Sports Author. World in Union: A history of the @RugbyWorldCup in XV matches & The Fix: How the first @ChampionsLeague was won. Host @TheGroundJewels
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This one hits hard. The best defender I've ever seen play the game.
La Storia del Milan è in lacrime per la scomparsa di Franco Baresi. Il suo esempio e la sua profondità saranno, per sempre come la sua maglia numero 6, parte integrante e fondamentale del DNA e del cammino di tutto il Club. Le condoglianze che AC Milan porge alla famiglia tutta di Franco Baresi sono le stesse che ogni tifoso rossonero fa a sé stesso in un'ora così dura.
The entire history of AC Milan is in tears following the passing of Franco Baresi. His example and integrity will be forever etched into the Club's DNA, just as his iconic number 6 shirt is. The condolences AC Milan extends to Franco Baresi's family at such a difficult time are shared by every Rossonero, who feels this loss as their own.
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La Storia del Milan è in lacrime per la scomparsa di Franco Baresi. Il suo esempio e la sua profondità saranno, per sempre come la sua maglia numero 6, parte integrante e fondamentale del DNA e del cammino di tutto il Club. Le condoglianze che AC Milan porge alla famiglia tutta di Franco Baresi sono le stesse che ogni tifoso rossonero fa a sé stesso in un'ora così dura.
The entire history of AC Milan is in tears following the passing of Franco Baresi. His example and integrity will be forever etched into the Club's DNA, just as his iconic number 6 shirt is. The condolences AC Milan extends to Franco Baresi's family at such a difficult time are shared by every Rossonero, who feels this loss as their own.
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Guy Mowbray saying we haven't come from behind to win a World Cup knockout game since 1966 somehow forgets us coming from 2-1 down to beat Cameroon in 1990.
That day a captain/centre forward diving for a penalty worked out better
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A lunchtime Canada v South Africa kick off just feels very Olympic Men's Football tournament rather than WC knockout
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This is a genuinely an awful idea.
A non-starter in sporting terms and consequently a complete waste of time, energy and opportunity in terms of regeneration
bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/art…
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If these next 24/36 hours break just right I could finally get the Chaos with Ed Miliband I voted for...
Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband: facebook.com/DavidCameronOff…
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The thing I don't get about @englandcricket is 100s of county championship players had to use a kookaburra ball in order for ENG to be supremely prepared for The Ashes.
Yet players were playing in their debut first class pink ball games in the bloody Ashes.
Make it make sense.
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Lord knows @jonawils doesn't need my endorsement but I just wanted to say how brilliant his new World Cup History is. The narrative arc, the anecdotes, the most beautiful quotations.
I had high hopes and it soared above them.
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James Dixon - author 'World in Union' & 'The Fix' retweeted
𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | THE FIX by @JamesDixonBooks
An engrossing examination of the 1992/93 UEFA Champions League, the competition's infamous first season, from its humble beginning on a Faroese hillside to its ultimate conclusion in a French courtroom.
🛒 stanchionbooks.com/products/…
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We've seen a version of this #UCLfinal before:
🏆 A new format
🇫🇷 Champions with controversial ownership
⭐️ Players leaving the club the previous seasons
🇮🇹 Taking on a team from Milan
🇩🇪 In a final in Munich
'The Fix' available from @PitchPublishing pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/f…
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James Dixon - author 'World in Union' & 'The Fix' retweeted
𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | THE FIX by @JamesDixonBooks
An engrossing examination of the 1992/93 UEFA Champions League, the competition's infamous first season, from its humble beginning on a Faroese hillside to its ultimate conclusion in a French courtroom.
🛒 stanchionbooks.com/products/…
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Things that hadn't yet been created/invented when Newcastle last won a domestic trophy:
ITV
Guinness Book of Records
Disneyland
The Dambusters film
The European Cup
Captain Birdseye
Double Yellow Lines
The Duke of Edinburgh Award
Nuclear Power stations
Routemaster buses
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For the next ten minutes (at least) the formation of the Warsaw Pact is a more recent event than a Newcastle United domestic trophy.
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My dad has supported Newcastle his whole life. He now lives in a retirement village and the last time NUFC won a domestic trophy he hadn't even started school yet. Nervous for him
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If I was Andy Farrell this is what I would take from each nation for my @lionsofficial squad.
England - 13 players
Ireland - 12 players
Scotland - 11 players
Wales - The shirt colour
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@NottsFA I think it's great you let a Make-a-wish kid referee the @RainworthMWFC v @southwellcityfc match this afternoon. Ideally next time you'd go over a few basic laws, what is a foul, what is a corner, what is a penalty etc, but you know live and learn.
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@NottsFA What's a yellow card...
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@NottsFA What a red card is? I know we don't pay loads to come to these games but some level of refereeing competence is part of the implicit bargain
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Lovely stuff - if it's not gone in a couple of weeks I'll swing by when I'm down in London and sign it :)
𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | THE FIX by @JamesDixonBooks
An engrossing examination of the 1992/93 UEFA Champions League, the competition's infamous first season, from its humble beginning on a Faroese hillside to its ultimate conclusion in a French courtroom.
🛒 stanchionbooks.com/products/…
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Today I was genuinely wondering how America's nosedive into fascism (ironic that I'm posting on X, I know) would affect my love of the NFL
Then lo and behond all @NFLUKIRE season ticket holders get a shitty doublespeak email at 6.30pm on a Friday. Arseholes doing arsehole things
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This is about price gouging, exploitation of fans and plain old greed and it deserves to backfire.
For me its a bridge burned. I won't go to an @NFLUKIRE game in London again
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