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Rupert Fryer

@rupert-fryer.bsky.social
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Creative at @footballco. Sometimes still a Football writer, mostly South America, Published: Guardian, Observer, Independent, Goal, ESPN, 442, Standard, Blizzard, Mundial…

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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This referee has been truly appalling. Not a single player out there has any idea what is and is not a foul.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Domenech hatchet job or not, that France 2010 doc on Netflix is tremendous fun!
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Bloody chemtrails blurring lines to make Marcos Llorente look offside again 🤬
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
There’s a really weird irony about these elite PL clubs in possession: most refuse to show any daring on the ball and repeatedly just stop and pass it backwards - until they get to their goalkeeper, at which point they risk it all 🤷‍♂️
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Barely of any importance, but I can’t see how on earth the US is able to a hold a World Cup. The two most fundamental asks are 1: Can fans come into the country? And 2: Will fans be safe while there? The US cannot come even close to guaranteeing either.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The modern #Libertadores  -Single-legged finals 🤮 -Neutral venues 🤮 -Clubs from same nation no longer forced to meet before final 🤮 -Ticket prices 🤮 -Travel 🤮 All of which have killed fandom - its best attribute & the only thing that genuinely appeals to a foreign audience.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The highlight of the first half. And literally the only thing that felt even remotely like the #Libertadores
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Kane and Olise are as good as any other duo in world football right now.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Four minutes in, lad - just let him score
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Brentford paying that much for Dango Ouattara feels both odd, and completely at odds with everything they’ve done to get here. They’d get the same player for less than half that price if they shopped outside of England.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The absolute stones on these Lionesses! 👏👏👏👏👏
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Jess Carter, sensational all day. To a woman, fantastic performance from England.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
How is Lauren Hemp still even on her feet? Machine
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Lucy bloody Bronze btw 🥰
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Did they even check the aerial challenge? That was a certain foul, regardless of the following sliding tackle.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
BBC’s 10-hour Oasis live stream experiment proves that, no, the Soccer Saturday format is not transferable.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
How have the stadium staff not gone in and taken that bloody whistle away yet?
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
BRING ON DIDI HAMANN!
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The ‘sorry’ no-celebration? Srsly? My guy was at Inter for like 5 minutes. It’s the UCL final, mate.
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a man holds a sign that says careful now
ALT: a man holds a sign that says careful now
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Palmer just out here bouncing it in off his rubbish teammates now
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
In France, watching some sort of Djibril Cisse testimonial. Feels supremely unfair that Bafetimbi Gomis is about to start running round all these old men.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Doc Brown >>>>> Noel and Liam #FACupFinal
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
All credit due to Inter, what a performance and contribution to this spectacle… it’s Barca, though, who have forced this whole tie into the madness we’re all lapping up. Inter have tried time and again to restore some order but simply haven’t been allowed to do that.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Don’t care who wins the UCL, as long as I get as much Barca as possible. They are just so fun.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This Barca side is brilliantly batshit. And also the most courageous group of players on the ball anywhere in elite football right now. Every one of them risks it all to go forward at every chance. They’re the antidote to all Neville’s complaints on Sky.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
And Dembele of course. Spent so long be so annoyed that a player so remarkably good at football could be that bad at football. The entire sport is better off when Dembele is at least somewhere near his extraordinary potential.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The best - possibly only - thing about PSG finally becoming a serious football team is that I’m no longer so sad for Marquinhos, who for a decade deserved so much better.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The most simple and crucial part of that whole routine is just getting back on side for the kick, lads.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Two co-comms is one too many. I’ve got McCoist, best in the business, I don’t need another.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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some of you may die written on a poster with shrek and two knights
Alt: Trump Farquaad throwing the population into the furnace so he can buy another gold something or other.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
So jealous of Lyon fans having both Almada and Cherki 😍
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Saw these guys today and told them all how great they are. Keep up the good work, folks! Xx
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Tough to feel even the slightest bit sorry for any of those miserable Madrid fans; those lads have had way more than their fair share.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
If the Liverpool goal is not offside then the law needs changing, again. Ludicrous to suggest Diaz didn’t have a major impact, whether he meant to or not And that Tarkowski “tackle” was as moronic as it was dangerous. Don’t understand for the life of me how that wasn’t a red.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
So proud of this. A lot of hard work from a lot of great people. The MUNDIAL PUMA King is beautiful, and it’s out now! Please enjoy the film we made:
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 17/03/2025
why does everyone hate my car | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: A GUY behind the wheel of a car. He squints. A speech bubble comes from an earbud in his ear.
GUY: Huh that's weird. 
VO: What's up?

PANEL 2: The GUY looks baffled.
GUY: Oh, everyone outside is flipping me off and booing?
GUY: I'm just a normal guy, going to work!

PANEL 3: A shot of the car from the outside at a stop sign. It's got a big middle finger on the top, and a huge sign on top of it that says FUCK EVERYONE WHO IS NOT ME! A GUY ON THE SIDEWALKis giving it a thumbs down.

PANEL 4: The GUY, crying.
GUY: Why are they being so mean to me?!
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Drury on comms 🙄 Primed for a ludicrously emotional recital of some 200-year old Geordie poem to accompany the first Newcastle corner.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Rangers - Fener: Proper game of football, this. Two teams going to head-to-head, playing forward, taking risks, playing with courage.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
18yo Luighi after being subjected to racial abuse from fans vs Cerro Porteno U20 in Paraguay on Thursday: ‘Are you serious? You’re really gonna ask me about the game? Seriously? After that? What they did to me was a crime! What are CONMEBOL gonna do? What about the CBF?’ Impressive young man 👏
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StaMusica @stamusica.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Luighi, estamos com você! Seu discurso e sua posturas foram gigantes! Rascismo nunca mais!
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Great fun in Manchester making stuff for @mundialmag.bsky.social today.
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Brilliant article www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
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I’ve written my last book on boxing. The ring is darker than it has ever been | Donald McRae
For more than 50 years I’ve revelled in the epic, electrifying courage of boxing. But deaths, gangsterism and sportswashing have made it much harder to love
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Toxic misogyny, brought to your football feed by Stake 👌
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hats off to Big Jim -takes some doing to be even more embarrassing off the field.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
VAR is a joke. That’s a pathetic decision. Can’t for the life of me understand how they saw anywhere near enough to change that call. Absurd.
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
That’s a tame shot, mid-height, straight at Pickford’s side. He’s got to be saving that, right?
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Working in Cape Town all next week. Recommendations, ideally ones that don’t involve sharks?
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Rupert Fryer @rupert-fryer.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Great read. Genuinely unsure if Big Jim’s reign so far could possibly have gone any worse? One catestrophic error after another, leaving a toxic, depressing shitshow at every department of the club. And to think these people stroll into the game thinking they’re smarter than everyone who came before
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS
Screenshot from a tweet. In the first tweet, a transcript of the Hannity Musk interview is played. Hannity says “you’re going to help rescue two astronauts” and Musk says “they were left up there for political reasons”

Astronaut Andreas Mogensen says “What a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.”Elon replies “You are fully retarded. 

SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago. 

I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY to the Biden administration and they refused. 

Return WAS pushed back for political reasons. 

Idiot.”

Andreas Mogensen replies “Elon, I have long admired you and what you have accomplished, especially at SpaceX and Tesla. 

You know as well as I do, that Butch and Suni are returning with Crew-9, as has been the plan since last September. Even now, you are not sending up a rescue ship to bring them home. They are returning on the Dragon capsule that has been on ISS since last September.”A tweet from Elon Musk. It reads “It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting the @Space_Station. 

It has served its purpose. There is very little incremental utility. 

Let’s go to Mars.”
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is exactly how Hitler talked. It's not even a comparison or analogy, as people claim. It's a direct connection in ideology as well as a similar approach to governance and relationship to democracy. This needs to be how we talk about it. They are the ideological descendants of Hitler.
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VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: "We cannot rebuild Western civilization. We cannot rebuild the United States of America or Europe by letting millions and millions of unvetted illegal migrants come into our country. It has to stop.

Thank God it stopped here. But it's got to stop there."
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