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This weekend Barney Ronay wrote a piece ostensibly about the clear links between Man City's owners and the RSF - links that should be scrutinised - but his real focus was people who oppose the genocide in Palestine. He regards these people as a "hive mind" who baselessly "despise" Israel.
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This weekend Barney Ronay wrote a piece ostensibly about the clear links between Man City's owners and the RSF - links that should be scrutinised - but his real focus was people who oppose the genocide in Palestine. He regards these people as a "hive mind" who baselessly "despise" Israel.
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column on robbie keane www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
column on robbie keane www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I've spent my life arguing against all football fans being tarred with the same brush, but to not even acknowledge that Maccabi Tel Aviv's far-right fans posed a threat to public order, and Birmingham's Muslims in particular, is next-level racist gaslighting
I never thought being pro-football-hooligan would become a mainstream political position in Britain but here we are.
October 17, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I've spent my life arguing against all football fans being tarred with the same brush, but to not even acknowledge that Maccabi Tel Aviv's far-right fans posed a threat to public order, and Birmingham's Muslims in particular, is next-level racist gaslighting
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A political-media class capable of colluding in genocide has *already proven* itself capable of the dehumanisation of Others that can sustain fascism at home. Aimé Césaire wasn't kidding about the imperial boomerang.
The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps.
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
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"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
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August 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
A political-media class capable of colluding in genocide has *already proven* itself capable of the dehumanisation of Others that can sustain fascism at home. Aimé Césaire wasn't kidding about the imperial boomerang.
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Matthew Syed exists solely to flatter the intelligence of men who read fewer than five books a year, all bought at airports, with pieces expressing utterly mundane establishment attitudes neatly packaged as bold contrarian wisdom.
August 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Matthew Syed exists solely to flatter the intelligence of men who read fewer than five books a year, all bought at airports, with pieces expressing utterly mundane establishment attitudes neatly packaged as bold contrarian wisdom.
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this is stadio!
so glad this is finally out there. featuring steven camden aka polarbear on words, duval timothy and yu su on music, the stadio community and some of our favourite people.
if you'd like to get involved, join the new era of stadio at patreon.com/stadio
youtu.be/XCw27DskYRw?...
so glad this is finally out there. featuring steven camden aka polarbear on words, duval timothy and yu su on music, the stadio community and some of our favourite people.
if you'd like to get involved, join the new era of stadio at patreon.com/stadio
youtu.be/XCw27DskYRw?...
This is Stadio
YouTube video by Stadio
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August 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
this is stadio!
so glad this is finally out there. featuring steven camden aka polarbear on words, duval timothy and yu su on music, the stadio community and some of our favourite people.
if you'd like to get involved, join the new era of stadio at patreon.com/stadio
youtu.be/XCw27DskYRw?...
so glad this is finally out there. featuring steven camden aka polarbear on words, duval timothy and yu su on music, the stadio community and some of our favourite people.
if you'd like to get involved, join the new era of stadio at patreon.com/stadio
youtu.be/XCw27DskYRw?...
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I know it might seem strange to write about Palestinian food right now but as Palestinian culture and heritage is being erased, these brilliant restaurant, café and bakery owners in London are fighting back through food. Please support them all. www.cntraveller.com/preview/stor...
Palestinian restaurants, cafés and bakeries in London to support
There has never been a more important time to highlight Palestinian food
www.cntraveller.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I know it might seem strange to write about Palestinian food right now but as Palestinian culture and heritage is being erased, these brilliant restaurant, café and bakery owners in London are fighting back through food. Please support them all. www.cntraveller.com/preview/stor...
Really wish I remember where he did this. Aaaaah man.
I don’t think I’ll ever recover from David Ornstein pronouncing the Black Arsenal fan terminology – ‘sign da ting’, as “sign datting”. Why didn’t he practise it at least, relax his mouth muscles a little?
July 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Really wish I remember where he did this. Aaaaah man.
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I want the manager asked about this in every press conference and interview all season, no matter how many times he offers no comment.
July 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I want the manager asked about this in every press conference and interview all season, no matter how many times he offers no comment.
Diogo Jota came across as warm, well rounded and unpretentious. Beyond that, he was fantastic to watch. An exhilarating, multifunctional forward who could do everything and played with scary intent. His near post finishing was pretty unrivalled too. I’ll miss him.
July 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Diogo Jota came across as warm, well rounded and unpretentious. Beyond that, he was fantastic to watch. An exhilarating, multifunctional forward who could do everything and played with scary intent. His near post finishing was pretty unrivalled too. I’ll miss him.
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Diogo Jota, Liverpool and Portugal footballer, dies aged 28 in car crash
Diogo Jota, Liverpool and Portugal footballer, dies aged 28 in car crash
It is understood that Jota and his brother were travelling in a car that came off a road in the province of Zamora
The Liverpool forward Diogo Jota has been killed in a car accident in Spain. He was 28, a father of three young children and had married his long-term partner, Rute Cardoso, less than two weeks ago.
The tragic news was first reported in Portuguese media. It is understood that Jota and his brother, 26-year-old André, were travelling in a car that came off a road in the province of Zamora.
More details soon … Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Diogo Jota, Liverpool and Portugal footballer, dies aged 28 in car crash
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Sending our love to Diogo and André's family, friends, teammates and fans.
Such devastating news.
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Such devastating news.
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July 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Sending our love to Diogo and André's family, friends, teammates and fans.
Such devastating news.
💔
Such devastating news.
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Inter's entire revenue (£327m) is not much over half of PSG's last reported wage bill (£564m), and it's showing...
May 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Inter's entire revenue (£327m) is not much over half of PSG's last reported wage bill (£564m), and it's showing...
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a column on jordan henderson, and the double standards of English football’s leadership discourse
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
a column on jordan henderson, and the double standards of English football’s leadership discourse
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Another piece @jonathanliew.bsky.social wrote as his peers salivated over the idea of building the entire England team Phil Foden, a player they could all see more clearly than Bukayo Saka.
www.theguardian.com/football/art...
www.theguardian.com/football/art...
Star man Saka’s consistent brilliance makes him rock for England and Southgate | Jonathan Liew
Played out of position against Slovakia, made to survive on his wits, the winger proved Mr Dependable once again
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Another piece @jonathanliew.bsky.social wrote as his peers salivated over the idea of building the entire England team Phil Foden, a player they could all see more clearly than Bukayo Saka.
www.theguardian.com/football/art...
www.theguardian.com/football/art...
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For @tribunemagazine.bsky.social. I went to find out why, despite strong grassroots support for sanctions against Israel, and a live investigation, FIFA’s response has been muted. With input from Bassil Mikdadi and others.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/pale...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/pale...
Palestine vs. FIFA
Palestinian football has been at a standstill since October 2023, and now campaigners are demanding that FIFA sanctions Israel's FA. Does the organisation’s failure to do so make a mockery of its own ...
tribunemag.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
For @tribunemagazine.bsky.social. I went to find out why, despite strong grassroots support for sanctions against Israel, and a live investigation, FIFA’s response has been muted. With input from Bassil Mikdadi and others.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/pale...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/pale...
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Tragic if some potential future Zarah Sultana or Faiza Shaheen read this and thought "maybe I shouldn't aspire to leadership or elected office. Maybe I should stay in the background and not cause problems for the movement"
Obviously that's not what she meant to convey here but its a plausible effect
Obviously that's not what she meant to convey here but its a plausible effect
March 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Tragic if some potential future Zarah Sultana or Faiza Shaheen read this and thought "maybe I shouldn't aspire to leadership or elected office. Maybe I should stay in the background and not cause problems for the movement"
Obviously that's not what she meant to convey here but its a plausible effect
Obviously that's not what she meant to convey here but its a plausible effect
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I don't want to dunk on Ash Sarkar. What I will say, just in the spirit of constructive discussion, is that there's a tension between this paragraph in her latest article, and the subclause at the very start of the next paragraph.
March 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I don't want to dunk on Ash Sarkar. What I will say, just in the spirit of constructive discussion, is that there's a tension between this paragraph in her latest article, and the subclause at the very start of the next paragraph.
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so often the people in a radical space who have done the work or have the most interesting things to say are the ones least likely to be blabbing their mouth off.
February 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
so often the people in a radical space who have done the work or have the most interesting things to say are the ones least likely to be blabbing their mouth off.
Kudus has all the ability. Gabriel was attempting to move him a little while ago and simple couldn’t. Strange he only decides to play this well three times a season.
February 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Kudus has all the ability. Gabriel was attempting to move him a little while ago and simple couldn’t. Strange he only decides to play this well three times a season.
“A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped The Modern Game” is available from: caricom.uk/print
February 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM
“A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped The Modern Game” is available from: caricom.uk/print
“A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped The Modern Game” is available from: caricom.uk/print
February 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
“A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped The Modern Game” is available from: caricom.uk/print