Ben Fisher
Journalist at Freelance
Sports Journalist at The Guardian
Football reporter @guardian_sport. ‘Great touch for a big man’ - @IanWright0, 2022; ‘A very long man’ - (unnamed) Istanbul taxi driver, 2023
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Fisher
The last of Craig Bellamy’s 78 Wales caps came in Brussels in October 2013 and although that 1-1 draw concluded an underwhelming World Cup qualifying campaign, the Belgian capital is where he considers his coaching career achieved liftoff.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Fisher
Wales hope to reap the benefit of an extended training camp for their World Cup qualifying double header after recognising June was where they came unstuck in their failed Euro 2024 campaign. Wales, who host Liechtenstein in Group J on Friday before facing Belgium on Monday, lost crunch matches against Armenia and Turkey in June 2023 before missing out on last summer’s finals after a playoff defeat to Poland.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Fisher
“It’s been like snakes and ladders,” says the midfielder Joe Morrell, detailing how a hellish 16 months has proved the most difficult duel of his career. An innocuous click in his left knee, a setback in the gym while on holiday in Miami and the onset of arthrofibrosis – a condition where scar tissue builds between joints – and suddenly 492 days have passed since his last appearance, for Portsmouth in a League One match at Oxford.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Fisher
Norwich City have appointed Liam Manning as their new head coach after the club triggered the release clause in his contract at Bristol City. Manning impressed after leading the Robins to the Championship playoffs for the first time in 17 years and Norwich quickly identified him as their No 1 target to succeed Johannes Hoff Thorup, who was sacked after a disappointing end to the season.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Fisher
Manchester City are optimistic of signing the Wolves full-back Rayan Aït-Nouri as part of their summer revamp. City are yet to bid for the Algeria defender but he is regarded as a primary target. City’s chair, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, has said the club were not aggressive enough in the market last summer and want to complete most of their close-season business in time for the Club World Cup with their first game on 18 June. The Lyon midfielder Rayan Cherki is another target.
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Asked Craig Bellamy about preserving his unbeaten record as Wales manager v Belgium and fair to say his reply radiated his passion for the job – ‘I’ve just had the best year of my life’ – and indeed life in general: https://t.co/Bls5yaUejU
The last of Craig Bellamy’s 78 Wales caps came in Brussels in 2013 and the Belgian capital is where he considers his coaching career achieved liftoff. He spent a couple of years working at Anderlecht. ‘They had to Google or YouTube me to know who I was.’ https://t.co/RIAVqs2oEQ
In a parallel universe, @JoeJMorrell would probably have been with Wales preparing for World Cup qualifiers but after 492 days out he is raring to go. He was typically honest as he discussed missing pressure, purpose and, in a perverse way, even the flak: https://t.co/1KyyQx6SCV