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Geraint Owen
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Wales Bureau Editor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, BBC News.
Golygydd Newyddion i'r BBC.
News and #FPL obsessive (🌍21st in 23/24 if you must ask).
A bit of cycling too.
#FPL #GW11

We've got to that point in the season where everyone's team feels a bit similar (seems to come earlier every year, like 🎄)

Gyok>Mateta
🌍 OR 1.09m
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Being up all night covering a by-election is not great for #FPL transfer planning when there's a Friday deadline.
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Before the gw6 wildcard: 4.3m 🌍
After the gw8 bench boost: 1.1m 🌍

83pts this week. I think Saka's calling. #FPL
October 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I think I saw Jeremy Doku nutmeg two defenders at the same time tonight. What a ridiculously good footballer he is.
October 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Give it to Allardyce until the end of the season.
October 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Managed to get some Super Furry Animals tickets for next May. Not quite the bargain price they were first time round... #SFA #bargen
October 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Decent wildcard - decent progress. Up to the top 2.5million 🥳 If my subs can repeat this next week on a bench boost I'll be very happy. #FPL
September 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Only three of these are surviving on the wildcard. Warra season so far. #FPL
September 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
What could have been for Joe! I'll take it anyway. #FPL
✅ | DEF CON POINTS

⚪ Rodon (+2) ⚪

⬜ Fulham 1-0 Leeds ⚪

#FPL | #FULLEE
September 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Reposted by Geraint Owen
I've worked at the BBC for nearly 15 years. People are always talking about a guy called Ed Poll, who I've never met but is across all kinds of big decisions. Last week, I learned it's actually a department called Editorial Policy.
September 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The early season curse is broken.
#FPL
August 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
When your star men are central defenders you know it's not going well. #fpl
August 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Started Wirtz instead of Thiago. Skill issue #FPL
August 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Reposted by Geraint Owen
Triumph and disaster for you, soft power for the Premier League: fantasy football is back | Jonathan Liew
Triumph and disaster for you, soft power for the Premier League: fantasy football is back | Jonathan Liew
Celebrities play it. Footballers play it. Gradually, insidiously, fantasy football has seeped into the way we consume the game
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Very rarely do I offer up #fpl advice but last year I came up with this thread, hot off the heels of finishing 21st overall in 23/24. (have I mentioned that before?).

Anyway, here's a few things I've learnt about this game over the years.

🧵...
August 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
You wouldn't know them, they go to a different school.
$META CEO: THREADS NOW HAS 400 MLN MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS
August 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Benthyg hwn o'r lle arall - achos mae fy nghyfaill @aledscourfield.bsky.social yn crynhoi sefyllfa ddirdynnol yn berffaith.
August 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Top tip: always give your trainers a good shake before putting them on. There might be a surprise inside…
July 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Finally found my three-digit #FPL ID. Won't be hard to remember.
July 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
If we need Gen AI to boil an egg we might well be doomed as a civilization.
July 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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How can any news organisation mislead their readers to this extent just to make clickbait?
It means grandparents with full time custody of children but it makes it sound like grandparents helping out. And £79 a week is so much money, they will create and then destroy real hope - just for clicks.
July 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Former Wales national team coach Rob Page is to return to the dug out as head coach of Liverpool Under-21s.
June 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Have deleted my earlier chart - clearly bad mistakes but would also like to set out what happened, as a cautionary tale. Although it makes me look extremely silly, it's worth sharing.
This specific doc? I count three mentions of “humber” in the industrial strategy doc, 24 mentions of “Yorkshire” with or without qualifiers, zero mentions of “yorkshire and humber”.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
June 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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The Iran-Israel conflict marks the first time in a war where AI-generated videos and images have been widely shared by supporters of both sides as an effective tool to fight the information war.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel-Iran conflict unleashes wave of AI disinformation
Fake AI videos relating to the conflict have gained over 100 million views online, BBC Verify finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 21, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Nailed it, chwarae teg #tafwyl
June 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM