Matt O'Connor-Simpson

Men will literally write 2,671 words on a Step Three play-off semi-final instead of going to therapy. …allsecretsofthepharaohs.wordpress.com/2024/05/03/men…

@eugeneh84 Needs more winding up orders.

My pitch to Sky Sports - 'The Proper League' Proper teams with proper looking players with proper shinpads, playing proper footy on proper pitches at proper times

@YourDailyDOHs Class Darren!

Update to the bio👀 After almost 2 years to the day since I started working with Bohs, it's official🔴⚫️ Delighted🙌🏼

@hollajamesbird DERR DER DER DA DA DERRR DERR

Just had the pleasure of meeting the Schooner Scorer at The Cross Keys. He was surprisingly down to earth and VERY funny.

Increasingly little about England seems to work or make sense in 2025. But what does work, in a misshapen, often unpretty, playing-with-a-broken-leg kind of way is our Lionesses. They are “proper England” and I love them. goal.com/mundial/proper…

@MundialMag booyakah

Rey Mysterio with Kaká, Raúl, and Marcelo on a visit to Real Madrid, 2009.

This is a really nice long read from @ryanmarch_ that highlights so much of the hard and wonderful work @WMenywod @pennymiles31 and many others have done in recent years to make Saturday come to life.

Absolutely devastated. I loved watching Diogo Jota play football, the way he darted around, hustled, scampered, found himself in goalscoring positions on the end of crosses, deflections, blocks. He symbolised a period of time where it felt like Wolves could do anything, beat anyone, be what we wanted. Diogo always looked like he loved playing football, which for me, as a fan, really, is the thing I enjoy seeing most. I want to be out there too, scampering around, chasing lost causes, getting on the end of bobbling crosses, celebrating a goal in front of 30,000 Wolves fans... so if you're a player who is enjoying actually getting to do that, man, I love you. I love you. The world feels like a dark place in so many horrific ways right now, and I am heartbroken for his family and loved ones and anyone who knew him. "Diogoooo... JOTA, running down the wing, JOTA, hear the Wanderers sing, JOTA, we're all going to Gdansk" will live in the heads of the people who were there for those moments forever. Thank you Diogo. I'm so sorry man.

Damien Duff is gone, but what he made Shelbourne fans feel will last forever. We spoke to @RedsIndependent editor Barry Crossan last year about Duffer resurrecting the football club he and so many others love. goal.com/mundial/resurr…

@disturbed_mtfc @ryanmarch_ @MerthyrTownFC @MundialMag @dialm4merthyr @Sameoldsmiths outstanding behind the scenes pic

It’s here and it’s beautiful! 😍 Can’t wait to finally read what @ryanmarch_ had to say about our beloved @MerthyrTownFC in the latest edition of @MundialMag! 🤍🖤

One of the most important pieces I've ever written. Al Hilal Omdurman have had the best season of anyone in World Football. Playing 5,000 km from home in Sudan, they won the Mauritanian top flight and had their best season in the Champions League for a decade!

This magazine is fucking class, buy it please!

My new favourite football photo of all time. Annabel Staff's full set of images (and some words, too) from a joyous few days in Lisbon is on the @MundialMag website nooowwwwwwwwwww. goal.com/mundial/we-cam…

Let me tell you a short story. My father and I, we’ve endured so much suffering in our lives. We’ve experienced a lot of bad things away from football. Tonight, we feel vindicated. It’s been worth it. We experienced this together. That’s what football is about. 💙💙💙

@jessyjph this is really, really good

“For a long time, I hated football” I spoke to Sonia Bompastor about losing her mum, balancing management and motherhood, and her intensity as a player observer.co.uk/news/sport/art…

Had to take a step out of my sports writing comfort zone this week to say a thing that needed to be said. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

‘Have you ever witnessed a tiger hug a man who self-identifies as the Borough Monster? I have. I have, because I have lived.’ MUNDIAL Reviews is back and we’re off to Gloucester. They say it’s a rugby city—but they’re wrong. goal.com/mundial/mundia…

Boring isn't it? Going around the country reviewing non-league football grounds with your life. Not for me, I like it. goal.com/mundial/mundia…

@hollajamesbird print it please

If I'd moan about Wolves being shite as a kid, my dad would get the table out, point at each team, and go "Look, do you think they're happy? Them? What about them?" I wrote about why football doesn't have a disease just because your team drew 0-0... goal.com/mundial/morder…