Introducing my World Cup 2026 project:

🚗 7,200-mile solo drive across the USA

🇺🇸 24 states in 48 days

🏟️ Matches in 10 US stadiums

✍️ On-the-ground features, newsletters and video diaries from a World Cup like no other

I can't wait. Full details ⬇️

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The development of academy talent into first-team players is one of football’s biggest industries and its great unknown.

In the second of a series embedded within Huddersfield Town, I try to explain how the process works in 11 steps…

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The development of academy talent into first-team players is one of football’s biggest industries and its great unknown.

In the second of a series embedded within Huddersfield Town, I try to explain how the process works in 11 steps…

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From the sheer scale of the dishonesty to Djibril Cisse offering out Mike Dean and a 5Live caller comparing Manchester City to the Suffragette movement, it has been quite a week.

Here are 27 things that fried my brain, and why...

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A takeover that saves a football club is a cause for celebration, but what happens if recovery never really happens?

I went to watch Morecambe, the club that fell off a cliff. This is a lesson for football.

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Concerted, deliberate, calculated cheating is the conclusion. A Premier League heist. So throw the book at them and run the owners out of town. And Manchester City supporters should want to lead that movement.

Column (free to read)

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Swansea City were stuck fast. Now everything is new. They have signed up for Tony Bloom’s data model and they are top of the Championship. That feels significant, for them and the division.

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Manchester City greatest crime is warping reality and history for all football supporters.

The dreadful irony: the only thing worse than the uncertainty of not having a verdict is having a verdict and realising that uncertainty is now all we have.

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Journeyman 6:

Southend United are over their trauma. Now it’s the next age: moving back up the leagues and remaining transparent.

Kieron Dyer and Oliver Gage are leading that movement. It’s a fascinating club

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Morgan Gibbs-White’s game has been supercharged over the last 12 months - goalscoring, pressing, leadership.

There is no luxury here. Hopefully Thomas Tuchel is finally catching up with that.

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Todd Boehly was a five-year mistake, the great disruptor who created only a mess. He was also a useful lightning rod and a stooge. Now Chelsea’s leaders have nowhere to hide.

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A piece on Derby County, whose post-trauma era was supposed to be supercharged this summer.

Then the Saudi takeover failed, results have turned and supporters are wondering where this goes next.

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Journeyman 5:

Sheffield Wednesday was a circus; now it’s a football club again. I went to Hillsborough to speak to some of those rebuilding it.

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The first in a series spent behind the scenes inside a Football League club. First up it’s shadowing an owner:

What does a foreign billionaire actually do at a football club they own? Why do they buy? And how do they cope with what they can’t control?

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Have I got the piece for you

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The first in a series spent behind the scenes inside a Football League club. First up it’s shadowing an owner:

What does a foreign billionaire actually do at a football club they own? Why do they buy? And how do they cope with what they can’t control?

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Shrewsbury Town are on the verge of a new era. Few clubs in England need one more. After fan groups united to push for change, this has to be the start.

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Liverpool are fascinating, because I'm not sure how the attack will set up best, how the midfield balance works or what happens with the full-backs.

But they're still unbeaten and it's going to be great fun finding it all out.

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The Journeyman 4:

AFC Wimbledon have diluted their supporter ownership. That is both a great shame and a sorry indictment of a financial culture that forces compromise at every turn. Is this the death knell for fan ownership?

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