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Into the Ronaldo-verse: sludge of content is eating up sport and the adults are to blame | Barney Ronay

Footballer has 664 million followers but his boring presence is a reminder of how reel-life destroys what it touches Buy the backpack airlines hate. Fawn strangely at a child athlete. This TV presenter drank olive oil for a month and absolutely nothing happened. The streets (no actual streets involved) won’t forget (robots can’t forget) Paul Pogba (or equivalent coding). Nineties dance hits.…

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Football Daily | Real Madrid and some truly toxic vibes. Next up … El Clásico

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! This feels like a good day to distract ourselves from [ gestures in general direction of outside world ] … so let’s check in on the latest events at Real Madrid. Have they finally found dressing-room harmony? Ah. Eek. Oh boy. Two statements from the club on Thursday revealed an “incident in the first-team training session” involving midfielders…

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Like huge team crests in a stadium tunnel, football’s confected controversies are hard to avoid | Max Rushden

Many of us struggle to not get sucked into the content machine, even if we simply say: ‘This doesn’t matter’ Last week a video did the rounds of Diego Simeone getting annoyed with Ben White for walking over an enormous Atlético Madrid crest-doormat placed literally in the middle of the tunnel entrance which Ben White had to walk into to get to the room Atlético Madrid had themselves selected for…

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‘We bring in hungry, humble players’: How Cesc Fàbregas is leading the incredible rise of Como

The tiny Italian club are flying high with the help of the former Arsenal player, ambitious owners and a scouting guru inspired by Football Manager The serene sound of lapping water is broken only by the whir of a seaplane engine swooping to land. Outside the hangar to which the aircraft will soon return, a crowd has gathered well before kick-off. Later, most will scale the steep steps of the…

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PSG set up date with Arsenal as Bayern and Kane fall short – Football Weekly podcast

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning , Mark Langdon and Archie Rhind-Tutt after PSG progressed past Bayern Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts and join the conversation on email . On today’s podcast: Bayern and PSG didn’t provide another nine-goal thriller, as per the first leg, but it was an entertaining game in Munich as PSG progressed with a 6-5 aggregate win to the final, as the…

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Bev Priestman: ‘You become very isolated so I’ve loved getting back on the pitch’

The Wellington Phoenix coach reflects on the aftermath of the Olympic spying scandal and leading her team into a first A-League Women’s finals campaign Football is not the kind of profession that lends itself to time off for birthdays and the like. Especially when you’re preparing to lead Wellington Phoenix into their first A-League women’s finals campaign, as Bev Priestman was last week. Yet,…

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Michael Carrick has the light touch Manchester United need for next chapter | Jonathan Liew

Something of an obsessive with tidiness, the interim coach has beaten all the club’s closest rivals in his short time in charge We’ll get on to the more pressing business of whether Michael Carrick deserves the full-time Manchester United job in a moment. There’s plenty to discuss: tactics and philosophy, character and comportment, the squad he inherited from Ruben Amorim and how United might…

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