Daniel Taylor
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Who’s going to show some love to Selhurst Park on its 100th anniversary? Special report – and special occasion – on one of English football’s least appreciated grounds. The Athletic | Football #CPFC nytimes.com/athletic/57240…
Selhurst Park is ramshackle, chaotic and crumbling. But in an age of identikit stadiums, it has a unique charm — not to mention a ghost, a drowned ten pin bowling alley, Ted Lasso, amazing jerk chicken and 100 years of defiant, noisy history. 📝 Daniel Taylor
Hakan Sukur’s name has been scrubbed from Turkish society. Edited out of films, removed from stadia, a TV commentator taken off air just for saying it. I interviewed HAKAN ŞÜKÜR 👑, with Enes Kanter FREEDOM, as he approaches a decade in exile in America. nytimes.com/athletic/57148…
Jack Grealish and Declan Rice's decision to represent England is still a sensitive subject in Ireland. As the countries prepare to meet this weekend, read the inside story of how the Republic missed out on two generational talents. 📝 Daniel Taylor and Gregg Evans
Kiernan Hughes-Mason “destroyed” a two-year-old girl’s life and left her with “catastrophic injuries”. Yet he was employed as a player or manager by seven non-League clubs after police were first contacted. How could that happen? Adam Leventhal
The strange case of Odysseas Vlachodimos – the £20m goalkeeper Newcastle needed but didn’t want. W/ Chris Waugh #NUFC nytimes.com/athletic/57621…
Odysseas Vlachodimos is Newcastle United's most expensive No 1 ever, at a reported £20m. Except he's not their No 1. He's fourth choice, if that. So what is going on? Chris Waugh and George Caulkin tell the inside story of the summer's strangest transfer.