HeyJaredJoey D'Urso
This is a free weekly newsletter about how football explains global politics, money and power. I'm a journalist who has worked for BBC News, The Athletic and the Times, and recently published a book called More Than A Shirt.
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Getting 100k Instagram followers: a Serious Journalist’s guide (opens the original)
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Hello,This is a little different from my usual weekly newsletter about how football explains global politics, money and power. Tomorrow I’ll be writing about Man City, of course, which I spoke about on The News Agents podcast yesterday.Subscribe nowThis is about me hitting 100,000 Instagram followers and how and why I did it.Even typing that sentence in public feels a littl
How UNESCO snobs got Everton's stadium wrong (opens the original)
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Hello,Welcome to my weekly email about how football explains global politics, money and power. Last week, Britain’s new prime minister Andy Burnham met his Canadian counterpart and fellow Everton fan Mark Carney, in the unorthodox location of the Hill Dickinson Stadium. The two men enjoyed a 1-0 home win over Wolves in the League Cup.Burnham grew up nearby while Carney got hooked on Everton when he was studying in the UK.This week Burnham has weighed in on football’s “discriminatory” ban on drin
Five unwritten rules of English football, broken by an influencer (opens the original)
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Hello and welcome to my weekly newsletter about how football explains global politics, money and power.I’m doing a new talk in London Thursday October 22nd — ‘The Rise, Fall and Rise of English Football’. Tickets here. There may be another later date TBC.Last week I wrote about how English football stadiums have gone qu
Why have English football stadiums gone quiet? (opens the original)
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Hello,Welcome to my weekly email about how football explains global politics, money and power.I’m currently putting the finishing touches on my second book. It’s the biggest thing I've ever done and I'll tell you more about it very soon. I just spent 10 days in the Scottish wilderness doing nothing but write, while paying little attention to the news. Here's a selfie from a rare foray outdoors:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TzDX!,f_auto
Why is Everton, not Liverpool FC, a Euro 2028 host? (opens the original)
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On Tuesday September 22nd, I’m doing an event with Times journalist Patrick Maguire at Backstory Books in Balham, London. Still a few tickets here.Hello and welcome to my weekly newsletter about how football explains global politics, money and power.I’ve been doing a video series on Instagram in recent weeks telling the history behind all 20 Premier League badges… </
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