Spent time looking into Roman Abramovich & how he spent past 18 months. A bewildering mix of sanctions, diplomatic mediation, reported poisoning, prisoner of war exchanges, FBI prosecutors pursuing his jets & that Chelsea £2.5bn still in a frozen account. theathletic.com/4717198/2023/0…

Cheers #ENG

Who Needs Caceido More-O-Meter reading: Chelsea

🚨NEW THING🚨 The Briefing, a column every Monday on three big questions from the weekend. 🔴Chelsea, Liverpool & the Caceido mess ⚪️Punishing Martinez properly would be better than fiddly rule changes 🔴Will Postecoglu lead the way on head injuries? theathletic.com/4772864/2023/0…

not often you can specifically credit one reporter with making something happen, but it is clear that absent Crafton's reporting, they were bringing Greenwood back

Jheeeeze look at this beauty 🔥 30 second walk away from the Gtech 🏟️ The Athletic | Football

There's often that one person at every football club who makes the game happen – and we want to hear about them... Tell us about your Grassroots GOAT, and have their story told on The Athletic by some of our award-winning journalists. 🐐

🥅 Putting the nets up at 7am 🧺 Washing the kit 🍶 Filling up the water bottles Over 13 million people play grassroots football in the UK alone, but there’s invariably always someone who has helped to make the game happen. We want to hear about your Grassroots GOAT! ⬇️

A statement from BBC News about them smearing people who marched in solidarity with Palestine as Hamas supporters. The smear was broadcast twice.

Ooof. Will take me some time to get over Koch’s angle on that last scrum penalty.

Charly Musonda was the #CHE wonderkid who had the world at his feet + scored on his first senior start for the club Yet his career was cruelly blighted by a knee injury that ruled him out for three years Now playing in Cyprus, he tells me his story ⬇️ theathletic.com/5016282/2023/1…

Great write up of Harry Lawson’s amazing film here. I was happy to contribute an essay and poem to the accompanying publication ‘Millwall On the Page’. Catch it at Chemist Gallery, Loampit Hill, for another couple of days.

Last day of current The Athletic | Football sale. Subscriptions £1/month. Perhaps you'd like to subscribe to read The Briefing, on how good the title challengers are & whether it matters, why we can't judge Spurs for a while & the wonder of the Garnacho overhead theathletic.com/5090763/2023/1…

And the winner is The Athletic | Football - an unstoppable force that is proving extremely popular among the matchgoing public. Congratulations to everyone at The Athletic!

So excited to see our Grassroots GOATs series start this week! 🐐 First up is Ahmed Assem, who has given amateur football a huge boost in Egypt through AFC Vikings, creating a community from which so many people benefit. You can read it for free here ⤵️ theathletic.com/5043365/2023/1…

Next up, it's the Digital Sports Publisher of the Year Award, and the winner is The Athletic | Football! Judges highlighted that their exclusives set the agenda for weeks. #SJA2023

🚨 Huge congratulations to David Ornstein, who has been named the Football News Reporter of the Year at #SJA2023 Thoroughly deserved 👏

Congratulations, Adam Crafton — Sports Writer of the Year. #SJA2023 | Sports Journalists

So happy and proud of this 🥹😊 🥰

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