Ex-@AFP Qatar Bureau Chief 🇶🇦, plus 🇫🇷, 🇮🇪. Work/worked @thetimes, @TheAthleticFC and plenty of others

Joined August 2013
Only one Gulf airline sponsor will do
Sky Sports News
@SkySportsNews24 Sep 2024
Chelsea are in talks with Qatar Airways and two other major airlines about a front-of-shirt sponsorship deal🚨
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Please one day, just bring this shirt back
A new kit that connects the past with the present ✨ Hand in hand towards achieving a new dream. 🇶🇦🤝 #AlAnnabi
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Hell of a trivia nugget in this, Colin Montgomerie’s family invented the Penguin chocolate biscuit. thetimes.com/sport/golf/arti…
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Is there such a thing as bad publicity?
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Teenage Ally McCoist makes his debut in English football 43 years ago and the first person he bumps into is Alan Brazil.
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Seen at London Bridge this lunchtime. Chelsea don’t have long to sell the new £3,000 “Diamond Suite”, £2,000 “Dugout Club”, and £600 “1905 Club” “matchday packages” before Thursday.
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Am working from home today
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RIP Bernd Hölzenbein, but still not sure it was a penalty
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Clearing out stuff and just discovered that exactly 42 years ago schoolboy me was watching Chelsea lose 1-4 at home to Rotherham. And we scored first.
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England can do one at the Euros - will be supporting Belgium in their Tintin kit
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London loses another good book shop because of rents… Black Gull Books was a mainstay of East Finchley for 16 years and one of the most popular high street spots. 2-1 it becomes flats/3-1 another coffee shop.
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This minister’s actions sound comical then you read of a repercussion
A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.
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Argentina's President Milei seems genuinely pleased to see the man he has called an "imbecile who defends social justice", a "son of a bitch preaching communism" and "the representative of the evil one on Earth."
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