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The Premier League Preview 2025/26

Holy Jesus, Premier League football is back already and that means the summer is nearly over. I’ll confess I enjoyed the three-month break from organizing my schedule around live football. But now we’re back to normality – nine months of … Continue reading

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Are you one of those wankers who hates the Profit & Sustainability Rules? Don’t worry, they’re probably not here to stay

Anal warts, finding out your mate’s a Tory cunt, MacOS, Tracey Emin talking about her own work, 24 hour news channels, Winter, James O’Brien and James O’Brien being condescending, any Disney movie since 1997, Bono on politics, listening to Israeli … Continue reading

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The sale of Chelsea FC – a referendum on what doesn’t matter

Forest Gump winning the Best Picture Oscar in 1995 over Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption seemed scandalous at the time, and it becomes more perplexing as time passes. Despite being nauseatingly sentimental, it has moments, and lines that have attained … Continue reading

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By ratifying the Saudi takeover of Newcastle United the Premier League has lost control over its future

Back in August I wrote that the Premier League’s blocking of the Newcastle takeover was arbitrary, cruel and inconsistent, given they’d already let another sovereign wealth fund belonging to a country with a questionable human rights record buy Manchester City … Continue reading

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