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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is so funny, the defender goes through him, makes contact and due to which Guimarães misses the shot, but still ball comes off Guimarães' backhill, at no point the defender gets the ball. Ref no penalty to Arsenal, VAR: checked and cleared. 😂
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 25/07/2026
Do share if you feel like helping England's amputee footballers make it to the World Cup x
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Jonathan Tannenwald @jtannenwald.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A terrific column from @sprtswtr.bsky.social: "The change needed to push American soccer forward is not an easy fix. OK, well, it is, but it requires a dedicated strategy and a collective belief that development, not greed, needs to be at the forefront." www.inquirer.com/soccer/world...
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Want to win a World Cup, America? Start doing better by the kids. And their parents, too.
If there isn’t more of a fight to make sure that the status quo doesn’t become the legacy of this World Cup, history looks bound to repeat itself in four years.
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Fifthcolumnblue @fifthcolumnblue.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Argentina.
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Fossil Free Football @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Aramco Young Player Award (yes you read that correctly), handed out by Aramco chairman and PIF governor Al-Rumayyan to Pau Cubarsi. A player who played an amazing tournament while his country was on fire and yesterday's training cancelled due to wildfire smoke. #Cubarsi
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sfjohn.bsky.social @sfjohn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
There’s been a lot of good and a lot of bad at this World Cup, but an overlooked disaster is @edaarons.bsky.social player ratings on the guardian. Football365 has regularly called out how silly player ratings are in general, but these have been a new low
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 12/07/2026
A bad drawing of England's World Cup squad being serenaded with Oasis' Number #2 chart smash 'Wonderwall' (1995)
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A reminder that UEFA has more Russians on its committees and sub-committees than Fifa does, including Putin crony Alexander Dyukov, and has never suspended the Russian FA itself, which still attends its Congress.
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Fifa’s shift from goal difference to head-to-head to decide groups is an inexplicably terrible decision that has needlessly killed or muted loads of final-round group games USA-Turkey would have tonnes on it, for one Now it’s a needless dead rubber www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
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This baffling Fifa decision could ruin the World Cup’s famous group stage drama
The final round of group stage games will lack the drama of 2022, with a strange decision to revamp the tie-breaking rules likely to produce a number of dead rubbers
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Simon @hantsravens.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This guy is a complete numpty…(Alexi Lalas) when comparing legendary status of Haaland to Ibrahimovic. There is no way you can say this about Ibrahimovic, when Haaland is still this early in his career… I don’t think Alexi really knows how good Ibrahimovic was… (Fox Sports) #WC26 #WorldCup26
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 05/06/2026
Picture 2 is deeply alarming
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We've had enough. The press is one of the last guardrails against Gianni Infantino's autocracy. But Fifa does all it can to crush the media and prevent us from doing our work. An editorial from @josimarfootball.bsky.social. And please support us if you can.
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Omerta - josimarfootball.com
The press remains one of the last checks on Fifa’s power. Gianni Infantino and his media office are cracking down on it.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Chapter III: Fifa’s new prediction market partner Adi Predictstreet’s cast of controversial characters keeps growing: in 2018, its new Money Laundering Reporting Officer Colin Piri accepted a two-year ban from Gibraltar’s financial watchdog over his then-employer’s AML shortcomings.
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Fast and loose - josimarfootball.com
Fifa’s new prediction market partner Adi Predictstreet's cast of controversial characters keeps growing: in 2018, its new Money Laundering Reporting Officer Colin Piri accepted a two-year ban from Gib...
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The biggest obstacle investigative journalists face in 2026 is not the threat of SLAPPs or the ever-diminishing resources at their disposal. It is apathy, as if bad/fraudulent/criminal behaviour was now *expected* of anyone in a position of power and of all institutions. Expected, and accepted.
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JosimarFootball @josimarfootball.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Fifa Code of Ethics prohibits active participants in football from endorsing sports betting operators. How is it that Atlético de Madrid’s manager Diego Simeone is the current official ambassador of Betinia and Campobet? By @philippeauclair.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2026/04/29/c...
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Catch me if you can - josimarfootball.com
The Fifa Code of Ethics prohibits active participants in football from endorsing sports betting operators. How is it that Atlético de Madrid's manager Diego Simeone is the current official ambassador ...
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The PL's economic model is not broken - because there is no "economic model" to be broken, just an uncontrolled mess rife with accounting dodges. Villa sell a venue which only opened last December, making a 200% profit in the process. The buyer? Villa. No problem. Which is the problem.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Rest assured that Tim will still be around to hand out gold statues to authoritarians around the world in exchange for tariff relief
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Tremendously depressing read. Also: proper reporting. open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 18/04/2026
Another great debunking by Emma and another example of GB News being absolutely terrible…
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New by @uglygame.bsky.social for @josimarfootball.bsky.social: part III of our investigation into Fifa's new "prediction market" ADI Predictstreet, which seems to have a knack for employing people with interesting backgrounds.
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Fast and loose - josimarfootball.com
Fifa’s new prediction market partner Adi Predictstreet's cast of controversial characters keeps growing: in 2018, its new Money Laundering Reporting Officer Colin Piri accepted a two-year ban from Gib...
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Sam Kunti @samindrakunti.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
From a frontman accused of insider trading to a CEO with links to Qatargate, Fifa's new gambling partner Adi Predictstreet is building a solid reputation in record time. The launch also failed. By @uglygame.bsky.social for @josimarfootball.bsky.social 👉 josimarfootball.com/2026/04/09/m...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/04/2026
J.K. Rowling Escapes  Insane Asylum theonion.com/j-k-rowling-escapes-in…
J.K. Rowling Escapes  Insane Asylum
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The laziest, most pig-ignorant, scandalous piece ever written about the Premier League's shameful toxic relationship with illegal gambling operators. Written by Martin Samuel for @thetimes.com.
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Gambling is everywhere, so why is Premier League treated differently?
Pressure on Premier League clubs to outlaw betting companies as main shirt sponsors will do nothing to protect vulnerable while costing top-flight clubs £80m
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Still no response from Shakira and her management as to where the miilions earned by her World Cup song "Waka waka" have gone, when they were earmarked for Fifa football charities. Link to our @josimarfootball.bsky.social story on the subject in thread.
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Waiting to see how British media will report on the strong showing of left-wing candidates and the (nowhere to be seen) far right tsunami in the French local elections. My guess is that they won't.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I hope @stevengoff.bsky.social will forgive me for posting those two screenshots from his TL side by side, as they make quite an impression when placed next to each other. No wonder Polymarket is banned in a number of countries. It should be banned everywhere.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Now watching the Illegal Betting Operators Derby, bj88-W88, listed as Bournemouth-Sunderland by the PL. Both clubs also take money from 8Xbet, linked to human trafficking and enslavement in Cambodis. W88 leads 1-0 at HT.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 11/02/2026
What if you made a jetpack using rifles? What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! youtu.be/IdlQsjq5vKo
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What if you made a jetpack using rifles?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
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Gunnerblog @gunnerblog.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🎥 "Kai's Final Flourish!" - Arsenal 1-0 Chelsea (4-2 agg) | On the Whistle youtu.be/kPDvChw_s1Q
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"Kai's Final Flourish!" - Arsenal 1-0 Chelsea (4-2 agg) | On the Whistle
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/02/2026
“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 01/02/2026
10 years after he went to jail for procuring a child for prostitution.
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Michael McKeon @grinch67.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
So I just learned that Enterprise is renting vehicles to ICE. I infer ICE has a contract with Enterprise. I hope that you will consider that, regardless how competitive Enterprise charges might be, when you next rent a cat. Personally, hell will freeze over before I next use Enterprise.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 20/01/2026
International Station xkcd.com/3195/
Comic. [Two people floating with objects surrounding them.] PERSON with ponytail: You know, NASA and Roscosmos actually originally named it The *International Station*, but a translation issue led someone to accidentally transcribe the formatting.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News: "A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it." www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...
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What the Trump Administration Is Buying With CBS's Reputation
The administration's story about the Renee Good shooting was falling apart. CBS gave them the credibility to put it back together.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
In hope that far more powerful media than ours will finally pick on a scandalous story of collusion, association with criminal groups and pure greed we've been telling for well over four years now at @josimarfootball.bsky.social.
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … Amorim and Maresca being thrown overboard in power struggles
Our cartoonist on a typically sedate start to 2026 at two of the Premier League’s biggest ‘projects’
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
There is much to admire in what Sunderland, the team, are doing this season, and this first half against Man City is no exception; but there is a lot that is questionable about the club's addiction to gambling partners: six on show at the SoL tonight, including two illegal operators, W88 and 8XBet.
Visual used to announce Sunderland AFC's shirt sponsorship deal with illegal Asian-facing gambling operator W88, showing club crest and W88 logo.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
It is in fact *eleven* in the Premier League when taking into account the in-stadium LED boards advertising; and all of the white label "licences" have now been either revoked or surrendered. Just shocking.
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Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I have zero marketing budget so reposts on the below are MUCH appreciated! I’ll have links to the podcast and website soon!
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/12/2025
whoever wins we lose
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Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I'm bored today so I decided it's time to announce the secret project.
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SECRET PROJECT REVEALED
YouTube video by Gary Whitta
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 11/11/2025
"No Mr Bond, I expect you to deliver 40-50 packages before your first piss break"
Bond Amazon
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/11/2025
Apparently loads of my work is being sold on that Ali Express, if you're an artist who tries to make a living from your work I suggest you check if your stuff is there too.
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