Joey D'Urso

London

Investigations Writer at The Athletic

Senior data journalist, The Times and the Sunday Times | Author of MORE THAN A SHIRT out June 2025: https://t.co/C5NGKoxB7w | [email protected]

Articles

The data that proves Trump is the ultimate television president

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Joey D'Urso
An Evening with Joey D’Urso in Conversation with Adrian Goldberg

1 month ago | waterstones.com | Joey D'Urso

Join us for an insightful evening with Joey D’Urso, discussing his debut book More Than A Shirt. Twenty-two football shirts that explain the world, geopolitics, and the biggest stories of our time. Joey will be in conversation with Adiran Goldberg. About the Book Football is the world’s most popular sport, and the shirts worn by teams and their supporters are its greatest means of cultural expression.
30% is tipping point to turn votes into seats

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Joey D'Urso
End of the Eras: Taylor Swift’s unprecedented tour in numbers

Nov 30, 2024 | thetimes.com | Joey D'Urso |Heather Elliott

After 149 concerts over almost two years, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour ends next weekend. Her performance in Vancouver next Sunday is the final night of the most lucrative tour in history. Has there ever been anything quite like it? Not really. According to Forbes, Swift has grossed $1.93 billion in ticket sales (£1.52 billion), well ahead of her closest rivals Coldplay, whose Music of the Spheres tour runs into next year.
The 6 best sport books of 2024

Nov 28, 2024 | thetimes.com | Joey D'Urso

It’s been a great year for football fans, and not just because the men’s England team astonishingly reached the Euros finals in July. More than half of this year’s top sport books have something (or everything) to do with the beautiful game. David Peace’s novel Munichs is a poignant recreation of the 1958 Manchester United tragedy and the modest world of the Busby Babes, while in States of Play Miguel Delaney argues that the sport has become a vehicle for the political agendas of global dictators.
Two thirds of country back assisted dying

Nov 23, 2024 | thetimes.com | Caroline Wheeler |Joey D'Urso

Key points Nearly two thirds of voters support assisted dying, according to new poll Those who have lost a parent most likely to support policy Seven constituencies do not have a majority for assisted dying Almost three quarters of people say NHS is not in fit state to provide assisted dying service More than 100 MPs expected to register interest to speak in this week’s debate Fears bill could be filibustered Rebecca Wilcox will be sitting in the House of Commons public gallery on Friday to...
How did the Kamala Harris campaign blow $1 billion?

Nov 16, 2024 | thetimes.com | Megan Agnew |Joey D'Urso

Where did it all go? Yes, the money. That billion dollars. It is the question being asked this week as the final figures from Kamala Harris’s failed presidential bid come in and the financial post mortem begins; strategists and consultants picking over the Democrats’ cash-corpse, discussing exactly how it was spent and how they would have spent it differently.
How did the Kamala Harris campaign blow $1 billion?

Nov 16, 2024 | thetimes.com | Megan Agnew |Joey D'Urso

Where did it all go? Yes, the money. That billion dollars. It is the question being asked this week as the final figures from Kamala Harris’s failed presidential bid come in and the financial post mortem begins; strategists and consultants picking over the Democrats’ cash-corpse, discussing exactly how it was spent and how they would have spent it differently.
Government asked for updates on Premier League charges against Man City

Nov 1, 2024 | thetimes.com | Martyn Ziegler |Joey D'Urso |George Greenwood

Senior Foreign Office officials asked for updates about the Premier League’s charges against Manchester City for 115 alleged rule breaches, new documents have shown. James Cleverly, who was Foreign Secretary in the Tory government, asked for an update in September 2023 while the British Embassy in Dubai asked for the latest information on the case as recently as May this year.
The football club owned by a convicted fraudster

Mar 5, 2024 | theathletic.com | Joey D'Urso

At a forum for Fleetwood Town fans this season, there was an unusual special guest - one who had recorded an audio thank-you from prison. Last summer, the owner of the club in England's third tier, Andy Pilley, was sentenced to 13 years for ripping off small businesses and charities up and down the UK via his utilities companies, stealing money from vulnerable people and becoming rich in the process.