⚽ || 📝 Football Data and Tactics Writer @TheAthleticFC Contact: [email protected]
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Absolutely delighted to have been able to write one of The Athletic's first cricket features - and no one better to write it about than the amazing @imVkohli!
A phenomenal cricketer with a generational body of work in whites when interest in Tests was ebbing away 💯
Indian cricketer Virat Kohli, who can't walk down the street in his home country without being mobbed, is retiring from the game's longest format.
@anantaajith pays tribute to a superstar who thrilled one billion of his countrymen and women and, above all, made them dream again.
🔗 bit.ly/4de6aa1
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Fake football quotes are everywhere on social media and they’ve become a huge nuisance.
Where do they come from and why are they tricking people?
Read for free @TheAthleticFC
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On October 26, 2024, the death of Philadelphia Union goalkeeper Holden Trent was announced. He was just 25 years old.
Two years on, his fiancée, family, friends and teammates are ready to talk; to remember a man who "went through a battle every single day to be the person he was".
For more than two decades, Holden Trent defied debilitating medical conditions to reach professional status in the world's most competitive sport.
This is his story.
📝 @AdamCrafton_
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The Ballon d’Or is often dismissed as a popularity contest. Is that fair?
Dug into the historical data and found that while randomness still plays a part, certain player traits are associated with a higher vote share.
This is really cool, love it @desraarya
A historic night for Bournemouth as they take on AC Milan in the Europa League
The Vitality is in full voice, flags and scarves raised high, as the rain pours down minutes before kickoff
@TheAthleticFC
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Laurie is right - it takes a lot of time, effort (+skill!) to do these pieces. This is free to read so if you can, read it at source. That's what allows us to keep doing it, and what gives you the full story.
This is the ninth of 10 lifts from our article, with no link. It takes time, effort to produce this journalism. We want people to read in full context, please address this properly by clearly citing where you got this from. I’ve asked privately already.
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This is the ninth of 10 lifts from our article, with no link. It takes time, effort to produce this journalism. We want people to read in full context, please address this properly by clearly citing where you got this from. I’ve asked privately already.
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Harry Kane? Michael Olise? Lamine Yamal? Kylian Mbappe? Or someone else..?
With less than a week to go before the 2026 Ballon d'Or winner is crowned in London, The Athletic ranks the top 10 contenders for the final time
📝 @anantaajith
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It is rare for a league match in October to be termed a ‘final’, but Alvaro Arbeloa saying so has emphasised the gravity of the situation at Fulham.
His team sit bottom of the table, with two points from six games, and face high-flying Hull City at Craven Cottage on Saturday.
But have Fulham been tactically flawed, or just unlucky, through the early weeks of the season?
📝 Analysis from @anantaajith
🔗 bit.ly/4yq7rUi
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Chelsea are scoring early goals at the highest rate in Premier League history and are Europe’s biggest xG overperformers. It is a quirky statistical hot streak that makes it almost impossible to gauge how good they are under Alonso.
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Lisandro Martinez's comments, self-serving as they may be, are probably valid. Broke down United's squad make-up, highlighting the positions where chronic underinvestment/poor recruitment have left them exposed.
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Bradley Barcola produced his finest performance for Liverpool since his summer transfer as he scored a hat-trick in what was a confident Champions League victory over an outclassed LASK in Linz.
There will be tougher opponents, but Liverpool continued their winning ways in Europe with a second win in as many games and this was a much-needed confidence-boosting performance after Sunday’s thumping against Manchester City in the Premier League.
Perhaps most crucially was the sight of Barcola and Florian Wirtz working so well together in a much-changed line-up.
📝 @adjones_journo and @anantaajith
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Tonight, a British basketball club will play an NBA team for the first time.
Read how the London Lions prepared for the Portland Trail Blazers here (free to read):
@TheAthleticNBA
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🔵 Brighton: the league's biggest overperformers
🔎 More midlands issues as Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa search for consistency
🔴 Arsenal's xG per shot surge
🎯 And how Xabi Alonso taught Chelsea to shoot from distance
The Premier League is back, and The Athletic's Expected Table examines the situation through the prism of xG.
📝 @anantaajith
Free to read: bit.ly/4yEcOA8
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Kiki Ramos was adopted at nine months old, after the devastating earthquake in 2010.
The 17-year-old is now one of the brightest prospects in Argentina - and could become the first Black player to represent the country since the early 1980s.
📝 @ThomHarris_
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Seven games played, 31 goals scored — Barcelona look unstoppable this season.
It is the best goalscoring start from a team in La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, the Bundesliga or the Premier League since 2019, and they have done it all without a recognised No 9.
As @anantaajith explains, that is part of what makes their fluid attack so unpredictable.
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Alex Baena came on at Wembley with Spain's long unbeaten run under threat.
Instantly, the forward added technical quality in tight spaces at the top of the team, helping them both to control possession and be more incisive in the final third.
📝 @ThomHarris_
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Manchester United this season. Good, bad or unlucky?
As with most teams, it's a bit of each but with Michael Carrick's team having picked up only five points from their opening five games, there are three key issues he needs to fix:
🔴 Back post defending and giving opponents high-quality chances
🔴 Deciding what sort of out-of possession approach to take
🔴 And taking too many-low value shots, Bruno Fernandes included
@LiamTharmeCoach and @Anantaajith analyse the situation at Old Trafford — free to read ⬇️
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“I always wanted to break records and (make sure) that people remembered my name.
“But I have to be honest, I didn’t expect to be the top scorer of all time at the World Cup, at 27."
@DTAthletic's exclusive interview with Kylian Mbappe.
▪️ Making World Cup history
▪️ Asking for a ‘Zidane’ haircut
▪️ Mid-air transfer talks with Liverpool
▪️ Why this could be his year for Ballon d’Or
▪️ The lure of being a ‘ghost’
▪️Why he will never be silenced
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