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Thom Gibbs

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Senior sports writer for the Daily Telegraph. Just really love content.

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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I am in Madrid, where a lot of people feel oddly warm and fuzzy towards Jose Mourinho www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My 2026-27 Premier League kit rankings. Please enjoy, but enjoy them by being disciplined. Unlike Newcastle (home) www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/02f3b0c...
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Premier League new kits 2026-27: Every home and away shirt ranked
Thom Gibbs casts a sartorial eye over another season’s worth of jerseys after a summer dominated by Arsenal shirts
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Now to the Aztec zone for a mental game
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I have ranked the World Cup kits and can confirm that 96 kits is too many kits www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/42861bb...
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World Cup 2026 kits: every shirt ranked
From the tragic to the tasteful, there will be multitude of kits on display – Thom Gibbs offers his take on all the sartorial styles
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
World Cup week I reckon. 96 is far too many!
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
One of those results that does leave you slightly questioning the usefulness of xG
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Fabrizio Romano has some great news from the Middle East! www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Fabrizio Romano’s Saudi propaganda video is dangerous moment for football journalism
Journalist famed for reporting transfers praised Saudi Arabia’s humanitarian work – then posted an exclusive on Ronaldo staying in kingdom
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Three days after the unpleasant iftar booing, I went to Elland Road to try to get my head around its atmosphere www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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I went to Elland Road and found a defiant, intimidating bear pit
Leeds United’s gritty home stands apart from the Premier League’s sanitised norm – vote for the top flight’s best atmosphere at the bottom
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Practicing various game faces for Fighting Talk. On 5Live at 11am, or whenever on the BBC Sounds app
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
For any QPR fans in need of cheering up today, please enjoy this interview I did with Rodney Marsh www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Rodney Marsh interview: I made a joke to Alf Ramsey and never played for England again
Maverick forward reflects on eventful career on and off the pitch, his friendship with George Best and an unfortunate interaction with Pelé
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Loved the Winter Olympics and almost all of the TV coverage of it. Such a great antidote to the perma-fury of most other sport. www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/202...
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BBC should spare us the tears in their Winter Olympics cheerleading
These Games have a unique ability to hook sport-sceptics and the coverage was compelling – until the presenters started crying
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I’m now writing a daily sport newsletter. Every morning, entirely free, just for you, sign up here: www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/sec...
Telegraph sport briefing newsletter for analysis features and interviews, picture of writer Thom Gibbs
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
My favourite songs of 2025. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/playlist/0As...
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2025 bangers
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Colonel Q @lowqualityregen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
If I could be extra indulgent:
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A ★★★★ review of La bella stagione (2022)
"On my deathbed I will declare that it was absolutely not a foul" In the past 15 years documentaries have taken over from books as the most prominent medium of reliving sporting history, leading to bo...
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"(it's not 'London, 1992' is it? There's The Shard over there for one thing)," hahahaha!
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Ooh no, that looks right up my street, thanks!
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Loved researching and writing this. Think number one is just one of my favourite films ever FULL STOP www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Ranked: The 10 best football documentaries
From Diego Maradona’s flawed genius to North Korea’s first World Cup appearance, the beautiful game has inspired a host of beautiful films
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Watched In The Box, in which starry Arsenal and Spurs fans (and Gary Lineker) volunteered to be locked in a room during NLD. Found it an awkward mix of the new (YouTubers performing authentic fandom) and old (throw money at celebs) ways of making TV www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Lineker and YouTubers locked in a box without the football: A show as bad as it sounds
Sky Sports’ online offering left former MotD presenter ‘feeling like an idiot’ but at least there were some classy retro shirts on display
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I'm now writing the Telegraph's Sport Briefing daily email Monday-Friday (do sign up, link below). Looking for sport-related questions to put to our writers. Could be topical, general, leftfield. Shout if you've got one! www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/sec...
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Sport Briefing Newsletter from the Telegraph - every weekday
For the latest news from the world of sport, sign up to our Sport Briefing Newsletter for regular updates, highlights, features and interviews.
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It's filming themselves for social clips. This and many more revelations in my longread on the history of football commentary: www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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How football commentary has transformed in 100 years
From the early BBC’s clipped and proper tones to Ferdinand and Savage losing it on TNT, describing the game has morphed through the decades
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Can you guess what these football commentators are all talking about?
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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Donate to Team Lily Green & Pickle: Beating Cancer Together, organized by Marti Wells Lifschin
Join us in lifting up Lily, her family and her loyal pup Pickl… Marti Wells Lifschin needs your support for Team Lily Green & Pickle: Beating Cancer Together
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
On Fighting Talk on 5Live at 11am, please listen, my children need points from @rickedwards1.bsky.social
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Bravely went to Juve vs Inter in Turin on Saturday, to see if I could do it cheaper from London than Sunderland vs Brentford two weeks earlier. Can I just shock you? www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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I flew to Italy to watch Juventus... and it was cheaper than going to a Premier League game
Exorbitant cost of rail fares at home mean flying to Italy is cheaper, but how do the two match-day experiences compare for value for money?
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I agree! It’s wearing. And suspect it’s driven by fans consuming mainly on telly rather than the (frequently more equamimious) match attending lot
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Tedious and predictable response warning: I don't write the headline
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Did you read the article? Which mentions origination of Allez Allez Allez tune in Italy? Cheers
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Yeah, agreed, mentioned in article!
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
On the brutal Merseyside / Islington song theft beef www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Liverpool and Arsenal fans are at war... over their songs
North Londoners stand accused of imitating You’ll Never Walk Alone and unoriginality but can any chants be truly authentic?
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
So hard to photograph but incredible to see
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Thank you!
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Happy new football everybody. Here are the nation's only kit rankings: www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Premier League new kits 2025-26: every home and away shirt ranked
Pastel shades and stripes are in vogue at the start of another season as Thom Gibbs offers his definitive sartorial verdict
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Full review: www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Tom Brady questioned Wayne Rooney’s work ethic at Birmingham, new documentary reveals
During Rooney’s 83-day reign at St Andrew’s, camera captured Brady expressing his concerns about the manager
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I really enjoyed the Birmingham Tom Brady doc, found it far more interesting than its many similar predecessors, largely because it makes no attempt to paint Brady as cuddly / relatable. It's funny, too
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The Lionesses at Downing Street, feat. Pimm's, sausages and a generation inspired by how well the red carpet was laid out www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Lionesses brought down to earth with a banger after Rayner meeting at No 10
Euro 2025 winners’ visit to PM’s residence lacks riotousness of 2005 Ashes heroes, but they did celebrate with sausages and Pimm’s
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Transcontinental fridge invasions, ruined mattresses, Nadal turning up on the doorstep. All this and more in my piece about what happens when Wimbledon residents invite tennis players to stay www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2025/...
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What really happens when Wimbledon residents host players
From a ruined mattress to a visit from Nadal, a select few Londoners get a unique insight into the tennis world every summer
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Ate a sandwich and stayed hydrated at Wimbledon, with change from £60 www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2025/...
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How I did the full Wimbledon experience for less than £60
Budget-conscious fans can have a fantastic day at the Championships if they prepare well – and steer clear of the £8.85 pints
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Am cohosting a Very Special Episode of 606 from 19.30 on 5Live about tickets, prices and general fan experience
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Went to see Nick Kyrgios’ pivot to podcasting last night. www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2025/...
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I spent an evening with Nick Kyrgios – it was bleaker than expected
A stone’s throw from where he should be donning his whites next week, tennis’s bad boy instead downs shots at a live podcast recording
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
My ten favourite football awaydays www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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The 10 best football away days ranked
Whether for ambience, decibel levels or pubs per capita, these are our favourite trips in English football
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Here's the article, which ended up disappointingly light on Ultravox trivia www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Tyson Fury’s early evening f-bomb sums up strange appeal of Soccer Aid
A light entertainment show ruined by sub-testimonial football, but more worthwhile than the Club World Cup
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
While researching something related to Soccer Aid yesterday I came across this Midge Ure fact, is this common knowledge? I was yesterday years old etc...
Extract from Midge Ure Wikipedia entry which says his stage name Midge is a phonetic reversal of Jim
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
My night at Baller League. Didn’t hate it. www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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I went to see the future of football and all the fans were on their phones
Baller League is ‘a new era for football’ if you like watching YouTubers showboat for celebrity fans and placid, distracted teenagers
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Hahaha. Might have to limit it to the business class seats in front row of SA Road upper
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Enjoyed some transgressive drinking in view of the pitch www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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I behaved like a rugby fan at the football
Could an easing of draconian rules governing drinking at games make the spectacle any better? I found out...
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
An interview with Championship Manager 01/02 cheat code Cherno Samba. Cheering to hear his story and what he’s doing now www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Cherno Samba: We tracked down one of the original Championship Manager wonderkids
England U15 striker and team-mate of Wayne Rooney became a sensation when a hugely successful video game picked him out for superstardom
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Morning! This is an exclusive extract from my new book Maybe I'm Amazed, about my autistic son James & how music became our shared language. Wait for the Velvet Underground bit at the end www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘He nails it on the first take’: how the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice
After John Harris’s son was diagnosed, conversation always seemed focused on the things he would struggle with. But a shared passion for playing music grew into something James could do – brilliantly
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Went to Benidorm for first day of Cheltenham. Going: hard to very hard www.telegraph.co.uk/racing/2025/...
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I went to Benidorm to watch Cheltenham on the cheap
A cold, expensive week in the Cotswolds or enjoying the action in the sun while downing beers costing under £2 – for many it is a no-brainer
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I've reviewed the new Jurgen Klopp documentary, a meeting which could have been an email www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Liverpool’s exciting present makes Jurgen Klopp documentary limited viewing
German’s reign at the club deserves examination, but not right now – this new film has come too soon
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Thom Gibbs @thomgibbs.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
On last night's protest at Stamford Bridge. Simultaneously baffling, understandable and quite fun www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Chelsea fans protesting after club’s £1bn spend need a reality check
With two Champions League triumphs in recent memory, opposition supporters could be forgiven for a lack of sympathy towards club’s ‘plight’
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