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Freelancer For Hire. Former Editor @sportbible and @unilad . Former Culture Editor @eat_mcr . Available to write about food/travel/TV/film/wrestling/football

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Joined March 2009
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Joe Baiamonte
1 year
Today’s the day… Launching the first of two paid subscription newsletters. Macaroni & Gravy is a food, travel and culture page that I’m massively excited about going live with. Give it a look, subscribe, tell your mates and I’ll love you forever ❤️❤️❤️
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3 months
How are you making a shark film set in Paris and NOT calling it SHARK DE TRIOMPHE!?
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Netflix UK & Ireland
3 months
A huge shark in the middle of Paris? That's in Seine... Under Paris is now playing, only on Netflix.
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8 months
Netflix being $14.3bn in debt and then spending another $5bn on wrestling content is the exact sort of business decision I would make if I were in charge of a major streaming service. If you’re $14bn in debt, you may as well be $19bn in debt AND have Rey Mysterio and Randy Orton
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6 years
OH MY GOD LOOK AT HOW VILLAREAL UNVEILED SANTI CAZORLA...
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3 years
“That’ll be six grand…”
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6 years
Shite almighty, this is the best penalty I’ve ever seen.
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2 years
“You make your big comeback, lose the AEW title to Jon Moxley, win it back four days later. Helluva match. Then you cut a promo at the press scrum calling Hangman Page a fuckhead and you slap the piss outta The Young Bucks and I’m like goddamn is the kid workin or is he shootin?”
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1 year
Reckon my favourite thing about Alex Turner is if you went the pub with him he’d probably start the night talking a bit about French cinema and some documentaries he’d seen recently but then after eight pints is just fucking hammering his favourite quotes from Phoenix Nights
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@JoeBaia
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7 years
Manchester United under Jose Mourinho...
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2 years
Fucking hell. Saturday 7pm quarter final against France. At Christmas. RIP in peace anyone braving town that day. Manchester City Centre is gonna look like whatever was happening inside Super Hans’ New Year’s Eve party
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3 years
@c00perM @prettycritical Yeah that ‘eating the cardboard’ line has done me
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9 months
Quite surreal that tonight Chanel are doing a major fashion show on a street in Manchester where I have, on more than one occasion, been sick on my own legs
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7 years
Gonna start leaving work like this...
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5 years
We now go live to the cricket world cup final...
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7 years
When a bloke turns up at the bar 10 minutes after you and gets served first.
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5 years
Crazy to think that Joe Pesci perfected rap in 1998 with ‘Wise Guy’ and no other rapper has come close to this standard since...
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@JoeBaia
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8 years
Alex Mack is playing in the Super Bowl despite having a broken fibula. I once pulled a sickie because Elf was on Channel 4.
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@JoeBaia
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1 year
. @RheaRipley_WWE bringing ‘custody ladder match Dom’ with her to this morning’s media junket was absolutely phenomenal work #WrestleMania @DomMysterio35
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@JoeBaia
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2 years
Really need Everton to somehow win the Champions League soon so we can see what happens when Salt Bae annoys Duncan Ferguson for a photo
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@JoeBaia
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8 years
When you're dropping a new album at 9 but have to reduce Gotham to ashes at 10...
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7 years
Meek Mill away...
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3 years
This is a still from an upcoming Wes Anderson project and no one can tell me otherwise
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8 years
When you're on BBC Breakfast at 8 but have to team with The Undertaker at 10...
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1 year
Absolutely cannot be arsed with this. Felt like United were finally making a decent amount of progress for the first time in 10 years and now we’re just going to become another soulless state project like PSG, City and Newcastle. Fucking horrendous
@IndySport
Indy Sport
1 year
The lesson Qatar has learnt as Manchester United takeover bid enters final stages
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7 years
When you’re half asleep trying to turn your alarm off in the morning...
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6 years
There is a part of me that wanted him to emerge, spluttering like fuck, bollocking the magician, shouting “I told you this was a stupid bloody idea!”
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2 years
“Detective Constable Wayne Rooney, Derbyshire Constabulary. I’m here to blow this case wide fucking open…”
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Joe Baiamonte
6 years
@MundialMag All drawn matches should finish with those mad mid 90s MLS shoot outs where you’ve got to leg it from the halfway line with the ball.
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Joe Baiamonte
6 years
My favourite thing about this World Cup is how it’s shone a massive fucking light on how irrelevant and out of touch 95% of the middle aged, shit dad jeans wearing football journos really are. Fuck them and the fucking stone age they still operate in.
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8 years
"It's Tottenham, lads" - Rafa Benitez, 2.45pm, 15th May, 2016
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2 years
Bit of a low settlement that. She should have been entitled to hundreds and thousands…
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5 years
No actor has ever had a better year than Joe Pesci’s 1990
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8 years
"Lynne, crack open that Walkers variety 24 pack and fetch me grey joggers out the dryer. It's going to be one of those nights"
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6 years
Edinson Cavani got Red Dead Redemption 2 for Christmas
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Joe Baiamonte
7 years
The absolute coat on Liam Gallagher. Imagine how many tins he can get in the pockets of it. #OneLoveManchester
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1 year
“Oh, you think Eurovision is your ally. But you merely adopted the camp Euro pop bangers ; I was born in them, moulded by them.” #Eurovision
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Joe Baiamonte
2 years
One of the best bits of the Hall of Fame last night was seeing how much Randy Orton was buzzing for The Undertaker being inducted #WrestleMania
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Joe Baiamonte
8 years
Premier League chairmen are now basically playing Footy Manager after about 12 pints, "£20m for Troy Deeney? Fuck it, be a laugh, won't it?"
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2 years
I’m officially pitching to write 1,500-2,000 words on David Beckham’s decision to pair gammon and chips with BOTH pineapple and egg, mushy peas and coleslaw Cc: @MundialMag
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Joe Baiamonte
3 years
When you’ve got United at home at four but have to come back from the dead to haunt Randy Orton at six
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Joe Baiamonte
7 years
Labour 2-0 up. Most dangerous lead in football, that.
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5 years
Can confirm it’s officially Fanta Limon season in Portugal
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Joe Baiamonte
9 years
When you're that badly behaved in class your teacher takes you onto the corridor for a bollocking...
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4 months
Always great to see a bloke who once compared gay people to paedophiles and said a woman’s place is on her back or in the kitchen, take an absolute fucking pasting…
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Joe Baiamonte
2 years
Tbh, Vince hanging out with Dimitar Berbatov is way more bizarre than Vince having a moustache
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Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com
2 years
While Vince McMahon did have a mustache backstage at Raw, the picture going around is fake. Here's the original
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6 years
The penalty that went in is better than the one that didn’t. That’s literally how penalty shootouts work.
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6 years
Sick of seeing Spurs fans on my timeline going on about Dier being the hero and ‘saving’ England after Henderson’s miss. You be the judge which penalty is better...
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@kirethk Would though, wouldn’t I?
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3 years
Without doubt one of the finest moments in his career. Moved to New York where footy matches got in the way of his busy schedule of strolling through Chelsea, visiting art galleries, old jazz bars and buying expensive furniture and coats. A fucking Prince
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3 years
Approach your bank holiday weekend with the relaxed attitude of Andrea Pirlo covering the post on corners.
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@JoeBaia
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8 years
👏🏻👏🏻 #For çaChape
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2 months
Channel 4 taking Nadine Dorries off the air just before Carol Vorderman went hog wild all over the Tories is the biggest missed opportunity in television history
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Joe Baiamonte
4 years
Four years to the day since I interviewed @RicFlairNatrBoy and he ended our hour by calling my wife and keeping me out all night. I’m still hungover...
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Joe Baiamonte
8 years
When you've got a semi-final to play but Tinder is going off...
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7 years
Championship Manager turned 25 this week, so here's my love letter to the GOAT, Champ Man 01/02...
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8 years
Fanboyed big time interviewing @HeymanHustle . He shouted at me lots. #WrestleMania
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Joe Baiamonte
7 years
Dunno about you, but I'd rather have a government that doesn't leave seriously ill children waiting on makeshift beds. #VoteLabour
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7 years
We're voting Labour because we cannot sit by and allow the Tories to destroy our NHS for five more years. What's your reason? #NHSforLabour
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6 years
Two years ago, today, I interviewed/was ripped to pieces by The Actual @HeymanHustle , during WrestleMania weekend. We discussed how terrifying Brock Lesnar is and then he called the cameraman a schmuck. Absolute perfection.
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Joe Baiamonte
3 years
You fellas know a guy named Jimmy? You totally look like his brother
@ladbible
LADbible
3 years
Without naming the film, what's a quote that'll give it away?
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Joe Baiamonte
3 years
WWE: Stop slapping your legs, it’s too unrealistic Also WWE:
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Joe Baiamonte
3 years
Young Steve Austin had tremendous ‘German bad guy in Die Hard’ energy...
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9 years
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7 years
Who wore them better?
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8 years
I asked @HeymanHustle what he thought about Wayne Rooney. Turns out he doesn't much care for him...
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Joe Baiamonte
6 years
Not a day goes by where I don’t think of that episode of ‘Rick Stein’s Road To Mexico’ where that bloke makes him a dead good tuna chilli and Rick thanks him by immediately saying “so your nine brothers all drowned at sea, didn’t they?” Seminal television.
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2 years
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1 year
Another big day for the ‘not understanding that charges being withdrawn doesn’t mean innocent’ gang on here
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Joe Baiamonte
7 years
Stoke appointing Paul Lambert as manager is a 'gone Tesco after the lunch rush and having to settle for a 'Just Ham' sandwich' managerial appointment if ever I saw one.
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7 years
@Duggy123 @DeanCoombes @britainelects @YouGov Deserves to win the election for this gif alone.
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2 years
“In prison, dinner was always a big thing…” Rest easy, Paul Sorvino. Hope you and Ray are listening to ‘Beyond The Sea’ and cooking up a storm 🤌❤️
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1 year
In pog form?
@IndySport
Indy Sport
1 year
AC Milan are back – but not as how you remember them
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Joe Baiamonte
9 years
"They've gone with who? Guardiola? Well this wasn't worth getting out the pool for"
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2 years
It is my God given right as a dad to wear an old Italian footy top in the garden while looking absolutely fucking knackered on a Bank Holiday Weekend
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6 years
Jose Mourinho looks like he’s about to drop a quite nice Autumn/Winter collection for Next.
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1 year
Dear @AEW / @TonyKhan , get Eddie Kingston booked on the One Show for All In Week, pls. Cheers
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8 months
The Last Dance but it’s about Steve Austin during the Attitude Era
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Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com
8 months
Financial Times says Netflix will be producing special documentaries regarding WWE
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4 years
@WeahsCousin Read ‘cat flap’ as ‘flat cap’ and wondered what the fuck you were on about then. Still very funny, like.
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1 year
Business Idea: A Serbian bakery selling sourdough loaves called Artisan Belgrade
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5 years
Fucking hell fire Paolo
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1 year
Me: I don’t want the football club I’ve supported for 30 years to become a sportswashing project for an autocratic state with a horrendous human rights record Football Twitter: WE GOT BEAT 7-0 BY LIVERPOOL, CITY WIN LOADS, GO SHAG JIM RADCLIFFE, ALSO YOU’RE RACIST
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Joe Baiamonte
1 year
Absolutely cannot be arsed with this. Felt like United were finally making a decent amount of progress for the first time in 10 years and now we’re just going to become another soulless state project like PSG, City and Newcastle. Fucking horrendous
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7 years
Chelsea have ruined Conte. Bloke’s not even grooming himself properly and is letting his defence go to shit. He’ll be buying Lloyd Grossman pasta sauce and having meals out at Bella Italia, next. Fucking hell.
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9 years
Be a laugh if Blackburn decided to sell one of their strikers on #BackToTheFuture day & announced "Where we're going, we don't need Rhodes"
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Joe Baiamonte
6 months
The use of Ngannou to get people interested in Fury/Joshua again has been pure pro-wrestling. Interest waned when AJ got dusted by Usyk. Give Ngannou a shocking ‘close call’ vs a complacent Fury before he gets pasted by a resurgent Joshua to make fans buy into that fight again
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BBC Sport
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Francis Ngannou on Anthony Joshua's knockout punch. 🥊 #BBCBoxing #JoshuaNgannou
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Joe Baiamonte
3 months
Pre-emptively demanding the Amazon Prime doc about Mourinho in Istanbul
@FabrizioRomano
Fabrizio Romano
3 months
🟡🔵🇵🇹 José Mourinho’s verbal agreement with Fenerbahçe is on two year contract valid until June 2026. It will also include an option for further season. Jorge Mendes has been negotiating the deal and now time to review, sign all formal documents. Here we go soon! 🇹🇷
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@tsbible Roberto Martinez pursuing his dream of being Jason Derulo's back up dancer #FavouritePremierLeagueMoment
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7 years
When you've got to deal with the Wet Bandits at 2 and get to the London Stadium for 3...
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Joe Baiamonte
7 years
Interviewed @HeymanHustle at WrestleMania 32’s radio row and can confirm it’s the most hilarious, humbling, brilliant and outright terrifying experience of my life.
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Paul Heyman
7 years
Like - Comment - Subscribe Behind The Scenes at @WWE @WrestleMania Week @BrockLesnar #YourHumbleAdvocate #RadioRow
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8 years
Conor McGregor's that nutter who turns up to your house party uninvited who you daren't ask to leave...
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Joe Baiamonte
1 year
Imagine trying to look after Jack Grealish full time? He must come with more instructions than a fucking Gremlin
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Joe Baiamonte
5 years
Paul Scholes is out here calling his son a bitch on instagram and there’s still people who reckon Gerrard and Lampard were better than him? Have a fucking day off.
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8 years
Jose Mourinho's such a defensively minded manager that his Real Madrid team outscored Pep's Barcelona in two of his three seasons in Spain.
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7 years
Weird how Katie Hopkins, Farage and Tommy Robinson weren't outraged when Jo Cox was murdered by a white, English terrorist.
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10 months
“Wargames is over, WWE logo flashes up on the screen then BAM! Cult of Personality hits the speakers. Helluva beat. Chicago crowd goes banana. Drew McIntyre throws a shit fit, Seth Rollins tells you to go fuck yourself and I’m thinking damn,these kids workin or are they shootin?”
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6 years
Basically, give me @MundialMag ’s Hotel MUNDIAL, @COPA90 / @COPA90US ’s coverage, Eni Aluko and Alex Scott’s punditry, the @PlayersTribune pieces, Ian Wright’s shirts and the England lads on inflatable unicorns over a bunch of actual grown men going to war over a fucking teamsheet.
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5 years
Me when I find the button that turns a normal bath into a jacuzzi...
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1 year
Every time the ball gets played to De Gea’s feet
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Joe Baiamonte
9 months
United in the league have been grinding out narrow victories with about as much showmanship and swagger as Mark Corrigan making his toast on a weekday morning. In the Champions League they’ve approached every game with the same energy as Jez on a weekend away with SuperHans
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1 year
@alex_brotherton When it’s being bought solely for the purpose of propaganda to distract from all the human rights atrocities the regimes buying it are directly involved with then yeah, it does make it automatically soulless
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7 years
Seeing as the Leeds badge has caused Pro Evo to trend, I reckon it's the right time to share this piece I wrote on what the Master League originals are up to nowadays...
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Joe Baiamonte
6 years
I only want modern football to be 95% spying now. The other 5% can be ballboys not giving the ball to opposition players when they’re in a rush during injury time.
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Joe Baiamonte
6 years
Fair play to Ronaldo for deciding against a couple of easy years in America or China in favour of getting the ever loving christ kicked out of his ankles by Italian defenders in front of half empty stadiums in Serie A for a few seasons. Nothing but respect.
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5 years
@joelgolby In Burnley there was Pharoah's which, sensationally, marketed itself as 'Burnley's premiere Egyptian themed nightclub'.
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