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...

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...

“Saudi Arabia is definitely a better place than Wigan, Barnsley, Hildesheim... Have you seen Wigan? Now that’s bad for mental health.” Sat down with James Wade to talk ADHD, why ‘there’s nothing worse than a casual darts fan’, and his pond @observeruk.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4uavzx5m

“Saudi Arabia is definitely a better place than Wigan, Barnsley, Hildesheim... Have you seen Wigan? Now that’s bad for mental health.” Sat down with James Wade to talk ADHD, why ‘there’s nothing worse than a casual darts fan’, and his pond @observeruk.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4uavzx5m

The Donald Trump Peace Prize - today I feel through the looking glass @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

In the name of Serious Journalism, I've spent the last three weeks following professional ex-footballers round the country The future can betray you in infinite ways, but the past won't let you down... observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Wolves: very bad, very relegated 🟡⚫️ On the eminently sackable Vítor Pereira, Fosun’s managed decline and the return of everyone’s favourite Luis Figo garden gnome, Jorge Mendes. Welcome to the long winter observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

In the name of Serious Journalism, I've spent the last three weeks following professional ex-footballers round the country The future can betray you in infinite ways, but the past won't let you down... observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

The dark lord works in mysterious ways... On whether Mikel Arteta turned off Atletico's hot water, and the character he created for himself @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Dispatch from a mind-bending final day of the Ryder Cup. The greater the pain, the greater the glory observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

A magnificent article about the Ryder Cup - and Trump - by @georgesimms.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today. The best piece of journalism I've read on the sports pages in many years. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

West Ham’s issue was never ambition, but execution - this falls squarely on David Sullivan running the club badly Potter not doing his job well but Sullivan seems to avoid his actions having consequences #WHUFC observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

July has been a bit of a fever dream, so wanted to put my favourite pieces from it in one place 🧵 Dispatches from the Tour de France, the Open, Wimbledon, Lord’s and Silverstone below (and my favourite picture)

🚨Comunicado oficial: Thrilled to announce I’ve joined The Observer as a Sports Reporter - can’t wait to get started! Of course, I’ve loved every day with The i Paper and can’t thank the incredible team there enough New email 📩: [email protected]

Angus Leckonby is aiming to break two World Records on Sunday - fastest and youngest male with an intellectual disability to run a marathon An honour to tell his and his family’s ridiculously inspiring story 🎽 t.co/knOBTHFYXm

Not a surprise that men’s rugby has such a long way to go in understanding neurodivergence, but some of the grim details really are 🧠 'You're just a piece of meat': Inside rugby’s ADHD crisis inews.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

What this piece lets out of the bag is, whatever is driving the far/right's hatred of trans people it is absolutely, positively not a desire to protect women from sexual violence. They are happy to celebrate a perpetrator of sexual violence, so long as he shares their hatred of trans people.

Went to Twickenham yesterday for an hour with RFU CEO Bill Sweeney It was *interesting* inews.co.uk/sport/rugby-...