Seb Stafford-Bloor
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German Football correspondent, The Athletic.
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Tom
about 14 hours ago
Was the Terrace Triangle responsible for the win today? Who am I to say? But yes, yes it was 💙🤍💛
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Seb Stafford-Bloor
The Athletic | Football
about 17 hours ago
@sebsb.bsky.social
looks at a 'Geniestreich' from the Bayern Munich forward ⬇️
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Luis Diaz just scored from this angle. The XG? 0.03
Only one goal, which went in directly from a corner, has been scored from a tighter angle across Europe's top five leagues this season
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6789814/?source=bsky_uk
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FCU 2-2 FCB
about 20 hours ago
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Stickers, East Berlin.
2 days ago
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Iain Macintosh
2 days ago
The final ROUTE ONE of the week is here, looking ahead to the big one with Sky Sports News rising star Lola Katz Roberts, looking at Coventry with Simon from
@thatcovpod.bsky.social
and looking at Luka Vuskovic with
@sebsb.bsky.social
Listen now:
pod.fo/e/34d938
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Earlier this year, St.Pauli discovered that one of their most popular fan songs was entwined with Nazi rule. This is the story of that discovery, what it meant, and what happened next.
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
4 days ago
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7 days ago
Enjoying settling into dark autumnal dog walks with this beautiful terrace triangle, beautifully made by
@cstaffordbloor.bsky.social
! (Sleepy dog not included.)
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20 years ago, Alejandro Garnacho would have been in the Blazin’ Squad.
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Earlier this year, St.Pauli discovered that one of their most popular fan songs was entwined with Nazi rule. This is the story of that discovery, what it meant, and what happened next.
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
4 days ago
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St.Pauli have been dealing with the revelation that one of their most popular club songs was written by a Nazi propagandist. I went to meet the researcher who made that discovery.
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
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A left-wing German football club’s anthem and an ‘uncomfortable’ Nazi connection
Research into the origins of a song St. Pauli fans have loved for decades led to some difficult findings
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6776203/2025/11/05/st-pauli-anthem-nazis/?source=emp_shared_article
4 days ago
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St.Pauli have been dealing with the revelation that one of their most popular club songs was written by a Nazi propagandist. I went to meet the researcher who made that discovery.
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
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A left-wing German football club’s anthem and an ‘uncomfortable’ Nazi connection
Research into the origins of a song St. Pauli fans have loved for decades led to some difficult findings
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6776203/2025/11/05/st-pauli-anthem-nazis/?source=emp_shared_article
4 days ago
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Iain Macintosh
5 days ago
Due to door-related issues, today's ROUTE ONE is presented by Lola Katz Roberts as a result, listeners may notice that it sounds significantly better than usual. Join her and
@mattjfootball.bsky.social
(Everton) and
@sebsb.bsky.social
(BMG) right here:
pod.fo/e/34ac64
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An interview with Philipp Lahm, conducted across a day spent watching him coach and being back among the Bayern Munich fans at Allianz Arena. A great privilege to do this, for
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
A
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A day in the life of Philipp Lahm: Grassroots football, fan clamour and Bayern vs Dortmund
The Athletic spent the day with Philipp Lahm around Bayern Munich's game with Borussia Dortmund
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6759606/2025/10/30/philipp-lahm-day-in-life-bayern-dortmund/?source=emp_shared_article
6 days ago
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A brilliant Tom Bischof pass headlines this week's Bundesliga Briefing. Also: Horrendous refereeing in Köln. A squad renovation in Hoffenheim (+TLDR history) Gladbach win!
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
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Bundesliga Briefing: Bischof’s passing masterclass, Borussia Monchengladbach finally win
A look at what Bischof's incredible pass tells us about his future, Borussia Monchengladbach's relief, and the return of the tennis balls
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6773216/2025/11/04/bundesliga-bischof-pass-borussia-monchengladbach-win
5 days ago
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A brilliant Tom Bischof pass headlines this week's Bundesliga Briefing. Also: Horrendous refereeing in Köln. A squad renovation in Hoffenheim (+TLDR history) Gladbach win!
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
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Bundesliga Briefing: Bischof’s passing masterclass, Borussia Monchengladbach finally win
A look at what Bischof's incredible pass tells us about his future, Borussia Monchengladbach's relief, and the return of the tennis balls
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6773216/2025/11/04/bundesliga-bischof-pass-borussia-monchengladbach-win
5 days ago
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Seb Stafford-Bloor
The Totally Football Show
5 days ago
🇪🇺 EURO SHOW! 🇪🇺 Let
@acjimbo.bsky.social
,
@polballus.bsky.social
,
@julienlaurens.bsky.social
,
@jameshorncastle.bsky.social
&
@sebsb.bsky.social
get you nicely warmed up for the midweek UCL action 🏆 Liverpool v Real, PSG v Bayern - and everything in between from across 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹
pod.fo/e/34a5cb
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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson: Liverpool v Real & PSG v Bayern top midweek Champions League billing
Jimbo, Julien Laurens, Pol Ballús, Seb Stafford-Bloor and James Horncastle are all aboard for your latest Euro Edition - with a pretty mouthwatering MD4 upon us in the Champions League. We begin ...
https://pod.fo/e/34a5cb
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An interview with Philipp Lahm, conducted across a day spent watching him coach and being back among the Bayern Munich fans at Allianz Arena. A great privilege to do this, for
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
A
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A day in the life of Philipp Lahm: Grassroots football, fan clamour and Bayern vs Dortmund
The Athletic spent the day with Philipp Lahm around Bayern Munich's game with Borussia Dortmund
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6759606/2025/10/30/philipp-lahm-day-in-life-bayern-dortmund/?source=emp_shared_article
6 days ago
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Seb Stafford-Bloor
Ceylan Stafford-Bloor
7 days ago
Palace 🦅 or Spider-Man🕷️?
#cpfc
, on its way to London.
etsy.com/shop/forzafibres
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reposted by
Seb Stafford-Bloor
Ceylan Stafford-Bloor
7 days ago
That
#effzeh
kit’s giving Where’s Wally
#koehsv
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Seb Stafford-Bloor
Ceylan Stafford-Bloor
7 days ago
Can I hear a little commotion for the Ornamental Yarn Shelf though ✨
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Also: when the Premier League is bad, it is absolutely miserable. Egos and bullshit, crap football and terrible refereeing. It’s as unwatchable as Spurs were this evening.
8 days ago
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Only managed to see about an hour of the Tottenham game, but that didn’t include a single goalscoring opportunity.
8 days ago
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Seb Stafford-Bloor
Ceylan Stafford-Bloor
8 days ago
BIG no on that neon-green Gladbach kit
#fcspbmg
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Seb Stafford-Bloor
I spent a day with Philipp Lahm, to get to know one of the great players of his generation and someone on a mission during his life’s second act.
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
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A day in the life of Philipp Lahm: Grassroots football, fan clamour and Bayern vs Dortmund
The Athletic spent the day with Philipp Lahm around Bayern Munich's game with Borussia Dortmund
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6759606/2025/10/30/philipp-lahm-day-in-life-bayern-dortmund
10 days ago
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Bayer Leverkusen are reaping the benefits of Erik ten Hag's sacking.
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/676...
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Bayer Leverkusen and Kasper Hjulmand are reaping the benefits of Erik ten Hag’s sacking
Leverkusen sacked Erik ten Hag after three games. His arrival and quick exit has helped deal with the post-Xabi Alonso hangover
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6762515/2025/10/31/bayer-leverkusen-kasper-hjulmand-xabi-alonso/?source=emp_shared_article
9 days ago
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Seb Stafford-Bloor
Ceylan Stafford-Bloor
9 days ago
Double trouble, bound for Hesse. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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I spent a day with Philipp Lahm, to get to know one of the great players of his generation and someone on a mission during his life’s second act.
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
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A day in the life of Philipp Lahm: Grassroots football, fan clamour and Bayern vs Dortmund
The Athletic spent the day with Philipp Lahm around Bayern Munich's game with Borussia Dortmund
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6759606/2025/10/30/philipp-lahm-day-in-life-bayern-dortmund
10 days ago
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Seb Stafford-Bloor
Iain Macintosh
10 days ago
Want all the most interesting football stories in just ten minutes? Of course you do. We've got Lola Katz Roberts on Liverpool's unravelling season, we've got
@sebsb.bsky.social
on a historic Bayern campaign and Chris Jack on Rangers winning again. Listen here:
pod.fo/e/3476de
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Seb Stafford-Bloor
Archie Rhind-Tutt
10 days ago
👋Ich bin Teil der neuesten Folge von Bolzplatz. Überraschenderweise geht es um...Harry Kane. 😁
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlmf...
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Torjäger, Passgeber, Leader: Wie Bayerns Harry Kane immer besser wird | Bolzplatz | sportstudio
YouTube video by sportstudio fußball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlmf4HqTtvc
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Seb Stafford-Bloor
I spent the day with Philipp Lahm and found him living a different sort of post-football life For
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
10 days ago
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Seb Stafford-Bloor
Chris Weatherspoon
10 days ago
Four years ago today, Sunderland lost 5-1 at Rotherham United in L1. Now, they've beaten 'world champions' (I know) and sit fourth in PL
#SAFC
are a big deal again. All discussed on
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
pod w/
@aakinwo.bsky.social
@philhay.bsky.social
@sebsb.bsky.social
🎧:
t.co/Gj5ykfzhCe
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https://pod.fo/e/346ab1
https://t.co/Gj5ykfzhCe
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I spent the day with Philipp Lahm and found him living a different sort of post-football life For
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
10 days ago
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Chilly youth tournament, cosy terrace triangle (by the hand and needles of
@cstaffordbloor.bsky.social
)
11 days ago
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Stickers, Munich.
11 days ago
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Seb Stafford-Bloor
Iain Macintosh
12 days ago
Let's try that again with the correct tags, shall we? Brendan Rodgers walks, but who's really to blame? We ask
@barcajim3.bsky.social
host of
@rgcceltic.bsky.social
Who's Bayern's new wonderkid Lenny Karl,
@sebsb.bsky.social
? And how are Sunderland doing this Michael Graham?
pod.fo/e/345ee0
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reposted by
Seb Stafford-Bloor
The Totally Football Show
12 days ago
🇪🇺 EURO POD!🇪🇺
@acjimbo.bsky.social
,
@polballus.bsky.social
,
@sebsb.bsky.social
,
@jameshorncastle.bsky.social
&
@julienlaurens.bsky.social
assemble for... 🇪🇸 Clasico chaos 🇫🇷 10 goals in 2 games for PSG 🇮🇹 Tudor is no more 🇩🇪 No Kane goal?!! Karl makes headlines
pod.fo/e/3459ba
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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson: Bellingham shines in dramatic Clasico as Juve show Tudor the door
Jimbo’s got James Horncastle with him in the studio and Seb Stafford-Bloor, Pol Ballús and Julien Laurens in far flung corners of Germany and Spain for your weekly round up of European footballi...
https://pod.fo/e/3459ba
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This week’s Bundesliga briefing. Lennart Karl comes to life. Loris Karius’s revival with Schalke. Painting transformer stations in Augsburg.
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
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Bundesliga Briefing: Lennart Karl’s name is no longer being whispered at Bayern
The teenager followed up his midweek Champions League goal with an incredible strike in the Bundesliga at the weekend
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6753489/2025/10/28/bundesliga-briefing-lennart-karl-bayern-munich/?source=emp_shared_article
12 days ago
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a club go formal twice in the same sentence.
13 days ago
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Someone on my train has just sneezed seven times in a row and so much passive hate is now being directed towards him that I could warm my hands on it.
13 days ago
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Millerntor, St.Pauli.
13 days ago
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reposted by
Seb Stafford-Bloor
Tom
13 days ago
Mine made its debut at
@evertonstadium.com
yesterday. These are excellent - from the brilliant
@cstaffordbloor.bsky.social
's Forza Fibres (
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Forz...
) 🤗💙🤍💛
add a skeleton here at some point
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Long DB trip to Munich tonight, but… cosy braun-weiß terrace triangle from
@cstaffordbloor.bsky.social
13 days ago
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Nelson says:
13 days ago
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Why are the Premier League’s sporting directors never heard from in public? No press conferences, no mixed zones. Given how much power they yield, it’s an outdated convention that they should work in silence.
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...
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Can Premier League’s silent decision-makers learn from Bundesliga sporting directors?
The Premier League is a source of absolute fascination - and yet those who make the calls which determine a club’s direction rarely speak
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6696969/2025/10/12/premier-league-transfers-sporting-directors-silent
14 days ago
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There was no foul during any of those three corners; it was the offside that did for Everton.
14 days ago
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Johnson and Xavi Simons could function for Spurs. Xavi needs runners, rather than players cutting infield, so this should suit him more.
14 days ago
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Why are the Premier League’s sporting directors never heard from in public? No press conferences, no mixed zones. Given how much power they yield, it’s an outdated convention that they should work in silence.
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...
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Can Premier League’s silent decision-makers learn from Bundesliga sporting directors?
The Premier League is a source of absolute fascination - and yet those who make the calls which determine a club’s direction rarely speak
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6696969/2025/10/12/premier-league-transfers-sporting-directors-silent
14 days ago
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A tricky afternoon for Luka Vuskovic so far, who is having difficulty with Adam Daghim. A reminder of why he’s here; he has to be allowed to make mistakes and learn from them.
15 days ago
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HSV x Wolfsburg.
15 days ago
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Ceylan Stafford-Bloor
16 days ago
Terrace Triangle, on its way to London.
#COYG
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