@byrne7.bsky.social
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I’d been fascinated by a mystery all summer. It was an itch I had to scratch. A question burning in my brain.
Was…was Indy Kaila now a legitimate news source?
An investigation into the man/men/myth legend who has dominated this transfer (gossip) window. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
Was…was Indy Kaila now a legitimate news source?
An investigation into the man/men/myth legend who has dominated this transfer (gossip) window. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
The myth and mystery of Indy Kaila: the X account that ‘w...
For 13 years an anonymous social media account has posted transfer gossip to the delight – and despair – of fans
observer.co.uk
August 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I’d been fascinated by a mystery all summer. It was an itch I had to scratch. A question burning in my brain.
Was…was Indy Kaila now a legitimate news source?
An investigation into the man/men/myth legend who has dominated this transfer (gossip) window. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
Was…was Indy Kaila now a legitimate news source?
An investigation into the man/men/myth legend who has dominated this transfer (gossip) window. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
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‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
Footballer Suleiman al-Obeid, was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza last week, according to the Palestine Football Association
Mohamed Salah has criticised Uefa for failing to state how a footballer known as the “Palestinian Pelé” died in a tribute it posted.
Suleiman al-Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday in southern Gaza when Israeli forces attacked civilians waiting for humanitarian aid, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
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Mo Salah is asking the right questions
August 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Mo Salah is asking the right questions
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I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.
July 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.
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So, after Eddie Howe's weekend comments, we appear to have The Full Coutinho on our hands.
July 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
So, after Eddie Howe's weekend comments, we appear to have The Full Coutinho on our hands.
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Man Utd have treated Marcus Rashford abysmally
How did it end up like this?
inews.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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I wrote about Hugo Ekitike, who has all the makings of a complete bust *and* a generational superstar: www.espn.com/soccer/story...
Will Ekitike be a Liverpool hit or flop? Why he's so hard to scout
More than any player, Ekitike somehow both reaffirms and rejects conventional wisdom and scouting biases. He's everything "dumb" clubs get wrong about transfers, and everything "smart" clubs get right...
www.espn.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I wrote about Hugo Ekitike, who has all the makings of a complete bust *and* a generational superstar: www.espn.com/soccer/story...
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I'm convinced Brentford could ask for £100m from Man United and they'd eventually get it
Manchester United make improved bid to sign Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford. New offer for worth £65m fixed + £5m add-ons. (David Ornstein)
Manchester United’s push to buy Bryan Mbeumo has stalled after Brentford raised their valuation to closer to £70m, with Sir Jim Ratcliffe intent on not being pushed into paying more than his club’s £65m valuation of the forward. (guardian)
July 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I'm convinced Brentford could ask for £100m from Man United and they'd eventually get it
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We gotta find a way to get the sports people off the bad place
July 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
We gotta find a way to get the sports people off the bad place
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This is objectively nuts but impartial ‘news’ currently lacks any metric to express that one ‘wrong’ newsworthy thing is several billion times worse than another.
This is what the BBC News website looks like on my phone
June 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is objectively nuts but impartial ‘news’ currently lacks any metric to express that one ‘wrong’ newsworthy thing is several billion times worse than another.
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The IDF killed three British aid workers last year.
The UK refuses to investigate Israel for killing its citizens but will investigate British people for cursing the IDF
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The UK refuses to investigate Israel for killing its citizens but will investigate British people for cursing the IDF
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
British aid workers 'died from blast wounds' in Gaza - inquest
James Kirby, James Henderson and John Chapman were killed in an air strike on 1 April.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The IDF killed three British aid workers last year.
The UK refuses to investigate Israel for killing its citizens but will investigate British people for cursing the IDF
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The UK refuses to investigate Israel for killing its citizens but will investigate British people for cursing the IDF
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Experimenting with ways to measure 'consistency' in contributing to shots game-by-game. I've made a simple attempt with the 'coefficient of variation' for PL big 6 forwards' xG and xA figures, and this seems to be a decent start, albeit simplistic. More explanation in the follow-up.
June 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Experimenting with ways to measure 'consistency' in contributing to shots game-by-game. I've made a simple attempt with the 'coefficient of variation' for PL big 6 forwards' xG and xA figures, and this seems to be a decent start, albeit simplistic. More explanation in the follow-up.
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You know messed up things have to be for Juventus to only be the third most corrupt ones in the room
June 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
You know messed up things have to be for Juventus to only be the third most corrupt ones in the room
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Elías Montiel is starting for Pachuca in their CWC opener against RB Salzburg tonight. I'm very excited to watch him, as I wrote for The Transfer Flow in a recent newsletter profiling some youngsters at the competition:
www.thetransferflow.com/p/5-young-ta...
www.thetransferflow.com/p/5-young-ta...
June 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Elías Montiel is starting for Pachuca in their CWC opener against RB Salzburg tonight. I'm very excited to watch him, as I wrote for The Transfer Flow in a recent newsletter profiling some youngsters at the competition:
www.thetransferflow.com/p/5-young-ta...
www.thetransferflow.com/p/5-young-ta...
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on a purely theoretical level, the failure of the Club World Cup is fascinating
you have famous teams, committed to winning because of the prize pool, in new and unusual matchups, a set of brand new underdogs, playing in cities where high-level football is rare
and no one cares
you have famous teams, committed to winning because of the prize pool, in new and unusual matchups, a set of brand new underdogs, playing in cities where high-level football is rare
and no one cares
June 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
on a purely theoretical level, the failure of the Club World Cup is fascinating
you have famous teams, committed to winning because of the prize pool, in new and unusual matchups, a set of brand new underdogs, playing in cities where high-level football is rare
and no one cares
you have famous teams, committed to winning because of the prize pool, in new and unusual matchups, a set of brand new underdogs, playing in cities where high-level football is rare
and no one cares
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sports are a very weird communal activity with no internal logic besides our feelings. it takes a kind of collective effort, typically unconscious and unplanned, but at least plausibly directed from above, to attach meaning to sports and create feeling
FIFA skipped that step entirely, here we are
FIFA skipped that step entirely, here we are
June 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
sports are a very weird communal activity with no internal logic besides our feelings. it takes a kind of collective effort, typically unconscious and unplanned, but at least plausibly directed from above, to attach meaning to sports and create feeling
FIFA skipped that step entirely, here we are
FIFA skipped that step entirely, here we are
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“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”
June 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”
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Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:
June 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:
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Liverpool submit fresh bid for Florian Wirtz.
Story, with @david-ornstein.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/639...
Story, with @david-ornstein.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/639...
Liverpool submit improved €134m transfer offer for Leverkusen’s Florian Wirtz
Wirtz has emerged as a key target for Liverpool this summer and the playmaker is keen on a move to Anfield.
www.nytimes.com
June 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Liverpool submit fresh bid for Florian Wirtz.
Story, with @david-ornstein.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/639...
Story, with @david-ornstein.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/639...
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Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.
June 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.
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You want transfers? How about a whole league of transfers?
Premier League transfer shopping list: Why Man City need the star Liverpool are chasing, and each team's needs
From attackers at Arsenal to a veteran defender at Chelsea and everything in between
www.cbssports.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
You want transfers? How about a whole league of transfers?
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feel like you could use this example in a comparative poli sci class about the difficulty of establishing rules-based regimes www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...
June 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
feel like you could use this example in a comparative poli sci class about the difficulty of establishing rules-based regimes www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...
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PSG have won the Champions League, at long last, and all it took was eight managers, 14 years, £2bn in transfer fees, more in wages, one hyperinflationary spiral and the complete restricting of European football. Easy to love the team. Less so the project. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
Paris St-Germain complete their long journey to supreme prize | The Observer
Inter Milan swept away as French champions run up record-breaking score in Munich
observer.co.uk
June 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
PSG have won the Champions League, at long last, and all it took was eight managers, 14 years, £2bn in transfer fees, more in wages, one hyperinflationary spiral and the complete restricting of European football. Easy to love the team. Less so the project. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...