π¬ODI or T20I - Which is the more important World Cup?
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π¬ODI or T20I - Which is the more important World Cup?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gff...
π¬How will franchise and bilaterals co-exist in the future?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gff...
Does petty revenge against the NFL motivate Trumpβs embrace of the World Cup?
jonawils.substack.com/p/trump-the-...
This isnβt just about one newsletter. Itβs about the future of AI-assisted development. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
Not as joyless as the first half at West Ham but about as much quality. Centre-forward is the only position where Carrick hasn't put a round peg in a round hole since taking charge but Sesko feels the obvious change once again.
βοΈIs this the first World Cup of a new cricket era?
www.goodareas.co/p/the-big-qu...
I understand that the Premier League teams who bought strikers this summer were put off by the demands of Victor Osimhenβs agent. I donβt doubt that they were utterly ridiculous. But if theyβd acquiesced to them, they would have Victor Osimhen.
Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
ποΈHow are cricket and baseball connected?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GU_...
The birth of the European Cupβ¦
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP1d...
good piece by @conor-oneill.bsky.social on long-distance goal-scoring in the PL this season and the evidence that's it's not about the defense -- freeze-frame / density-based xG is not finding that shooters have better views on goal
I do wonder if the ball is juiced?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...
This from November showed where the ICC were already planning to make severe cuts before the latest developments.
God knows what this means for the future of the game, but a bunch of anonymous suits in non-jobs will be absolutely raging right now, and furiously working out where their next free lunch is coming from.
www.espncricinfo.com/story/pakist...
Football is about generating set pieces. Trying to do anything else is pointless.
My man
dear god
"and the ball being dried by Ethan Ampadu"
Premier League football, feel the excitement
in particular, the set piece revolution is concentrated in two places
long throws have increased massively, and continue to offer a more effective method for creating chances from deep throw-ins
in the latest Expecting Goals newsletter (free to read!) I broke down the numbers on the Premier League set piece revolution and why I think it marks a major new tactical trend in the Premier League that will be unusually difficult to dislodge www.expectinggoals.com/p/the-set-pi...
Morocco v Senegal preview, a predictable tournament, the impact of the diaspora, African coaches taking over, the importance of the Mohammed VI Academy. And who will win?
#afcon2025 #morocco #senegal
jonawils.substack.com/p/afcon-dail...
After all these years, I still hate wearing specs | Adrian Chiles
CONFIRMED:
Manchester United will play just 40 games this season β their fewest in a campaign since 1914-15 (39 games).
(This excludes seasons impacted by war).
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, whoβs been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. β€οΈ π§π·
Incredible through ball. Incredible cross. Incredible talent make it 1-1. What a goal from Bayern.
Maradona as a political figure. Maradiona as a quasi-religious figure. Maradona as a modern PerΓ³n or Gauchito Gil.
jonawils.substack.com/p/maradona-t...
fandoms fight online. personal lives become public discourse. the triumph of algorithm-friendly content, in which female athletes are encouraged to brand themselves like influencers. a column on the mary earps book, and a culture in which we're all implicated
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
If youβre a rational reader of Money Stuff, youβre stuck between a rock and a hard place. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."