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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
How is the rest of Europe adapting to the Premier League’s financial power? There have been interesting - and surprising - decisions. The latest @liberopodcast.bsky.social with me, @brewin.bsky.social and @jameshorncastle.bsky.social pod.fo/e/31d8da
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Libero: Libero 047: Euro-trouble... is the Premier League's financial might causing problems on the continent?
The European club season is now underway, with the Champions League draw to follow on Thursday. James Horncastle and Miguel Delaney join John Brewin to discuss some of the key questions from the co...
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Went to the Tripoli derby at an empty stadium in Milan. Didn’t initially understand why it required such a massive police presence. It quickly became obvious. Piece on how strange and chaotic 6 team playoff in Italy mirrors Libya’s current fault lines. ⚽️ 👮 🇱🇾 💰 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/s...
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An Unusual Soccer Finale in Italy Reveals Libya’s Frailties
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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
If Jesus was on TikTok and his miracles were reels would he be as big as Ronaldo? Latest Libero on the cultural hegemony of football with @jackpittbrooke.bsky.social and @rorysmith.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2f5917
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Libero: Libero 032: Jesus Had a 2,000-Year Headstart On Ronaldo
This episode was recorded before the tragic news about the death of Diogo Jota and his brother.Jack Pitt-Brooke, Rory Smith and, eventually (18:41), James Horncastle try to get their heads around t...
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Libero @liberopodcast.com · 04/07/2025
Libero 032 How big is football? What has it done to other sports? And is its size healthy for the game or not? @rorysmith.bsky.social @jackpittbrooke.bsky.social @jameshorncastle.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2f5917
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Libero: Libero 032: Jesus Had a 2,000-Year Headstart On Ronaldo
This episode was recorded before the tragic news about the death of Diogo Jota and his brother.Jack Pitt-Brooke, Rory Smith and, eventually (18:41), James Horncastle try to get their heads around t...
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Michael Cox @zonal-marking.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Italy get their Euro 2025 campaign started in an hour. The women's game in Italy remains a bit of a mystery to outsiders. I spoke to Serie A's most successful coach, Rita Guarino, about how things are going in the right direction and what else needs to improve. www.nytimes.com/athletic/642...
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Serie A Femminile’s most successful coach on how women’s football in Italy must improve
Rita Guarino knows intimately what it takes to bring success to Italy as a player and manager. Ahead of Euro 2025, she reflects on the team
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Felipe Cardenas @felipecardenas.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“Keep going, keep walking" Hard Rock Stadium in Miami has become a pedestrian and fan clusterf***. “I’ll never go to another game, especially not here." www.nytimes.com/athletic/646...
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Soccer fans stuck between Hard Rock Stadium and a ride home: ‘I’ll never go to another game, especially not here’
The excitement fans had experienced inside the stadium turned to confusion, disorientation and frustration.
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Libero @liberopodcast.com · 04/06/2025
New Libero. On Qatar, PSG’s Champions League win and the Club World Cup @jonawils.bsky.social @tariqpanja.bsky.social @brewin.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2df41d
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Libero: Libero 023: Held Hostage by Hodgson
With Paris Saint-Germain finally ending their cash soaked Qatari quest for a Champions League title John Brewin, Jonathan Wilson and Tariq Panja discuss how its likeable young team’s emphatic tro...
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We have one month to save @josimarfootball.bsky.social. If you can help, please do. 🙏 josimarfootball.com/2025/06/03/a...
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A letter from Philippe Auclair - josimarfootball.com
The reality we at Josimar face is stark. Should we fail to raise € 50k by 1 July, the world's only investigative media dedicated solely to football will cease to exist.
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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Inside Inter Spoke to Marotta, Inzaghi, Lauti, Barella, Thuram and more ahead of Saturday's date with destiny www.nytimes.com/athletic/638...
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Inter left their last Champions League final with an aura. Now they’re seeking immortality
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Libero @liberopodcast.com · 23/05/2025
Dispatches from Libero's Bilbao Bureau bring word of an all-English final that was not the greatest advert for the 'Best League in the World™', so instead @jameshorncastle.bsky.social, @brewin.bsky.social and @rorysmith.bsky.social discuss the Italian perspective on football in 2025
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Libero: Libero 019: The James Horncastle Origin Story
Dispatches from the Libero's Bilbao Bureau bring word of an all-English European final that was not the greatest advert for the 'Best League in the World™', so instead James Horncastle, John Brew...
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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Carlo and Caipirinhas. An Italian in Brazil. The cultural moment. And what he has left for Xabi in Madrid with @rorysmith.bsky.social and @brewin.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2d51b2
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Libero: Libero 016: Don Carlo
On today’s episode of Libero, Rory Smith, John Brewin and James Horncastle wonder whether anyone not named Carlo Ancelotti can make sense of the modern Real Madrid, and assess the prospects for X...
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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
You can straitjacket the crazy Inter. You can sedate it. But when they’re mad for it, they can reach a second Champions League final in three years. www.nytimes.com/athletic/633... Inter’s old limitations are beginning to look like new frontiers – next stop, Munich
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Inter’s old limitations are beginning to look like new frontiers - next stop, Munich
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The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The crazy is deep in this club. It can’t be straitjacketed or sedated. In the end, it gets out — and on nights like Tuesday, after everything, the fans are mad for it. Next stop, Munich. Inter’s old limitations are beginning to look like new frontiers. 📝 @jameshorncastle.bsky.social
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Inter’s old limitations are beginning to look like new frontiers – next stop, Munich
Joy and despair were in plentiful supply as Inter claimed victory against Barcelona in a Champions League semi-final for the ages
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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Some thought losing Mbappe would hurt PSG. Judging by today’s reaction, Real Madrid losing Joselu was bigger. Should never have let him go to Al Gharafa
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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Thoughts and prayers
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Rory Smith @rorysmith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Had a lot of fun on hot new start-up podcast @liberopodcast.bsky.social, with hot new voices @jonawils.bsky.social and @brewin.bsky.social. We talked about England, jam, Brighton and which nation is the foreignest www.youtube.com/@liberopodca...
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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Dodgy WiFi, empanadas and an owner in the bath: The Milan hotel where Serie A convenes for transfer deadline day www.nytimes.com/athletic/611...
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Dodgy WiFi, empanadas and an owner in the bath - the Milan hotel where Serie A convenes for deadline day
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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
A hard news story www.nytimes.com/athletic/606... Lazio’s club falconer, his prosthetic penis and a very unusual sacking
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Lazio’s club falconer, his prosthetic penis and a very unusual sacking
Juan Bernabe has lost his job as Lazio's falconer after sharing a photo of himself which ‘astonished’ the club
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The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has become a star at Napoli since a low-key arrival from Georgia. Liverpool and PSG are monitoring his future closely — but owner Aurelio De Laurentiis is never pushed around by agents or sporting directors. ✍️ @jameshorncastle.bsky.social bit.ly/4087HIt
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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Chronicle of a sacking foretold. A justified dismissal, shabbily handled amid anti-American protests, spoiled birthday parties and dissenting players. The end of Fonseca. The start of Conceicao. How #Milan lost their way www.nytimes.com/athletic/602...
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The manner of Paulo Fonseca’s Milan exit may have been shabby - but change was needed
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Sid Lowe @sidlowe.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Today at the Bernabeu will be the 982nd game of Jesus Navas’s career. It will also be the last. In the end, the pain is too much and even he can’t go on. Here’s his story, told by him www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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The Totally Football Show @totallyshow.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🇪🇺 EURO POD! 🇪🇺 @acjimbo.bsky.social, @sebsb.bsky.social, Julien Laurens, @jameshorncastle.bsky.social & @polballus.bsky.social 🇮🇹 10/10 for Atalanta, Inter hit Lazio for six 🇪🇸 Barca lose again, Atleti win again 🇩🇪 Bayern suffer 1st Bundesliga defeat 🇫🇷 PSG v Lyon, Al-Khelaifi v Textor pod.fo/e/2928af
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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson: Inter hit Lazio for six as Barca lose again in La Liga
Jimbo’s joined by his continental crew - James Horncastle, Julien Laurens, Pol Ballús and Seb Stafford-Bloor - to look back on the latest week of action from across Europe. Atletico Madrid took...
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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
What happens when a dominant team in a major league is suddenly relegated. Given Pep keeps saying people want to see City in League One, piece on what their next opponents, Juventus, went through and the Serie A-ification of the Premier League www.nytimes.com/athletic/597...
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Juventus, Man City and the far-reaching impact of a scandal that resulted in relegation
In 2006, Juventus were relegated and stripped of titles. This week they play City, a team facing 115 charges from the Premier League
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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Fiorentina-Inter currently suspended for medical emergency. Edoardo Bove, the 22-year-old midfielder, fell to the ground, appearing to collapse. First responders attended, he was stretchered into an ambulance and taken to hospital. www.nytimes.com/athletic/596...
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Fiorentina-Inter suspended after Bove appears to collapse during Serie A game
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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
One point separates the top five in Serie A. Here's a pod on the league's volatility and variety. Why Italy might get a fifth different champion in six years. podfollow.com/1488521447/e...
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The Athletic FC Podcast: Is Serie A the most electrifying league in Europe?
Ahead of this weekend’s games the top five teams in Italy are separated by just one point.Added to that, the last five seasons have seen four different clubs end as champions.So, why is Serie A ...
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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🚨 Exclusive Moise Kean interview 🟣 Already up to 13 goals this season 🟣 Flourishing in Florence 🟣 ‘How am I not getting into this team, at Everton?’ 🟣 His idols: Obafemi Martins and Ronaldo 🟣 Ambition to finish Capocannoniere this season www.nytimes.com/athletic/591...
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Moise Kean exclusive: From not getting in Everton’s team to flourishing at Fiorentina
Moise Kean has done a lot for a 24-year-old. He sits down with The Athletic to discuss debuting at 16 for Juventus and learning from Mbappe
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