Matt Dickinson
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Senior sports writer @thetimes , trainee @Metanoia_Inst , author ‘Bobby Moore - The Man in Full’ and ‘1999 - Manchester United, The Treble and All That’
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More HUGE Mufc news - this is out today! '1999 - Manchester United, The Treble and All That' and I hope it's a cracking read. A slice of the 90s, a study of greatness, extraordinary characters and unforgettable drama...
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Terry painfully has to recount to court the song from Liverpool fans about his "mum loving Scouse cock"
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Ineos billionaire owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe confirms interest in buying Manchester United - open to talks with Glazers about taking a stake with a view to full control
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Exclusive - Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos bid more than £4bn for Chelsea
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FIFA boss Infantino told WC nations 2 weeks ago not to drag football into every ideological/political battle. He is now 45 mins into a speech on global immigration, workers rights, LGBT issues, European colonialism, freckles, female suffrage, racism, disability, orientalism...
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Infantino credits FIFA/World Cup with driving change in Qatar. Probably worth remembering that, in 2018, he also said it had changed Russia and received a medal from Vladimir Putin...
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Just got to Wembley. Looks like Freedom Day came early. Safest prediction - this will be the most pissed crowd in football history
#onlyfivehourstogo
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Says that she felt bad after practice earlier in the day, was full of stress, shaking. So when the first vault went badly, she knew she had to step away because she feared she would wreck it for her teammates
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Quite a press conference this from Simone Biles talking about how she decided after that vault she needed to step away to work on her mindfulness. Talks about how stressful it has been at these Olympics. Won't commit to Thursday. Day by day...
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Great final but Harry Kane now worth about £250m on basis of this match so far...
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The worst champion ever. And a vile homophobic bigot to boot. Apart from that, feel free to celebrate
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Been a huge week for MUFC fans. Brentford debacle, Jim Ratcliffe’s interest, Casemiro signing - and a new book reliving all the unforgettable drama about the greatest season of them all 😉
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Premier League XI could face Serie A, La Liga and Bundesliga teams in different plan for All-Star games. It hasn’t gone away….
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Brilliance of The Sopranos never ceases to astonish me. Went back to watch original pilot episode - knew within seconds that I need to watch the entire series all over again. TV perfection
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A year since the Russian invasion, Ukraine still waits for the £2.3bn from the sale of Chelsea to go to humanitarian causes
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Giroud waves arms to implore Arsenal crowd to raise their voices. Shooting/heading on target would work even more effectively
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Lots of reasons for Manchester City’s success - high among them is that Guardiola has one of the most interesting minds ever to stare at a tactics board...
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Cruyff: "Winning is an important thing, but to have your own style, to have people copy you, to admire you, that is the greatest gift.” Amen
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A column on Michael Beale, integrity, loyalty and betrayal….
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My grandpa received this yday on his 100th birthday - small but such important recognition for him and a generation who sacrificed so much to fight fascism (and never expected/wanted anyone to make a fuss of it). Can’t imagine what they went through. Can only love and admire
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Guardiola 2010 - becomes bid ambassador for Qatar 2022: “I believe the time is ripe for the first World Cup to be held in the Middle East.”
Guardiola 2022 - "We have a crazy World Cup..."
Mmmm
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So much of post-Biles reaction reaffirms that if I coached any athlete, I would advise them (strongly) to delete all social media. A shame but the perils just too great. Why put yourself through it? Get on with your sport and let the rest of the world continue being perfect...
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Damian Lewis on his wife Helen McCrory: ‘I’ve never known anyone able to enjoy life as much’. Tributes don’t come much more lovely than this...
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Tweak of bio and v grateful to
@thetimes
for enabling me 1) to continue writing about the wonderful world of sport for a great newspaper while 2) pursuing training as a psychotherapist. Very excited about all there is to do and discover on both fronts
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It's about more than fundraising - it's an act of love. Interview with the wonderful Kevin Sinfield who pushed Rob Burrow 26 miles around Leeds today....
Beautiful.
Kevin Sinfield carried Rob Burrow over the finish line at the end of the first Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon 🥹
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This is a very clever way to illustrate Pele’s genius
Everything you see your favourite player doing, Pelé did it first.
The King of Football 🤴🏿
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Sweet pic “
@barcastuff
: Picture: Messi before the game
http://t.co/KsTHG5iBGQ
[via
@messi_fotos
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Pellegrini on picking Cabellero: "I prefer to lose a title (the cup) than to lose my words (trust)"
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Can this be played on the big screen before every game? In fact, play it everywhere...
🗣️ "You have to put yourself in the shoes of a young player about to represent his country"
🗣️ "We are determined more than ever to take a knee in this tournament"
Gareth Southgate reiterates his sadness of some
#ENG
fans booing the players taking a knee v Austria
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Suspect others are getting all the MotM shouts but no way that defensive system works without Kyle Walker. Not just defensive pace but took a lot of heat off others in possession too
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Thomas: "I hit a lamppost with my head. The doctor asked me a few questions, like what was my name. I said I was Chris Froome."
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Belatedly got round to reading this
@kenearlys
piece on Moyes, which is as good as people say
http://t.co/HcADdp5pPm
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Sack a manager mid-season, reach the Champions League final. Well, remarkably, it's worked 3 times for Abramovich but Tuchel is certainly no Di Matteo or Avram Grant....
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Time to say goodbye, best days long ago, ready to move on...but enough about van Gaal
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Possibly most interesting thing I saw all Euros, passed on by Dutch friend.Talk about pressing. Remarkable
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Kalvin Phillips - did exactly what was asked of him v Kovacic and, decisively, a bit more. England's Motm for me
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Somehow never seen this before. Brilliant
@PaulMcCarthy66
@stusfootyflash
@LeeClayton_
@theofficialfwa
Here’s one you may have missed - just Gazza scoring a penalty with an unstoppable rabona
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Best piece I've read today (and not just because it so brilliantly says what I think). Bravo
@PCollinsTimes
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From the moment NZ turned down a late single through good sportsmanship, that was not a hard defeat to take
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Are we really talking about fairness in sport in the transgender debate - or fear and prejudice?
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Adam Peaty , now Tom Daley/Matty Lee and Tom Pidcock currently crushing it on his mountainbike. That's quite a Monday morning. Have sensed a slow burn of interest at home for these Games. Would think that's about to change
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Of all the managers in all the world, how do sensible people keep proposing Hoddle? Last seen doing ordinary things with Wolves 10 years ago
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Keane reached the end at mufc asking Queiroz if he f***** his wife in the same position every night. Because that's how boring training is
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Spoke to Rob and Lindsey Burrow ahead of 'Living with MND', a new BBC documentary. "You probably need to watch it with a box of tissues," she says. Best make that two boxes...
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Erling Haaland, Dixie Dean and why ‘crap old football’ deserves more respect…
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Rashford scored with fourth touch in international football. Somewhere, Rickie Lambert is reminding people he did it with his first
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Van Gaal's head isn't going to fit inside Old Trafford
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Genuinely speechless. Which is a problem when you have to write 1000 words
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Oxlade-Chamberlain lucky not to be booked for that hefty challenge by Gibbs on Hazard
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Main thought from listening to Biles - it would have been so easy to hide behind "medical issue" but she could not have been more open. Takes courage to do what she does for a living. Takes a whole different sort of resolve and self-possession to admit vulnerability
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Still my favourite touch of a football, ever RT
@BBCSporf
: 13 YEARS AGO TODAY: Bergkamp did this against Newcastle.
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If Northern Ireland go through on goal difference, Michael McGovern should never have to buy another drink in Belfast again
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Buzz going round the media tent at Lusail that Ronaldo been axed. Not just Ten Hag thinks he damages the team, then...
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Great Wooldridge intro in Zaire: "The sun had the audacity to rise over Central Africa yesterday while Mr Muhammad Ali was still speaking."
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As a young hack, Kendall once got me v v drunk. I lost a large 3am bet to him. He refused to cash the cheque. A lesson in life, all round
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FIFA president still going, 40 minutes into a speech which aspires to be Martin Luther King but veered through David Brent: "I know what it feels to be discriminated...I was bullied for red hair and freckles."
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The party goes up another notch. Everton now 2-0 down to a team that's been drunk all week
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Easily forgotten in all this is that CL expansion passed yday includes those 2 places on historic results. It's totally wrong given 6th can leapfrog 5th but all too easily accepted when 15th can mean, well, anything/nothing...
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Account was hacked last night (I’m not in the business of selling Xbox and PS5s, at least not yet). Can only hope no one was scammed though I worry looking at many of the messages, DMs etc. No idea how it happened. Can only say be careful...
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Man holds up his arm in peace - gets battered unconscious. And the tournament is less than 24 hours old...
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United bus just went past a) on time b) with all its Windows
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The great champion finishes with a quote for the ages. 'Thank you Hublot...'
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V chuffed to have finished ‘1999’ about the most amazing sporting campaign I’ve covered - and, still, unique feat of the Treble. Thanks to all the players, coaches, key figures who relived the wildest ride in sport. Out in August
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Football the sport for all? Not when the World Cup is in Qatar, but the problems of homophobia also come a lot closer to home
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Simeone "I want to congratulate the mothers of my players. They gave them big cojones"
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‘Fuck off in your Ferrari’. Sheringham reveals the three-year silence from Roy Keane at MUFC after a boozy night out. First extract from my new book ‘1999’ out next week about the historic Treble season….
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This is so much more interesting for Mark Cavendish avoiding the question re Merckx record. His recall for detail in a blurred frenzy of sprints is always astonishing
"It's like my first one. It's what I dreamed of as a kid, it's what I dream of now."
This one will take a while to sink in. Your 34-time Tour stage winner 💚
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Skill per pound, Coutinho at £8.5m takes some beating in the PL
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Not easy to offer fresh take on Leicester. This is why Wright Thompson one of America's foremost sports writers
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Van Gaal says he feels 'liderlig which is Danish for horny'. He actually checked before coming in
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Andrea Bocelli signing Nessun Dorma in a Leicester shirt in the centre circle to celebrate the title. I called ALL of that last August...
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“F***ing disgrace, you’re f***ing finished!” How it was to be blasted by Alex Ferguson - and why he resigned in fury on eve of historic Treble season. Great to see more extracts of my new book, 1999. Poignant now to recall the club’s greatest era…
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Oscar playing like Zico at Stamford Bridge. Seems happy about something
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Top scoop by
@martynziegler
on this today. As for the big clubs, every single major change to the game for 30 years has been to their benefit - but it’s never enough
Update: 'Big Six' English clubs among 12 of Europe's top teams who have signed up to Super League; PL chief warns it will contravene its rules; UEFA says will take tough line and ban clubs from Champions League:
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Wondering if the rage against Super League is magnified by the horrible, nauseous, impotent dread that enough people will actually tune in/pay for it/go with the flow. Isn’t that the worst part of it all, the worry that it could actually ‘work’ for the 12?
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No one better at reminding us not to take sport too seriously...
👀 “Fred van der Hoorn wore contacts, his eyesight wasn’t that good.”
🔁 “Dundee Utd put the board up to make the sub & I shook Fred’s hand.”
👋 “Fred looked over, couldn’t see the number on the board & just ran off.”
Another brilliant
#RangersFC
era story from Ally McCoist 🤣
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Just remembered fave St Etienne '98 story - Hoddle getting staff to walk round pitch anti-clockwise during game to create positive energy
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Not enough laughs on Twitter but the finale to this definitely tickles….
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45 mins that underlined that Maguire's fitness is a big deal. Stones to return but who alongside him? Not Mings on that 45. Ben White looked much more composed
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Mixed sport growing at the Olympics, successfully. Good to see. Lots to celebrate about it, though once suggested a mixed Ryder Cup and was like I'd unleashed the hounds of hell....
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Once spent a day with Jon Moss. He's a nice man and a very good head teacher. I'll leave it there
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As for Liverpool, they've already entered the post-Gerrard era and it's not scary. V impressive how Rodgers guided them out of early dip
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Loyalty, integrity, blah blah blah
🚨 Michael Beale travelling north to finalise Rangers move. Agreement in place that will see QPR receive asking price in compensation.
#QPR
search for new head coach under way & they hope to make appointment soon. W/
@JordanC1107
@TheAthleticFC
#RangersFC
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At a time when millions of us have been forced into lockdown, caught up in fear and caution, these racers out on the oceans have provided more than escapism...
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After a magical season, nothing like being stuck on the left wing with England to bring Vardy back to earth
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It’s winning golds across four Olympics that makes Jason Kenny achievement all more impressive. That’s not just being fast - it’s a brutal test of physical/mental endurance
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When a government believes that buying tickets for Chelsea, however spurious it sounds, can help prop up a warmonger, what an awakening it must be... (as for the obscenity of those recent chants for Roman Abramovich ...)
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