Tim Spiers
Journalist at The Athletic
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5 days ago |
nytimes.com | Tim Spiers
Welcome to Row Z, The Athletic 's weekly column that shines a light on the bonkers side of the game. From clubs to managers, players to organisations, every Friday we'll bring you the absurdities, the greed, the contradictions, the preposterousness and the oddities of the game we all love... Arteta crowns his championsArsenal boss Mikel Arteta's bold assertion that there was no team better than his own in the Champions League this season was a strange one.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Tim Spiers
With the unpredictable nature of knockout football, both in terms of the matches and the draws, it is rarely the case that you can unequivocally say the best two teams reached the final of any given competition. Unless there's a perfect seeding system in place and the big favourites and best teams win at every opportunity (UEFA is giving this a good go to be fair), that final is always at risk of not playing host to the two best sides. Too right, too.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Tim Spiers
Eleven football players (and the officials, don't forget them) stand in two lines to applaud the Premier League title winners onto the field. How do you feel about that? What does it mean? Will you enjoy it? Will you hate it? Should it happen? And now it's happened, how did you feel about it? Did you like it? Should it have happened? Someone make it stop.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Tim Spiers
In a sport deep-seated in tradition and history, a new era may have begun in snooker after Zhao Xintong became the first Chinese winner of the snooker World Championship. Zhao defeated veteran three-time champion Mark Williams 18-12 in Monday's final at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Tim Spiers
There is suffocating silence in the auditorium as four-time world champion John Higgins attempts to compile a match-winning break. It has gone 10.30pm on a bank holiday Monday, but no one has left the packed arena. The hushed drama is too captivating to consider an early departure. A mistimed cough from anyone in the audience could genuinely impact the match. Higgins requires 100 per cent concentration to get over the winning line and, this being snooker, total quiet is preferable.
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