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Max Rushden

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Recording the WORLD FAMOUS @footballweekly.bsky.social XMAS SPECIAL TOMORROW

Me @barryglendenning.bsky.social @jonawils.bsky.social @brewin.bsky.social

Any questions/compliments/seasons greetings etc

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December 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM

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Libero

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New Libero

Football’s long 90s

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Libero: Libero 076 | The Long Barclays... Is Football Trapped In The 90s?

Rory Smith is joined by John Brewin and James Horncastle, who – like the anxious middle-aged men they are – are seeking refuge in the past. But a past that informs our present in a way that is ...

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December 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM

John Brewin

@brewin.bsky.social

Someone doesn’t know the proper lyrics to The Beloved’s Hello.

December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM

John Brewin

@brewin.bsky.social

Sitting here and reminiscing about all those ethical budgets we had over 15 years of Tory rule. Really warm memories.

December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM

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Libero

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New Libero

Is football on TV about to change forever?

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Libero: Libero 074 | How You Watch Football Is About To Change All Over Again

Football is ultimately a TV show, however much we might want to see it differently. The story of the rise of football over the last 40 or so years inseparable from the changes in technology, not le...

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November 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM

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Chris Lepkowski

@chrislepkowski.bsky.social

Took my first year @mybcu.bsky.social sports journalism students on a trawl through the media coverage of Hillsborough this afternoon as part of their sports journalism landscapes module.

Even so many years on I find the fortitude of those families so incredible.

#JFT97

November 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM

John Brewin

@brewin.bsky.social

Enjoying Frank Lampard’s new direction.

November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM

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Tariq Panja

@tariqpanja.bsky.social

Timeline.

🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)

🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.

🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.

November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM

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Sachin Nakrani

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Bravo The Times, bravo.

November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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Musa Okwonga

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.

I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations |

Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga

www.theguardian.com

November 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM

John Brewin

@brewin.bsky.social

Rod or Billy up front for Scotland?

The Guardian's Football Weekly podcast @footballweekly.bsky.social · 28d

‘It’s Paul McCartney or Prince William isn’t it?’

What would happen if every country had to play their most famous person up front?

The Football Weekly panel try to answer that question.

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November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM

John Brewin

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Congratulations, Scotland

November 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM

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The Guardian's Football Weekly podcast

@footballweekly.bsky.social

‘It’s Paul McCartney or Prince William isn’t it?’

What would happen if every country had to play their most famous person up front?

The Football Weekly panel try to answer that question.

@maxrushden.bsky.social
@barneyronay.bsky.social
@jonawils.bsky.social
@brewin.bsky.social

November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM

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Libero

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New Libero

The final act of Cristiano Ronaldo?

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pod.fo/e/354d01

Libero: Libero 071 | Cristiano Ronaldo’s Search For A Happy Ending

Cristiano Ronaldo might not have done it exactly how he would have wanted — getting sent off while losing to Ireland — but the 40-year-old Al Nassr frontman is now on his way to a sixth World C...

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November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM

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The Guardian's Football Weekly podcast

@footballweekly.bsky.social

⚽ Football Weekly ⚽

🦜 Troy Parrott's hat-trick heroics sends Ireland into the World Cup playoffs.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England make it eight clean sheets out of eight.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Scotland and Wales have it all to play for.

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November 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM

John Brewin

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“Show us yer medals.”

November 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM

John Brewin

@brewin.bsky.social

Happy retirement, David Coverdale, one of the best frontmen and swordsmen to do it. youtu.be/GNTRgkd4gB0?...

Whitesnake - Fare Thee Well (Important Announcement) - Official 2025 Remix 'Forevermore'

YouTube video by Whitesnake TV

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November 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM

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Paul Hayward

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Why Ukraine, not Roman Abramovich, is the real victim of the three and half year freeze on the Chelsea sale money...
My commentary
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Roman Abramovich complains about his money, but he is winning, even as a pariah | The Observer

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November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM

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Adam Serwer

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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM

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Libero

@liberopodcast.bsky.social

New Libero

What’s eating Liverpool?

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pod.fo/e/3505f9

Libero: Libero 069 | Liverpool's Mo Salah Conundrum

Liverpool fans rejoiced when the club signed Mo Salah to a new contract. With Liverpool’s title defence in tatters, the team in chaos, have Liverpool got a Mo Salah problem? The Egyptian has lit ...

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November 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM

John Brewin

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This is sad news. His football book, The Mavericks, is a classic read - and re-read, too, which I did quite recently.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...