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Journalist | @guardian @guardian_sport @observeruk @ipapersport @onlinehyphen | @mundialmag| ig:morgan.ofori_ | email: morgankenofo@gmail.com| Views my own. DMs open.

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Muslim Leeds fans ‘hurt’ by Elland Road Ramadan booing - Hyphen Play during Saturday’s Premier League match against Manchester City stopped briefly so players could break the fast

A Leeds United Muslim fan group is calling for unity after players were booed while breaking their fast during a weekend Premier League match.

@morgankofori.bsky.social reports⬇️
hyphenonline.com/2026/03/03/l...

04.03.2026 13:19 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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‘I really believe in revivals of Black work’: why a director brought back Chadwick Boseman’s play Deep Azure The late actor’s writing was overshadowed by roles in blockbusters. Now, Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu is giving his play about grief the audience it deserves

Tristan Fynn- Aiduenu, the director of Deep Azure on bringing back the late Chadwick Boseman’s play, winning trust of his loved ones and staging grief in this week’s Guardian Long Wave newsletter

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

27.02.2026 12:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘I really believe in revivals of Black work’: why a director brought back Chadwick Boseman’s play Deep Azure The late actor’s writing was overshadowed by roles in blockbusters. Now, Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu is giving his play about grief the audience it deserves

‘I really believe in revivals of Black work’: why a director brought back Chadwick Boseman’s play Deep Azure

25.02.2026 13:29 👍 47 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0

Feels like we need a momentum shifting result like Newcastle away was. City lost there like we lost at Anfield, feels like the group needs signs they can finish the job. Yesterday was always going to be a coin toss without Havertz or Merino’s physicality.

13.02.2026 09:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks for sharing Chris, sorry to learn you also suffer from them!

12.02.2026 23:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Full-blown agony: my battle against the mysterious pain of cluster headaches They can hurt more than broken bones or pancreatitis. But with the right drugs and therapies, relief is possible from this debilitating and often misunderstood condition

Oh, hai. I suffer - as do about 1 in every 1000 of you - from a condition called Cluster Headaches. Nobody EVER knows what these are, or how horrific. This article is super useful in explaining it all. If you can, do please give it a read.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

06.01.2026 12:48 👍 67 🔁 15 💬 5 📌 5
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Jim Ratcliffe, a tax resident of Monaco who has legally avoided an estimated £4 billion in UK taxes, says,

"The UK is being colonised by immigrants, isn't it?"

Ed Conway, "You met recently with Nigel Farage, didn't you?"

Jim Ratcliffe, "I did"

11.02.2026 20:26 👍 544 🔁 211 💬 100 📌 33
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Get Ready for This Year’s Undemocratic, Debt-Ridden, and Mobster-Infused Winter Olympics ICE thugs in the streets, Mafia meddling, and billions in waste—seems like the Games are off to a great start.

The opening ceremony for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics is tomorrow. In my latest with @edgeofsports.bsky.social we press past the five-ring spectacle to shine a light on the underbelly of these politically charged Games. For @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

05.02.2026 13:05 👍 41 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 3
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‘When a match is going well, smile’: inside the scheme helping ethnic minority referees The Core X programme is working to elevate match officials from underrepresented communities into the professional game

Spent time in Loughborough a few weeks ago at a Core X camp, a programme designed to elevate talented officials to the elite level of refereeing for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...

02.02.2026 18:17 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Inside the magic and chaos of the Africa Cup of Nations While Senegal’s victory in the chaotic final has made the headlines, we look at five other big takeaways from the tournament – from the strong diaspora representation to the floor-filling tunes

For the Long Wave newsletter @guardian I went out to Morocco for the Africa Cup of Nations. Here are some reflections 🙏🏿

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...

21.01.2026 15:51 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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Sign up for The Long Wave newsletter: our weekly Black life and culture email Nesrine Malik delivers your weekly dose of Black life and culture from around the world

You can subscribe for it to land in your inbox every week!

www.theguardian.com/global/2024/...

21.01.2026 16:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Inside the magic and chaos of the Africa Cup of Nations While Senegal’s victory in the chaotic final has made the headlines, we look at five other big takeaways from the tournament – from the strong diaspora representation to the floor-filling tunes

For the Long Wave newsletter @guardian I went out to Morocco for the Africa Cup of Nations. Here are some reflections 🙏🏿

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...

21.01.2026 15:51 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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Full-blown agony: my battle against the mysterious pain of cluster headaches They can hurt more than broken bones or pancreatitis. But with the right drugs and therapies, relief is possible from this debilitating and often misunderstood condition

Full-blown agony: my battle against the mysterious pain of cluster headaches

06.01.2026 11:53 👍 45 🔁 7 💬 8 📌 0

So horrible

06.01.2026 18:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Full-blown agony: my battle against the mysterious pain of cluster headaches They can hurt more than broken bones or pancreatitis. But with the right drugs and therapies, relief is possible from this debilitating and often misunderstood condition

Happy New Year. Non-sport klaxon.
For the @theguardian.com, I wrote about Cluster Headaches, a rare neurological condition, and my treatment journey. It’s in today’s paper.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

06.01.2026 12:58 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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Full-blown agony: my battle against the mysterious pain of cluster headaches They can hurt more than broken bones or pancreatitis. But with the right drugs and therapies, relief is possible from this debilitating and often misunderstood condition

Happy New Year. Non-sport klaxon.
For the @theguardian.com, I wrote about Cluster Headaches, a rare neurological condition, and my treatment journey. It’s in today’s paper.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

06.01.2026 12:58 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Best way I can describe the Caicedo Rice conversation is that both give you the feeling you have two players in one but with Rice, both those players are at Ballon d’or standard.

23.11.2025 19:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Zohran Mamdani has upended US politics. Now he should take on Fifa | Jules Boykoff New York’s mayor-elect has taken on powerful institutions. With the World Cup taking place in his city, he should challenge Fifa next

My latest @theguardian.com: As a genuine soccer fan & generational political talent, freshly elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani might be able to achieve the unthinkable: force the FIFA behemoth to share its lucre by targeting its tax exemptions & extreme privilege www.theguardian.com/football/202...

08.11.2025 14:48 👍 206 🔁 70 💬 7 📌 7
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Video shows the aftermath of the Israeli strike on a tent for media workers that assassinated five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza City.

11.08.2025 10:12 👍 458 🔁 303 💬 32 📌 28
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Euros win one of the most magnificent heists in the history of English sport | Jonathan Liew The lionesses are escapologists who have secured what no other football team from these islands have before: a dynasty

so nice, they had to do it twice

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

27.07.2025 22:33 👍 67 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 1
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Michelle Agyemang burnishes her credentials as the ‘savio... The 19-year-old Arsenal forward’s crucial equalisers have marked her out as a bright hope for the future

Piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the wonderful emergence of Michelle Agyemang for the Lionesses with input from Eartha Pond and award winning Black women-led podcast Goaldiggers before England face Spain in today’s Euros final

observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

27.07.2025 13:00 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Michelle Agyemang burnishes her credentials as the ‘savio... The 19-year-old Arsenal forward’s crucial equalisers have marked her out as a bright hope for the future

Piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the wonderful emergence of Michelle Agyemang for the Lionesses with input from Eartha Pond and award winning Black women-led podcast Goaldiggers before England face Spain in today’s Euros final

observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

27.07.2025 13:00 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Only Agyemang could overcome Chiellini and Baresi incarnate. You’re not going to be able to ignore her now

22.07.2025 20:56 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Medaasɛ🙏🏿

15.07.2025 11:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy birthday to me and Forest Whitaker.🎈

15.07.2025 10:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The IOC handed LA the Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them | Jules Boykoff As the IOC ushers in new leadership, Donald Trump’s second term is already wreaking havoc on LA 28 – and turning a global celebration into a national security crackdown

My latest @theguardian.com "The IOC handed LA the 2028 Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them." Trump has a secret weapon to turn the Games into a national-security crackdown—the National Special Security Event designation, (NSSE)—& we need to be talking about it www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

04.07.2025 13:52 👍 158 🔁 86 💬 13 📌 13
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Playing loose with virtue wins no hearts, and Arsenal should know better | Jonathan LIew The club trumpet their moral creed but the lengths to which they were willing to champion one of their own demands answers

this week’s column is on arsenal and thomas partey.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

07.07.2025 17:48 👍 331 🔁 94 💬 23 📌 24
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Diogo Jota, Liverpool and Portugal footballer, dies aged 28 in car crash It is understood that Jota and his brother were travelling in a car that came off a road in the province of Zamora The Liverpool forward Diogo Jota has been killed in a car accident in Spain. He was 28, a father of three young children and had married his long-term partner, Rute Cardoso, less than two weeks ago. The tragic news was first reported in Portuguese media. It is understood that Jota and his brother, 26-year-old André, were travelling in a car that came off a road in the province of Zamora. More details soon … Continue reading...

Diogo Jota, Liverpool and Portugal footballer, dies aged 28 in car crash

03.07.2025 08:53 👍 247 🔁 94 💬 35 📌 166
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Advocates for greater inclusion in refereeing question pa... Campaigners insist that much more needs to be done to build on Uriah Rennie’s incredible legacy

A week after the death of Uriah Rennie, advocates for greater inclusion in refereeing are questioning the pace of change across English football’s elite men’s game.
By me, for @theobserveruk.bsky.social

observer.co.uk/news/sport/a... Advocates for greater inclusion in refereeing question pa...

15.06.2025 09:10 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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In today’s Observer Sport print edition.

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