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Sam Dalling
@samdalling.bsky.social
Freelance writer - The Guardian, The Telegraph, Wisden, FourFourTwo, BBC Sport & more. Freelance commentator - Somerset CCC, Durham CCC, BBC Radio London, ECB, the Blaze. Podcasts - TrueFaith, Cider Press Solicitor - pensions at Sacker & Partners
🎙️NEW #MCFC PODCAST 😴 The Salford game (briefly) 🧤 Trafford and Donnarumma ⚫️ #ManCity vs. Newcastle 👀 The title race situation 👴 The most PL appearances With @davidmooney.co.uk is: Ciaran Murray | Paul Hirst | @samdalling.bsky.social
Blue Moon Podcast - A Manchester City Show: 28: The Coy Mr Blobby and the Three Spanish Goddesses
An absolute snooze-fest against Salford won't stop us! Never fear, the Blue Moon Podcast is here to try and find the interesting bits of a dull game... Or, we might actually focus more on the other...
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‘Different but the same’: how Arsenal are keeping disabled fans in the game
‘Different but the same’: how Arsenal are keeping disabled fans in the game
In tandem with Game Day Vision, the Premier League club are improving the matchday experience for supporters with a variety of conditions
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⚽ One of the most important pieces I've written. It isn't about football, not at all, really 👇 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘Different but the same’: how Arsenal are keeping disabled fans in the game
In tandem with Game Day Vision, the Premier League club are improving the matchday experience for supporters with a variety of conditions
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Wrexham lost to Millwall on Saturday but five years on from going from dead end to Deadpool they are a much better and, crucially, happier club. By @samdalling.bsky.social for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘It has changed my life’: Wrexham’s Hollywood takeover, five years on
When Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac became club guardians in 2021 the Premier League was a dream. Now it’s a target
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⚽️ Went to Wrexham. 5 years tomorrow since the takeover. It has, it’s fair to say, gone quite well… www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘It has changed my life’: Wrexham’s Hollywood takeover, five years on
When Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac became club guardians in 2021 the Premier League was a dream. Now it’s a target
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Here’s a @footballweekly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/aud...
As Manchester City advance, should Eddie Howe be under pressure? Football Weekly Extra – podcast
Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Sam Dalling and Dan Bardell as Manchester City comfortably set up a League Cup final against Arsenal after a 5-1 aggregate win over Newcastle
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⚽️ Need a repeat of this tonight… Good to chat to Rolando Aarons, who opened the scoring the last, and only, time #nufc won at the Etihad 👇 www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/rola...
Rolando's role in United's last victory at the Etihad - Newcastle United
Rolando Aarons was not supposed to play that night. He had just returned from a six-week lay-off, training with the squad only two days before. "I think I trained too well," Aarons says laughing. "The...
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⚽ Chatted to Jonjo Shelvey ahead of Liverpool v #NUFC tonight... Love how obsesses he is with football boots 👇 www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/jonj...
Jonjo Shelvey puts the boot in - Newcastle United
Jack Colback? "He was in Preds when I played with him at Newcastle." Aleksandar Mitrović? "Vapors and then he went to Puma." Fabricio Coloccini? "Tiempos." Bruno Guimarães? "F50s." Joelinton? "He's ob...
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Heading to Paris shortly. Saturday? Liverpool. Wednesday? City. Then what? Spurs, Villa & City, again, maybe even with another European trip squeezed in. Make or break? Hmmm, I hope I look really silly in a months' time but I fear the latter. #nufc
🏏 England’s most important winter tour - a first trip of overseas for the mixed disability side 🇮🇳 They’ve been training at L’Boro all winter & @theobserveruk.bsky.social joined the final camp 👇 observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
India T20s are giant leap for England’s disability cricke...
Mixed disability side will break new ground on their first overseas tour that begins on Thursday
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🏏 Latest scribbles for the Athletic. A look at what could be England's next Ashes tour squad. Well, obviously it won't be but it is fun to try, right?! The good news? Some serious talent included, but also plenty of it omitted. www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...
England’s Next Gen: Who are the bright young things offering hope for the future?
The senior team may be licking their wounds after another Ashes thrashing, but there are promising youngsters emerging through the ranks
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⚽ THE MAGIC OF THE CUP IS ALIVE ⚽ 😱 Non-league Macclesfield Town produce the shock of the round, knocking out current FA Cup holders Crystal Palace. 😬 Manchester United were dumped out by Brighton. @maxrushden.bsky.social @barryglendenning.bsky.social @brewin.bsky.social @samdalling.bsky.social
FA Cup special pod Any questions for the panel? @maxrushden.bsky.social @barryglendenning.bsky.social @samdalling.bsky.social @brewin.bsky.social 👇👏
Behind the scenes with Exeter as they go through *that* at the Etihad Stadium yesterday, by @samdalling.bsky.social for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘I’ve never celebrated a goal at 9-0 down in my life’: inside Exeter’s dressing room on a day to remember
League One club offered behind-the-scenes access for their FA Cup tie and Gary Caldwell will not let their crushing loss at Manchester City define them
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⚽️ Spent two days with @officialecfc.bsky.social ahead of and during their FA Cup defeat (10-1, yikes) against Man City. Illuminating to peek behind the scenes. Gary Caldwell is highly impressive. He & his staff are working miracles on L1's lowest budget. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘I’ve never celebrated a goal at 9-0 down in my life’: inside Exeter’s dressing room on a day to remember
League One club offered behind-the-scenes access for their FA Cup tie and Gary Caldwell will not let their crushing loss at Manchester City define them
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⚽️ Spent the day at Macclesfield as they prepared to host the FA Cup holders Crystal Palace. Snow, new clothes and lots of excitement 👇 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
New outfits and snow disruption: inside Macclesfield before jackpot FA Cup tie
Phoenix club are lowest-ranked in third round and could have sold hundreds more tickets for visit of holders Crystal Palace
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⚽️ Wrexham flying. Forest tonight in the third round and then, well, who knows? A promotion tilt…again?! www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
Why the Wrexham juggernaut shows no sign of slowing
Nottingham Forest visit Racecourse Ground to face side one point off a Championship play-off spot looking for fourth successive promotion
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⚽ Spoke to some Manchester United fans about treading water. Interim after interim after interim. 👇 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘The club is in a mess’: Manchester United fans voice feelings before the next interim twist
Supporters serenaded Solskjær, Carrick and Fletcher among others at Burnley and staged a brief anti-Ratcliffe protest
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⚽️ Went to the Tunnel Club at Everton. It was nice 👇 www.fourfourtwo.com/team/jack-gr...
Jack Grealish's calves, plate-sized Yorkshire puds and a seat so close you feel like you're part of the squad: FourFourTwo get a taste for Everton's Beyond - Tunnel club inside the Hill Dickinson Stad...
If you like being close to the action and don't mind hearing the odd swear word, you will love this premium Premier League experience
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⚽ Lots of noise about managerial outs and ins but really what we all want to know is how many millimetres between the collar and the top of the player name, right? A piece from the a couple of days spent behind the team with the brilliant Wolves kit team 👇 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘These guys are like family to me’: behind the scenes with Wolves’s kitman
Sean Ruiz and his team revealed the kit preparations and dressing room routines that make the players tick
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🏏 Something on the Rew brothers for @somersetccc.bsky.social ...they are quite good. 👇 somersetcountycc.co.uk/news/club-ne...
The Rew Brothers: An Appreciation by Sam Dalling - Somerset
Journalist and SCCC commentator, Sam Dalling has enjoyed watching the rise of the Brothers Rew: A cricketing pair is rarely...
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👏 Aston Villa made it 11 consecutive wins. 👀 It was business as usual for Arsenal and Manchester City. 🤩 Kevin Schade scored a perfect hat-trick for Brentford in their 4-1 demolition of Bournemouth. @maxrushden.bsky.social @jacobsteinberg1.bsky.social @brewin.bsky.social @samdalling.bsky.social
⚽️ Something a little different - chatted to Laura Wolfe about the concierge services she and others offer to help professional footballers move and settle. Check out it out for tales of dog sitting and sneaking in and out of maternity clinics 👇 www.fourfourtwo.com/person/i-was...
'I was in New York and got a call saying a player had been burgled when they were on the other side of the world. My team was clearing up glass and sorting security that night' Life as a Premier Leagu...
Staying on your toes as a concierge to high-profile footballers is essential; one minute you're booking them a helicopter, the next you're searching for their lost dogs
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Get that midfield section printed off. Commit to memory? No chance. www.brightonandhovealbion.com/Amex-matchda...
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I've not come down either way on the EH at #nufc debate, but there is a genuine debate to be had. Attempts to suppress it are both unhelpful & unhealthy. My latest for @tfnufc.bsky.social 👇 tf1892.substack.com/p/howe-to-de...
How(e) to Debate Eddie's Future
Sam expresses his frustration at the response of many to legitimate questions about the manager
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😬 Celtic lose again as the pressure ramps up on new manager Wilfried Nancy. 😱 Teenager Lewis Miley scored a dramatic late winner. 👀 Premier League preview. @maxrushden.bsky.social @barryglendenning.bsky.social , @jordanjarrettbryan.bsky.social, @samdalling.bsky.social @barcajim3.bsky.social
Latest @footballweekly.bsky.social with Max, Barry, JJB & myself. Thought I'd managed to ignore the Wear-Tyne derby. Turns out I was holding it all in. A bit of therapy! www.theguardian.com/football/aud...
Celtic’s crisis grows and drama in the Carabao Cup – Football Weekly
Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Sam Dalling, Jordan Jarrett-Bryan and BarcaJim to discuss Celtic’s alarming start under Wilfried Nancy, late drama in the Carabao Cup and look ahead to the ...
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