Matt Slater
Senior Football News Reporter at The Athletic
Senior football news reporter @TheAthleticFC . Just links here now - will occasionally chat at @mjslater.bsky.social.
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4 days ago |
nytimes.com | Matt Slater
Reds versus Blues in a contest for a big prize, with plenty of needle in the build-up and uncertainty over the outcome. It was the type of fixture that David Kogan would have been happy to talk about in his role as a sports media-rights expert. But this was different. This time, it was Kogan - the UK government's preferred candidate to chair the proposed independent football regulator - who was the subject of scrutiny.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Matt Slater
Sir Jim Ratcliffe's INEOS, Manchester United's minority owner, is exploring the sale of French side Nice. New York-based investment bank Lazard has been tasked with finding a buyer for the Ligue 1 club and is looking for a price of €250m ($283.2m, £213m at current exchange rates). Any potential sale of Nice is complicated by the uncertainty surrounding the Ligue 1 broadcast deal.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Matt Slater
It was Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano who first noticed the similarities between the business of football and what Walt Disney started a century ago. "Disney uses its characters, such as Mickey Mouse, to produce audiovisual content, sell T-shirts and instigate theme parks," he wrote in Goal: The Ball Doesn't Go In By Chance in 2012.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Matt Slater
American writer Mark Twain once said there is no such thing as a new idea. They are just a bunch of old ideas that we put into a "mental kaleidoscope... then give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations". I would be surprised if Leyton Orient's new owner David Gandler has ever done anything as old-fashioned as play with a kaleidoscope, but he certainly knows how to repackage good ideas from the past and present them in new and interesting ways.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Gregg Evans |Matt Slater
Mohamed Salah's celebratory selfie after helping cap Liverpool's Premier League title party will become an iconic image. Standing in front of Anfield's Kop end with his arm stretched, the Egyptian snapped away on a phone handed to him during the goal celebrations. It seemed to be a moment of off-the-cuff spontaneity that summed up the joyous atmosphere - but things weren't quite so clear-cut.
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