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jon lewis

@jfl.bsky.social
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once and future internet writer, mediocre bassist, sufferer of various sports teams footnote.blog

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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
one week later, here is my review of the 2026 World Cup. If you focus on the on-the-field stuff, it's almost certainly Best New Music. but then there's everything else www.footnote.blog/2026/07/23/2...
Screenshot with the start of a blog post, reviewing the 2026 World Cup. Rating is 8.1/10
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
world cup final day! here is my attempt to make sense of how spain and argentina got here, and what that tells us about how this game might go: www.footnote.blog/2026/07/19/s...
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Two questions for the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina - Footnote
The field of 48 has whittled down to just Spain and Argentina. How should each team be feeling heading into the semifinals?
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"the prevent offense prevents you from winning"
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
they're not making a big enough deal out of this. they should be cutting into the news to ensure everyone knows about ivan barton refereeing a world cup semifinal between france and spain
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
man why did breel embolo do that
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
mikel merino is the andres iniesta of marouane fellainis
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
the funniest thing about it is that everyone is focussing on haaland and odegaard. even if you want to argue their development system is better than ours, that's the wrong guy!!
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
here is my attempt to figure out how to feel about the USMNT, featuring Albert Camus, the nature of fandom, concept of good teams choking, and whether or not this particular loss had anything to do with youth soccer (it did not) www.footnote.blog/2026/07/10/g...
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Getting your heart ripped out is the point - Footnote
The USMNT exceeded expectations at the 2026 World Cup, and then experienced a generationally crushing loss. What now?
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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I will say Pulisic’s World Cup was a perfect microcosm of his career in that when healthy he looked amazing and he was healthy for 45 minutes of a five-game run.
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
ATTENTION ROYAL BELGIAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION: THERE IS AN UNJUSTIFIABLE DECISION BEING MADE WITH REGARDS TO WHO WILL START THE BELGIUM-USA GAME. PLEASE LAUNCH AN APPEAL IMMEDEATELY
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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
this is surprising to me. i thought FIFA only does strange, opaque, absurd things because the cheeto wants them to. i am a bluesky poster who never thought about soccer until yesterday, when i could make it about donald trump.
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
admin involvement in this obviously sucks, but this is mostly on FIFA for not just having an appeals process. Refs messed up the VAR protocols - an open appeal would have given the opportunity to just say "we made a mistake, Balo can play," which happens every week in the Premier League
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
i’ve never experienced a collective enthusiasm and fun like this month of the world cup. just consistently blown away how universal the enjoyment is and how deep people are plunging down the rabbit hole. doesn’t matter who i’m with or where i am everyone’s locked in and it rules
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
okay i want the game of soccer to grow in america, but it is time for "sportsball" americans to un-discover soccer
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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
You motherfuckers have Will Stancil posting about it now. The absurdity we’re gonna have to deal with now. The dumbest fucking posters on this dumb fucking site who hadn’t even heard of soccer until ten minutes ago gonna reverse polarize themselves into the most absurd soccer takes ever conceived of
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
it would of course be much funnier if Trump were involved in this but this is such exceptionally normal FIFA shit it probably wouldn't have taken any more than a phone call from Cindy Cone
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
it is dumb that they didn't just add an appeal process though
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
process is obviously sketchy, but all those suspensions in the past were bad and stupid, and it is good that fifa has a mechanism to let players play. it's the world cup! the good players should be on the field
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
putting a stake in a ground for moral consistency: unless they do something truly terrible, players shouldn't be suspended for red cards at the world cup. it's the world cup!! let the stars play
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
ronaldo penalty … penalty ronaldo … pen ronaldo … has anyone done anything with this before?
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
wrote about the world cup through 2 rounds of matches: - USMNT, Mexico, and Canada confirm their competence! - fraud watches (potential fraud) and fraud warnings (confirmed frauds) are issued www.footnote.blog/2026/06/24/2...
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What have we learned from the second round of matches at the 2026 World Cup? - Footnote
After just about two weeks of matches, everyone has played twice at the World Cup. Some teams have turned out better than we thought, some teams are much worse, and some teams are on notice. We are 48...
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
iran-new zealand game of the tournament, just like we all thought it would be
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
chris wood target man masterclass in a world cup game there are tears in my eyes
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
WORLD CUP RESPECTFUL NON-CELEBRATION
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Tracy Morgan: "New York City that's where King King died... and we told Godzilla you next motherf*cker. You, the three headed monster, the flying turtle, all y'all can all get it."
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
but also I DEMAND A WRITTEN APOLOGY TO JALEN BRUNSON MAILED TO ME RIGHT NOW
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
to be fair to becky hammon, she is an expert in being an undersized guard who isn't quite good enough to make an impact on a winning team at the highest level
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
and Turkiye: a team that has not performed that well, but also will probably have the 3 best players on the field for most of their games. does anyone know if they're good or not? www.footnote.blog/2026/06/08/2...
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48 questions, a 2026 World Cup Preview: Turkiye - Footnote
One question for each 2026 World Cup team. Turkiye has three of the best players in the world. Does anyone know they are a good team?
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
speaking of teams that are quietly solid: Australia have been pretty reliable for 20 years. will they finally be able to be more than pretty good? www.footnote.blog/2026/06/09/2...
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
here's the rest of group d, for those interested. everyone is obsessed with Y2K football nostalgia, but no one remembers that paraguay were pretty good in that era. why? www.footnote.blog/2026/06/08/2...
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48 questions, a 2026 World Cup Preview: Paraguay - Footnote
One question for each 2026 World Cup team. Is Paraguay’s new generation ready to restore the golden years?
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
#USMNT game time in t-90 ish minutes. here's a blog about the weight of expectations and trying to figure out what five years of uneven progress means but also USA WORLD CUP GAME TIME AHHHHHHHHHHHH www.footnote.blog/2026/06/09/2...
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48 questions, a 2026 World Cup Preview: USMNT - Footnote
One question for each 2026 World Cup team. Can the USMNT team beat a team that is better than them, and will anyone be normal about it?
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
THE WORLD CUP STARTS TODAY YOU BETTER BE WATCHING THAT SHIT IN SPANISH
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
meanwhile, south africa seems to have looked at west germany in the mid-1970s and said "what if our national team was also built entirely of the team that wins our domestic league every single year." but will it work? www.footnote.blog/2026/05/03/2...
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48 questions, a 2026 World Cup preview: South Africa - Footnote
Can the 1970s West Germany model work for South Africa's post-2010 generation?
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
happy thursday #soccer friends. posting a thread of the group a portion of the footnote.blog world cup preview. first mexico, in which i explore if one very old player and several very young players can break a generations-long curse www.footnote.blog/2026/05/03/2...
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48 questions, a 2026 World Cup preview: Mexico - Footnote
Is Mexico's elusive quinto partido still the dream if it’s just the round of 16?
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
the world cup starts in less than 48 hours and i can guarantee you the footnote.blog is the only place where you can read a preview of the netherlands that opens with a seventh woods joke. tap in: www.footnote.blog/2026/06/10/2...
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48 questions, a 2026 World Cup Preview: Netherlands - Footnote
One question for each 2026 World Cup team. Without Memphis or Xavi Simons, who is the Netherlands’ star?
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Propping the TV up with big cans of Roma tomatoes. Greatest city in da world
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
a mike breen "bang" call on a decisive knicks 3 in a finals game .... i could cry
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
great win for the USMNT. no one injured, solid football played. here's the game plan for Germany:
QB kneel play call in Madden
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
insane place to live because it still has so much of the architecture and some of the infrastructure from when it was literally the best city in the world, but they just killed it with highways and racism
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/05/2026
@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Bandwagon Knicks fans are going to be the worst people because normal Knicks fans are already pretty annoying and our only redeeming trait is hearts made strong by despair
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
only kind of joking: they should let breen and clyde lift the trophy
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
probably the best knicks-watching moment of my life before jalen brunson was when carmelo scored 62 against the bobcats, a team that no longer exists
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
a thing that happened this decade is that the knicks were so bad that the nba was like "you don't have to bother coming to the bubble." this was not in a year they were trying to be bad
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
My final #WorldCup Group B preview, in which I write about how much I will miss watching Xherdan Shaqiri play for Switzerland: www.footnote.blog/2026/05/22/2...
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48 questions, a 2026 World Cup preview: Switzerland - Footnote
Was Xherdan Shaqiri the greatest international soccer player of all time, or are Switzerland just fine without him?
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Qatar didn't embarrass themselves (mostly) when they hosted the World Cup in 2022. Were they just delaying the inevitable by 4 years? #WorldCup Group B previews continue: www.footnote.blog/2026/05/22/2...
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48 questions, a 2026 World Cup preview: Qatar - Footnote
What does the Qatari national do after the Qatar World Cup?
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
More #WorldCup previews! In the last 10 years #CANMNT: - developed their best ever players - had a major pay dispute - made the Copa America semifinals - hired a guy who maybe would rather coach their biggest rivals. what does it all mean? www.footnote.blog/2026/05/21/2...
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48 questions, a 2026 World Cup preview: Canada - Footnote
Will Canada’s chaotic golden decade set the stage for an historic World Cup?
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
If you liked this dumb post about Bosnia's pre-World Cup friendly in St. Louis, you'll love this dumb blog about the combination of young players, a very old player, and ska propelling them to their second-ever tournament: www.footnote.blog/2026/05/21/2...
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48 questions, a 2026 World Cup preview: Bosnia and Herzegovina - Footnote
Can a 13-year-old satirical ska song and a 40-year-old striker make history for Bosnia and Herzegovina?
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jon lewis @jfl.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
if i were mauricio pochettino i would have simply made my assistant coaches the news to each cut player in person as if they had a family member who died in the service
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