Peter Jobes
@pedrojaobinho.bsky.social
Marketer, writer, hopeless football addict
Approximate visualisation of the quest to get Football Manager 26 running on a MacBook if you want the right team names and badges:
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Approximate visualisation of the quest to get Football Manager 26 running on a MacBook if you want the right team names and badges:
Awfully impressive for Spurs to celebrate their return to the Champions League by playing like they have a European hangover
August 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Awfully impressive for Spurs to celebrate their return to the Champions League by playing like they have a European hangover
From a relegation playoff in December to a 10-point lead at the top of K League 1 just seven months later. Gus Poyet's transformation of Jeonbuk shows that the journeyman manager may have found his spiritual home in Jeonju.
Gus Poyet and the Jeonbuk Juxtaposition
Just seven months ago, Jeonbuk were staring relegation in the face. Now they’re 10 points clear at the top of the K League and unbeaten in 20 games.
open.substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
From a relegation playoff in December to a 10-point lead at the top of K League 1 just seven months later. Gus Poyet's transformation of Jeonbuk shows that the journeyman manager may have found his spiritual home in Jeonju.
Davie Selke Cumartesi
July 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Davie Selke Cumartesi
Taking stock of a Club World Cup with plenty of talking points
10 Things We’ve Learned From the Club World Cup
FIFA’s billion-dollar circus is about to leave town, and it’s time to take stock of everything we’ve learned and what it means for football as a whole.
belowthecurva.substack.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Taking stock of a Club World Cup with plenty of talking points
Why Uzbekistan’s World Cup qualification finally banished 20 years of heartache
Uzbekistan’s World Cup Qualification Lays the Ghosts of 2005’s Injustice to Rest
The qualification of Uzbekistan for the 2026 World Cup wasn’t only deserved; it was the moment of glory that they’d been infamously robbed of 20 years ago.
open.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Why Uzbekistan’s World Cup qualification finally banished 20 years of heartache
Certainly wasn’t mentally prepared to go back to work today after the double whammy of a holiday AND losing the CONCACAF Champions Cup final last night on Football Manager.
June 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Certainly wasn’t mentally prepared to go back to work today after the double whammy of a holiday AND losing the CONCACAF Champions Cup final last night on Football Manager.
Lionel Messi is showing at the Club World Cup that he’s still an irresistible force, even if hope is beginning to overtake expectation.
The Bittersweet Experience of Lionel Messi’s Miami Years
The Atomic Flea is still rebelling against the dying of the light, but expectation has slowly given way to hope for the 21st Century’s greatest showman.
open.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Lionel Messi is showing at the Club World Cup that he’s still an irresistible force, even if hope is beginning to overtake expectation.
For this week's article, I've looked at whether the Club World Cup, or Gianni Infantino's bid to make a footballing Wrestlemania, could actually be fun to watch after all.
Why the Club World Cup is the Best Competition That Football Didn’t Need
Don’t look now, but FIFA’s upcoming Club World Cup might actually be the start of something beautiful.
open.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
For this week's article, I've looked at whether the Club World Cup, or Gianni Infantino's bid to make a footballing Wrestlemania, could actually be fun to watch after all.
Currently listening to someone loudly playing Nussun dorma on the train in possibly the most high brow act of noise pollution I’ve experienced on the Underground
May 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Currently listening to someone loudly playing Nussun dorma on the train in possibly the most high brow act of noise pollution I’ve experienced on the Underground
Nagging feeling I’ve seen this movie before
November 23, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Nagging feeling I’ve seen this movie before