Jacob Whitehead
@jacobwhitehead.bsky.social
✍️ Reporter for @theathleticfc.bsky.social.
Investigations with a bit of cycling and #NUFC. Read books, climb hills, make soup. 📚🏔️🥣
Investigations with a bit of cycling and #NUFC. Read books, climb hills, make soup. 📚🏔️🥣
📍Lille
Have watched the Tour de France obsessively since Thomas Voeckler helped me fall in love with it back in 2011.
Very excited and lucky to be covering it for @theathletic.bsky.social for the next three weeks.
Have watched the Tour de France obsessively since Thomas Voeckler helped me fall in love with it back in 2011.
Very excited and lucky to be covering it for @theathletic.bsky.social for the next three weeks.
July 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
📍Lille
Have watched the Tour de France obsessively since Thomas Voeckler helped me fall in love with it back in 2011.
Very excited and lucky to be covering it for @theathletic.bsky.social for the next three weeks.
Have watched the Tour de France obsessively since Thomas Voeckler helped me fall in love with it back in 2011.
Very excited and lucky to be covering it for @theathletic.bsky.social for the next three weeks.
55km ultra on the hottest day of the year? ✅
Type 2 fun kind of day (and learned the lessons from the 2023 GNR…)
Type 2 fun kind of day (and learned the lessons from the 2023 GNR…)
June 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
55km ultra on the hottest day of the year? ✅
Type 2 fun kind of day (and learned the lessons from the 2023 GNR…)
Type 2 fun kind of day (and learned the lessons from the 2023 GNR…)
Been very lucky between Waxahatchee and Sam Fender this week:
June 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Been very lucky between Waxahatchee and Sam Fender this week:
All’s well that ends well for all at @podonthetyne.bsky.social.
May 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
All’s well that ends well for all at @podonthetyne.bsky.social.
A postcard from Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Pogacar wins again.
The Belgian battle that wasn’t, greatness for granted, and the most famous day in Mauritian sporting history?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/631...
The Belgian battle that wasn’t, greatness for granted, and the most famous day in Mauritian sporting history?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/631...
April 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
A postcard from Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Pogacar wins again.
The Belgian battle that wasn’t, greatness for granted, and the most famous day in Mauritian sporting history?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/631...
The Belgian battle that wasn’t, greatness for granted, and the most famous day in Mauritian sporting history?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/631...
I’m at a bike race, leave me out of it
April 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I’m at a bike race, leave me out of it
Spent six months speaking to over forty sources about the boxing magnate.
Allegations raised include detainments of critics on the ‘Tutu Wing’, a close association with a spy wanted by the FBI, and assault.
Turki Al-Sheikh did not respond to comment.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/629...
Allegations raised include detainments of critics on the ‘Tutu Wing’, a close association with a spy wanted by the FBI, and assault.
Turki Al-Sheikh did not respond to comment.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/629...
April 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Spent six months speaking to over forty sources about the boxing magnate.
Allegations raised include detainments of critics on the ‘Tutu Wing’, a close association with a spy wanted by the FBI, and assault.
Turki Al-Sheikh did not respond to comment.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/629...
Allegations raised include detainments of critics on the ‘Tutu Wing’, a close association with a spy wanted by the FBI, and assault.
Turki Al-Sheikh did not respond to comment.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/629...
7. Been terrible at keeping this up but god loves a trier.
Took me some time to get into this - having had it on my list for years - but then came like an unblocked tap. One of the finest closing lines I’ve read.
Took me some time to get into this - having had it on my list for years - but then came like an unblocked tap. One of the finest closing lines I’ve read.
April 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
7. Been terrible at keeping this up but god loves a trier.
Took me some time to get into this - having had it on my list for years - but then came like an unblocked tap. One of the finest closing lines I’ve read.
Took me some time to get into this - having had it on my list for years - but then came like an unblocked tap. One of the finest closing lines I’ve read.
🚨EXCLUSIVE: The mysterious Person X at the heart of the Premier League's legal battle with Manchester City is Jaber Mohamed — who was, at the time, a key aide to Abu Dhabi's ruler MBZ.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/623...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/623...
March 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🚨EXCLUSIVE: The mysterious Person X at the heart of the Premier League's legal battle with Manchester City is Jaber Mohamed — who was, at the time, a key aide to Abu Dhabi's ruler MBZ.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/623...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/623...
First time for me at Wembley, lovely for me to be covering it with a very nervy @chrisdhwaugh.bsky.social and @georgecaulkin.bsky.social. Updates throughout the game.
March 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
First time for me at Wembley, lovely for me to be covering it with a very nervy @chrisdhwaugh.bsky.social and @georgecaulkin.bsky.social. Updates throughout the game.
6. Simple premise. Woman inherits huge wealth via strange means. One condition: she is not allowed to share any of her windfall.
Sideways look at the impact on her and her dearest - kinda reminiscent of a rural Welsh version of The Syndicate, I guess? Some v fun passages.
Sideways look at the impact on her and her dearest - kinda reminiscent of a rural Welsh version of The Syndicate, I guess? Some v fun passages.
February 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
6. Simple premise. Woman inherits huge wealth via strange means. One condition: she is not allowed to share any of her windfall.
Sideways look at the impact on her and her dearest - kinda reminiscent of a rural Welsh version of The Syndicate, I guess? Some v fun passages.
Sideways look at the impact on her and her dearest - kinda reminiscent of a rural Welsh version of The Syndicate, I guess? Some v fun passages.
5. Picked this up on a whim after finishing Graves and so so glad I did. Wonderful (and little spoken-about!) novella.
Painter goes to a remote village after WW1 to restore a church mural and is drawn into village life, love, and loathing. A.E. Housman vibe.
Painter goes to a remote village after WW1 to restore a church mural and is drawn into village life, love, and loathing. A.E. Housman vibe.
February 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
5. Picked this up on a whim after finishing Graves and so so glad I did. Wonderful (and little spoken-about!) novella.
Painter goes to a remote village after WW1 to restore a church mural and is drawn into village life, love, and loathing. A.E. Housman vibe.
Painter goes to a remote village after WW1 to restore a church mural and is drawn into village life, love, and loathing. A.E. Housman vibe.
4. Been terrible at updates. Apologies. Never got into Graves’ poetry, but had this on my list for ages.
Part before the war is infused with woven nostalgia - utter horror during it, far more than I (naively) expected.
Part before the war is infused with woven nostalgia - utter horror during it, far more than I (naively) expected.
February 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
4. Been terrible at updates. Apologies. Never got into Graves’ poetry, but had this on my list for ages.
Part before the war is infused with woven nostalgia - utter horror during it, far more than I (naively) expected.
Part before the war is infused with woven nostalgia - utter horror during it, far more than I (naively) expected.
Despite settling into a new position as well as a new club, Anderson has developed into one of the best young CMs in the league. International honours could be arriving with Thomas Tuchel a fan.
This is how he did it.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/614...
This is how he did it.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/614...
February 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Despite settling into a new position as well as a new club, Anderson has developed into one of the best young CMs in the league. International honours could be arriving with Thomas Tuchel a fan.
This is how he did it.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/614...
This is how he did it.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/614...
Beto’s composure and finish there 🥺
February 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Beto’s composure and finish there 🥺
The Premier League’s token big six are scattered across the league.
Is their era dead, or do their finances mean it is more entrenched than ever?
Includes what #NUFC, #AVFC, & more need to do to break their stranglehold ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/608...
Is their era dead, or do their finances mean it is more entrenched than ever?
Includes what #NUFC, #AVFC, & more need to do to break their stranglehold ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/608...
January 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
The Premier League’s token big six are scattered across the league.
Is their era dead, or do their finances mean it is more entrenched than ever?
Includes what #NUFC, #AVFC, & more need to do to break their stranglehold ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/608...
Is their era dead, or do their finances mean it is more entrenched than ever?
Includes what #NUFC, #AVFC, & more need to do to break their stranglehold ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/608...
Think this chart shows so much about his game - it’s 360 degrees and coast to coast ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/608...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/608...
January 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Think this chart shows so much about his game - it’s 360 degrees and coast to coast ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/608...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/608...
FT: Southampton 1-3 #NUFC
Clinical from Newcastle in the end. Reacted quickly after going behind and could stay in second gear for the second-half.
The sort of no fuss win that #UCL-chasing sides need. Lovely sky as well.
Clinical from Newcastle in the end. Reacted quickly after going behind and could stay in second gear for the second-half.
The sort of no fuss win that #UCL-chasing sides need. Lovely sky as well.
January 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
FT: Southampton 1-3 #NUFC
Clinical from Newcastle in the end. Reacted quickly after going behind and could stay in second gear for the second-half.
The sort of no fuss win that #UCL-chasing sides need. Lovely sky as well.
Clinical from Newcastle in the end. Reacted quickly after going behind and could stay in second gear for the second-half.
The sort of no fuss win that #UCL-chasing sides need. Lovely sky as well.
At St Mary’s for #NUFC’s visit to Southampton, going for a fourth consecutive away win.
*Think* I saw Almiron coming off the coach in what might be his final game, Nick Pope also back in the squad.
*Think* I saw Almiron coming off the coach in what might be his final game, Nick Pope also back in the squad.
January 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
At St Mary’s for #NUFC’s visit to Southampton, going for a fourth consecutive away win.
*Think* I saw Almiron coming off the coach in what might be his final game, Nick Pope also back in the squad.
*Think* I saw Almiron coming off the coach in what might be his final game, Nick Pope also back in the squad.
Cyclist Ethan Hayter quit Ratcliffe-owned INEOS this summer. Amidst cuts, worrying words for #MUFC to Sporza:
"If you run a cycling team like a company, the riders and staff lose their passion. That has been the case at INEOS in recent years. Racing started to feel more and more like a job."
"If you run a cycling team like a company, the riders and staff lose their passion. That has been the case at INEOS in recent years. Racing started to feel more and more like a job."
January 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Cyclist Ethan Hayter quit Ratcliffe-owned INEOS this summer. Amidst cuts, worrying words for #MUFC to Sporza:
"If you run a cycling team like a company, the riders and staff lose their passion. That has been the case at INEOS in recent years. Racing started to feel more and more like a job."
"If you run a cycling team like a company, the riders and staff lose their passion. That has been the case at INEOS in recent years. Racing started to feel more and more like a job."
#NUFC up to 15th in the Deloitte money league & 7th in the PL.
Lots of this comes from #UCL broadcast revenue, which won't be there in next year's report, but still a sizeable commercial growth of €54m up to €90m...
Analysis from Phil Buckingham on all the results ⬇️
nytimes.com/athletic/608...
Lots of this comes from #UCL broadcast revenue, which won't be there in next year's report, but still a sizeable commercial growth of €54m up to €90m...
Analysis from Phil Buckingham on all the results ⬇️
nytimes.com/athletic/608...
January 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
#NUFC up to 15th in the Deloitte money league & 7th in the PL.
Lots of this comes from #UCL broadcast revenue, which won't be there in next year's report, but still a sizeable commercial growth of €54m up to €90m...
Analysis from Phil Buckingham on all the results ⬇️
nytimes.com/athletic/608...
Lots of this comes from #UCL broadcast revenue, which won't be there in next year's report, but still a sizeable commercial growth of €54m up to €90m...
Analysis from Phil Buckingham on all the results ⬇️
nytimes.com/athletic/608...
Leny Yoro, Sven Botman, William Saliba... and now #MCFC's Abdukodir Khusanov.
Over the last three seasons, Premier League clubs have spent half a billion pounds on Ligue 1 defenders.
What's the secret sauce? Attempted to answer with @liamtharme.bsky.social ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/605...
Over the last three seasons, Premier League clubs have spent half a billion pounds on Ligue 1 defenders.
What's the secret sauce? Attempted to answer with @liamtharme.bsky.social ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/605...
January 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Leny Yoro, Sven Botman, William Saliba... and now #MCFC's Abdukodir Khusanov.
Over the last three seasons, Premier League clubs have spent half a billion pounds on Ligue 1 defenders.
What's the secret sauce? Attempted to answer with @liamtharme.bsky.social ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/605...
Over the last three seasons, Premier League clubs have spent half a billion pounds on Ligue 1 defenders.
What's the secret sauce? Attempted to answer with @liamtharme.bsky.social ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/605...