Great piece exploring connections between football and civic resistance in contemporary Hungary - with my modest contribution. 🫣

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

What can athlete activism, coercion, & cooperation mean under authoritarianism? Tom connects Hungarian former goalkeeper Péter Gulácsi’s support for LGBTQ+ rights in 2020, to CW sporting authoritarianism & personally, it means a lot rn. In solidarity, we resist. theblizzard.co.uk/shop/issues/...

That was an extraordinary footballing moment. Wowww Messi magic, Masch on the pitch, limbs, greats of Alba and Busquets on the floor in tears. Iconic, wow

Mascherano really got Miami playing in his image hasn’t he

My YT wrapped makes me look like the most dudebro of the dudebros

This is nearly enough to put me off the sport tbh

Wrote something for the latest edition of the Blizzard I did, about Peter Gulácsi and the ramifications of speaking out in Orbán’s Hungary

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How have we been ended this game, level with 4th bottom in the league at home, with 4 defenders, 2 strict DM’s and and no strikers on the pitch? Just dense management

Hahhhha, that is a phenomenal sub

So obvious

No player more suited to tucking their shirt in than Mount. Big fan

Mainoo for Cunha plz. Looks spent

Not great that our only notable attacking pattern of this first half has been crossing the ball from deep, rubbish angles

God no wonder we’ve been so bad

This is such a great thought charging piece on AI from @arealmattgreene.bsky.social ”if you wanted to invent a machine that would create the conditions for fascism to take root, you would invent ChatGPT.” lithub.com/on-the-rise-...

Truly phenomenal how perfectly this podcast overlaps so many of my interests. is that because I have no actual individualism? maybe

When did Matthew Hayden become Jim Ross ?

LSV calling

Stomach cramps perfectly timed here to watch an England batting collapse. Let’s go

How a female football coach in Syria became an icon of resistance, the former Swiss winger who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews, football and state control of public discourse in Hungary, the Libyan league in Milan, and more theblizzard.co.uk/shop/issues/...

Wrote something for the latest edition of the Blizzard I did, about Peter Gulácsi and the ramifications of speaking out in Orbán’s Hungary

Eto’o going full Eto’o today

Love that from Gyokeres ngl. See so many strikers back out of that these days (remember Martial backing out vs City and did my head in)

How long have Chelsea had goal music? Dear me

Red Bull turnaround since Horner left is kinda crazy

It’s so strange that we‘re 4 points off 2nd considering the lows we’ve had this season

🇻🇦 The Vatican is the only country in the world whose info we cannot find on live scores apps but instead get a weekly email with the results & league table. Pacao (Primary Catholic Artistic Worker Association of Charity & Mutual Aid) lead the way, while the Swiss Guard are yet to get off the mark.

Two shots on target in the Libertadores final. Like watching Spurs vs Spurs

A very depressing read

1,500 words on Mason Greenwood, 2 paragraphs on the rape. Strangely zero comments on the article. Important enough to give me a push notification, and front a centre of the United page. Good work, all round, NYT

Finally back in England. That's a shame

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

This is grim news, but entirely unsurprising considering the trajectory of thought in this country www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

The kinda mad thing is this isn't new. I remember Channel 4 reporting this about 10 years ago

If you *have* to play with three CB's can't you at least get one of the midfielders to play there?

Obi would be a much better option than Zirkzee based on this evidence

Bring back the international break

Think this is the worst performance of the season collectively, and the worst individual performance of the season from: Mbeumo, Yoro, Mazraoui, Zirkzee, Dorgu, Lammens Not to the say the rest have been much better, but those have been so far off it

The lack of intensity in everything we're doing is terrible. The press, the purpose with the ball. Half arsed

Not gonna write to the fa about it, but it really is silly that a strike of that little force on your own teammate merits a red card

How is that not a booking for Tarkowski?

These people don't believe in human spirit or a soul do they

Fully in love with all the Mongolians from Physical Asia

Incredible headline.

Just good stuff this init

This has been some international week and with some huge games left tonight too. And then March with those intercontinental playoffs. Woof

My goodness, what is happening here

Ngl, despite thinking @secondcaptains.bsky.social yday would the most painful experience of my life, man it was lovely to hear that raw joy. Branno in Bpest magic Also, made me think, with Orbán behind in polls, this might be the last competitive game he oversees as PM. And that's kinda beautiful