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Jun 27, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Milan have been suspended from European competition next season due to FFP violations. Was initially reported in some places as 2 years, but that appears to be a misreading.
Essentially, the ruling looks like an off-the-shelf deal where it's 'one European competition in the next two years'. Seeing as they already qualified for next year's Europa League, that'll presumably be the one.
Assuming the judgement holds (isn't successfully appealed), Fiorentina will take Milan's place in the Europa League. They'll go in at the third qualifying round, and Atalanta will get bumped straight into the group stage.
My bad - Fiorentina would go in at second qualifying round (h/t @istwine). Which starts in less than a month...

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Oct 4, 2020
Quite the most surreal spectacle unfolding in Italy right now as Juventus prepare as normal - team bus to the stadium, starting XI posted on Twitter - to face a Napoli team that everybody knows is not going to show up, seeing as they are still back home in Naples.
For those who haven't been following: Napoli did not travel because 2 members of their first-team squad have tested positive for covid since they faced a Genoa team that has had (at last count) 17 players test positive. At the time when those teams played, Genoa had 2
Napoli's owner, Aurelio De Laurentiis says his team is following the instructions of local health authorities by staying put and isolating. But the Italian Football Federation's rules follow Uefa's in saying that if you have 13 healthy players, including a keeper, you can play
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Aug 16, 2020
One year since I wrote this piece. It feels like a different lifetime. Still here though, still telling stories, still making it work as a freelancer in a pandemic. Thank you to everyone who's come along with me and made that possible theguardian.com/football/2019/…
As rotten as 2020 has been overall, I am a million times more comfortable within myself than a year ago. For those who need to hear it, I would love you to know things can get better when you open up. None of life's struggles are made easier by having to hide a part of yourself
I also think it’s important to acknowledge at the same time how hard that can be. I don’t want to shy away from how terrifying and difficult transition has been even as a person with vast privilege. All the rest of life’s struggles don’t disappear on the other side, either.
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Aug 7, 2020
It's that time, folks: the end of season Bandini awards for Serie A are here: theguardian.com/football/2020/…
For the record, it took all of my will to keep that goal of the season shortlist to fewer than 30 goals. What a season of absolute gems.

(And I disagree already with the order that *I* put them in. So feel free to do the same)
(Likewise with the team of the season: I did originally have a subs' bench but after adding the 12th forward I considered that maybe things were getting out of hand)
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Jun 17, 2020
A thread about my greatest career regret (prompted, improbably, by news of the imminent retirement of an American brand of pancake syrup edition.cnn.com/2020/06/17/bus…).
In the summer of 2014, I travelled with the American Outlaws – the US soccer team’s biggest fan group – to the World Cup in Brazil. The idea was to write a book that would be part gonzo yarn, part travelogue, and part exploration of the growth of soccer fandom in the States.
(I would also cover games for The Guardian, and a few other places, as I went. That part of the plan, at least, did work out.)
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Mar 25, 2020
Second full day of quarantine and already overwhelmed by craving for biscuits. Didn't think that was an acceptably 'necessary' reason to go to the shops so made @FelicityCloake's digestives instead. Despite fudging about half the ingredients, a triumph for dunking in tea Image
(And let's face it, when life has become one long sequence of Zoom meetings, you're going to consume a lot of tea)
Recipe, for anyone similarly in need: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/w…
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Jan 28, 2018
Happy birthday to @gianluigibuffon, 40 today. I had the privilege to spend time with him recently for @8by8mag. That interview is now online, and I hope you'll read it. An extraordinary, thoughtful man, who happens to be the greatest keeper of all time: instagram.com/p/Befxn7HhGT2/
Gigi is always a treat to interview, but this really felt like a particular moment in his career and his life: we talked about growing up, when you stop being a kid and become an adult - and what that means in practical terms.
It was fascinating to hear him say that he no longer fears retirement - a feeling that he has confessed to in the past. We also discussed the depression that he struggled with in his 20s and how he relates to that now.
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