Kat Lucas
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Assistant sports editor and journalist @theipaper Author, 'Tottenham, from the Lane' Stories to: Katherine.Lucas @inews .co.uk
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In addition to the banner at Celtic Park, an armband worn by James McClean vs Cheltenham today 👏
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It's like Kleberson saying to George Best let me know when you've won the World Cup
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Paraticiao.
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Today’s game will probably be forgotten quickly, but it meant the world to me
Thank you,
@ManUtd
- that’s for you, Mum.
One last trip to Old Trafford.
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Did Sky Sports actually just put the actual football match taking place into a corner of the screen so they could show Paul Pogba arriving at Old Trafford?
#CRYTOT
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Big read 👇On the takeover tug-of-war at
#ReadingFC
- Exclusivity now on horizon next week
- Bidders include Genevra, ft. Talal Al-Hammad (
#wafc
docked points under him)
- Spoke to Daniel Loitz about £28m bid
- Takeover more complex than other clubs
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If
#WEURO2022
is to have a knock-on effect in steering PL fans to WSL, one big issue is women's games clashing with men's. On the opening weekend:
- THFC and AFC both play on same day as men's team
- West Ham's game will overlap with men's
- Everton same KO time as men's
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Weekly reminder that there were Tottenham fans who thought Everton would be better than us this season because they spent money
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The year ending in one might not have won Spurs a trophy, but it has landed me a new job!
Very excited to start at
@iPaperSport
after lurking around freelance. Stories and derogatory comments to Katherine.Lucas
@inews
.co.uk
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Raziak, Gary Doherty (up front), Zamora, 2 points from 8 games, Lasagna, 8 years without winning a derby, losing 8 semi finals in a row, Gilberto, Ben Thatcher, Hossam Ghaly.
Tonight we’re playing in a Champions League final. Come on you Spurs.
#COYS
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Exclusive interview with Ange Postecoglou.
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This feels like a very long time ago this morning.
What an atmosphere at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium! 🔥
#THFC
fans are jubilant after stunning the champions!
What a start to the season! 💥
📺 Watch reaction on Sky Sports PL
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An 8.5 hour round trip by car, arriving back in Ldn around 4am
OR: An 8hr train home, arrive back in Ldn 8am
OR: £167 on trains plus a hotel, before you’ve eaten or drunk anything
And minimum 1.5 days’ annual leave. For a fifth round tie. The magic of the FA Cup.
📅 A date and time for our fifth round
@EmiratesFACup
tie with
@Boro
has been confirmed.
All the info ⤵️
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On the bright side, Beyoncé is no longer depriving
#thfc
of an FA Cup victory parade on Sunday 4
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The next elderly relative who asks why I don't have children yet, when actually they're just in this box and made of paper
T-minus three days until release
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Watched last night from the stands - the idea this is more entertaining is absolute nonsense if nobody has any idea what's going on. Piece here:
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"I'm never going to be remembered, life is unfair. I had a Game of Thrones career: amazing show but the ending was shit"
Great to speak to
@AnthonyOgogo
about boxing through loss, tragedy and a new perspective after blindness forced him to retire at 27
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Know you’re supposed to play these things a bit cool, but it’s the best job in the world.
One more to go, Stadium Australia.
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Liverpool fans thinking they’re Galatasaray when half of them are on their iPhones 🤷♀️
#LIVMCI
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BUTCHERS - a new novel on family and vengeance in the Irish War of Independence.
#Ireland
#amwriting
#Irish
#1916
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On Jurgen Klopp - Liverpool's anti-establishment hero
Backed fans who booed the royals, spoke up for the NHS and supported Hillsborough families. A socialist leader when the city needed him most
#lfc
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Steven Gerrard will avoid punishment from the FA despite saying it's "good" Jon Moss is retiring and calling for referee's performance to be "looked at"
Doesn't constitute calling the game into disrepute under the current regulations
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Naturally this photo would not be coming to light if it weren’t for a good cause.
A piece on
#Euro2022
- and why I wish I could show it to the eight-year-old me for every time I was told girls weren’t supposed to play football.
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🚨 Personal news to sum up 2020 so far 🚨
I’ve been made redundant and just like that I’m freelance again. Any opportunities writing/editing football or cricket content please hit me up over at:
katherine-lucas
@hotmail
.com
Will post a few bits of previous stuff below.
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Raith Rovers fans have raised over £9k for Rape Crisis Scotland in response to the signing of David Goodwillie.
- "I've had to explain consent to my 11-year-old daughter"
- "He is unrepentant"
- "He cannot be a Rovers player. If he is I won't be back"
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Interview with Keira Walsh
- England's patchy pre-World Cup form
- Influence of Busquets, Silva, Scott and Putellas
- Deleting Twitter at the 2019 World Cup
- Winning her first CL and a world record transfer fee
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#ENICOut
protests hit Tottenham today at 12pm.
Here’s what the organisers had to say on Daniel Levy:
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On Morocco's golden generation
🇲🇦A chat with ex-technical director Osian Roberts + Moroccan analysts
🏟️Inside Mohammed VI Academy, which produced 3 of their XI
😡Why the academy has been divisive
🌎How Atlas Lions scouted its 14 players born overseas
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“I lost my Nan in 2008, my brother in 2009, my Dad in 2012. 8 weeks after that, my cousin. You’ve got pain inside you, but I hid it."
Thanks to Jermain Defoe for a powerful interview on grief, loss and finding an escape through football 🎙️
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14 May marks five years since the final game at White Hart Lane and it was lovely to chat to former
#thfc
players about that day
“Everything was special at WHL - we did entertain”
“The greatest football moment of my life”
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So I hope this isn't too much of an overshare... but today would have been my Mum's 70th birthday
This is a little about grief, a lot about Manchester United, and finding the people we love in their football teams
#mufc
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Interview with Sam Kerr 🎙
“There’s what people see on the outside, people only see the big highs I’ve had - but football isn’t always smooth sailing”
On the Matildas’ legacy, her World Cup injury heartbreak, and how
#CFC
can finally win the CL
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My latest for
@thesefootytimes
on Big Martin Jol and a revolution that's been a long time coming
#COYS
#THFC
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No words, but a piece from Wembley.
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“We lost everything. For a football club it’s almost like a death”
FC Mariupol was destroyed by Russian aggression and disbanded in 2022
But the club has been reborn in a Brazilian suburb, surrounded by Ukrainian refugees - here’s their story
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This has done me in - but an incredible interview with
@frankirby
that's well worth a read
Interview with
@frankirby
, who was so honest about the balance of grief + elation 🏆
@TimesSport
“I don’t show that passion or that celebration as much as others…In that moment I see people getting to celebrate with their mums and that’s all I want.”
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Interview with Leah Williamson, who says she "can't support"
#Qatar2022
and calls it a "travesty"
'It goes against everything I believe in' 🇶🇦
Boycotters should follow WSL ❌
'Football should be inclusive' 🏳️🌈
Fighting for girls' football in schools ⚽️
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0.25 - Lucas Moura throwing a random man’s hat on the floor for no real reason
SPURS HAVE STOLEN IT! 😱
Two goals in two minutes as Steven Bergwijn comes up clutch for Tottenham! 😤
He hadn’t scored a Premier League goal all season before tonight...
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✅ Why we need more representation of disability football on TV
✅ The postponement of the Paralympics
✅ How lockdown has affected grassroots sport
Here's what former England captain
@jackrutter2
had to say when I spoke to him earlier today.
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Probably about time for a little Comunicado Oficial:
Delighted to say ‘Tottenham, from the Lane: The Story of Spurs in N17’ is out later this year with
@PitchPublishing
Dead parrots, Daniel Levy and Double-winners etc. etc.
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The real cost of Manchester City’s success.
Interview with Matthew Hedges, the British academic imprisoned in the UAE after a five-minute trial. TW: discussions of torture.
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Exclusive interview with Michael Holding.
"There is a worldwide accepted gesture to show you believe black lives matter. That is what has been happening since the killing of George Floyd. And you refuse to do that gesture? I will never understand it."
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No 16-year-old is allowed to bet because it is deemed too dangerous. But they can become the face of a sport overwhelmed by gambling.
A big piece on the Paddy Power/ PDC World Championship and darts' uncomfortable reckoning
#PDCWorldChampionship
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Important piece here from
@Eoin16
and
@Chance2Shine
“Our World Cup winners were the exception, not the rule. Barriers of class, gender and ethnicity are conspiring to ensure many people face insurmountable obstacles in cricket”
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Rivalry aside, I’m big enough to congratulate Arsenal on their first away points of the calendar year on May 13 👏 phenomenal achievement
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Kicking
#WomensFootballWeekend
off with a piece on the remarkable rise of Tottenham Hotspur Women under
@hillsyk5
and
@JuanC_Amoros
ahead of the
#Arsenal
game - and as always, there's lots more coming from the brilliant women
@GiveMeSportW
#THFC
#COYS
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Francesco Totti turns 43 today, so a quick reminisce about his final days at Roma.
For
@thesefootytimes
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What does Dominic Cummings have on him? We’ll probably never know because this is a country where we still pretend Prince Harry is actually Charles’ son
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If it had to be anyone, not Lucy Bronze.
Heartbreak but a night to reflect on how far English women's football has come and all who fought to make occasions like this possible.
Piece from Stadium Australia |
#FIFAWWC
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Was given this yesterday - grass from the old White Hart Lane pitch regrown in a garden. May this be the first plant I don’t kill 🙏
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SPECIAL REPORT | Qatar’s reforms not being properly enforced with migrant workers still facing “appalling” conditions.
Unpaid wages, 11hour days in extreme heat, no investigation into thousands of deaths.
One year to go until the World Cup.
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On this day 13 years ago,
#THFC
appointed one of their most popular managers of the modern era. ICYMI, my piece on the wonderful Martin Jol for
@thesefootytimes
#COYS
#Tottenham
#PremierLeague
#Football
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That’s dry January out the window
More important than any new singing. Irreplaceable (and not just because my dog’s named after him)
✍️ We are delighted to announce that Hugo Lloris has signed a new two-and-a-half-year contract with the Club, which will run until 2024.
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“I have to *make* men shake my hand, they assume you’re a physio”
There are just 4 permanent female bosses in the WSL. FA determined to change that
I spoke to Eni Aluko, academy coaches and the FA to ask why there are so few
#InternationalWomensDay
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That’s a wrap from
#WEURO2022
Seven grounds. Lost count of games and horrible sandwiches eaten.
Infinitely blessed to have covered it. Congratulations
#Lionesses
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"One day we'll look back and say, why did we think women couldn't coach men?"
A chat with Sarina Wiegman 🎙️
On women becoming leaders in football, overcoming self-doubt, grief, her England future - and being "a pain in the ass".
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Flights to Madrid booked✅
"A replay is the right thing to do."
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We broke him.
Just now, Jose walks out on post match press conference with this...
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Latest
@PitchPublishing
titles in this month's Late Tackle 👀
Very excited to read the others.
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Tomorrow I’m sitting down with a Conservative MP (something I never imagined doing but will try and be civil) to discuss NHS funding
Please let me know if you’ve read anything good on it/have anything to say
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“Triumph over adversity” has become England’s unofficial motto at this tournament. Now they stand two games from glory.
From Stadium Australia
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A look at the low attendances at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in recent weeks.
Covid, ticket prices, or the football itself?
There are still plenty of tickets available for Sunday's north London derby, which once would have been unthinkable
#THFC
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Laurel Hubbard competes today at
#Tokyo2020
'The man who changed the Olympics'
@TheChrisMosier
explains why this is a moment of 'hope and inspiration'
Dr Alun Williams of
@ManMetUni
also details the lack of research into transgender athletes
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Literally been told by a doctor I need to reduce stress...So I spend my weeknights watching Kieran Trippier man-mark Lionel Messi and trying to get Glastonbury tickets
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When Bale first joined
#thfc
he would spend hours in the gym for something to do, because the unassuming teenager was yet to make friends
By the time he left, he was one of the greatest ever. White Hart Lane would roar "Bale" every time he got the ball
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The derelict stadium meant to be hosting Euro 2028… 🏟
UK Gov and Belfast gov officials confident Casement Park will be ready.
But serious financial issues and Stormont’s collapse means there is still no agreement on who pays for its renovation
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Russo's goal was one of the best you're likely to see, but it exemplified this enthralling
#ENG
attack when they click into gear. Next, to Wembley.
Piece from Bramall Lane.
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New from Trivago:
“It is important to us to continue supporting the club (
#CFC
). We are looking forward to transition of ownership as soon as possible and want to support the club in this process. We will provide any update to our business relationship if and when appropriate
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Conte's reign will be looked back on as another wasted opportunity
But he showed incredible fortitude in one of the most difficult times of his life - that should discount any notion of it being a personal "failure"
Here's how his
#thfc
reign collapsed
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Lots have already made this point but it was your man here who decided not to have a women’s team for over a decade
Avram Glazer is at
@wembleystadium
to watch
@ManUtdWomen
in their first
#WomensFACup
final. (Photo: Ryan Pierse)
#CHEMNU
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Another calamitous start but a good account in the end - particularly from the fans, who could have made it toxic but got behind
#thfc
This was an important comeback even if CL hopes have long gone.
From the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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Understand a number of sportswomen are in hiding in Afghanistan
Women told to delete photos of themselves which could lead to their identification as athletes
Afghanistan also pulls out of Paralympics with athletes unable to leave
Full investigation:
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Take back everything I've ever said about Zoom calls.
Interview with this chief on the return of Cristiano Ronaldo, below:
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Bit of personal news, introducing Hugo Mauricio Lucas. Already has better distribution than the man he was named after
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📍In spite of this country’s lack of a proper rail system, Bramall Lane
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@Jimchri39485953
‘All the cash given him’ is from Wigan Athletic, who are run by a businessman from Bahrain
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Vilahamn-ball 👇
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