Joey D'Urso
@joeydurso.bsky.social
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joey.durso/
Senior data journalist, The Times and Sunday Times | Author of 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑨 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕: 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝑭𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔, 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓: https://geni.us/MoreThanAShirt | joey.durso@the-times.co.uk
Senior data journalist, The Times and Sunday Times | Author of 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑨 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕: 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝑭𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔, 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓: https://geni.us/MoreThanAShirt | joey.durso@the-times.co.uk
Honoured that MORE THAN A SHIRT is longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2025, alongside some very talented authors.
September 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Honoured that MORE THAN A SHIRT is longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2025, alongside some very talented authors.
The last few days have been a whirlwind of events, radio appearances, podcasts... I've loved it.
It's a thrill to talk about this topic I am so passionate about. Always open to doing more stuff!
It's a thrill to talk about this topic I am so passionate about. Always open to doing more stuff!
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The last few days have been a whirlwind of events, radio appearances, podcasts... I've loved it.
It's a thrill to talk about this topic I am so passionate about. Always open to doing more stuff!
It's a thrill to talk about this topic I am so passionate about. Always open to doing more stuff!
11) FINANCIAL TIMES
I’ve done lots of reporting on the flood of crypto cash into football, and went to Istanbul to do a fascinating interview with a crypto victim.
The shirt of Beşiktaş tells the story.
On finance broadly, the Australian women’s team is an interesting tale…
I’ve done lots of reporting on the flood of crypto cash into football, and went to Istanbul to do a fascinating interview with a crypto victim.
The shirt of Beşiktaş tells the story.
On finance broadly, the Australian women’s team is an interesting tale…
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
11) FINANCIAL TIMES
I’ve done lots of reporting on the flood of crypto cash into football, and went to Istanbul to do a fascinating interview with a crypto victim.
The shirt of Beşiktaş tells the story.
On finance broadly, the Australian women’s team is an interesting tale…
I’ve done lots of reporting on the flood of crypto cash into football, and went to Istanbul to do a fascinating interview with a crypto victim.
The shirt of Beşiktaş tells the story.
On finance broadly, the Australian women’s team is an interesting tale…
10) BORDERS
Football shirts can be a way of telling the story of complicated lines on a map.
Sectarian football in Glasgow - Celtic v Rangers - is one example.
Another is a team formed by the Palestinian diaspora in Chile…
Football shirts can be a way of telling the story of complicated lines on a map.
Sectarian football in Glasgow - Celtic v Rangers - is one example.
Another is a team formed by the Palestinian diaspora in Chile…
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
10) BORDERS
Football shirts can be a way of telling the story of complicated lines on a map.
Sectarian football in Glasgow - Celtic v Rangers - is one example.
Another is a team formed by the Palestinian diaspora in Chile…
Football shirts can be a way of telling the story of complicated lines on a map.
Sectarian football in Glasgow - Celtic v Rangers - is one example.
Another is a team formed by the Palestinian diaspora in Chile…
9) THE OTHER HALF
Women’s football was booming in England after WWI. Then it was banned for 50 years.
It’s since had a resurgence - unevenly - as women's rights have improved around the world.
Mary Earps’s goalkeeper shirt tells this alongside the purple of Corinthians in Brazil.
Women’s football was booming in England after WWI. Then it was banned for 50 years.
It’s since had a resurgence - unevenly - as women's rights have improved around the world.
Mary Earps’s goalkeeper shirt tells this alongside the purple of Corinthians in Brazil.
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
9) THE OTHER HALF
Women’s football was booming in England after WWI. Then it was banned for 50 years.
It’s since had a resurgence - unevenly - as women's rights have improved around the world.
Mary Earps’s goalkeeper shirt tells this alongside the purple of Corinthians in Brazil.
Women’s football was booming in England after WWI. Then it was banned for 50 years.
It’s since had a resurgence - unevenly - as women's rights have improved around the world.
Mary Earps’s goalkeeper shirt tells this alongside the purple of Corinthians in Brazil.
7) DEMOCRACY’S LIMITS
Nowhere is this truer than in Saudi Arabia which owns Newcastle, who play in a green and white third kit.. the colours of 🇸🇦
On Cape Town's Robben Island, football shirts tell a more optimistic story: not strengthening dictatorship but helping topple one.
Nowhere is this truer than in Saudi Arabia which owns Newcastle, who play in a green and white third kit.. the colours of 🇸🇦
On Cape Town's Robben Island, football shirts tell a more optimistic story: not strengthening dictatorship but helping topple one.
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
7) DEMOCRACY’S LIMITS
Nowhere is this truer than in Saudi Arabia which owns Newcastle, who play in a green and white third kit.. the colours of 🇸🇦
On Cape Town's Robben Island, football shirts tell a more optimistic story: not strengthening dictatorship but helping topple one.
Nowhere is this truer than in Saudi Arabia which owns Newcastle, who play in a green and white third kit.. the colours of 🇸🇦
On Cape Town's Robben Island, football shirts tell a more optimistic story: not strengthening dictatorship but helping topple one.
6) BEYOND OIL AND GAS
Barcelona shirts went from blank, to Unicef... to Qatar Airways.
Real Madrid, Arsenal and many other top clubs are sponsored by Fly Emirates.
Middle Eastern states are jockeying for power for when the oil and gas runs out.
Barcelona shirts went from blank, to Unicef... to Qatar Airways.
Real Madrid, Arsenal and many other top clubs are sponsored by Fly Emirates.
Middle Eastern states are jockeying for power for when the oil and gas runs out.
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
6) BEYOND OIL AND GAS
Barcelona shirts went from blank, to Unicef... to Qatar Airways.
Real Madrid, Arsenal and many other top clubs are sponsored by Fly Emirates.
Middle Eastern states are jockeying for power for when the oil and gas runs out.
Barcelona shirts went from blank, to Unicef... to Qatar Airways.
Real Madrid, Arsenal and many other top clubs are sponsored by Fly Emirates.
Middle Eastern states are jockeying for power for when the oil and gas runs out.
5) AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
Like India, the US is a rare country that football hasn’t quite conquered yet.
But it’s trying, with Lionel Messi a big factor…
I went to Texas, host of a World Cup semi-final next year, to find out more…
Like India, the US is a rare country that football hasn’t quite conquered yet.
But it’s trying, with Lionel Messi a big factor…
I went to Texas, host of a World Cup semi-final next year, to find out more…
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
5) AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
Like India, the US is a rare country that football hasn’t quite conquered yet.
But it’s trying, with Lionel Messi a big factor…
I went to Texas, host of a World Cup semi-final next year, to find out more…
Like India, the US is a rare country that football hasn’t quite conquered yet.
But it’s trying, with Lionel Messi a big factor…
I went to Texas, host of a World Cup semi-final next year, to find out more…
4) WORLD ON THE MOVE
Wherever you go in the world you will see shirts.
They can tell the story of migration patterns, from France’s sometimes uneasy relationship between immigrant communities and its national team, and a refugee team in Essex...
Wherever you go in the world you will see shirts.
They can tell the story of migration patterns, from France’s sometimes uneasy relationship between immigrant communities and its national team, and a refugee team in Essex...
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
4) WORLD ON THE MOVE
Wherever you go in the world you will see shirts.
They can tell the story of migration patterns, from France’s sometimes uneasy relationship between immigrant communities and its national team, and a refugee team in Essex...
Wherever you go in the world you will see shirts.
They can tell the story of migration patterns, from France’s sometimes uneasy relationship between immigrant communities and its national team, and a refugee team in Essex...
3) THE GLOBAL GAMBLE
My journalistic interest in football shirts was piqued by investigating murky sponsors on English shirts - like Football Index and Nottingham Forest/QPR.
Meanwhile in Goa in India I saw how online gambling is conquering the world in odd ways...
My journalistic interest in football shirts was piqued by investigating murky sponsors on English shirts - like Football Index and Nottingham Forest/QPR.
Meanwhile in Goa in India I saw how online gambling is conquering the world in odd ways...
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
3) THE GLOBAL GAMBLE
My journalistic interest in football shirts was piqued by investigating murky sponsors on English shirts - like Football Index and Nottingham Forest/QPR.
Meanwhile in Goa in India I saw how online gambling is conquering the world in odd ways...
My journalistic interest in football shirts was piqued by investigating murky sponsors on English shirts - like Football Index and Nottingham Forest/QPR.
Meanwhile in Goa in India I saw how online gambling is conquering the world in odd ways...
2) CRIMINAL CONNECTIONS.
In Colombia, a shirt carried the face of a murdered gangster. Football tells the story of Pablo Escobar and Colombia’s violent past.
In Italy, a 1990s Parma shirt is a symbol of football nostalgia — and huge financial fraud.
In Colombia, a shirt carried the face of a murdered gangster. Football tells the story of Pablo Escobar and Colombia’s violent past.
In Italy, a 1990s Parma shirt is a symbol of football nostalgia — and huge financial fraud.
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
2) CRIMINAL CONNECTIONS.
In Colombia, a shirt carried the face of a murdered gangster. Football tells the story of Pablo Escobar and Colombia’s violent past.
In Italy, a 1990s Parma shirt is a symbol of football nostalgia — and huge financial fraud.
In Colombia, a shirt carried the face of a murdered gangster. Football tells the story of Pablo Escobar and Colombia’s violent past.
In Italy, a 1990s Parma shirt is a symbol of football nostalgia — and huge financial fraud.
The first chapter is PUTIN’S WARS.
It tells the story of two clubs — one German and one Serbian — sponsored by Gazprom. The fatal embrace between Germany and Russia told through football.
When Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 the German deal was pulled, the Serbian one wasn’t…
It tells the story of two clubs — one German and one Serbian — sponsored by Gazprom. The fatal embrace between Germany and Russia told through football.
When Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 the German deal was pulled, the Serbian one wasn’t…
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The first chapter is PUTIN’S WARS.
It tells the story of two clubs — one German and one Serbian — sponsored by Gazprom. The fatal embrace between Germany and Russia told through football.
When Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 the German deal was pulled, the Serbian one wasn’t…
It tells the story of two clubs — one German and one Serbian — sponsored by Gazprom. The fatal embrace between Germany and Russia told through football.
When Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 the German deal was pulled, the Serbian one wasn’t…
The game shirts stir up nostalgia and emotion.
The one worn by my team Aston Villa in 2002/03 carried the name of the Rover car factory near where I grew up.
The company imploded shortly after that - the shirt now tells a story of British deindustrialisation.
#AVFC
The one worn by my team Aston Villa in 2002/03 carried the name of the Rover car factory near where I grew up.
The company imploded shortly after that - the shirt now tells a story of British deindustrialisation.
#AVFC
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The game shirts stir up nostalgia and emotion.
The one worn by my team Aston Villa in 2002/03 carried the name of the Rover car factory near where I grew up.
The company imploded shortly after that - the shirt now tells a story of British deindustrialisation.
#AVFC
The one worn by my team Aston Villa in 2002/03 carried the name of the Rover car factory near where I grew up.
The company imploded shortly after that - the shirt now tells a story of British deindustrialisation.
#AVFC
Writing my first book MORE THAN A SHIRT, HOW FOOTBALL SHIRTS EXPLAIN GLOBAL POLITICS, MONEY AND POWER has been a quest — from Qatar to Cape Town, Germany to Goa, Texas to Turkey.
It convinced me that football is the ultimate cultural force of our age, and shirts a way to understand the world...
It convinced me that football is the ultimate cultural force of our age, and shirts a way to understand the world...
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Writing my first book MORE THAN A SHIRT, HOW FOOTBALL SHIRTS EXPLAIN GLOBAL POLITICS, MONEY AND POWER has been a quest — from Qatar to Cape Town, Germany to Goa, Texas to Turkey.
It convinced me that football is the ultimate cultural force of our age, and shirts a way to understand the world...
It convinced me that football is the ultimate cultural force of our age, and shirts a way to understand the world...
🧵📚
I was in a stadium in Colombia. It was sticky. The crowd was noisy.
In front of me was a man wearing a football shirt with a face on the back... the face of a murdered drug warlord.
I've been to five continents to tell the story of how football shirts explain the world...
I was in a stadium in Colombia. It was sticky. The crowd was noisy.
In front of me was a man wearing a football shirt with a face on the back... the face of a murdered drug warlord.
I've been to five continents to tell the story of how football shirts explain the world...
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🧵📚
I was in a stadium in Colombia. It was sticky. The crowd was noisy.
In front of me was a man wearing a football shirt with a face on the back... the face of a murdered drug warlord.
I've been to five continents to tell the story of how football shirts explain the world...
I was in a stadium in Colombia. It was sticky. The crowd was noisy.
In front of me was a man wearing a football shirt with a face on the back... the face of a murdered drug warlord.
I've been to five continents to tell the story of how football shirts explain the world...
🎧🎙️Great to go on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning talking about my new book 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑨 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕: 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝑭𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔, 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓...
June 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🎧🎙️Great to go on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning talking about my new book 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑨 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕: 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝑭𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔, 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓...
I'll be on the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 at 8.40am 📻
June 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I'll be on the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 at 8.40am 📻
Very exciting to get the first hard copy of MORE THAN A SHIRT: HOW FOOTBALL SHIRTS EXPLAIN GLOBAL POLITICS, MONEY AND POWER. Out June 19!
May 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Very exciting to get the first hard copy of MORE THAN A SHIRT: HOW FOOTBALL SHIRTS EXPLAIN GLOBAL POLITICS, MONEY AND POWER. Out June 19!
(3/4)
Lots are already getting private pensions by 60, and have other sources of income like investments on top of mostly owning their own homes.
Meanwhile younger groups overwhelmingly reliant on (stagnant) wages.
Lots are already getting private pensions by 60, and have other sources of income like investments on top of mostly owning their own homes.
Meanwhile younger groups overwhelmingly reliant on (stagnant) wages.
May 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Lots are already getting private pensions by 60, and have other sources of income like investments on top of mostly owning their own homes.
Meanwhile younger groups overwhelmingly reliant on (stagnant) wages.
Lots are already getting private pensions by 60, and have other sources of income like investments on top of mostly owning their own homes.
Meanwhile younger groups overwhelmingly reliant on (stagnant) wages.
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Not all these people are rich, of course, but they're generally richer than their children's generation paying full fares.
A lot of them rode the 1990s-2000s housing boom and are now paper millionaires.
Not all these people are rich, of course, but they're generally richer than their children's generation paying full fares.
A lot of them rode the 1990s-2000s housing boom and are now paper millionaires.
May 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Not all these people are rich, of course, but they're generally richer than their children's generation paying full fares.
A lot of them rode the 1990s-2000s housing boom and are now paper millionaires.
Not all these people are rich, of course, but they're generally richer than their children's generation paying full fares.
A lot of them rode the 1990s-2000s housing boom and are now paper millionaires.
(1/4)
Is the "60+ Oyster card" Britain's biggest freebie? From the age of 60, several years before the retirement age of 66, London residents get free transport.
The cost of this is projected to double between 2022 and 2027. Fares for younger users will pay for it.
Is the "60+ Oyster card" Britain's biggest freebie? From the age of 60, several years before the retirement age of 66, London residents get free transport.
The cost of this is projected to double between 2022 and 2027. Fares for younger users will pay for it.
May 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Is the "60+ Oyster card" Britain's biggest freebie? From the age of 60, several years before the retirement age of 66, London residents get free transport.
The cost of this is projected to double between 2022 and 2027. Fares for younger users will pay for it.
Is the "60+ Oyster card" Britain's biggest freebie? From the age of 60, several years before the retirement age of 66, London residents get free transport.
The cost of this is projected to double between 2022 and 2027. Fares for younger users will pay for it.
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More about the book here: www.northbanktalent.com/2025/02/28/m...
More about the book here: www.northbanktalent.com/2025/02/28/m...
February 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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More about the book here: www.northbanktalent.com/2025/02/28/m...
More about the book here: www.northbanktalent.com/2025/02/28/m...
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I'm excited to announce that my first book is out on June 19! I've travelled to five continents to tell the story of how 22 different football shirts explain the world...
@tierneywitty.bsky.social @northbanktalent.bsky.social @orionbooks.bsky.social
I'm excited to announce that my first book is out on June 19! I've travelled to five continents to tell the story of how 22 different football shirts explain the world...
@tierneywitty.bsky.social @northbanktalent.bsky.social @orionbooks.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
(1/4)
I'm excited to announce that my first book is out on June 19! I've travelled to five continents to tell the story of how 22 different football shirts explain the world...
@tierneywitty.bsky.social @northbanktalent.bsky.social @orionbooks.bsky.social
I'm excited to announce that my first book is out on June 19! I've travelled to five continents to tell the story of how 22 different football shirts explain the world...
@tierneywitty.bsky.social @northbanktalent.bsky.social @orionbooks.bsky.social
Former Everton player Li Tie has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for bribery in China. I reported on this earlier this year, including speaking to people who knew him.
There may well be more to this than meets the eye.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/527...
There may well be more to this than meets the eye.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/527...
December 13, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Former Everton player Li Tie has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for bribery in China. I reported on this earlier this year, including speaking to people who knew him.
There may well be more to this than meets the eye.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/527...
There may well be more to this than meets the eye.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/527...