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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this has ruined my weekend
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am not having a game in which there was an 89th-minute red card issued after all four goals were scored being described as '10-player Hammers salvage draw'. That did not happen and I will die on this hill.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
corr
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Championship club Millwall" is hilariously petty
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So he's presumably got at least the logistics of this very wrong, because Ahanor joining Chelsea and then Palace breaks at least two PL rules (can't buy a player then loan straight to a PL club, and can't have more than two domestic loans)
Romano tweet: Palace agree deal to sign Ahanor on loan from Chelsea...

Ahanor joims Chelsea from Atalanta for £40m and then joins CPFC on loan.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just in case anyone else (i.e. nobody) was concerned that Anan Khalaili's appearance for USG in a Champions League qualifier made him ineligible for Palace's Europa League campaign, fear not my friends...
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Oh mate, this is so grim
BBC News YouTube thumbnail in which the title reads: "UK records hottest day of the year, but are people getting used to it?"
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My 13-year-old sister has good taste
Picture of CD singles Five Get Over Excited by The Housemartins and What She Said by The Smiths.

Text from my sister, 13, reads: "speaking [of] the smiths and the housemartins i just bought some singles!! five get over excited by the house martin’s and what she said by the smiths i think!"
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Cowley-ball threatened an upset in the first half. Enjoyed the Southampton fans' "We spy who we want"
Colchester Community Stadium ahead of Colchester vs SouthamptonSouthampton fans at Colchester
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
me when mateta signs a new deal
machinery with branding that says 'ultra boom'
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
"Now sign Brighton's fifth-choice CB as Marc Guehi's replacement"
Ant and Dec laughing during their undercover prank section on Sat Night Takeaway
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Next three on my reading list. Will probs do Palace first, but intrigued by the Brentford book
British Rail history book, Palace at the Palace, Smart Money
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Currently reading! I sit at a weird cross-section of public opinion in which I'm largely anti-monarchy but the seven-year-old in me finds the history fascinating. I'm also a big fan of David Mitchell's work. V good so far
Unruly, by David Mitchell
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Depressing, sadly. Some good tidbits of info. Currently sat in a Colchester charity shop. Next...
Get In, by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A hardcopy I don't have to hand as I lent it to my dad straight after finishing. Bit biased about this book as JM's my hero. Dad introduced me to The Smiths before I could walk or talk, and I rekindled my love for their music during Covid. Lots of his later stuff is great
Set The Boy Free, by Johnny Marr
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This is also up there in terms of great recent sport books. Enhanced my view that the stories of people outside the status quo/elite are invariably the best. V well written
The Racket, by Conor Niland
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I read this a while ago but wanted to include because it's the best football book I've ever read. Liverpool's ex data guy goes into extreme depths on his time at the club. Great stuff
How To Win The PL, by Ian Graham
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
are we just not challenging interviewees anymore
Screenshot of an interview with Neil Warnock in the Guardian.

text reads: I already know Warnock is remembering how he missed signing Virgil van Dijk and, as we’re having an enjoyable knockabout, I ask if even a great player such as Franz Beckenbauer might have been dismissed by the stats men. The German sweeper had pace and tenacity, but his regal vision meant he could intercept a pass without needing to produce a crunching tackle. “Correct,” Warnock replies. “Beckenbauer would never have got on, would he, with the data? He’d have been playing Sunday league, Beckenbauer.
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Do they fancy sending Palace another £50m?
Michael Olise named Bayern Munich's player of the season
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
properly learning about 20 years too late, wish me all the best
a v basic electric guitar
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
today's running attire
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
speaks to the quality of the rest of the Premier League that this starting 11 doesn't have a stronger chance of staying up
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
we have lost all meaning of the word 'exclusively'
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
zero comprehension skills
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
👀
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
... has he?
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Couple of days off work so it's FM time. Here's my squad for season two. I somehow won the league in my first season because 1) Olise, Eze, Wharton and Guehi are extremely OP, and 2) this edition has basically been Morale Manager. Win/lose a few games in row and it's difficult to stop the sequence.
FM24 tactics as Crystal Palace manager
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Colorado loves the Palace (via @fbref.com)
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
This is in part caused by Everton being quite bold. (Soz for pic quality) Here, Wharton and Kamada join a high man-to-man press but there's an issue: Everton are 3v3 vs defence. I'd still ideally want that back line at least 5, maybe even 7 or 8 yards further forward
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
to progress forward with the ball. It overloaded Everton at times and pinned back Mykolenko. The issues seem to come in front of the CB. Am starting to see the sense in Kamada at CM. He's a relatively efficient tackler (see below) and, in possession, progresses the ball really well. 2/X
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
a couple of #CPFC players are extremely overpowered on FM. I have not used the in-game editor here
FM24 email notification which shows my 24-game unbeaten run with PalaceLeague table showing my Palace team top of the Premier League in FM24
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
smash and grab, baby
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
the real news tonight
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
had a splendid day at Beth Chatto gardens, v peaceful, saw a heron and bought a plant that's ever so slightly too big for the pot I acquired for it
boat in water at beth chatto gardensheron next to a lake at beth chatto gardensplant i bought at beth chatto gardensme and Megan at beth chatto gardens
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Sam Smith @sgpsmith.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
Visited a certain someone's constituency for the first time since the GE today. Provocative stickers on lampposts, weirdly strong police presence on the beach. It's going to suffer for the next five years
me on clacton pier
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