Nobody fucks with Jorge Jesus nytimes.com/athletic/7649342…

If Jorge Jesus ends up being remembered as the man that ended Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal career, that would do him a colossal disservice. For all the scrutiny after Ronaldo's walkout on his national team, their head coach has built his reputation on refusing to bend for anyone. A small part of him might even be enjoying the chaos. @jacklang profiles the veteran manager that once called himself "the best coach in the world". 🔗 nyti.ms/46YBrLW

It was a seemingly innocuous email, sent on a Wednesday morning in January 2017, that started everything. Arriving in the inbox of a senior official at Manchester City, it appeared to have been sent by an employee from European football’s governing body, UEFA, and contained a link to a financial compliance report. The City official clicked the download button. That was all it took. It was not a genuine email from UEFA but a successful phishing attempt by Portuguese hacker and activist Rui Pinto. City’s servers were breached, allowing Pinto to retrieve thousands of emails and documents from the club’s systems. This week, almost 10 years on from Pinto’s first email, the Premier League announced that an independent panel had found City guilty of all but one of the charges against them, as The Athletic first revealed last Friday. 📝 @jwhitey98: nyti.ms/4z5sgoL

João Félix is for lovers nytimes.com/athletic/7637262…

This is all about Ireland and the country’s history, its footballers, and their space in a messed up world. From Debrecen. nytimes.com/athletic/7636549…

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/7049721…

Really looking forward to the last 10 minutes when Argentina are a goal up, aka the worst 10 minutes in all of our lives

“When I arrived at Pumas, people asked me whether I’d come straight from the beach. I had! “I always loved the stuff the surfers wore, the Bermuda shorts, the colours. I wanted to bring something from that world with me. So I started my own style.” nytimes.com/athletic/7421677…

What does ‘brotherhood’ actually mean? Watch the last 25 minutes from the Azteca. My piece on the night when the word became real nytimes.com/athletic/7422018…

What a night at the Azteca. Could barely keep track of the drama. It was also valedictory. The World Cup now loses its dislocated heart. This occasion was one final explosion, a proper game in a proper stadium. It showed us what we could have had nytimes.com/athletic/7424898…

Trying to work out what the worst part of that Neymar penalty was. Don't actually think it was the grin or the argument afterwards. I think it was the time he took to actually take it

Patrick Berg. Brilliant. Proper midfield performance

Patrick Berg actually planned that offside as part of a long play