This week, the Gates Foundation predicted 243,000 more children will die in 2025 than 2024, breaking a 35-year streak of child deaths reducing. A primary reason cited was the huge cuts to USAID

FIFA just awarded the US president who oversaw those cuts its inaugural 'peace prize'

When they call it the world’s game they mean American financial institutions buy English clubs which acquire European clubs to hoard players from Africa and South America so the English club can secure a place in a Gulf State-run Super League that will inevitably play in America

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Selling abroad means rethinking your price tags. The Premier League operates in its own financial bubble. Continental clubs simply aren't matching those valuations.

#Arsenal needs to attract more PL buyers and players wanting to stay in the PL.

Another nugget from Swiss Ramble: turns out #Arsenal have matched Liverpool for player sales profit over the last few years and we are not far off Spurs either. Meanwhile, Chelsea and City are playing Financial Fairytale FC in a league of their own.

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Milan-Cremonese Preview: RedBird's Funeral Parlor

Milan kick off their season vs. promoted Cremonese in a San Siro that will be full but quiet due to further sanctions vs. Curva Sud.

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#MilanCremonese ❤️🖤 #SerieA 🪦 #SanSiro

Nothing quite like the richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world going full-blown middle school on each other to make you feel good about the state of national and global affairs.

FIFA’s Club World Cup was always going to create more unequal football under guise of making it more equal. For one month’s work an English team could earn equivalent of near full season’s worth of TV income. Teams from elsewhere 100% or more of domestic income. Could erode domestic balance further