senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social
Alex Shephard
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This is the piece about Fabrizio Romano that I've been waiting to read for years goldengoal.world/2026/06/10/f...
"Welcome to the 2026 World Cup, a Frankenstein’s monster of a tournament, stitching together the rot of FIFA with the ruin of its principal host nation." My third World Cup curtain raiser for TNR, all of which have been depressing in their own unique ways. newrepublic.com/article/2115...
A story dissecting modern men’s football, on social media star “journalist” influencer Fabrizio Romano:
“Romano is a leading superhero in FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s cinematic universe, where decisions are announced rather than contested, where power is celebrated rather than investigated.”
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An absolute heater from @redford.bsky.social on the eve of the World Cup
Ceasefires can very much persist even if both sides fire at each other. The Minsk Agreement is a great example. Under Trump, violations and "tests"—actually an accurate description!—have grown more common. Here's a good explainer on the subject from... the NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/w...
I wrote about the World Cup newrepublic.com/article/2115...
It's frustrating how much media criticism in Trump 2 is built around demands for *less accurate* reporting
