Matt Woosnam
@mattwoosie.bsky.social
Crystal Palace reporter @theathleticfc.bsky.social #CPFC
🇺🇸🔴🔵 BREAKING: Crystal Palace in advanced talks to sign American winger/wingback Zavier Gozo from Real Salt Lake, per sources - Deal not agreed yet, but trending well. Likely in $15m region - Gozo, 19, made clear he wants to go to Europe www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...
Crystal Palace in advanced talks to complete £11m deal for Real Salt Lake wing-back Zavier Gozo (Gift Article)
Any deal for the USA under-23 international is expected to be in the range of $15million (£11.1m)
nytimes.com
This really has been an horrific summer. Relentless heat has been unbearable
London & Southeast🔅@thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · yesterdayFairly good consensus for a heatwave emerging next week. Most likely forecast temperatures will uptrend as we get nearer. It looks to coincide very well for partial solar eclipse next Wednesday where around 90% of sun will be covered by the moon. #ukweather
Adam Wharton back in training with Palace today, Pierre Sage has told Palace TV The midfielder has been managing a slight ankle problem this summer #CPFC
"However, they did not say how many people had watched in Britain, either live on TNT/HBO Max, or through Five’s highlights show." This is kind of telling. The visibility of these Games has been appalling. It's something I'd have watched but not on TNT & had no idea there were highlights on Five
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d agoGlasgow 2026 chief hails ‘phenomenal’ success of revamped Commonwealth Games
The school closure debate is so bogus it makes me rage. "Kids were practically immune" What about the staff? Were teachers just another piece of collateral damage in the covid culture war? And what about those kids getting covid and taking it home to their families, infecting vulnerable adults?
Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.
It decided to spit with 'rain' for five minutes and now I feel like I'd rather it hadn't at all, I've been cheated out of some blessed relief
One for the John Textor completists. Iconic, one of the funds that invested in Eagle, has won its row with him in London’s commercial courts. Textor owes Iconic $99.6m, plus daily interest of $22,602.74! Iconic: “The time has come for him to honour his contractual obligations.”
Is now a good time to remind everyone that Maxence Lacroix did not actually say "Wembley will shake and it will be beautiful"?
Spent five minutes on twitter and it was genuinely an horrific experience
Palace confirm that Nathaniel Clyne has left the club after his contract expired this summer An incredible servant over the years and very much one of their own Did superbly over the past six years as cover and deservedly leaves with the club completely transformed from when he broke through #CPFC
Farewell Nathaniel Clyne: One of Crystal Palace’s own (Gift Article)
The right-back played over 250 games across two stints at Selhurst Park while his 14 England caps were a source of pride in the academy
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This sounds promising on the face of it but it's extremely early stages
Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · last wk.Burnham announces: 1. Casey will bring forward her review by a year to summer 2027. He wants it to focus on creating a National Care Service that is ‘highly integrated’ with the NHS. 2. He will look at improving pay and progression of social care workforce. 3. Cross party talks to begin today.
Palace's expected sale of Danny Imray to Wrexham for a fee which could rise above £5million and contains a sell on clause is excellent business Imray has progressed very well but was a hopeful punt at 17 Low-fee signings with potential to sell on even if they don't play for #CPFC is the way to go
Why Danny Imray’s sale to Wrexham points the way for Crystal Palace in the market (Gift Article)
The wing-back was signed from non-League and, despite never playing for Palace, is expected to move to the Championship club for £5m
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Clear there's not much you can take from pre-season, particularly when most of the first team is not available, but Palace extremely underwhelming so far over their games to date #CPFC
This Lens striker looks pretty good, Palace should have a look at him
🚨 Excl: Takehiro Tomiyasu is training w/ Crystal Palace, with a transfer possible. 27-yr-old Japan int'l is free agent after Ajax. Interest from Italy & Eng, keen to return to PL. #CPFC provide high level training as he weighs options. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/747...
Ex-Arsenal defender Takehiro Tomiyasu training with Crystal Palace with view to possible move
Tomiyasu is training with Palace in Como this week and it's possible he will feature in a friendly for the club.
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It's noticeable, too, that there wasn't a single question on the climate, at a time when Europe is experiencing catastrophic wild-fires & record-breaking heat. It's astonishing how low down the political agenda this remains in Britain, when all the environmental indicators are signalling disaster.
Such an obsession over how everything that might help people is going to be funded. Has it always been like this? Obviously never such scrutiny about going to war and bombing countries
Spiteful anonymous quotes like this are pathetic. I'm not offering an opinion here on whether Reeves was good or bad but saying something like this just turns people away from engaging with politics and entrenches the view that 1) it's too male dominated and 2) it's all a game to these people
What's great about VAR is that it makes the matchday experience worse while we still have clear and obvious errors.
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
theguardian.com
UPDATE: Palace have held talks over moving their women's team to the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre stadium Very early conversations. Reported this week London City Lionesses had done the same but they are playing down chances of moving Likely NSC needs renovation before poss move. #CPFC
London City Lionesses and Crystal Palace held talks with Mayor of London over move to National Sports Centre (Gift Article)
The move to the Crystal Palace Park ground could more than double the capacity for the Women's Super League home games.
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Exclusive: WSL side London City Lionesses have held talks with the Mayor of London's office over a possible move to the National Sports Centre in Crystal Palace Park Sources say talks are at an early stage & no agreement yet LCL say they have no knowledge of any talks @theathleticfc.bsky.social
London City Lionesses in talks with Mayor of London over stadium move to National Sports Centre (Gift Article)
The move to the Crystal Palace Park ground could more than double the capacity for the Women's Super League home games.
nytimes.com
The recent heatwave in England and Wales, exacerbated by climate change, killed ~2,700 people, with 440 deaths per day at its peak. If we don’t quickly reduce CO₂ emissions and protect people from extreme heat, it will get worse.
June heatwave killed up to 440 people a day in England and Wales, data suggests
Extreme temperatures in May and June led to about 2,700 lost lives in total with climate crisis adding 3C to 4C
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