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Chloe Digby
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Freelance Content Editor for OneFootball focusing on WSL & UWCL

Love travelling in Italy 🇮🇹 ⚽️

Telling my football story: The Butterfly Effect 🦋

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I read a quote the other day that said “don’t die with your music still in you.”

I’m 41, so maybe that’s dramatic, but it gave me a push finally tell my full personal football story.

Feel like this app is a safer space to launch it. Read below 💜

thebutterflyeffect34.substack.com/p/the-butter...
The Butterfly Effect 🦋
⚽️ How one match in 1934 changed the entire course of my family's history
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Here’s my latest roundup of Women’s Football from across Europe’s top five leagues.

🎥 Some top goals featured! ⚽️

🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
🌍 Women's football European weekend review: Dumornay 🔝, Man City stunned
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December 16, 2024 at 1:39 PM
If you’d like to know the biggest stories and best goals from women’s football across 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇮🇹🇫🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 then I’ve got you covered in my new feature for OneFootball. Lmk what you think!
🌍 Women's football European weekend review: Stanway strikes, CGH on 🔥
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December 9, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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People abusing a football manager then filming his reaction for social media - what a toxic escalation.
December 6, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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To me, nothing is funnier than this. Everything competes with scrunched up Kermit
December 2, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Whatever happens next with Eduardo Bove’s recovery, he’s in the best hands with the fans in Florence 💜

A piece (with videos) on how Fiorentina supporters continue to remember their Captain Davide Astori after his tragic passing.
Why Eduardo Bove is in good hands in Florence 💜
A fanbase that have already been through too much.
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December 3, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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ICYMI it over the weekend, I've released my latest research report into women's football.

Dedicated committees, independent clubs & stronger pathways for women in leadership are among my 8 recommendations for the FA.

Report here: www.bournemouth.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Full video explainer here:
Stronger Together: The Legacies of the 1993 Merger of the FA and the Women's Football Association
YouTube video by Raf Nicholson
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December 2, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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𝙒𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 - 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣’𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜

Exclusive interview with Lucy Bronze on how she wants to change women’s football but why she’s not ready to retire.

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...
Lionesses legend Lucy Bronze vows to fight on for England
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY KATHRYN BATTE: Bronze has competed in six tournaments for the Lionesses but, as she points out, she is just 33.
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November 30, 2024 at 11:28 AM
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I'm a one man band who does everything. From socials, emails, sourcing/buying materials, printing/packaging, postage, drawing! Looking for work, applying for grants, to screaming in to the void.

Spreading the word helps a small business so much. Thank you.

Prints!

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November 28, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Any takers for this? ⬇️
🎟️ I have a single ticket for England Women V USA at Wembley on Saturday but can’t go.

Would anyone like it? £15 face value
November 28, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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It's time Former Celtic and Manchester United player, and legendary Stoke City manager, Lou Macari earned the national recognition his work with the homeless in Stoke-on-Trent deserves

Sir Lou Macari?

Long overdue in my opinion

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
Homelessness charity the Macari Foundation moves to new venue
Pods which have provided shelter are transported by lorry to a more spacious site.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Little piece on Parma I wrote here for OneFootball 🇮🇹
5️⃣ things you need to know about Parma - The 90s overacheivers
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November 27, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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This week's free newsletter is about growing up as an Aston Villa supporter straddling modern football's great historic dividing line.

Have a look.
Child of the lights: supporting Aston Villa and a football upbringing between eras
Finding football on a historical fault line
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November 27, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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I’m heading back to San Siro on Saturday for Milan v Empoli. It’s a special ground for me and I wrote about my first visit there a few years back.🇮🇹⚽️

markgordon.media/a-32-year-jo...
A 32 Year Journey to the San Siro - markgordon.media
Stadio Guiseppe Meazza is only a few hours on a flight from Scotland. My journey to San Siro really began thirty-two-and-a-half years earlier.
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November 27, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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🇩🇪 On the terraces this week:

🟡 Borussia Dortmund members slam Rheinmetall sponsorship at AGM and call on club to end it

📺 The DFL reopens bidding for #Bundesliga TV rights after legal challenge halted initial auction

⬇️ Full stories on Gegenpressing

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On the terraces: Borussia Dortmund members vote against Rheinmetall, DFL reopens TV rights bidding
In a weekly Newsletter, Matt Ford keeps an eye on the action off the pitch in the Bundesliga and German football, explaining what’s going on from fan protests to finances.
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November 27, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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🚨 𝙋𝙊𝘿𝘾𝘼𝙎𝙏! 🎙️ Juventus’ lead at the top of the Women’s Serie A widened with both Roma and Fiorentina dropping points against the odds. The Women’s Football Podcast chats through MD11.

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🗣️ @burns-euan18.bsky.social

🎧 buff.ly/3ZbxU8q ⬅️
#TIFpod #SerieAFemminile
🎙️ 24/25, Ep.58: Women’s Serie A Podcast: Juventus pull away again as AS Roma and Fiorentina stutter | Total Italian Football
Get more from Total Italian Football on Patreon
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November 27, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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Andre Onana has been given a FIFPRO award for his incredible charitable work. Three months ago, he spoke to Stretty News about the Andre Onana Foundation 👏🇨🇲

⬇️ strettynews.com/2024/07/29/a...
Andre Onana "proud" as latest surgical campaign helps 350+ people in Cameroon
Andre Onana tells Stretty News that he is "proud" of the latest surgical campaign in Cameroon, which was made possible by the Andre Onana Foundation.
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November 26, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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Somewhere in the mud and the destruction, the greatest symbol of joy and happiness there is: a ball. Valencia’s congregation comes together again for the first time since the flood. This week’s column www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘What we play for’: Valencia reunited as Mestalla mourns its flood victims
César Tárrega, whose home town was badly hit by the floods, scored the first goal in an emotional defeat of Betis
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Why is Jamie Redknapp saying Kulu CH evski?
November 23, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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Without making myself too unpopular on day one of Bluesky posting, why are so many journalists ignoring the Maddy Cusack story?

Our latest is here: why one of her team-mates has quit playing because she’s so disillusioned by the sport’s response to Maddy’s death.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/592...
Nina Wilson on Maddy Cusack’s tragic death and why she has quit playing: ‘It can happen again’
Former Sheffield United goalkeeper says she and other women's players are being failed by the sport - with terrible consequences
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November 22, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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With Thursday's 1-1 draw, #FCBayern advance to the #UWCL quarterfinals. It could have been better. Still, job done, ft. a super goal from 🇷🇸 striker Jovana Damnjanović...and a brave fight back from the Toppserien champions.

Don't miss the highlights! #VIFFCB
Bayern Munich draw Vålerenga but sail through to UEFA Women’s Champions League knockouts!
Tough sledding in Norway...but a positive result.
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November 22, 2024 at 6:05 AM
From earlier: my quick piece on the most bizarre yellow card you’ll see got handed to Bunny Shaw (but she stole the show for MCWFC anyway)
🎥 Bunny Shaw receives bizarre yellow card after netting Man City opener 🤯
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November 21, 2024 at 10:02 PM
🚨 Alexia Putellas has scored her 200th goal for Barcelona.

La Reina 👑
🎥 Alexia Putellas reaches 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ goal marker with Barcelona 🌟
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November 21, 2024 at 9:28 PM
🎟️ I have a single ticket for England Women V USA at Wembley on Saturday but can’t go.

Would anyone like it? £15 face value
November 21, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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There's been an incredible response to the Guardian Football Weekly mention for Kitmas!

Thanks so much for your support, your donations will ensure kids around the UK who may not have had a Christmas present will have a brand new football shirt.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/kitmas-2024
Kitmas '24: the gift of football
Kitmas hopes to brighten the Christmas of many children in the UK, distributing football shirts to kids who may not otherwise receive gifts.
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November 21, 2024 at 10:03 AM