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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 8h
column on jude bellingham and the media. race is an issue, of course. but it's also the fact that bellingham has no time whatsoever for the core belief of english football: that england is the centre of the footballing universe

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England deserve a tide of goodwill, yet somehow Jude Bellingham is still a target | Jonathan Liew
It’s hard to disagree with Ian Wright when he suggests the midfielder has been subjected to a timeworn double standard
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column on jude bellingham and the media. race is an issue, of course. but it's also the fact that bellingham has no time whatsoever for the core belief of english football: that england is the centre of the footballing universe

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
England deserve a tide of goodwill, yet somehow Jude Bellingham is still a target | Jonathan Liew
It’s hard to disagree with Ian Wright when he suggests the midfielder has been subjected to a timeworn double standard
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November 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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England deserve a tide of goodwill, yet somehow Jude Bellingham is still a target | Jonathan Liew
England deserve a tide of goodwill, yet somehow Jude Bellingham is still a target | Jonathan Liew
It’s hard to disagree with Ian Wright when he suggests the midfielder has been subjected to a timeworn double standard Sir Alex Ferguson was there. Bryan Robson was there. Eric Cantona was there. The manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær was there, and yet even as these four club legends sold the dream of Manchester United to a 17-year-old from the Midlands, they could sense the elusiveness, the coldness, the drop of the shoulder. The nagging suspicion that, like so many defenders Jude Bellingham would later encounter, they too were grasping at pure air. “He had it planned out,” Solskjær would later remember. “He knew what he wanted. X amount of minutes in the first team. The most mature 17‑year‑old I’ve ever met in my life.” Though five years have passed since Bellingham turned down United for Borussia Dortmund, for me this is still the story that explains him best of all. The origin myth. This is what you all think I’m going to do. So I’m going to step that way instead. Continue reading...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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column on jude bellingham and the media. race is an issue, of course. but it's also the fact that bellingham has no time whatsoever for the core belief of english football: that england is the centre of the footballing universe

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
England deserve a tide of goodwill, yet somehow Jude Bellingham is still a target | Jonathan Liew
It’s hard to disagree with Ian Wright when he suggests the midfielder has been subjected to a timeworn double standard
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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this is roughly where I’m at right now. there are lots of ways to lose in Australia. for years england have chosen the slow, boring, psychologically devastating way. maybe give the rapid, spectacular, don’t-give-a-fuck way a fair crack first
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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(L-R): shitposting, my deadline, me, my editor
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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jake weatherald is going to get a 20-test career out of this collapse
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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bonus points if they declare on 517/1
November 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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steve smith, you scored 17 on your specialist subject, "getting hit by jofra archer"
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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this is how we play, mate.
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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just realised why TNT's coverage feels so weird but in a familiar way. it's exactly how eurosport would have done test cricket. affable. inoffensive. and the whole time you're expecting a sudden commercial break, a dramatic figure skating motif, and then an advert for cheese in three languages
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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the west australian newspaper said they couldn’t do it. and they were correct. honestly great call by the west australian newspaper
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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why can’t england bat
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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seems about as good a time as any to bump this www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Why the double standards on ‘leadership’ when it comes to Black players? | Jonathan Liew
Jordan Henderson is a great English leader. But he has been encouraged and applauded for the very same acts for which minority ethnic players are castigated and stigmatised
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November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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only another 0.2-0.5 sleeps to go until the ashes
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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man tries to blend ipad. one jew debates 500 nazis. bloke off youtube gets in the ring with anthony joshua. this week’s column on jake paul’s latest viral hoax, and the point at which pure sport collides with pure internet
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Jake Paul’s Joshua fight is all about fame and bluster, money and eyeballs | Jonathan Liew
Jake Paul’s Joshua fight is all about fame and bluster, money and eyeballs | Jonathan Liew
When a prankster meets a puncher it’s not about sport but an elaborate viral hoax that keeps us wanting more “If it’s all straight up and proper, you would worry that he takes this kid’s head off,” reckons Barry McGuigan. “Could get his jaw broke, his head smashed in, side of his head caved in, God forbid he could get a brain bleed,” says Carl Froch on his YouTube channel. “It could be the end of him. It could be his last day on Earth,” David Haye tells Sky News, with the sort of apocalyptic glare I try to give my children when they want to jump in a muddy puddle. Yes, this week everyone appears to be deeply concerned for the wellbeing of 28-year-old YouTube celebrity Jake Paul. The announcement of his fight against Anthony Joshua next month has generated a flood of foreboding prognoses, and fair enough. Stepping into the ring with a two-time world heavyweight champion when a) you’re not even a heavyweight, b) your record consists almost entirely of novices and geriatrics and c) you still fight like a marmoset trapped in an empty crisp packet: on some level, we all know how this might go. Continue reading...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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man tries to blend ipad. one jew debates 500 nazis. bloke off youtube gets in the ring with anthony joshua. this week’s column on jake paul’s latest viral hoax, and the point at which pure sport collides with pure internet
sport.theguardian.com Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com · 8d
Jake Paul’s Joshua fight is all about fame and bluster, money and eyeballs | Jonathan Liew
Jake Paul’s Joshua fight is all about fame and bluster, money and eyeballs | Jonathan Liew
When a prankster meets a puncher it’s not about sport but an elaborate viral hoax that keeps us wanting more “If it’s all straight up and proper, you would worry that he takes this kid’s head off,” reckons Barry McGuigan. “Could get his jaw broke, his head smashed in, side of his head caved in, God forbid he could get a brain bleed,” says Carl Froch on his YouTube channel. “It could be the end of him. It could be his last day on Earth,” David Haye tells Sky News, with the sort of apocalyptic glare I try to give my children when they want to jump in a muddy puddle. Yes, this week everyone appears to be deeply concerned for the wellbeing of 28-year-old YouTube celebrity Jake Paul. The announcement of his fight against Anthony Joshua next month has generated a flood of foreboding prognoses, and fair enough. Stepping into the ring with a two-time world heavyweight champion when a) you’re not even a heavyweight, b) your record consists almost entirely of novices and geriatrics and c) you still fight like a marmoset trapped in an empty crisp packet: on some level, we all know how this might go. Continue reading...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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petition for young fathers to do the scotland world cup song
November 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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It’s clearly a night to share @theguardian.com back page. World Cup, here we come!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏆
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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squires on the ashes, fuck yes @davidsquires.bsky.social

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David Squires on … the history, histrionics and heroism of the Ashes
Our cartoonist looks back at cricket’s biggest rivalry as we gear up for seven weeks of joy, despair and animosity
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November 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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very important insights here into one of the more overlooked aspects of climate change policy: who fixes what's broken, and how do you get them to pay for it

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What is Loss and Damage?
At its most fundamental, loss and damage refers to the gravest impacts wrought by climate change, ones that were not avoided or were, indeed, unavoidable.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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someone needs to set up an HMRC of cricket podcasts because this - by russell crowe - is about the most flagrant example of capping I’ve ever seen
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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going to sting quite hard when australia win the first test by 280 runs

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Josh Hazlewood ruled out of Ashes opener but Mark Wood fit to play for England
Michael Neser has been added to a first Test squad already missing Pat Cummins, while England’s Mark Wood is available after being cleared of hamstring injury
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November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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ashes greatest countdown reaches no11. be angry. be perplexed. wonder aloud how you can a) compare fred spofforth and adam gilchrist and b) come up with the wrong answer

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The 100 greatest men’s Ashes cricketers of all time: 100-11
Sport’s famous rivalry began in 1877 and since then 853 men have featured in Australia v England Tests. But who are the best of them? Our four-day countdown continues with Nos 100-11
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November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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a column on trent alexander-arnold, and how stories get told. increasingly modern players need advocates, a constituency, people to challenge narratives like - say - "he's a rat who can't defend".

so who will speak up for trent now? well, i'll give it a shot

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Alexander-Arnold is marginalised in Madrid but may not need a cult of Trent | Jonathan Liew
On the bench in Madrid and out of the England squad, the full-back has no one to fight his corner – so will have to do it himself
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November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
jonathanliew.bsky.social
a column on trent alexander-arnold, and how stories get told. increasingly modern players need advocates, a constituency, people to challenge narratives like - say - "he's a rat who can't defend".

so who will speak up for trent now? well, i'll give it a shot

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Alexander-Arnold is marginalised in Madrid but may not need a cult of Trent | Jonathan Liew
On the bench in Madrid and out of the England squad, the full-back has no one to fight his corner – so will have to do it himself
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM