassroots GOAT! ⬇️
There's often that one person at every football club who makes the game happen – and we want to hear about them...
Tell us about your Grassroots GOAT, and have their story told on The Athletic by some of our award-winning journalists. 🐐
not often you can specifically credit one reporter with making something happen, but it is clear that absent Crafton's reporting, they were bringing Greenwood back
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The Briefing, a column every Monday on three big questions from the weekend.
🔴Chelsea, Liverpool & the Caceido mess
⚪️Punishing Martinez properly would be better than fiddly rule changes
🔴Will Postecoglu lead the way on head injuries?
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