
Jacob Whitehead
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✍️ Reporter for @TheAthleticFC. Mainly investigations with a bit of cycling & #NUFC. Read books, climb hills, make soup. 📚🏔️🥣
Joined July 2013
“Then he died in my arms.”. On January 6, Hani Al-Masdar was killed by an Israeli missile. He was nicknamed ‘the Maestro’; crowds in Gaza compared him to Pirlo. He coached Palestine’s Olympic team. He ran outside to save his sister. He was a civilian.
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Hani Al-Masdar was one of the greatest-ever Palestinian footballers and an assistant coach of the Olympic team. This is how he lived and die
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Very pleased to be a tiny part of their story — current coaching staff came aboard after reading this piece in @TheAthleticFC back in November 2021:.
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Football may be about to come to the Marshall Islands - but rising sea levels are posing a serious threat to their international dreams
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The Marshall Islands, the final nation in the world to have never played an 11-a-side game, have now joined the rest of the globe. Played against the US Virgin Islands last night. Lost 4-0, but competitive, and hit the post at 2-0.
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The Pacific Island nation, which boasts fewer than 40,000 inhabitants, played the US Virgin Islands on Thursday.
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RT @TheAthleticFC: The Premier League’s legal battle with Manchester City is unresolved. There has been absolute silence in this calendar y….
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“Welcome to the season where everything might change - or nothing might change.”. This is what we wrote last year about #MCFC’s 115 charges. This year? Still applicable:.
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Once again, here we are: the start of a season in which everything, or nothing, might change in English football
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RT @BritishCycling: The fastest man on the planet 🚀 . Matt Richardson's record breaking effort from Konya today, in full: . @UCI_Track | @S….
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RT @SoccerFedMI: FT: 🇻🇮 4, 🇲🇭 0. Whatever the score, so proud of what was accomplished. Tonight, we made history.
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RT @TheAthleticFC: Premier League CEO Richard Masters refused to be drawn on questions surrounding the apparent delay to the league’s ongoi….
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RT @Vaughters: Ben Healy on his stellar Tour de France: ‘I was climbing up the Hautacam with a massive smile on my face’ - The Athletic htt….
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The Irishman speaks to The Athletic about his career-defining summer and his plans for the road world championships next month
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RT @CDEccleshare: “Individuality plus a combination of precociousness, attractiveness and visibility. Put those things together and it's a….
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Stalking experts say that tennis has particular conditions and characteristics that make its players targets, regardless of the era.
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RT @GeorgeCaulkin: Woooooooooo we are so back!. It’s the first proper @PodontheTyne of a new era. Please have a listen, tell us what you th….
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RT @anantaajith: Excited to be heading up a new weekly column for this Premier League season - look out for the Alternative Table on @TheAt….
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In many ways, last month was Ben Healy's Tour de France. Outside Tadej Pogacar, he was its compelling force — stage winner, yellow jersey wearer, almost King of Ventoux. Olive was its breakout star as well. This is his Tour in his words.
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The Irishman speaks to The Athletic about his career-defining summer and his plans for the road world championships next month
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Really good this from @ChrisDHWaugh. FWIW, think the one attribute that #NUFC have been missing from their No 8’s is the box-crashing gene, and Ramsey offers that in spades.
⚫ Left-sided No 8 competition ⬅️.⚪ Longstaff replacement, but not like for like 🤔.⚫ Why #AVFC willing to sell 💸.⚪ Will he start? 🔮.⚫ Can #NUFC afford him without sale? 💰. 🔍 Why #NUFC want to sign Jacob Ramsey & where deal stands, w/ @J_Tanswell:.
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Spanish mountain biker Edgar Carballo Gonzalez banned for a year for sexual harassment of another rider. The 36-year-old made "sexual advances, with inappropriate physical contact and the use of the word ‘rape’". Story via @JessMCHopkins:.
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Edgar Carballo Gonzalez, 36, was found guilty of “sexual and non-consensual actions”.
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RT @David_Ornstein: 🚨 Alexander Isak adamant he will not play for Newcastle again. Even if window closes without exit 25yo views #NUFC care….
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Welcome to the 11th edition of The Athletic’s Transfer DealSheet for the summer 2025 transfer window.
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RT @PJBuckingham: Watched Sheffield Wednesday begin their new Championship season from outside of the King Power Stadium. Along with 2,000….
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The Championship club have endured a turbulent summer and fans made their feelings clear as the season began on Sunday
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RT @CPJMENA: The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing of @AlJazeera journalist @AnasAlSharif0, alongside Al….
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RT @manisha_bot: EXCLUSIVE: Investigation proves Palestinians indiscriminately shot by Israeli military near food sites across 50 days, fro….
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Investigation based on visual evidence, bullets, medical records and testimony appears to show sustained pattern of Israeli shootings
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Brandon McNulty wins the Tour de Pologne after victory in final time trial. First major stage race win of the American’s career:.
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The 27-year-old had been second entering the stage, seven seconds behind INEOS Grenadiers’ Victor Langelotti.
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