✈️ There's nothing normal about flying 26 hours for a match 3 days after the end of the season.

🌏 Domestic clubs playing thousands of kilometres from home isn't progress, its plain wrong.

😠 Organisers profit while players and the planet are stretched to breaking point.

Money, polluting flights, money, polluting sponsors, money, emissions go up, heatwaves, floods, matches cancelled, overheated players, money, more matches, more flights, extreme drought, no water for the pitch, matches cancelled.

Next stop?

Strange happenings in the Manchester neighbourhood of British Cycling's HQ ahead of Shell's AGM next week...

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Maybe he should tidy up his own dirty company first.

🗣️ 'It would only take a Marcus Rashford for climate change to make a real difference.”

I had a chat with David Wheeler, who has found Premier League players are reluctant to speak up for fear of being labelled as hypocrites 👇

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“Taking the piss quite frankly, no moral compass and a complete lack of moral leadership”
⁦David Wheeler⁩ not pulling any punches talking about ⁦FIFA⁩ and their unsustainable growth and recent partnership with Saudi oil giant ⁦aramco⁩ #basis

Stop FIFA's Sponsorship Deal with Aramco - Sign the Petition! chng.it/7CqbVXJDKX via Change.org UK

FIFA yesterday announced that it is partnering with Saudi Arabia's state oil, gas and petrochemicals company - Saudi Aramco.

This ugly deal threatens the future of the beautiful game.

Join us in demanding that this deal is terminated immediately.

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A look at football's response (or lack of it) four years on from David Goldblatt's pioneering report on how the climate crisis will disrupt elite sport

Huge thanks to David Goldblatt and David Wheeler

#EarthDay 🌎

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The Football Association Challenge Cup. A long read.

The World's Oldest Association Football Competition. Let that sink in.Something to be proud of as a part of English football and cultural life.

Changes to it? Yes, with one caveat. That every club who takes part in it has an

The 1924 Paris Olympics saved the Games. Can this year’s event repeat that success?……I really don’t think so! theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr…

The 1924 Paris Olympics saved the Games. Can this year’s event repeat that success? | David Goldblatt theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr…

New for Terrace Edition.

After the Football Association agreed to scrap FA Cup replays from the 1st Round Proper, no-one can call the FA the “Guardians of the game” with a straight face any more.

It’s not their first error of judgement either.
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There is no such thing as “a sick note culture.” There is a record high NHS waiting list, crippling housing costs, widespread food poverty, stagnant wages and inadequate benefit rates, a broken social care system, dire mental health services, and closed Sure Start centres.

With crypto returning to football, feels like someone should write an accessible account of the scandals that happened first time round. But wait...

This is rapidly becoming a live political and economic issue, one that (I suspect )will come to dominate much other discussion. It is ridiculous to think fiddling with interest rates will deal with climate-induced inflation.

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'With bunch of friends I spent four hours laying out 7000 cards for England v Brazil held up by fans to form a huge St George Cross. Do I have a view on 'shirt-gate'? Yes, just a bit.'
Read Philosophy Football on Nike, St George & Lee Anderson MP here  philosophyfootball.com/news.html

New for Terrace Edition.

Fulham's swimming pool stand and rising anger at ticket prices in the game are no surprise when you look at the FA's 1991 Blueprint.

It noted the message for football to follow the 'affluent ‘middle class’ consumer'.
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Could someone share this with Infantino?