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With us, finally, to share his football fascinations & irritations on 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔 is crisps ace, Premier League highlights merchant & one of English football's most prolific podcasters...

...it's Gary Lineker

A pleasure to chat to Jeremie Frimpong for this The Athletic | Football interview.

We talked about adjusting to Bundesliga life, and making changes and refinements to his game.

He’s a player hurrying to football’s summit.

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Presumably his role was that he made a commitment that Declan Rice would stay at West Ham

🔴⚪️BRAND NEW POD

It's Matt Davies-Adams, Nick Miller & Steve Wright, with David Marples, talk about heartwarming Ryan Yates-themed content, Man City frustrations/optimism & why it's all going to be fine.

Plus, a quiz that admittedly went on for a bit too long #NFFC

‘It was 10 seconds of stupidity’ - inside the education course for banned fans.

My time with Tony, a Sheff Utd fan who was put on a ⁦restorative justice course after shouting homophobic abuse.

With thanks to Kick It Out for letting me see how it works. theathletic.com/5457874/2024/0…

This is superb by Tomás about Guernica/Gernika - the painting, the bombing, Franco and the football club theathletic.com/5438566/2024/0…

Since 2020, Stuart Potts has housed hundreds of homeless people in his own one-bed flat. I’ve been spending time there over the last few months. My latest for The Guardian Long Read theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

monty, for one million pounds, what does ulez stand for

🫡 Laura Williamson

This message is blunt and frank and every journalist should read it.

▪️ Will this be a sad, messy end to Jurgen Klopp’s time at Liverpool?
▪️ Is Erik ten Hag talking himself out of a job?
▪️ Has Bukayo Saka returned to form at the perfect time?

Nick Miller brings you the big talking points from the weekend.

'Ryan Yates, much loved in these parts.'

Peter Drury there, displaying the rich benefits of not being on Twitter.

Gary Neville definitely keeps an eye on the plates being brought out of the kitchen in a restaurant so he can say 'this is ours, I think'

Absolutely love a goal scored by someone who you say “what the fuck are you doing there?”

Bruce Willis, Moose, Weird Al Yankovic

My colleague Liz Edwards will be doing a massive walk on May 11th to raise money for Alzheimer's Society. Please donate if you can -- although the gang Times Travel will pitch in for blister plaster supplies... justgiving.com/fundraising/li…

I’m going to insist that if I go into cardiac arrest, one of these defibrillators is not used on me, because we can’t let the wokes win