Seb Stafford-Bloor

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German Football correspondent, The Athletic. nytimes.com/athletic/autho…

Hamburg, Germany Joined June 2010

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Seb Stafford-Bloor @SebSB 12h

That driven back-post Harry Kane pass is so effective for England.

Seb Stafford-Bloor @SebSB 18h

An idle blog about Tottenham and Mauricio Pochettino.

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ssstaffordbloor.substack.com Tottenham, Mauricio Pochettino and the Passing of Time Whenever Mauricio Pochettino has returned to the Premier League, the question about Tottenham hangs in the air.

Seb Stafford-Bloor @SebSB 21h

The job Michael Carrick was hired to do on an interim basis was different to the one he was given permanently.

They were different roles for different people, but Manchester United chose to ignore that.

@TheAthleticFC

nytimes.com/athletic/77269…

www.nytimes.com Man United making Michael Carrick the permanent head coach was sentimental and naive (Gift Article) None of this is his fault. He was offered a job that anyone in his position would have taken. But extending was always going to lead us here

Seb Stafford-Bloor @SebSB 22h

Fake quotes again, all over the place.

Why?

@TheAthleticFC

nytimes.com/athletic/76921…

www.nytimes.com Thierry Henry, Kylian Mbappe, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and the rise of fake football quotes (Gift Article) Fictitious quotations are nothing new in football discourse, but never have there been so many and never have they been so effective

Seb Stafford-Bloor @SebSB 2d

Mario Vuskovic returns to football this weekend. Four years is a long time to be away and the road back is uncharted.

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ssstaffordbloor.substack.com Mario Vuskovic’s Road Back Four years on from his EPO ban, Mario Vuskovic's career is about to begin again.