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Football journalist | @TheTotallyShow @CanalplusFoot | Bylines: @TheAthleticFC @thetimes @Independent | Author of Do You Speak Football? and Va-Va-Voom

London, England

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Tom Williams

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Hitting the shelves like a Jean-Pierre Papin volley hitting the net, Va-Va-Voom goes on sale TODAY! A comprehensive account of French football’s modern era, it’s published by @BloomsburySport and is available in hardback, ebook and audiobook #vavavoombook

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Not sure it’s even possible for a team to be more offside than this

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“Your job now is to stand by your new manager. Me.”

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Shouldn’t overlook the crucial role played by Bruno Fernandes in reminding Jadon Sancho where the goal was

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Nice Robbie Fowler tribute from Mane there

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Allan Saint-Maximin:

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🚨 Excl: Jack Grealish on verge of agreeing major sponsorship contract with Gucci. 26yo Man City + England midfielder set to sign 7-figure deal & become ambassador for Italian brand - thought to be unprecedented among sportspeople @TheAthleticUK #MCFC #ENG

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Already figured out how to do a three with his fingers in German

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HARRY KANE HAT TRICK IN HIS FIRST DER KLASSIKER

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I think we can all agree that the last thing Twitter needs is more Arsenal fans

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You deserve more Arsenal fans 💔

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Twitter rn

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Man United first-half highlights

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The thing I want to know about this Mbappe picture is: how did he manage to get into Ronaldo’s bedroom?

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Great result for Wolves, despite Ronaldo’s 47 goals scored across all competitions.

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First Mkhitaryan, now it appears Ozil, Aubameyang and Lacazette weren’t allowed to enter the country either. Absolute scandal.

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Big ‘meeting the ex’s new fella at a family barbecue’ energy here

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Just come across this photo of Alexis Sanchez scoring a Panenka for Marseille yesterday and this might be the best Panenka face I’ve ever seen. The concentration, the moustache, the faint air of disdain. Looks like he’s playing quoits in an English country garden c. 1921

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In L’Equipe today, Gael Givet says Sam Allardyce tried to fire Blackburn’s players up for a game against Man United in 2010 by showing them clips from Gladiator and 300. “We were all like, ‘Ahhhhh!’ [mimics soldier with sword]. After 30 minutes, we were 3-0 down. We lost 7-1.”

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Can't fault Carragher's passion here but I can't see how Coleen Rooney is supposed to help

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England fans clash during the 2018 World Cup over the extent to which Marx owed a debt to Hegelian dialectics

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Fair play to Guardiola for turning up for his press conference despite having seemingly been run over by a car

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"It's done. It was a mistake. Accept it" Pep Guardiola reacts to calls for a replay to be played between Tottenham and Liverpool 🎙️

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3 years

Just seen this Dennis Bergkamp goal for the first time. Good god

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4 years

Reece James hit that like he'd just read everyone's Tariq Lamptey tweets.

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Can't believe Jose Mourinho has come across yet another group of players who can't or won't follow his instructions. The guy just has no luck.

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4 years

People say Mourinho has lost his ability to turn teams around. Well last week he relaunched Sheffield United’s season and tonight he made Bournemouth look like a different side.

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If there's any coach who could fix Tottenham, it's surely Antonio Conte. But if there's any club that could break Antonio Conte, it's surely Tottenham.

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Jose Mourinho sacked despite becoming the first manager to qualify Tottenham for the Super League. No gratitude whatsoever.

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Man United fans watching their team lose to Leicester, knowing it compromises Liverpool’s chances of a top-four finish

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Man United FA Cup Wordle 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥

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🤔

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Martin Tyler

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People say United aren’t an entertaining watch under Mourinho, but much of this has been hilarious.

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With Christian Pulisic ruled out by injury, Chelsea promote youngster Steve Academygraduate to their Champions League squad

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Maguire and Onana

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Monumental player, Ronaldo, but if he was one of your mates, there'd be a WhatsApp group he didn't know about.

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This is a spectacular thing for Chris Wilder to have been annoyed by

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Kepa

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Marcus Rashford currently the most talked-about person in the country. Matt Hancock just referred to him as “Daniel Rashford” on Sky News.

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Petition for the BBC to plug the gaps in the schedule where Match of the Day would usually go with vintage episodes from seasons past.

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If Madrid go out after losing a game that Sergio Ramos missed by deliberately picking up a booking, I'm not sure 2019 is going to be able to top it.

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One bottle of beer in at the wedding reception, the only person you know is the groom, all of his other mates are rugby fans and your taxi isn’t coming until midnight

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When you realise you’ve left the house without your game-specific NFTs

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Scenes when Moyes goes on and asks Aguero why he's not attacking more.

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Man United’s only fit recognised striker now is Solskjaer.

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Graham Potter to Chelsea the football equivalent of finding out that that cool indie band you love have signed for a major label and soundtracked an advert for LinkedIn.

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🚨 10/10 IN L’ÉQUIPE KLAXON 🚨

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7 years

Don't want to alarm anyone at Marseille, but I'm not sure Kostas Mitroglou writing his name on the table is legally binding

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Solskjaer needs to concentrate on his football.

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The engraver walking down Wembley Way after clocking off five minutes early

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‘2023 Manchester’ already engraved on the trophy.

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Header, right foot, left arm. That's a perfect hat-trick in Argentina.

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In London, you're never more than six feet away from a complete wanker

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I went out for drinks instead of going to the gym tonight. Fair play to this chap who did both.

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Fair play - amid all the euphoria last night, classy touch from Liverpool’s players to acknowledge that they’re still one league title behind United

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Ben Bradley you say?

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Just made my favourite pre-World Cup discovery (courtesy of The Observer’s tournament preview): the four officials who sit in the VAR control room during matches will all wear full kit.

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2 years

Huge call by Todd Boehly to sack Thomas Tuchel. But what an opportunity for Tuchel’s successor, Todd Boehly.

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7 months

This might be the coolest geek move in football history

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1000 IQ CÁSSIO 🧠 #VivaJogoBonito 😍

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3 years

Sean Dyche doesn’t feel the cold, the cold feels Sean Dyche

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2 years

Most of the tricks in this video are utterly pointless and that is why we must hope that Antony arrives in the Premier League as soon as possible

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Futbol ain’t dead ❤️

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Tension at the France breakfast buffet this morning as Antoine Griezmann refuses to say how he wants his eggs cooked unless he’s allowed to turn it into a short film.

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2026: Rishi Sunak cancels Euro 2028 because the numbers don’t add up but pledges to plough the money into a number of smaller regional tournaments

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It’s official: we’ve got the Euros. Delighted to celebrate our winning bid with Gareth and the @England squad. Here we go #EURO2028 ⚽️

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7 years

Game recognise game

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6 years

Jesus - leave the kid out of it

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Sterling slides after Johnson steps down

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If Messi nutmegs Courtois again he gets to keep him.

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Luis Rubiales has not been provisionally suspended by FIFA. It was a consensual, euphoric, mutual decision. FIFA asked if he fancied a cheeky suspension and he said yes.

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Football fans: well they moved the World Cup to winter, interrupted the football season, then changed the date of the first match, not sure how else Qatar can inconvenience people!! Qatar: hold your beer

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3 years

Amazing technology being trialled by BT Sport. You can watch the Fulham-Spurs game from the perspective of Peter Crouch

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Scrapping replays is understandably the headline but this detail is an abomination

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The MOTD caption-writers must be stopped

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Leeds making up for their 16-year absence from the Premier League by scoring and conceding 16 years' worth of goals in a single season.

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PSG v Manchester City: a semi-final for football romantics everywhere.

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Morata reading your tweets

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Lots of stick for Mourinho, but he's actually ahead of schedule. Usually takes two seasons for his teams to play this abysmally.

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Nobody denies David Moyes victory 73 times in a row

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This is David Moyes' 73rd Premier League away game as a manager against Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United. He has won 0 of the previous 72...

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Textbook mockery here, 10/10 no notes

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Man United joint-top of the Premier League, much like when they joint-won the title with City in 2012.

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Guess this shows it’s possible to be sacked as Manchester United manager, move to an underachieving London club and lead them into the Champions League places playing attractive, attacking football that delights and unites the fans. Anyway, now over to Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham.

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Man United fans weighing up whether the outbreak of World War III would be an acceptable price to pay if it meant Liverpool not winning the league

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How can Timo Werner be so short of confidence in front of goal when he spends the week taking shots at Kepa?

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Jose Mourinho appointed Roma coach a day after they announce the renovation of the Colosseum. One is a crumbling monument that once inspired awe but that's best days are well behind it and the other is the Colosseum send tweet

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Kepa dropped by Chelsea

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Great news for any Premier League players concerned about the well-documented rise in muscular injuries this season - Tim Sherwood says there's nothing to worry about because injuries are all in your head!

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Fred would slot into this City team seamlessly. Sees passes to blue shirts that nobody else does.

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Arsenal: nobody does spectacular Champions League exits like us PSG: hold our beer

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Muhammad Ali 1964: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Dereck Chisora 2016: "I'm like herpes. One minute I'm gone, then I'm back."

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If you think Russia v Saudi Arabia is an underwhelming opening game for a World Cup, wait until Guam and the Turks and Caicos Islands get us under way at the 206-team tournament of 2038.

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Danny Murphy having a really bad day v Danny Murphy having the absolute time of his life

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Another addition to the canon of great Messi photos

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Spot the guy who doesn’t wear Nike boots

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3 years

Every time Jorginho takes a penalty

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When Carrick comes back from Villarreal with a scratchy draw and manages to keep the score down to two at Chelsea

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Love this

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Pochettino asked why Spurs played with a back three. "It's too difficult to explain to you."

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6 years

Adrien Rabiot: “It’s all well and good putting eight goals past Dijon, but it’s in matches like this that you have to stand up and be counted.” 👀👀👀

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4 years

This must go down as the biggest European result in Lyon's history. Worst league finish in 23 years. Nearly five months without any competitive football. And they've eliminated Juventus and Manchester City to reach the Champions League semi-finals. Wow.

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Jose Mourinho: “The first goal was always going to be important.” Might have been a good idea to try and score it.

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