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Johannesburg, South Africa
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huge news from me and @TheM_L_G and the @DoublePivotPod
we are going full-time
Mike is going to be writing again(!), and we are going to make the Double Pivot and Expecting Goals a daily operation, your one stop on the internet for soccer and analytics
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There are certain litmus tests for how much football fans are blindly prepared to act as footsoldiers and cheerleaders for everything their clubs do. This is one.
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Hi Fab, have you or your PR company ever been paid by Man City or any related MCFC entity for PR advice and / or promotion of their narrative, or received benefit-in-kind gifts for tweeting / writing / promoting their version of events? Thanks in advance for your swift response
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#MCFC’s key defence in its appeal over the Premier League guilty verdict was denied by its own title sponsor Etihad Airways in an extensive submission to the US government in 2015
With @SamWallaceTel
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telegraph.co.uk/football/202…
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NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN:
"...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."
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the investigation ended at the 2017-18 season so i guess we'll never know what happened with city's funding after that.
(from @SwissRamble)
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The evil red cartel introduced financial regulation in 2013 to protect their position and it led them going from winning 76% of titles to 23% of titles since. What a master plan
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The NYT confirms Haaretz's report that Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly warned before Oct. 7, 2023 by the Emirati president that Hamas planned a major attack, per 2 sources
The warning was not shared with Israeli security chiefs, per 5 ex-officials
nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world…
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When you’re asking foreign royals who don’t know you exist to increase your cost of living, it’s probably worth contemplating whether at some stage your football fandom might have caused your brain to fall out.
Raise the price of petrol and diesel, @MansourBinZayed.
Let’s see what decision they come to after that.
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Micah is an incredible, wonderful person and also a gem of a South African, an asset to all of us.
This needs consular support and diplomatic pressure from @DIRCO_ZA, paging @ClaysonMonyela, @Chrispin_JPhiri
AmaBhungane is deeply concerned by reports that our former colleague, South African journalist Micah Reddy, and his local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, are missing in Djibouti.
Micah is a former amaBhungane journalist and a valued member of the investigative journalism community in South Africa and across the continent.
We join the Committee to Protect Journalists in calling on the Djiboutian authorities to urgently clarify Micah and Kooki’s whereabouts and ensure their safety.
We call for their immediate safe return.
teapawt.net/cpjafrica/status/21014…
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AmaBhungane is deeply concerned by reports that our former colleague, South African journalist Micah Reddy, and his local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, are missing in Djibouti.
Micah is a former amaBhungane journalist and a valued member of the investigative journalism community in South Africa and across the continent.
We join the Committee to Protect Journalists in calling on the Djiboutian authorities to urgently clarify Micah and Kooki’s whereabouts and ensure their safety.
We call for their immediate safe return.
teapawt.net/cpjafrica/status/21014…
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The behaviour your friend is experiencing is a result of people like you normalising it
You should be ashamed of yourself
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OpenAI and Anthropic’s models are so magical and mystical and dangerous, they can do anything! They may even destroy the world! The only thing they can’t do, funny enough, is generate positive cash flow. And that’s where the US Taxpayer comes in!
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This paragraph hits the nail the head when it comes to Gyokeres. Saying that there are certain games/gamestates that suits him is an incredibly generous appraisal of the player.
This week's column is about Viktor Gyokeres. It feels like the game states he is useful for are diminishing and he is looking increasingly like a square peg in this Arsenal team 👇🔴⚪️
arseblog.com/2026/09/viktor-…
