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Adam Crafton
@AdamCrafton_
Reporter @TheAthleticFC. Sports Journalist of the Year, 2023 & 2025, awarded by @SportSJA. Based in NYC. Now on Blue Sky. adamcrafton.bsky.social
New York, USA
Born May 30, 1994
Joined January 2011
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    Thank you very much for this award @SportSJA - sadly unable to travel so thank you even more for allowing my mum and dad to have a special moment (with the awesome @lmwilliamson7) to go up and receive it ❤️❤️❤️
    🏆 Congratulations to SJA Sports Journalist of the Year @AdamCrafton_! #SJA2025
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    To look at a statue of… Toni Kroos?
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    Employees get to work for 9am 😮😮😮
    🔴⚽️ Erik ten Hag had all players report into training by 9am. 🔥 ten Hag setting his standards early at MUFC.
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    NEW @TheAthleticFC: Chelsea & the club’s players have decided to give an equal portion of club’s $15.5m Club World Cup bonus fund (around $500k per player) to family of Diogo Jota and Andre Silva following tragic death of the two brothers this summer.
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    Why is this man anywhere near this stuff?
    Martinez did NOT want to be there💀
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    This isn’t how contracts work
    🚨🚨| Frenkie De Jong's salary next season will be €22M. FC Barcelona have told him to either reduce it by 50% or leave. There is no way he stays, without a reduction. @sport
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    Brentford being the top scorers in the Premier League in December, having sold Ivan Toney, is extraordinary.
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    Chelsea putting the Instagram handle of a player who has not yet signed for the club into their Instagram bio is one of the oddest things I can recall on social media by a football club?
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    Increasingly feel like my adulthood supporting Man Utd is retribution for my childhood supporting Man Utd
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    Thank you to the Barcelona fans telling me their club is living “rent free” inside my head. I presume lever 4 will trigger their ability to pay the rent.
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    Why on earth would he be punished for this
    Gary Neville will NOT be punished by Sky Sports after £1.1m-a-year pundit's 'racist' outburst against 'angry middle-aged white men' who are 'creating division' following synagogue attack trib.al/5Pj6lGz
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    The thing is, a lot of (not all) the things Ronaldo identified last season (facilities, poor decisions, things need destroying etc) are now being addressed by Murtough and Ten Hag. The problem for Ronaldo is he was one of the poor decisions but he doesn’t realise it.
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    Andy Murray turned down a seven-figure sum to play an exhibition match in Saudi Arabia due to the country’s human rights record and will not entertain future offers, according to his rep. By @martynziegler via @SportUnlocked thetimes.co.uk/article/andy-m…
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    Not lost a match since being charged 115 times by the Premier League.
    Guardiola's Man City are unbeaten in their last 23 games in all competitions! Premier League 🔜 FA Cup final 🔜 UCL final 🔜