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Posts by Barney Ronay

It’s not the wage bill, although everyone who follows football knows that’s a huge factor in success now. It’s being charged with falsifying income to have a bigger wage bill. Maybe city will be cleared of that, in which case fair enough. but in the meantime it’s obviously material

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Pep is much more salzburg. Needy virtuoso. He’s not getting vienna.

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which one of these is £500,000 a week superstar Erling Haaland?

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Nico O’Reilly’s fearless quality exposes collapsing Arsenal’s title credentials | Barney Ronay The deep lying flank-gallop creator is an excellent Manchester City story and once again confirmed why he is England’s best left-back

Team with slightly better players and manager plus bigger wage bill, also financial charges pending wins. But ... was still also good
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Premier League shootout arrives with odd twist for feelings guy Guardiola Manchester City v Arsenal is a rare late-season title decider and comes with a set of surprising plotlines

It’s the final countdown
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Supercharged GOAT-level swim‑genius Adam Ramsay-Peaty is the Messi of breaststroke | Barney Ronay The three-time Olympic champion is brilliant, charismatic, relatable, basically the best British athlete of all-time. But he’s also a victim of the decline of minority sports

Be like water
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Supercharged GOAT-level swim‑genius Adam Ramsay-Peaty is the Messi of breaststroke | Barney Ronay The three-time Olympic champion is brilliant, charismatic, relatable, basically the best British athlete of all-time. But he’s also a victim of the decline of minority sports

Be like water
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

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Arsenal are painful to watch but maybe this is just how you win things | Barney Ronay The crowd were getting anxious and players are either missing or off form but they have still reached the Champions League semi-finals

You can’t blame the fans for feeling confused at times. Even in victory, a good night, clean sheet, this is a genuinely strange spectacle to follow
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Welcome to Pep in April – the serial title avenger with Arsenal in his sights | Barney Ronay Manchester City’s unbeaten April record in the past four years bodes well for their end-of-season pursuit for glory

April, come he will
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Welcome to Pep in April – the serial title avenger with Arsenal in his sights | Barney Ronay Manchester City’s unbeaten April record in the past four years bodes well for their end-of-season pursuit for glory

April, come he will
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Gambling is easy, right? Wrong: it turns out betting on sport is designed to disturb you | Barney Ronay Could I turn £10 into £1,000? I thought I could but was undone by the harsh reality and lost a little bit of my soul along the way

I conquered the world of gambling:
and now you can too with my simple three and half step plan (disclaimer: plan will not, repeat not work)
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

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PSG ramp up the style to leave Slot and Liverpool looking like yesterday’s men | Barney Ronay Another Anfield miracle in the second leg will be talked up, but the gulf in class between the two sides was undeniable

Footballers try hard
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PSG ramp up the style to leave Slot and Liverpool looking like yesterday’s men | Barney Ronay Another Anfield miracle in the second leg will be talked up, but the gulf in class between the two sides was undeniable

Footballers try hard
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Arteta’s ChatGPT Guardiola-ism is down but history beckons for Gunners The quadruple dream may be dead but Arsenal are now just four games from achieving an unprecedented nonruple

Arsenal. It’s all probably fine
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Victor. Plus corners

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Arteta’s ChatGPT Guardiola-ism is down but history beckons for Gunners The quadruple dream may be dead but Arsenal are now just four games from achieving an unprecedented nonruple

Arsenal. It’s all probably fine
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Harry Kane, England’s Ballon d’Or hopeful, is finally getting the love he deserves | Barney Ronay Sublime stint at Bayern Munich has made home audiences appreciate a man who isn’t flash or twinkly but is his country’s best footballer

Pure Kane sugar
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Harry Kane, England’s Ballon d’Or hopeful, is finally getting the love he deserves | Barney Ronay Sublime stint at Bayern Munich has made home audiences appreciate a man who isn’t flash or twinkly but is his country’s best footballer

Pure Kane sugar
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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The never-ending story of England footballdom: this is why we can’t have nice things | Barney Ronay Japan’s goal wasn’t Cole Palmer’s fault and Kobbie Mainoo couldn’t track back, but Tuchel will see the scale of what faces him

Tuchel will have head clawing nightmares about that goal. No more fun zippy stuff from here
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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No idea what you’re on about, and don’t usually reply to balls on here, but this is so disingenuous it‘s laughable. have a think about what your motivation is for making this non existent point. might be a more helpful use of time!

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So you’re trying to make a point about “english jurnos“ while deliberately misunderstanding the medium of an 800 word sidebar. What’s the intention here? Everyone knows who Mitoma is and that he scored a goal. universal access to games means we don’t need to mention the score all the time either

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It’s not a match report. Have a look, that was written by Dave hytner. The way it works with newspapers, this is a themed sidebar about England (We offer lots of free content). Everyone knows who scored the goal. But he plays for the team this is not about

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The never-ending story of England footballdom: this is why we can’t have nice things | Barney Ronay Japan’s goal wasn’t Cole Palmer’s fault and Kobbie Mainoo couldn’t track back, but Tuchel will see the scale of what faces him

Tuchel will have head clawing nightmares about that goal. No more fun zippy stuff from here
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Igor Tudor has gone but Tottenham are still hollow, confused and in deep trouble | Barney Ronay Relegation battle has exposed Spurs’ institutional flaws but fans aside, few at the club seem to care about going down

Behind the Tudors are other Tudors
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Igor Tudor has gone but Tottenham are still hollow, confused and in deep trouble | Barney Ronay Relegation battle has exposed Spurs’ institutional flaws but fans aside, few at the club seem to care about going down

Behind the Tudors are other Tudors
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

3 weeks ago 15 3 2 2

Maybe, who knows. But Scotland were good then. So they will give you a game. And an England bloke scored a brilliant goal just after. So it’s hard to see it as a day of shame. One of their better ones

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they were good in 1996. And decent in Qatar

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Agree he seems really good. BUT that's all to come. Not played at a high level yet. And i used to think Kalvin Phillips was the answer

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Tuchel’s England? Maybe they are just not as good as we would like them to be | Barney Ronay The Three Lions have not beaten a good side under their coach and no A-list players have emerged since the last World Cup

England: maybe they’re just not that good
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Tuchel’s England? Maybe they are just not as good as we would like them to be | Barney Ronay The Three Lions have not beaten a good side under their coach and no A-list players have emerged since the last World Cup

England: maybe they’re just not that good
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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