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Jessica Hayden
@_JessHayden
Assistant sports editor, The Observer | Author of The Red Roses, Behind The Scenes with the England Women’s Rugby Team. Link below 📚| Tweets mainly about rugby
London, England
Joined February 2013
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    Some work news: in a couple of weeks, I will become the assistant sports editor at The Observer. It’s a hugely exciting time for the paper and I’m thrilled to be part of the team there! 📰
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    I’m on first-name terms with the local ice cream van man, Eddie, and I even have his number. Now it’s 30 degrees, suddenly everyone wants an ice cream, but what road does Eddie head to first? Mine. All the hard graft in the off-season is about to pay off BIG time
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    Potentially the hardest pivot I’ve ever read in an obit
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    If you are wondering why Manchester United are wearing fluorescent kit, it’s because the Glazers asked Ten Hag to highlight United’s problem areas
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    Going to school dressed as your hero 😍
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    That cut to Adam Jones was straight out of The Office
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    Say what you like about rugby pundits these days, but this one on the left is talking a lot of sense
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    When the Hermes delivery driver says they have to take a picture to prove the parcel has been delivered:
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    This stuff stops rugby’s fan base growing. We have to be welcoming of people with little knowledge of the game and get rid of our moral superiority over football.
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    Watching Adams hand his Man of the Match medal to Capuzzo: 🥺 Realising it’s going to become the #rugbyvalues poster for the next year: 😣
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    24 hours later and I’m still obsessed. #LionsRugby
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    The Six Nations makes me realise how many rugby fans really don’t want anyone to enjoy rugby
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    “Can you play Mr Brightside by The Killers please?”