alyson rudd
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Sportswriter with The Times. Also novelist. Sometimes combines the two to form VAR dystopias
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VAR was only ever worth having to prevent gross miscarriages of justice. Oh the irony that it robs the game of any sense of fairness and joy and finds fault where no one sees it. It’s a wronger of rights.
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It was both thought provoking and a delight to spend time with
@NevilleSouthall
Fair to say this is one of the most wide ranging interviews I have ever conducted
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One of the beautiful things about football was the emotional release it prompted. Fans are now all pent up, scared to feel the joy. The replacement? Gut wrenching anger and frustration towards the grim entity that is VAR. This version of the game is bad for our health
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Former
#LFC
managers queuing up to help their former club to the title. It’s like when all the Doctors got together in Doctor Who to save the universe
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Aguero had the ball at his feet but chose to stop playing to claim for a hand ball against TAA. That is what should be annoying Pep.
#LIVMCI
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Patrice Evra does not want pity, he wants children to realise that they do not need worry about bravery, they do not need to feel shame. Powerful, important interview about abuse.
"I don’t want kids to be in my situation and feel ashamed of themselves."
Patrice Evra reveals he was sexually abused as a teenager by his former teacher. In an exclusive interview he talks to
@allyrudd_times
about why he wants to tell his story
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It’s not every day you get to interview a PL player whose sister is an MP. This was fun.
Marsha de Cordova: I knock on doors and all I get is: ‘Your brother plays for Fulham’
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Journalism is about testing the agenda. Konta frames her defeats in terms of positivity. A good reporter has to therefore question that and it is in no way patronizing to do so
#Wimbledon2019
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I have a trusted fruit cake recipe. Every time it’s yummy. Asked to make a wedding cake I decide, as it’s such a special occasion, to leave out the fruit.
#ChampionsLeague
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There is a raw honesty here that is humbling
Clarke Carlisle: I was never black enough for the family. I felt like a charlatan
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Never in the history of sport has a heavily padded man wiping his spectacles appeared so heroic
#Ashes2019
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The backdrop to this interview was the sound of excluded children learning to have fun in a caring, if under-funded, school, Neville Southall's place of work.
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How Brentford signed Eriksen. A delight to speak with Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank: I watched Christian Eriksen horror unfold – six months later I asked him to play for Brentford
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Never in the history of humanity has control of the TV remote been of such enormous consequence
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The most misleading and dangerous thing that could be sent into outer space is a half and half scarf. Earth would be invaded on the grounds that human are soppy, without pride and possess no rivalry
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VAR leads to an emotional scoreline, a real scoreline, an adjusted scoreline and, ultimately, a scoreline that detracts from the mess Liverpool are in right now
#LIVWBA
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Because VAR makes fools of those who celebrate, one day very soon there will be only nodding hopefully when ‘goals’ are ‘scored’
#mantot
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Fantastic to hear that
@chris_kammy
is on the mend. Some quite superb anecdotes from Kammy and his buddy
@JeffStelling
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Dream come true for one of us
NEW at :
🤝 Alyson meets
@Alissonbecker
:
@allyrudd_times
interviews the
@LFC
goalkeeper
#LIVMUN
🏉
@BenKay5
on why Racing 92 are becoming rugby's style kings
🎾
@stu_fraser
: how Andy Murray is getting back to fitness
✍
@MattHughesTimes
's Football Notebook
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Humbling and inspiring to speak to Paula Radcliffe and her very brave daughter Isla about Isla's cancer diagnosis
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Oh we do like a foreign accent (as long it's not American)
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This reminds me of when I kept on eating mussels because I loved mussels and was violently ill because I was allergic to mussels but refused to believe it because I loved them so much and kept on eating them...
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Hotels that still use shower curtains should be ineligible for positive tourism rating. It’s like wearing a damp stranger’s polyester T-shirt
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A moving tribute. Gerard Houllier was thoughtful, eloquent and passionate about the game
Beautiful tribute to Gerard Houllier by his friend
@PhilippeAuclair
of the FWA national executive committee.
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Rudd meets Becker or, if you prefer, Alyson meets Alisson. This will be on my advent calendar of life. He is both humble and a hoot
Exclusive: "I saw Jürgen and I thought, ‘What is he doing?’"
Alisson tells
@allyrudd_times
about being part of Klopp's on-pitch celebration, THAT save against Napoli and facing Manchester United
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Had forgotten about this. Classic TV. RIP Eddie
RIP Eddie Large 💙
Here’s Eddie Large on Fantasy Football League 👍🏾 📺⚽️
@Baddiel
and Frank Skinner at their best! ✅
Plus Barca Babes
@allyrudd_times
(♥️ the shellsuit) in the audience! Who won the cup match?
Thanks for all the laughs!!
#ripEddieLarge
#swalesout
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Nothing in the history of football makes more sense than
#LFC
swooping for Gylfi Sigurdsson
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Relentless,solid, intelligent and selfless campaigning really can bring the truth to light. I am in awe of those who never gave up
#jft96
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May's advisors assumed Corbyn would remain a socialist caricature throughout the campaign. Instead she became a Tory automaton
#2017Election
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The intense, catch you on the break, see you later Leicester has run out of puff. They are the hare asleep under the tree in the sun
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No VAR. It’s like no rain on your wedding day. It’s the pneumatic drill operator going AWOL as you take a call. It’s hot chocolate when it snows. It’s just lovely.
#FACup
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What is a football club? Do you support the players, the badge, the place, the manager, the identity, the history, the owner, the style, the songs, the humour, the post game pint, the past icons, the trophies won and lost ... or the prospect of a closed shop?
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The title race it seems will be determined by the discipline and organization of those not in it
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VAR is anti football. A sublime goal partially spoiled by long -winded, tense review that was unnecessary
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For journalists not to ask these questions would make them complicit in the act of sports washing. It’s not about holding sports people to a higher moral standard. It’s about recognizing what this LIV thing is really about.
#Golf
's moral maze...
"If Vladimir Putin had a tournament would you play there?"
@IanJamesPoulter
- "I won't comment on speculation"
"Would you have played in Apartheid South Africa?"
@WestwoodLee
- "I can't answer a hypothetical question"
@NeilMcLeman
with the questions
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Tickets should be sold on proviso you stay until the final whistle. If that is too tiresome then stay at home on watch it on the telly while your car smiles at you from your driveway
#AFCvLFC
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And to think there was a time when to tune into European football was to risk falling out of love with the game through sheer boredom. It has a been three days of the beautiful and the daft and the inept and the unpredictable
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Watching
#FFC
on red button is beautifully retro. No replays, no HD and NO VAR. Oh and the football is rather pretty too
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"A mother does not expect to hear this from their own child." The toughest part for Patrice Evra was telling his mum two weeks ago that he had been abused. His message to those who have suffered is not to feel shame.
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The mood at Selhurst is a mix of sour milk, hissed annoyance and imminent vomit
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Michael Hector is busy writing a philosophy based, not on Hegel, but the best and worst of German coaching
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Presumably next season they will disallow goals created by a clever reverse pass because the player was using his brain
#FULTOT
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VAR on penalties. It’s the bone China dinner service wedding gift you put in glass fronted cupboard to boast about but NEVER dare use to actually eat off.
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Students thinking of a career in football -be it as a physio or a journalist or a budding CEO- might want to apply for two days of access all areas at Brighton & Hove Albion
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@nedboulting
might just have the toughest job in sports commentary. But it’s also enormous fun.
Boulting: Dodging falling objects, trains that don’t stop and pepper spray – it’s all a bit Bear Grylls
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How on earth have Iceland reached the World Cup Finals? Their President helps to explain a football miracle.
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United are dangerously out of control here. A truck on a hill with the handbrake off. Causing mayhem.
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Those lists we get in a few days to sum up the season.
Best goal. Most emotional moment. Critical decision. Jump off your sofa moment. Greatest celebration. Best post match interview...
#alisson
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Stockley Park is not a magic cave. It’s just refs with TVs and an increasing lack of self worth
#CHETOT
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Tim Ream on how
#FFC
are playing the prettiest footie in the Championship and on the snootiness towards Americans
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I am in nominative determinism heaven with imminent arrival of a keeper called Kepa. Plus Allison at Liverpool? It's been a nice window
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You know when you had a jigsaw puzzle in a hotel and then realized 3 puzzles had been mixed into the same box so you gave up and played draughts instead? Mourinho is still trying to force a piece of cloud into a kitten’s mouth
#ManchesterUnited
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The problem with VAR is that the subjective calls are too subjective and the objective ones are too hair’s breadth. Worst of both world’s are colliding to kill football
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A generation of Brits who just adored Brazil, would cheer for Brazil, found themselves swearing at Neymar and not bothered they are out
#WorldCup
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Referees need to be stricter on verbal abuse. It was about the only thing I got right when refereeing..
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the cross from Salah and control of it by Van Dijk were both so beautiful my brain can't quite compute why it did not result in a goal
#ARSLIV
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What is truth? In real time Cahill tackle is dangerous, on replay looks less so. Video tech would blur not define
#CHEBUR
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“Hate will never be in my heart," Patrice Evra says, "I don’t hate the teacher that abused me. That’s the crazy part of it."
It was a privilege to hear Evra's story, not least because he is constructive, not vindictive.
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Koeman surveys the wreckage like a man who has seen his Ford Fiesta crash when he used to drive Aston Martins. He simmers nauseously
#EFC
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This reminds me of the time I made my mum watch Marseille in CL Final. It will be exciting I said. She has not trusted me since
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Fully expect Mourinho to build a 100ft replica of Europa League trophy, istall it in his family home's front garden and snog it daily
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A defeat adds texture to the narrative, a dash of intrigue, a sprinkling of doubt. It’s a good thing
#watfordfc
#liverpoolfc
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I’ve accepted
#7bookschallenge
from
@rwilliams1947
to post covers of 7 favorite books without comment on successive days, each day inviting someone else to do likewise. On day 1 I nominate
@jimw1
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Clearly the height and stature and experience of Lisandro Martinez is all Ronaldo’s fault. As is the pace of Harry Maguire. Oh and the deployment out of position of Eriksen,that too.
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Real Madrid. Refusing to call 999 until their pants are on actual fire
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Remember when we asked: what would be worse? Brexit or Trump? Oh how we laughed.
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Before he was murdered, Nadia Nadim’s father told her to be ambitious in life. I think she heeded his advice. A remarkable woman
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History, culture, memories and decent pasta don’t play football yet we weep over a team that are pretty ordinary because of what they were
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Even more remarkably Petr Cech did not take
#CFC
penalty. There's just no sentimentality left in the game any more
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He's been told to curb the crazy tackles but
#FFC
will not want to curb his enthusiasm. And a hot tip; Mitrovic very likely to score v QPR. He loves derbies
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Just reading folk wishing each other Happy Jari Litmanen Day fills me with joy. The only player to have made me, as a grown up, literally jump in glee at witnessing such unselfish subtle genius.
#infatuation
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Limp. Not sure I have ever used that word before to describe
#LFC
. Limp. Horrible word. Limp. LIMP. LIMP.
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Oh how I love this man. LOVE him
"He had an ethereal, mystical quality and rather than be the star, he chose to make stars of those around them."
Each day this week, our writers pay tribute to some of football’s more unlikely heroes — today it's
@allyrudd_times
on Jari Litmanen
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