🍬 What silence says about Everton's 777 takeover
📆 Why FA Cup replays were really scrapped
🏆 EFL Trophy expansion plan
🇩🇪 DAZN's German rights row
🇳🇱 Abramovich delay to Vitesse sale

Matt Slater explains the Business of Sport ⬇️

🦅 Family steeped in sport
🦅 Believes backwards passes = failure
🦅 'Champions League level on the ball'
🦅 Starring role in Liverpool win
🦅 Tipped for England honours

This is Adam Wharton - the young midfielder making a big impression at #CPFC .

📝 Matt Woosnam

A big piece breaking down what makes Cole Palmer so compelling and special.

Featuring insight from experts including Alan Shearer, Daniel Abrahams and Ben Lyttleton.

👇 #CFC

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'It’s bedlam. On that day, players’ injuries are suddenly all cured! They know what it means to the city. I know a guy who traded in his $6,000 car for a ticket to the final in 2017 between Tigres and Monterrey.'

Derby Days, Mexico: The Clásico Regiomontano

Pablo Iglesias Maurer & Felipe Cárdenas

'This is happiness,' said Atalanta manager Gian Piero Gasperini.

His side beat #LFC at Anfield in 2020 during the pandemic but their Gianluca Scamacca-inspired 3-0 victory in the #UEL had 'an altogether different taste' and was something to be savoured.

📝 James Horncastle

We got through an awful lot on todays Straight Outta Cobham:

💴 a billion quid well spent 🤔
🏠 buying up the stoll site
🍬 toffees in town
🏆 #CFC W up for the cup

Liam Twomey & Dominic Fifield talking #CFC for The Athletic | Football

🎧Lucy Oliva

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𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗣𝗢𝗗! 🚨

On the agenda for Matt Davies-Adams, Liam Twomey & Dominic Fifield today...

💰 £1billion well spent?
🍬 Toffees in town
🏆 #CFC W up for the cup

Plus plenty more Blues news - and a quiz! - right here ⤵️ #CFC

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It is 29 years since the death of Paul Nixon, the #CPFC fan who travelled to the FA Cup semi-final at Villa Park and did not come home.

Piece from 2020 ⬇️

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𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗢𝗗! 🚨

A fun-filled morning reflecting on the pretty dire 2-2 draw at Sheffield United 👌

Matt Davies-Adams, Luke Bosher & Dominic Fifield on duty - plus the thoughts of Liam Twomey at Bramall Lane...

Listen here! ⤵️

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Jean-Philippe Mateta interview #CPFC

🌍 'I can be one of the best goalscorers in the Premier League'
🇫🇷 France & Champions League dream
❓ Ibrahimovic corner flag inspiration
🧠 Improvement due to more starts
😃'I'm the guy who brings the good vibes'

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Nostalgia alert: this YouTube series is absolutely brilliant by Nick Timotheou on Steve Coppell's early years at #CPFC - all set to the music of the era.

Wonderful clips and stories, too. The one about Eric Young and Joe Corrigan from 1984 is a belter...

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Spent 24 hours with Championship referee Matt Donohue, watching all that goes into football’s most unenviable role around a matchday. “It’s the long, lonely drives home when games haven’t gone well.”
✍️⬇️
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𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗢𝗖 𝗣𝗢𝗗! 🚨

We wish the results were a bad April Fools' Day joke 🤡

Simon Johnson & Dominic Fifield join Matt Davies-Adams...

▫️ #CFC draw with 10-man #BurnleyFC
▫️ #MUFC & Mount in town next
▫️ JPH on more #CFC W Conti Cup 💔

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On the roof-top pool at Craven Cottage. Including, among other things:

• No, you can't swim in it on matchdays
• Felix Magath's pool party.

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❌ 'Mobile phone guru'
❌ 'Billionaire'
❌ Manchester United owner
❌ Inter owner

Thomas Zilliacus came from nowhere to bid for #MUFC and Inter. He is worth millions, not billions, so why does he want to run one of Europe's biggest football clubs?

📝 Adam Crafton

William Storey mocked up a Sunderland kit with his Rich Energy logo on and posed outside the Stadium of Light.

He used social media and radio shows to speak to Coventry City and Reading fans.

Yet his bids for all three clubs went nowhere.

📝 Dan Sheldon Philip Buckingham

▪️ 'Second chance' after brain haemorrhage
▪️ Why he did a business Masters
▪️ One win in his first 10 games as coach (and how 'NIPSIELD' fixed it)
▪️ Watching his sons play for his first club

This is Oliver Glasner's story, told by those who know him best.

📝 Matt Woosnam

Oliver Glasner's story is unusual but those who know him speak of how he was destined for success yet remains humble & loyal #CPFC

'He’s not always had sunny days, but his career is a wonder'

Piece on his story from his hometown in Riedau, Austria 🇦🇹

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🚨PODCAST🚨

It's a Questions Special this week as Jack Pierce Joe Walker 🦅 & Dominic Fifield answer your questions on all things #cpfc .

Listen: megaphone.link/COMG6463627190

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Dozy Mmobuosi put down £10m to buy Sheffield United.

Over nearly two hours at London’s Dorchester Hotel he told Matt Slater how his Tingo group of companies would bring European football to Bramall Lane.

It was some tale. But none of it was ever going to happen.