When Deniz Undav becomes the answer, you have to wonder if you’re asking the right questions 🇩🇪 On the night German football became a joke @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Went to watch Brazil play for my first ever World Cup match, then obviously wrote about how disappointing it was 🇧🇷 Hoovers are not Joga bonito @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Went to watch Brazil play for my first ever World Cup match, then obviously wrote about how disappointing it was 🇧🇷 Hoovers are not Joga bonito @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Dispatch from the centre of the universe: New York @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Landed in New York yesterday, a city that feels absolutely drunk on sport between the Knicks and the World Cup Out here for the next six weeks covering England, among other things, for @observeruk.bsky.social - Brazil vs Morocco is first up

Sat down with Geoff Hurst last week, and he told me not to do drugs. Piece about his life as a living monument to English football’s greatest day @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Is Lionel Messi still good? My newsletter @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Spent an evening behind the scenes to understand how darts became the best sport on TV 🎯 Unbelievable work and skill goes into it - I tried to break the process down @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Joined @observeruk.bsky.social a year ago today, since when I’ve covered 14 sports across eight countries, including a Ryder Cup, away Ashes series, two grand slams and the Tour de France. It's ridiculously fun working with such incredibly talented people - next up is the World Cup! 🧵

Why Tottenham’s grand failure this season will change the Premier League forever @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Aston Villa’s Europa League title was their first major silverware in 30 years - on the madness of the night, the takeover of the city and what winning a trophy actually means #AVFC Piece from Istanbul @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Aston Villa’s Europa League title was their first major silverware in 30 years - on the madness of the night, the takeover of the city and what winning a trophy actually means #AVFC Piece from Istanbul @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Bryson DeChambeau's mission from God: how many languages can you dub golf YouTube videos into? @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Spent a few days at Badminton Horse Trials, trying to understand why riders are so willing to risk their lives for a sport so intent on hurting them Over 100,000 were there on Saturday, the second-highest attendance of any British sporting event this year READ: observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Basically every sport has tried to break China in the past 30 years So why has snooker managed it, and why does it matter? On the Wu Yize story and mapping out the sport’s renewed future 🇨🇳 @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Basically every sport has tried to break China in the past 30 years So why has snooker managed it, and why does it matter? On the Wu Yize story and mapping out the sport’s renewed future 🇨🇳 @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

The confusion of John Terry @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

We’ll always have the 95th minute… Trying to put the most mental 10 minutes of football I can remember into words gave me a headache, so can’t imagine how fans felt Piece from Spotland @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Speedrunning the road to relegation - Chelsea are repeating the defining failures of Tottenham’s decline into indignity My @observeruk.bsky.social newsletter, on Rosenior and what happens when a conscientious human meets the conscientious-human-eating machine observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Tottenham Hotspur in 2026: the closest you can get to watching a public hanging without access to the dark web or a flight to Tehran #COYS Read this week’s newsletter piece here, or subscribe to receive it every Thursday - shorturl.at/jPECL

Tottenham Hotspur in 2026: the closest you can get to watching a public hanging without access to the dark web or a flight to Tehran #COYS Read this week’s newsletter piece here, or subscribe to receive it every Thursday - shorturl.at/jPECL

It suits football’s powerbrokers to blame set pieces, ignoring that so much of the alienation/ numbness is caused by fans being emotionally and financially exploited This week’s newsletter piece on why, despite everything, football is still great @theobserveruk.bsky.social shorturl.at/b96Qw

West Ham’s severe and plausible future draws closer… @theobserveruk.bsky.social Whether they survive the drop or not, what evidence is there that Sullivan and Brady can oversee anything like a sustainable recovery? The game has passed them by #COYI observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

You can read me every Thursday in the revamped @observeruk.bsky.social Daily newsletter This week’s is on Drive to Survive - a propaganda vehicle about propaganda vehicles - the pestilence of access journalism and Netflix’s concerning approach to sport… observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Sean Dyche is just the latest victim of a Premier League owner’s guesswork and hope George Simms asks: is the solution to the mystery of avoiding relegation simply hire David Moyes? https://bit.ly/466Zqsb

Nottingham Forest hiring and firing Dyche begs a key question: what if most Premier League execs actually have no idea what they’re doing? #NFFC On Marinakis, whether Vitor Pereira is actually good and why every club just needs more Moyes @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Harry Brook: it started out on the piss, how did it end up like this? @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

The Aryna Sabalenka experience @theobserveruk.bsky.social Piece from a brilliant Australian Open women's final observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Turns out American athletes don't enjoy the full rogue state treatment - but they're going to have to get used to it @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Turns out American athletes don't enjoy the full rogue state treatment - but they're going to have to get used to it @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Spent the week watching Amanda Anisimova, to understand how a prodigy fell apart and put herself back together again A truly fascinating life and person @ObserverUK ➡️ Read here: url-shortener.me/95N9

BREAKING: Hearing reports that Elvis is, in fact, not dead... Went to Parkes, five hours into the Outback from Sydney, for their Elvis Festival - 25,000 fanatics in 40C On Elvis rugby, Elvis vow renewals and the lives of tribute artists Read - observer.co.uk/news/first-p...

BREAKING: Hearing reports that Elvis is, in fact, not dead... Went to Parkes, five hours into the Outback from Sydney, for their Elvis Festival - 25,000 fanatics in 40C On Elvis rugby, Elvis vow renewals and the lives of tribute artists Read - observer.co.uk/news/first-p...

The One Point Slam: Very Good Feels very rare to have a new thing in sport that people like, so sure it’ll get ruined soon… observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

The One Point Slam: Very Good Feels very rare to have a new thing in sport that people like, so sure it’ll get ruined soon… observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Jacob Bethell - let’s get carried away observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Half a length, half a length, half a length onward, all in the valley of Death were smashed for 500 observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Hold me Joe. Hold me while the world burns observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

If Bazball is dead, how come it still seems to drive Australians insane just the same? These are the Content Ashes, and there’s only one winner there (except the Noosa Tourism Board)… observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Bazball is dead. Long live Bazball. Piece from an absurd day at the MCG observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Bazball is dead. Long live Bazball. Piece from an absurd day at the MCG observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Cross disclosing his ADHD means three of the current PDC top 20 have publicly discussed their diagnoses (Wade, Cross and Noppert) Feels pretty unique across elite sport, especially when ADHD and darts should, in theory, go together like toddlers and fine glassware…

Tottenham: what’s the point? observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Went to Lakeside this week out of morbid curiosity, and came back understanding the truth about darts’ relationship with alcohol in 2025 🎯 observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Gianni Infantino: so close to the seat of power he can sniff it On football’s eminent exploitability and why any arbiter of a peace prize isn’t, by definition, politically neutral observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Went to Lakeside this week out of morbid curiosity, and came back understanding the truth about darts’ relationship with alcohol in 2025 🎯 observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

These skits are improving, at least it's feasible that Rio needs the draw process explained to him by four 10-year-olds, and even then doesn't get it...

Brisbane: The Charge of the Height Brigade observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Brisbane: The Charge of the Height Brigade observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Have spent a lot of time with ADHD footballers, but Mark Phillips might be the most interesting and most likely to actually change how the sport views neurodiversity Spent two hours with him recently @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...