Colin Millar
@Millar_Colin
Football writer/journalist @TheAthleticFC l [email protected]
*PERSONAL NEWS KLAXON* I've written a book! The Frying Pan of Spain: Sevilla v Real Betis - Spain's Hottest Football Rivalry, will be published by @PitchPublishing,12 August 2019. Pre-order here: bit.ly/2SHvO10
This photo of a starving girl in Gaza was uploaded to AP yesterday by photographer Abdel Kareem Hana newsroom.ap.org/editorial-phot… A different image of the same girl newsroom.ap.org/editorial-phot… This is the full photo gallery newsroom.ap.org/editorial-phot… Quite a sinister misrepresentation.
No, this photo is not from Gaza. It depicts a Yazidi girl fleeing ISIS violence in Iraq/Syria, taken on August 13, 2014, at the border crossing in Fishkhabour. The claim misrepresents an old image as a current event.
This is the best ever true news BBC ever made about Israel, 4 minutes but every minute is extremely important
England played 360 minutes of regulation knockout football at Euro 2025. To be ahead for just 1 minute and behind for 173 minutes - 2 hours, 53 minutes - is (almost?) unheard of. Squad depth, substitutions and penalties are essential in knockout football.
England win Euro 2025 having led for just one minute in the knockout stage.
Prior to Gautam Gambhir's appointment as head coach, India had lost just 5 of 32 test series over a decade. They are on course to lose their 3rd successive series in an 8-month period - and 9 of 12 tests.
Insane how desensitised we’re becoming to these daily headlines and how it’s just accepted now. Horrendous.
BREAKING: More than 30 people have been killed after Israeli troops opened fire towards crowds of Palestinians waiting for aid, according to witnesses and hospital officials news.sky.com/story/gaza-mor…
All of these issues would be avoided if football's governing bodies prioritised the long-term health of the sport and not what increases the wealth of millionaires and corporations!
Red Bull, the City Group and INEOS all made relevant cosmetic structural changes to manipulate rulings and bypass football's loose regulations. See also: football club's selling their women's teams to themselves for accounting purposes. The sport is becoming increasingly absurd.
Denmark vs Sweden one of 4 international matches in which the scoreboard would read one nation with the leftover letters spelling the other (Swe-Den, den-mark) See also Cyprus-Russia (Cyp-Rus, rus-sia) Poland Andorra (Pol-And, and-orra) Bhutan-Tanzania (Bhu-Tan, tan-zania)
Sweden 🇸🇪 are victorious in their first game of the EUROs against Denmark 🇩🇰, with Angeldahl scoring the one and deciding goal.
Five words I thought I'd never say... I have written a book. 𝑶𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑼𝒑𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑳𝒂 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒂 is a collection of some of the lesser-known stories from Spanish football. It's been a true privilege to put together. 🔗 amazon.co.uk/Once-Upon-Time…
Here are @acjimbo, @JamesHorncastle, @oilysailor, @Millar_Colin, @CaoimheSport & @TimSpiers reflecting on what Diogo Jota meant to football fans. We also preview the Club World Cup quarter-finals and @megan_feringa has the latest from #WEURO2025 pod.fo/e/2f5d5f
❓QUESTIONS QUESTIONS❓ Club World Cup, Euro 2025, Inter Totally Cup - so much for @acjimbo, @oilysailor, @jacklang and @Millar_Colin to discuss when they make their way into the studio tomorrow. What say you?
A timely reminder that 3 of London's tube lines temperatures exceed 30 degrees - which is the legal limit for transporting cattle. (source: makingmoveslondon.co.uk/blog/data-pred…)
“If you're of working age & you’re capable, go & work & contribute. So that’s what I’m doing.” Interview with Luke Williams (a top guy) on his shifts at Bristol Airport, the message he’s sending to his sons, & why the world of football doesn’t define him. nytimes.com/athletic/64561…
Football academies and rejection: ‘They feel they wasted 20 years of their life’ . Brilliant service by @Millar_Colin nytimes.com/athletic/64476…
Only 1 of every 200 academy players make a career in football. @JohnnyGorman92 has asked what happens to the 99% who don't 'make it'. The results are alarming. Many are identityless, isolated from society, fragile. Football must do more. @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/64476…
At the end of June, all 92 clubs across England’s top four divisions file their retained and released player lists with the English Football League or the Premier League, with a typical top-flight club releasing more than a dozen players — many of whom have never played senior…
Dean Huijsen has settled in seamlessly at Real Madrid after his £50million move from Bournemouth. His rise started on Spain's Costa del Sol — I visited to learn about the car crash, cultures and country that made him. W/@MarioCortegana @GuillermoRai_ nytimes.com/athletic/64350…