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Andrew Beasley

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Data Visuals Journalist for Sport at The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/profile/andrew-…

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J Gregort Coffeeheimer @gregianjohnson.bsky.social · 12h
Can’t believe the City news somehow broke again
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Goodfellas: I'm Gonna Go Get The Papers
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Sound of Football Podcast @sofpodcast.com · 11h
What that false money more than paid for: 15/16: De Bruyne, Sterling (£99m) 16/17: Stones, Jesus, Sane (£112m) 17/18: Walker, B Silva, Ederson (£123m)
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 9h
And that’s why you play Trent. Same as it ever was.
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 11h
Tonight is Thomas Tuchel’s 24th England game. He is deploying his 20th different starting back four.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20h
Cannot get over the beauty of this GIF: it’s Zidane celebrating last night after Olise scored a last minute winner for France. It looks like something from a movie or a high-end fashion advert. Probably the most elegant footballer of all time.
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bootifulgame @bootifulgame.bsky.social · 19h
How much does Man City owe your club? • Pick their punishment. • Rewrite 18 Premier League seasons without them. • Hand their trophies to the teams they beat. • Add up the bill. passmode.shop/asterisk
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asterisk — the Premier League without Manchester City
Set Manchester City's punishment and watch 18 Premier League seasons rewrite themselves: new champions, cup winners, European places and relegations.
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Don McRae @donmcrae.bsky.social · 21h
Thanks Billy Kenny for speaking so movingly about his lost career. Once the most promising young footballer in England, the Goodison Gazza fell to the drinking culture of the 1990s. Drugs swept him away to prison but he was just a kid and felt abandoned by Everton www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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‘Goodison Gazza’ Billy Kenny: ‘The only time I’ve had peace was when I was locked up’
Everton’s great lost talent of the 90s tells Donald McRae about the drinking culture that enveloped him as a teenager, his time in jail, struggles with depression and how he got clean
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 28/09/2026
'While others find in it astonishing range, a gamut of styles and emotions which saw both Prince and Elton John rate it as the greatest album ever made, it’s also an inconsistent, puzzling flawed album...' #StevieWonder's Songs In The Key Of Life turns 50 today buff.ly/zD17vVM
Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key of Life album cover with concentric orange-to-yellow torn-paper rings drawing the eye to a small sketched, sunglasses-wearing face at the centre. Japanese Obi strip version.
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Gavin Alexander @gavin83bay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post.
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 28/09/2026
With some graphics from me. Up the Reds.
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 28/09/2026
Roberto Mancini said the quiet part out loud
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Mancini refers to ‘double’ Manchester City contract and says it ‘isn’t my problem’
Roberto Mancini has appeared to acknowledge he had ‘a double contract’ when he managed Manchester City
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 28/09/2026
“life is so much better with a dog but easier without” Amen to that x
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The pet I’ll never forget: Dennis the terrier – who once farted on Jilly Cooper’s sofa
It seemed like a good idea to get a puppy with my partner, but then he left me. Single life was hard at first but my disobedient dog made me laugh again
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 28/09/2026
Bukayo Saka had 10 touches in the Spain penalty box on Saturday. Argentina had eight in the 120-minute World Cup final. But it still wasn't enough for England. A look at some data from the game:
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Data shows England made inroads against Spain but they must be more clinical | Andrew Beasley
Thomas Tuchel’s side had 36 touches in the Spain penalty area at Wembley but were given a lesson in taking chances
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willmill82 @willmill82.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Your tone is antagonistic and you're making me very angry
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 27/09/2026
Great start at Anfield for LFCW, 1-0 up in the derby.
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Terry Duffelen @terryduffelen.com · 27/09/2026
Posted without comment (or context).
"Sometimes you get to the end of an interview and wonder if we really learned anything new."
— Laura Kuenssberg, Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rodri absolutely furious with that penalty being given because, as we know, he doesn’t believe in retrospective punishment for clear wrongdoing.
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 26/09/2026
England succeeding where the rest of the world went wrong in the summer.
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Jenny O @msyellowhat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It takes huge guts to go against the majority to do the right thing
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 26/09/2026
If the first England goal was rare from a Spain perspective, that second fits the pattern:
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 26/09/2026
Jordan Pickford hasn’t previously been on the bench for the first England match of an international window when the games have been competitive. Massive opportunity for Trafford.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She was and remains, we can say with certainty, the better half.
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 26/09/2026
So, obviously the big story in football today is my look at how England can score against a Spain side that conceded just one goal at the World Cup…
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How do England beat Spain, or even score against them? The data suggests crosses
Thomas Tuchel wishes his team could play more like the world champions, but he may have to, as he himself put it, ‘embrace the chaos’ instead
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Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Burnham is stuck in the 80s on this. Support your local pub instead www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Burnham’s booze ruse is a non-starter: just keep doing your drinking in the pub | Barney Ronay
The prime minister, a life-long football fan, was just restating a personal opinion about having a drink in the stands, not trying to make policy
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 25/09/2026
Isak has scored for Sweden. Five goals and an assist in his last six starts.
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Adrian Tempany @adriantempany.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And Man City's next game is at... Anfield. Lovely 😜
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Carlon Groiss @carloncarpenter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 25/09/2026
Wow. Guilty as charged. I never thought I’d see it. But it *almost* doesn’t matter. Strip them of titles? They still got to enjoy them. Hand them to Liverpool and whoever else finished second? So what. Nothing to celebrate there. Congratulations, everyone. We’ve been forking out to watch a sham.
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Jenny O @msyellowhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Marty showing his support to the best of us
Golden cockapoo wearing an RNLI bandana
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 25/09/2026
Really sad news about Michael Kiwanuka. All love to him in his recovery
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‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke
The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved
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FC One Football @fconefootball.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
⚽️ Goal by Cody Gakpo 🇳🇱 Netherlands 1-1 Germany 🇩🇪 ▪️ CODY GAKPO HAS EQUALIZED IN THE 92ND MINUTE FOR NETHERLANDS! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL ASSIST! #NationsLeague #NEDGER
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Laura Lawrence @yicetor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So much love and respect for Andy Carroll talking about this publicly. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Andy Carroll: Former England striker reveals he was sexually assaulted in 2021
Former England striker Andy Carroll reveals he was sexually assaulted in 2021, by a man who has subsequently been jailed for three years.
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 24/09/2026
It’s Macca. There are ‘better’ players but the lines he wrote were glorious.
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Paul McCartney Rocking Out with The Beatles
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The Left Is Rising @thereiver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Vasco de Gammon was a better one
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just seen Danny Tommo referred to as "Captain Thugwash" and seriously, that's excellent work.
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Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss
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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Season-tickets have always been a symbol of the connection between fanbase and football club. But there is a growing fear some executives would prefer stadiums with fewer of them
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Slip sliding away: football season-ticket holders fear falling down pecking order
It is a symbol of the connection between the fanbase and club, but there is a growing fear executives would prefer stadiums full of one-off tourists
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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
27th? Portman Road is two places below Carrot Road? Nah. Don't like Google anyways. #ITFC
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 23/09/2026
A great thread on the greatest.
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Simon Gleave @simongleave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great stuff as always from Andrew. I had wondered whether long range goals were up so it is great to see some numbers on that here. Well worth a follow and obviously his articles are a must-read for anyone who is interested in my stuff.
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 23/09/2026
Anfield is the best stadium in England. Not my words, Carol, the words of over 54,000 Google reviews. Where does your team's ground rank among the 92? Find out in the searchable table in here:
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Which football stadiums have the highest and lowest Google ratings? | The Knowledge
Plus: the longest waits for 0-0 draws, more early replica kits and champions with the smallest ground
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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy 100th Birthday John Coltrane! "[We] shared a lot of the same beliefs and aspirations and hopes and joys about the things that music could do—change the world and all of these things... we were kindred spirits in many ways." –S.R. (to Bret Primack) youtu.be/3MkUvZUTFUc?...
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Sonny Rollins Quartet with John Coltrane - Tenor Madness
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/09/2026
Liverpool’s Aurélie Csillag on making women’s football more diverse: ‘Visibility starts at the top’
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Liverpool’s Aurélie Csillag on making women’s football more diverse: ‘Visibility starts at the top’
The Swiss international explains why she became involved in the club’s Beyond the Goalposts initiative
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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Andy Robertson on the Overlap described the feeling that the club in the wake of Diogo’s death, in particular that the returning players had lost their edge and it made it really hard on the newer players to settle. Think we need to really heed the “everyone gets a clean slate” approach.
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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TV ON THE RADIO DEAR SCIENCE
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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STEREOLAB DOTS AND LOOPS
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Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com · 22/09/2026
‘Have some humanity’: Diogo Jota chants at Rúben Neves a wake-up call for Saudi Arabia
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‘Have some humanity’: Diogo Jota chants at Rúben Neves a wake-up call for Saudi Arabia
With added coverage comes added scrutiny and there is a feeling that the league was too lenient when punishing chants about the late Portugal forward The good thing about Cristiano Ronaldo playing in your league is that he is one of the most famous footballers ever and when he scores a great goal or reaches 1,000 (just 21 to go), many people watch. The bad thing about Cristiano Ronaldo playing in your league is that when something negative happens and he is involved, just as many people will watch and listen. Global attention is something that the big European leagues have had for years but it is something the Saudi Pro League, which has spent billions in search of achieving a similar stature, needs to get used to. On Sunday 13 September, Ronaldo wrote to his 680 million Instagram followers to discuss the events of Saturday evening. That was when Al-Taawoun supporters were coming to terms with a 6-0 home thrashing by Al-Hilal, whose £150m-plus forward line, Ollie Watkins and Gabriel Martinelli, got five between them. Fair to say that some handled it better than others as what followed was in the worst possible taste. Continue reading...
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 22/09/2026
'Goals are up, but so are the proportion of matches that are drawn, with those won by two or more in decline. Teams are slugging it out, back and forth. You attack, we counter, and everyone runs further as a result.' On the data from the first five weeks:
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Long-range hits and goals galore: inside the Premier League’s return to chaos | Andrew Beasley
Teams are running further and set-piece strikes are in decline as end-to-end football takes over the Premier League
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 21/09/2026
Last season was dull, wasn’t it? This year might be better. Here’s why:
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