We're live at the Southbank Centre in London this Thursday with Nish Kumar. Tickets still available here! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/sta...
Stadio Live with Nish Kumar | Southbank Centre
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Tom Curren
@tomoc.bsky.social
Writer; telling stories and making beautiful things about the beautiful game. Editor-in-Chief @scoutedftbl.com + Redstory, an Arsenal blog
Really overwhelmed working through the many thoughtful responses we’ve received already. They are brilliant. I’m gunna end up with a longlist 50+ names long at this rate
SCOUTED@scoutedftbl.com · 3w agoBluesky! We're looking for new writers - particularly (though not exclusively) young or early-career journalists we can help develop, support and platform. And pay real money, of course. Help us in our search for sharing this, or apply yourself (but please read the guidance first!). Thank you 🫶
I'm looking for the next generation of football writers! Please help share this far and wide
SCOUTED@scoutedftbl.com · 3w agoBluesky! We're looking for new writers - particularly (though not exclusively) young or early-career journalists we can help develop, support and platform. And pay real money, of course. Help us in our search for sharing this, or apply yourself (but please read the guidance first!). Thank you 🫶
I'm starting a new newsletter. Yeah, I know, another newsletter. This one isn't about soccer though... it's about YOU 🤯 "The Post-Match Report" will release weekly and contain links, analysis, and updates on everything happening in soccer analytics. Publishing on @leaflet.pub. More info 👇
July 15: Penalties and Goats
The first edition of a weekly soccer analytics newsletter
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SCOUTED Pro is now live. Powered by SkillCorner's industry leading Physical & Game Intelligence data, Pro is a monthly editorial built specifically to accelerate player discovery for professional recruitment teams, agencies and federations. Learn more: pro.scoutedftbl.com/product/
Here’s me on Norway, which is really me on Jude, which is really me just totally flabbergasted at what I’ve been lucky enough to witness
futi@futi.live · 3w ago"Since the beginning, Bellingham has carried a sense of … what would you call it? Destiny? Aura? Many have misdiagnosed it as arrogance, which is objectively wrong, given arrogance by definition requires the sense of one’s own importance to be exaggerated." @tomoc.bsky.social on England's hero:
I've spent the last few weeks looking at the Arsenal season (and analytics from @gradientsports.bsky.social) to help inform what we do next: six strengths to fortify, five tangible ways to improve, and what it all means for the summer business. Here's my new long-read.
Go again
Five ways to improve the champions, and what it all means for the summer business
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We're now less than two weeks away from our live show at the Southbank Centre in London, with the one and only Nish Kumar!! There are still some tickets available, so go get them! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/sta...
Tom's England dispatches have been a treat, already looking forward to the Azteca one
futi@futi.live · last mo.How do you goad England into producing The Harry Kane Game? For Thomas Tuchel, maybe platforming his stars means relinquishing control. @tomoc.bsky.social on an unforgettable match against DR Congo:
probs not an original thought - taking a break from socials - but am finding the constant belittlement of African teams on British tv so cringe. Senegal are fucking class?
If Chelsea want to sign multiple right-sided defenders this summer, then clubs should be scrambling up to get 20-year-old Josh Acheampong. If he becomes available, competition should be fierce to sign one of the most extraordinary defensive talents in football. He is a unicorn.
![Graphic featuring a cutout photo of Chelsea's Josh Acheampong running with the ball, wearing a blue Chelsea kit. Beside it is a quote from SCOUTED's Llew Davies which reads:
"Josh Acheampong is the one on this whole [SCOUTED50] list that has the most breakout potential for next season.
"If you put him in the right team, whether that’s at Chelsea or elsewhere, I think he can go to the highest levels very quickly and become one of the most popular players anywhere in Europe.
"He is a unicorn defender. What he does with and without the ball, for his size, for his mobility, just technically unbelievably talented on both sides of the ball. There’s so much potential there."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k43ukpwdjcmjkam2docvho65/bafkreifipltsd3voqtb2p6lpat5mj2466mpuhaa3as2ge4rmggnvyyvesy)
England looked like England again — slow, tepid and visibly wilting in the heat against stout Ghanaian resistance. @tomoc.bsky.social isn't too worried yet:
There's the England we know and love
Don't get too heated — they'll probably be fine.
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Garethism is dead. Long live our intense gangly German overlord who doesn’t really care how you feel www.theguardian.com/football/202...
England finally exorcise the Southgate era and unleash fun football | Barney Ronay
You don’t win World Cups by running riot for 10 minutes in mid-June but this felt like the start of something new
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My England writing for this tournament will live with @futi.live! This is great because they make me look smart. Please enjoy:
futi@futi.live · 2mo agoHow do you build a better England? For Thomas Tuchel, the answer is to borrow a little bit of everything from the country's greatest export: the Premier League. @tomoc.bsky.social on a statement opener against Croatia:
Thrilled to have @tomoc.bsky.social write beautifully for futi about England
futi@futi.live · 2mo agoHow do you build a better England? For Thomas Tuchel, the answer is to borrow a little bit of everything from the country's greatest export: the Premier League. @tomoc.bsky.social on a statement opener against Croatia:
desperately want to write about England this summer but have nowhere to put it. Any editors out there want to commission a column like the below? i'm availableeeee
Grassroots goosebumps
An engineered euphoria takes England to a final.
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🇩🇪 FC Bayern München 🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund 🏴 Liverpool 🏴 Manchester City 🇪🇸 Real Madrid 🇫🇷 Paris Saint-Germain At just 16 years old, Europe's grandest clubs have flocked to watch Kennet Eichhorn play football in Germany's second division this past season. This is why: bit.ly/43X0Q73
An interview with Marco Rose, the new Bournemouth head coach. On the task of succeeding Andoni Iraola and the challenge of taking over a club already at an historic high. Free to read, for @TheAthleticFC. www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...
Marco Rose on succeeding Andoni Iraola at Bournemouth: ‘He’s leaving a huge legacy. But someone has to do it’ (Gift Article)
The German believes he can instigate a transition, rather than a reinvention, as the south-coast club prepare for life in the Europa League
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Just got home. Walked all the way from Highbury Fields across Blackfriars and it was all Arsenal all the way down. One of the most special things I’ve ever been part of. Love you all
That's football. Shit happens. Gabriel? The best player tonight. This said, whoever is rejoicing in the success of a club built on the money of a dictatorship holding together through the systematic exploitation of 90% of its population should take some time to reflect on their world view. Bisous!
furthermore if any of my readers are watching it out around Islington somewhere I'd love to join you. Otherwise i am confined to watching it with United fans. Please help me
Tom Curren@tomoc.bsky.social · 2mo agoanyone help get me into the Emirates screening tomorrow? one last hurrah ❣️