Tom Alington

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Next up, it's the Digital Sports Publisher of the Year Award, and the winner is @TheAthleticFC! Judges highlighted that their exclusives set the agenda for weeks. #SJA2023

🚨 Huge congratulations to @David_Ornstein, who has been named the Football News Reporter of the Year at #SJA2023 Thoroughly deserved 👏

Congratulations, @AdamCrafton_ — Sports Writer of the Year. #SJA2023 | @SportSJA

So happy and proud of this 🥹😊 🥰

@ZipoM Nice one Zipo! Hope you're well

@TomAlington Great read

So excited to see our Grassroots GOATs series start this week! 🐐 First up is Ahmed Assem, who has given amateur football a huge boost in Egypt through AFC Vikings, creating a community from which so many people benefit. You can read it for free here ⤵️ theathletic.com/5043365/2023/1…

And the winner is @TheAthleticFC - an unstoppable force that is proving extremely popular among the matchgoing public. Congratulations to everyone at The Athletic!

Last day of current @TheAthleticFC sale. Subscriptions £1/month. Perhaps you'd like to subscribe to read The Briefing, on how good the title challengers are & whether it matters, why we can't judge Spurs for a while & the wonder of the Garnacho overhead theathletic.com/5090763/2023/1…

Great write up of Harry Lawson’s amazing film here. I was happy to contribute an essay and poem to the accompanying publication ‘Millwall On the Page’. Catch it at Chemist Gallery, Loampit Hill, for another couple of days.

@IanMcQuaid gave me a lot of nostalgia

The return of Big Dave means I get to share this again, possibly my finest hour m.soundcloud.com/nasty-mcquaid/…

Charly Musonda was the #CHE wonderkid who had the world at his feet + scored on his first senior start for the club Yet his career was cruelly blighted by a knee injury that ruled him out for three years Now playing in Cyprus, he tells me his story ⬇️ theathletic.com/5016282/2023/1…

Ooof. Will take me some time to get over Koch’s angle on that last scrum penalty.

A statement from BBC News about them smearing people who marched in solidarity with Palestine as Hamas supporters. The smear was broadcast twice.

🥅 Putting the nets up at 7am 🧺 Washing the kit 🍶 Filling up the water bottles Over 13 million people play grassroots football in the UK alone, but there’s invariably always someone who has helped to make the game happen. We want to hear about your Grassroots GOAT! ⬇️

There's often that one person at every football club who makes the game happen – and we want to hear about them... Tell us about your Grassroots GOAT, and have their story told on The Athletic by some of our award-winning journalists. 🐐

Jheeeeze look at this beauty 🔥 30 second walk away from the Gtech 🏟️ @TheAthleticFC

not often you can specifically credit one reporter with making something happen, but it is clear that absent Crafton's reporting, they were bringing Greenwood back

🚨NEW THING🚨 The Briefing, a column every Monday on three big questions from the weekend. 🔴Chelsea, Liverpool & the Caceido mess ⚪️Punishing Martinez properly would be better than fiddly rule changes 🔴Will Postecoglu lead the way on head injuries? theathletic.com/4772864/2023/0…

Who Needs Caceido More-O-Meter reading: Chelsea