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Sports Kepa and Sarri Are Actors in the Soap Opera of Football Social Media

Kepa and Sarri Are Actors in the Soap Opera of Football Social Media

Even by the standards of non-apology apologies, Kepa Arrizabalaga’s first effort to address The Unpleasantness during Sunday’s League Cup final refined an art…

Marina Hyde (London)
Sports Where is Gordon Taylor’s PFA Review? No Doubt He’s Beavering Away

Where is Gordon Taylor’s PFA Review? No Doubt He’s Beavering Away

I don’t know the Latin for “look busy and it’ll die down” – but whatever it is, it could do with being carved above the lintel of the Professional Footballers’…

Marina Hyde (London)
Sports Mourinho Dancing on Ice – at last, He’s Served up Something Watchable

Mourinho Dancing on Ice – at last, He’s Served up Something Watchable

After so many years of refusing to give the public what they want, it’s great to see José Mourinho finally serving up something highly watchable. On February 4…

Marina Hyde (London)
Sports FA’s Novelty Player Clanger Insults US and Threatens Special Relationship

FA’s Novelty Player Clanger Insults US and Threatens Special Relationship

What a fascinating entry to international politics for the Football Association, who clearly anticipated the failure of a “red wave” to materialize in the US…

Marina Hyde (London)
Sports ‘Canceling Christmas’ and Poppygate: Premier League Guide for New Arrivals

‘Canceling Christmas’ and Poppygate: Premier League Guide for New Arrivals

Welcome, talented football player from Abroad! As one of our age-old sayings goes: to be signed to an English Premier League side is to win first prize in the…

Marina Hyde (London)
Sports Fifa’s ‘Hardline Approach’ at World Cup Will Be to Take the Money, Run

Fifa’s ‘Hardline Approach’ at World Cup Will Be to Take the Money, Run

It is almost two years since Fifa wound up its anti‑racism task force, declaring it had “completely” fulfilled its mission and was therefore dissolved. That a…

Marina Hyde (London)
Sports Never Managed, Didn’t Apply: How The FA Made Phil Neville its No 1

Never Managed, Didn’t Apply: How The FA Made Phil Neville its No 1

What an amusing inevitability to learn that Phil Neville is the frontrunner for the job of managing the England women’s side. I very much enjoyed my colleague…

Marina Hyde (London)
Sports Fifa’s New Broom Gianni Infantino Exhibiting Signs of Limited Shelf Life

Fifa’s New Broom Gianni Infantino Exhibiting Signs of Limited Shelf Life

Good news and bad news once more for Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantino, who refuses to abandon his delusions of adequacy. The good news is Gianni has pre…

Marina Hyde (London)