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-...

That will go down as one of the iconic British sporting achievements 🎯 Luke Littler is world champion at 17, and the future is now his plaything ✍️Report from Ally Pally inews.co.uk/sport/luke-l...

That will go down as one of the iconic British sporting achievements 🎯 Luke Littler is world champion at 17, and the future is now his plaything ✍️Report from Ally Pally inews.co.uk/sport/luke-l...

This shouldn't be happening. This doesn't happen. But it is. Luke Littler is back in the World Darts Championship final, at still just 17 - report from Ally Pally 🎯 inews.co.uk/sport/luke-l...

And on the strange affliction affecting darts fans and beyond - going Bunting mental 🤯 How hypnotherapy and heavier darts saved the career of Luke Littler’s World Championship semi-final opponent #LGBM inews.co.uk/sport/stephe...

From Ally Pally last night, on the return of the Old Luke Littler and a sumptuous day of darts 🎯 inews.co.uk/sport/luke-l...

If you want to know everything Luke Littler has been up to ahead of his first World Championship game tonight - look no further 🎯

Luke Littler is neither boring nor all about kebabs - he’s Marcus Aurelius in Under Armour 🧠 Spoke to him recently and tried to work out what makes the Nuke tick after his world has been upended in 12 months 🎯 inews.co.uk/sport/luke-l...

Safia Middleton-Patel has been dropped and singled out by former clubs all because she is autistic. After making her Manchester United debut last week, she explains why she continues to advocate on a topic that remains taboo. 👇 shesaballer.co.uk/manchester-u...

🎯 Won the Premier League Darts at 17 🎯 Named Google's most searched athlete in the UK 🎯 Earned £900,000 in prize money @georgesimms.bsky.social explains why Luke Littler deserves to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 👇

Luke Humphries isn’t the world No 1 darts asked for, but he’s the one it needs - and Luke Littler needs him too Piece from the first night of the world champs at Ally Pally 🎯 inews.co.uk/sport/darts-...

Luke Humphries told me darts will become the UK’s second biggest sport - but why stop there? Spoke to a range of leading figures in the sport about its plan for world domination, the future of Ally Pally, the expiring Sky deal and Luke Littler 🎯 inews.co.uk/sport/other/...

He has to go, blud. Ange Postecoglou's Spurs vision is beautiful in principle but chaotic and imperfect in practice - they're chasing a high they'll never reach and should move on asap. The era of tactical idealism is officially over. Match analysis below. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

He has to go, blud. Ange Postecoglou's Spurs vision is beautiful in principle but chaotic and imperfect in practice - they're chasing a high they'll never reach and should move on asap. The era of tactical idealism is officially over. Match analysis below. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Shock news!! Football has an overwhelming homophobia, biphobia and transphobia problem, and Sam Morsy not wearing an armband is the tip of a grim iceberg This is where the game is on LGBT+ rights and what it can do to improve inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Thanks to @georgesimms.bsky.social for covering this topic for @ipapersport.bsky.social My view: “What we should be thinking about is the impact this has on particularly #LGBTQ+ young people, wondering whether they have a place in football, whether teammates would accept them.” #RainbowLaces

Shock news!! Football has an overwhelming homophobia, biphobia and transphobia problem, and Sam Morsy not wearing an armband is the tip of a grim iceberg This is where the game is on LGBT+ rights and what it can do to improve inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Zambia striker Barbra Banda is at the centre of a misinformation storm after being named BBC Women's Footballer of the Year. So what are the facts? ✍️ @georgesimms.bsky.social

Barbra Banda has become the lightning rod for a new sporting gender row, littered with misinformation and malintent I've dived into it all to find the facts about the 2024 BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 🔎 inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

The i Paper’s team of sports writers are now on Bluesky! 🦋 You can connect with them here via this Starter Pack…👇

Zero mentions of neurodiversity or any neurodivergent conditions (ADHD, ASC, OCD etc) in the FA's newly announced EDI strategy for 2024-28 Yet another example of football not even realising it has a fundamental neurodiversity crisis to address - examples below🧵

In a perfectly sane press release, the gigabrains behind the Enhanced Games (the doping Olympics) have declared war on *the passage of time*…

Ahead of a hoped X exit, setting up on here For a taste of what I do, here’s today’s chat with Charlie Austin, the first newspaper interview with a Premier League player about their ADHD 🧠 Great on football’s neurodiversity crisis and his diagnosis making him better inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

'Welcome to hell' A long read on football in the occupied West Bank, Palestine. Thanks to those who shared their stories - on stadiums tear-gassed and bulldozed, friends killed and careers destroyed. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

As it's a new start: This season I am going watch a home game, and write a separate detailed piece, on each of the 92 clubs in the Football League. You can catch up with all 33 clubs I've visited so far on link below, and yes I'm having the time of my life. inews.co.uk/topic/doing-...

Ahead of a hoped X exit, setting up on here For a taste of what I do, here’s today’s chat with Charlie Austin, the first newspaper interview with a Premier League player about their ADHD 🧠 Great on football’s neurodiversity crisis and his diagnosis making him better inews.co.uk/sport/footba...