Joel Golby

London

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Football Manager is your life, now: Episode 10

1 month ago | goal.com | Joel Golby

Weird The dark cave is always there to greet you. You’re in a slate-grey valley filled with mist, and shale skitters loose beneath your weary feet. Above you is a white featureless sky without birds and without clouds. You’ve been doing good lately. You got on the Lion’s Mane. You’ve been running and hitting your protein goals. The Minoxidil spray is starting to work and you’re seeing thin, wispy shoots of life around the hem of your hairline.
Speak up, man: how talking circles are supporting a healthier masculinity

Jan 20, 2025 | taipeitimes.com | Joel Golby

By Joel Golby / The Guardian I am kneeling quite awkwardly on a cushion in a yoga studio in London’s Shoreditch on an unseasonably chilly Wednesday and wondering when exactly will be the optimum time to rearrange my legs. I have an ice-cold mango and passion fruit kombucha beside me and an agonising case of pins and needles.
how talking circles are supporting a healthier masculinity

Jan 19, 2025 | msn.com | Joel Golby

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how talking circles are supporting a healthier masculinity

Jan 19, 2025 | msn.com | Joel Golby

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
Speak up, man: how talking circles are supporting a healthier masculinity

Jan 19, 2025 | theguardian.com | Joel Golby

I am kneeling quite awkwardly on a cushion in a yoga studio in London’s Shoreditch on an unseasonably chilly Wednesday and wondering when exactly will be the optimum time to rearrange my legs. I have an ice-cold mango and passion fruit kombucha beside me and an agonising case of pins and needles.
Football Manager is your life, now. Episode 8.

Jan 6, 2025 | goal.com | Joel Golby

1pm, Kings Cross, the strange, quiet half-day where the air in the city feels vacuumed out because everyone has left to either out-skirted suburbia or the north or skiing or the big house in Saltburn, and I am trying to pull a suitcase and a backpack and a tote bag with a single panettone in it—yeah it’s definitely not impractical for me to be carrying a massive panettone in a tote bag right now, which by the way no one will eat, no it’s fine it’s definitely not bumping against me in a very...
Football Manager is your life, now. Episode 7.

Dec 27, 2024 | goal.com | Joel Golby

11am, the soft, quiet Wednesday in the week before Christmas, sunlight lamp blaring in my face, and I have rediscovered Texas BBQ Pringles. When did you last have a Pringle? When did you last have a Pringle? When did you? Go and get some Pringles.
Managers at Christmas: Part 2

Dec 24, 2024 | goal.com | Joel Golby

First of all, a very MUNDIAL Christmas to you and yours. Did you enjoy part one of Joel Golby's festive epic yesterday? If you missed it, you can catch up here. Part two is even better, so slink away from the family and treat yourself to a good old scroll on the most wonderful day of the year. Cheers. MIKEL ARTETARight, time to do this. A £600 bottle of red wine sits in a decanter on the kitchen island. This is the final piece of the puzzle. Pep loves passing: Mikel loves passing.
Managers at Christmas: Part 1

Dec 23, 2024 | goal.com | Joel Golby

Last year, we commissioned Joel Golby to write about Premier League managers at Christmas and, to be honest, not a day goes by where we don’t talk about how fucking brilliant it was. So, what better way to get you into the festive spirit than revisiting Joel’s pièce de résistance. Part one is below and part two will be in your inboxes tomorrow—right in time for when you need a quick five-minute scroll on the toilet...
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone - far too good to only exist as festive TV

Dec 20, 2024 | theguardian.com | Joel Golby

Heavens! Oh, it’s you, Doctor Blathery: forgive me, you gave me an awful fright. You see it’s the queerest thing: this little stone statue I inherited with the cottage when I moved to this sleepy village from London (where everybody hates me because I’m from London), well, it seems to me … Oh, you shall call me half-mad! It seems to be moving around from room to room when I’m not looking.