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Elko Born

@Elko_B

Dutch football writer for the BBC, The Blizzard, ESPN, Eurosport and way more. Editor of Hagball.

 Amsterdam
hagball.substack.com
Joined June 2009
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Stepping into the shoes of Jurgen Klopp is no easy task, but Dutch football journalist @Elko_B is backing Arne Slot to keep the optimism high at Liverpool. 🔴 Listen to a #BBCSportsworld podcast on the new Premier League managers 🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jhb2… #BBCFootball
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🔴 Arne Slot 🔵 Enzo Maresca 🌊🕊️ Fabian Hürzeler 🚜 Kieran McKenna 😇 Russell Martin Have a listen to my podcast about the Premier League’s new managers this season. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jhb2… With @Ankaman616, Seb Bassong, @Elko_B, @_mattpiper, @MatthewKaragich & @1AaronPaul.
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🙌 John Heitinga has been confirmed as an assistant coach at Liverpool. 📺 We spoke to @Elko_B about Heitinga's coaching career...
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Spain vs France and England vs Netherlands pretty much sums up mid-17th century warfare
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Looking forward to never finding out what a Snapdragon is, like I never learned what Teamviewer means or what AIG actually does.
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Funny how obsessed English media are over football managers losing their jobs.
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I'm convinced Pickford is actually the reason England are so bad. Must be so annoying for the players to be yelled at by him all the time. Drains all the joy from playing.
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Erik ten Hag just confirmed on Dutch TV: he's planning on signing a new contract with Manchester United (NOS)
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Micah Richards questioning where Man Utd’s structure has been all season, while complimenting Varane and Martinez’s first-half performances, all with zero irony…
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"This is a guy with a lot of charm, he is quite funny sometimes." @Elko_B says Arne Slot has the personality to take on the Liverpool job 💪 Listen to the Euro Leagues 📻⚽️ bbc.co.uk/footballdaily #BBCFootball #LFC
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The Blizzard@blzzrd25 Apr 2024
Today would have been Dutch legend Johan Cruyff's 77th birthday. Here's a piece on him, Ajax, and the struggle for the soul of Dutch football by @Elko_B from issue 14 theblizzard.co.uk/the-velvet…
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Back in 1986 I told people to sign this young boy who was about to be born called Lionel Messi. Nobody listened but look at him now.
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@FabrizioRomano6 Mar 2024
🔴🇳🇴 Solskjær: “The summer before I got to Man United I rang them and said: you’ve got to sign Erling Haaland. He will be top. Absolutely top class”. “That was June, July 2018… they said: nah, we’ve got enough reports”, told @WeAreTheOverlap.
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Nothing wrong with having McTominay as a supersub. Remember Solskjaer?
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Just wrote something where I call Bergkamp and Henry 'the Helmut Kohl and François Mitterand of North London' and also 'the Zeus and Apollo of postmodern Europe'.
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We might as well give Liverpool the title now, get it over with.
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According to various sources, Ajax are talking to Jordan Henderson. VI reports they're prepared to 'go far' to bring him to Amsterdam. Club is desperate for an experienced midfielder.
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Alternate ending to LOTR where Frodo decides to keep the ring.
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Very cool. I went to Wallsend this summer as part of my Hadrian's Wall walk trip. So not only Sting has been there, but Elko Born as well.
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Music legend Sting has taken a trip on Metro to receive his Freedom of North Tyneside award. Read: nexus.org.uk/news/item/sting…
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Never forget
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia did it.
elle hardy (@ellehardy) profile pictureelle hardy@ellehardy10 Nov 2023
Replying to @holland_tom
You may enjoy this magnificent account of the Australian cricket team’s attempt to break the beer drinking record on the flight from Australia to the UK thefanatics.com/web_blog.vie…
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