Liverpool’s shirt sponsor Standard Chartered has provided £6.18bn of financing to a company which owns a mine that is causing “irreparable damage” to Luis Diaz’s village and surrounding areas. Investigation from Jacob Whitehead. theathletic.com/3525450/2022/0…

Luis Diaz is from La Guajira in Colombia, where the Cerrejon coal mine has been labelled an existential threat to his local community.

This is the story of people at risk and a mine owned by Glencore, a company part financed by #LFC sponsors Standard Chartered

📝 Jacob Whitehead

Massive thanks to Laura Williamson for all her help on this.

Started full-time at The Athletic UK a year ago today, and it’s really important that they invest so heavily in these long and difficult pieces.

Spoke to local Wayuu activists, MPs, mine workers, and Diaz’s family as part of a six-month investigation. Concerns include:

🏠 Village relocation
🚰 Lack of water access
😷 Air pollution

Current owners Glencore deny these points. #LFC did not comment.

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Paul Tierney’s advantage 👏🏻

Football can be a force for good but it cannot fix society’s problems. Been a bad few weeks in Liverpool, a city which has been on the outside politically for four decades and is facing the biggest crises in living memory following 12 years of austerity. theathletic.com/3556656/2022/0…

This is a really lovely read.

And now, courtesy of The Athletic UK, you can see how each of those windows look in hindsight…

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Brilliant news. Interviewed Devante earlier this year for a piece examining how non-league footballers cope with career-threatening injuries.

Broke his leg at the same ground one year ago, suffering nerve damage.

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Cannot believe that Nottingham Forest have not yet signed Ainsley Maitland-Niles.

I wrote for Guardian Opinion about our parks as our last truly democratic spaces, the drastic cuts to them, and the mass riots that stopped one of my fav local parks from becoming a golf course in the 1890s theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

With #NFFC making Renan Lodi their 18th arrival, I make that the joint-most first-team signings made in a single transfer window by a PL club.

- Crystal Palace 13-14 (18)
- Fulham 07-08 (16)
- Watford 15-16 (16)
- Watford 17-18 (15)
- Chelsea 03-04 (15)

Climate reparations should become a far more central part of geopolitical discourse over the next decade.

*wearily sets alarm for pieces in November telling Gareth Southgate to sub off Pickford for Henderson in WC shootouts*

The best thing about Saint-Maximin’s volley is Sven Botman covering his face in fear before it’s struck.

Alexander Isak seems to have been 22 for about the last five years.

The UK government has announced plans to increase solar power capacity “up to five times” by 2035.

If built, solar farms would still only represent half the space taken up by golf courses.

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