JohnDykes
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Freelance TV/Sports Comms/Hosting/Coaching. Proud to call 🇸🇬 home. Official Youtube Channel:
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As far as Asian ⚽️ fans are concerned, the show I’m asked about most is
#FootballFocus
. We launched it in the early 2000s when ESPN Star Sports held the rights for
#PremierLeague
football across virtually the whole of Asia.
Time for a
#ThrowbackThursday
#thread
maybe? 🧵 (1/n)
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Utterly devastated to hear that my friend and colleague Shebby Singh is no longer with us. The time will come for us to talk about his passion and authenticity but for now all that matters is that we think of and respect the feelings of his loved ones. Rest In Peace Shebs.
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Ngiyabonga Nja yam'
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As a neutral, I’d be happy to see
@Arsenal
win this
@premierleague
, not out of any bias towards or against any club, but rather because of the progressive path they have been on, the stylish way they play and the fact they stuck with Arteta.This model should encourage other clubs
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Ramos has always been good at playing the villain but now he has really pissed me off. And that’s as a neutral who was enjoying a contest where
@LFC
were beginning to flow. I can imagine how their fans must be feeling.
#UEFAChampionsLeagueFinal
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My first reaction to that
@Cristiano
goal was one of awe at the athleticism and technique required. His skill set is so totally different from that intuitive dribbling genius of Messi (or Maradona) and that’s why I never bother with the Ronaldo or Messi argument. Just enjoy!
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@BigManBakar
My pleasure mate. Big fan of your work and I’m fascinated by the way
@OfficialFPL
experts are creating and delivering metrics and indicators that help us shape editorial content around the
@premierleague
- so keep up the good work!
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I can’t see any reason why
@Arsenal
fans should be unhappy with the Unai Emery appointment. In tune with the modern game, a serial trophy winner at big clubs... surely that’s what they’ve been crying out for.
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Nice to meet you Yash! And thanks for bringing the passion!
#TheTopCornerWithJohnDykes
@SonySportsNetwk
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So
#PremierLeague
fans in Asia, how'd you like this trip down memory lane?
And what's your favourite
#FootballFocus
memory?! Tell me in the replies 👇 Cheers!
(12/12)
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What is going on here? I feel for the
@NUFC
fans - they don’t deserve to be stuck in limbo when they want to be focusing on and enjoying the club’s efforts to be a successful
@premierleague
club
Club Update
The main hearing of the arbitration in the case between Newcastle United and the Premier League has regrettably now been adjourned until early 2022 due to issues with the disclosure of evidence.
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Looks more like Kun Vardy
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Hearing some heartbreaking stories from
@OfficialFPL
players this morning. My thoughts are with you. Stay strong!
#rotation
#cup
#Hashtag
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My interaction with Rahul Dravid during the 1999 ICC Cricket World Cup will always be memorable 😂
Many more such anecdotes that
@alanwilkins22
and I thoroughly enjoyed 😄
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I’m not interested in debating absolutes as in “best player in the world” or “best ever” but if a team plays as well as
@ChelseaFC
did and still loses 3-0 because of one man, then that makes him pretty damn special.
#messi
#UEFAChampionsLeague
#JDShow
@FOXSportsAsia
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Thoughts with Christian
#Eriksen
and his family and teammates. Hoping people on here behave appropriately around this awful event too. 🙏🏻
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If Solskjaer really thinks
@ManUtd
are “too close” (presumably to challenging for the title) to give up, he’s kidding himself. He has a few players who are way off the quality required and his tactics exposed them once more against a ruthless
#Liverpool
side last night.
#MUNLIV
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Very happy to announce this:
John Dykes to lead English football coverage on Fox Sports on -
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Well done
@ManUtd
and Jose Mourinho! On a night when winning meant everything and nothing,they got the job done. Deserved!
#UEFAEuropaLeague
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Wonderful. Better than the world feed TV coverage which, surprisingly given the overall quality throughout the tournament, was all over the place (literally) when that final penalty went in. They didn’t know whether to follow the scorer, fans or Messi.
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Matic for
@ManUtd
is a good buy. Pricey but good. New CB, CF, new DM. Perisic would've made it an amazing summer.
@FOXSportsAsia
#JDShow
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If I were a
@ManUtd
player I think I’d be saying, “give it a rest with all the comments boss. Just let us play (and try to win) games”. I know he has a job to do but all this is over-complicating something that’s not all that hard.
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Hoping Sir Alex Ferguson pulls through and makes a full recovery. My thoughts are with his family. The football community is currently articulating via social media precisely what the great man means to us all.
#SirAlex
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And if we had a situation like the one where
@shebbysingh
suggested
#StevenGerrard
’s best position was right back and
@stevemacca11
nearly exploded, then we would just go on for as long as it would take on that one topic 😂
#LFC
#FootballFocus
(6/n)
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Just when you think this Solskjaer and
@ManUtd
story can’t get any more unlikely... but oh my goodness PSG, two mistakes and a dodgy VAR and they’ve blown it again! Remarkable scenes in Paris.
#PSGMAN
#ChampionsLe
ٍague
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Isn’t modern football wonderful? Clubs being played by agents. Superstar players being encouraged not to honour contracts. “Transfer experts” fuelling the fire. And clubs end up distracted from landing the players they actually need to deliver results for the fans.
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Yes, thanks to your devastating early spell, the game ended early. Our studio was in the media centre at Lords and I recall us sitting there (with Rahul Dravid as guest) completing our sponsored commitments,
staying on air long after other broadcasters had de-rigged and gone home
23 years since that 1999 World Cup final. So many memories of that tournament. Did the 1st commentary stint, and then one more, in the Pakistan innings. So many wickets fell in that period that our Aussie producer wouldn't let me come on in the 2nd innings!!
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That show informs a lot of what I still do today and the lessons I learned from it are still in my thoughts when I develop and produce any content.
And here's me, fuller-faced, hosting
#FootballFocus
on ESPN Asia back in the day!
(10/n)
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That was good from
@ManUtd
today. So much incident and controversy in the game of course, on and off the pitch, but United made it into a great spectacle.
#CHEMUN
@premierleague
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Got to say
@LFC
and
@ChelseaFC
are playing like the teams in 9th and 10th in the league 🤣😂
#LIVCHE
@premierleague
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Great interview with
@VictorWanyama
at
@SpursOfficial
today -- coming soon to
@premierleague
TV: barefoot football, beating Barca and more
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Not to be disrespectful, but I'm amazed how casually fans throw out these star names as if they were mere items on a grocery shopping list
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Can’t wait for the
@premierleague
season to start so fans of certain clubs who are stressing over signings, or lack of signings, will see that actually their clubs are in decent shape and that all this summer talk gets blown out of proportion.
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Why's there even a discussion about Mane's red? Other than overly-subjective Liverpool fans, anyone else is just trying to invent a story.
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Been waiting for someone to properly address the “English” dominance in Europe. This nails it. Thanks
@barneyronay
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Reflecting on that extraordinary
#UEFAChampionsLeagueFinal
, Klopp’s right to say we’ll never know what might have happened had Salah stayed on.
@realmadriden
tend to find a way to win and being able to bring on an inspired Bale rather than a half-fit Lallana was a major factor.
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Quality from
@SuperSportTV
with
@NeilAndrews65
@JuliaStuart_SA
and some of my favourite people in TV. Nice one!
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In many ways, the
#FootballFocus
show was a kind of precursor to a lot of today’s media. Podcasts, football debates, panel shows etc. And we even had a degree of interaction with our viewers, although back then it was a case of them sending us emails! 😅 (7/n)
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An anecdote⏬
I wasn't in the habit of saying my name on air back then. And I would often walk into a room full of football fans in parts of Asia where English wasn't spoken commonly, only to hear somebody say "Football Focus!" as they pointed at me.
Kind of cool, eh? (11/n)
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The chemistry between these four was fantastic and each brought real personality to the discussions. Even though
#FootballFocus
filled a traditional one hour TV format, we quickly realized that we didn’t want to be bound by time constraints. (4/n)
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Happy 🇸🇬 National Day! This was the 1966 Parade and a reminder of how far
#Singapore
has come. I look forward to watching my adopted home celebrate in style later today.
#NDP2018
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Zlatan off to the
@MLS
says ESPN. Surprised it’s taken this long. He will be in a Hollywood action movie within 3 years.
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There’s a lot going right for
@ManUtd
at the moment - De Gea has his mojo back, Casemiro, Shaw is loving life and Rashford is flying. Not getting too carried away but they have two huge
@premierleague
games coming up and they can impact the way the title race shapes up
#MUNBOU
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Forget all the talk about doing it for the fans or the executive vice chairman (???), if
@ManUtd
get on the front foot like they did at Burnley and against Spurs, supporters won’t have to worry about all the melodrama. Agree?
#BURMUN
#JDShow
@FOXSportsAsia
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Whatever problems may exist at Old Trafford, recent games show we can put to bed any suggestion the players are not playing for the manager. Agree
@ManUtd
fans? Are you feeling more positive now?
#JDShow
@FOXSportsAsia
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Also,
Is Mourinho talking United’s chances down to ease pressure? Or talking himself out of a job?
Does Klopp have to deliver silverware now he’s been bought the players he wants?
Is Sarri going to bring fun times back to Stamford Bridge?
Will Emery’s Arsenal get back in the mix?
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Today has been a bit of a haze to be honest.For the 2nd day in a row I was up in the middle of the night to witness an emotional roller-coaster of a
#ChampionsLeague
semi, then back to bed for a while & now it’s tough to separate dream and reality. Football, eh?
#AJAJOT
#LIVBAR
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Enjoyable night watching Jamie Vardy receive the Football Writers Association award. Superb speeches from Claudio Ranieri and
@GaryLineker
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Shocking and desperately sad news from South Africa about Senzo Meyiwa. RIP
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I think we can all agree that 3-0 has become a dangerous scoreline in
#ChampionsLeague
football.
#AJATOT
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Justifiable grumbling about the referee from Pep but
@ManCity
got lucky with the first goal, even if Sane’s should have stood. No, the tie was decided by the brilliant
@LFC
counter attack and
@22mosalah
especially.
#MCILIV
#ChampionsLeague
#JDShow
@FOXSportsAsia
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A true privilege to spend 5 weeks working with the team from
@SuperSportTV
here and in SA. Thanks guys!
#SSFootball
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It featured four of our regular guests - former
@LFC
& 🏴 star
@stevemacca11
, former 🇲🇾 international
@shebbysingh
, former 🏴 footballer and now pundit
@masefield2110
, and former semi-pro footballer and Economics lecturer Jamie Reeves - debating the hot ⚽️ topics! (3/n)
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That
@ChampionsLeague
final suffered from the three-week break for the teams, Liverpool especially had no rhythm. What’s up with UEFA and handballs? But
@SpursOfficial
relied on long shots,
@LFC
defended well enough and they and Klopp deserve a trophy after that season. Congrats!
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I know the contexts differ but it struck me the other night just how far removed the
@ManUtd
goal celebrations are these days from what we were seeing earlier this season. From a one-man show to a collective ideal.
#TOTMUN
@premierleague
#JoseMourinho
#olegunnarsolskjaer
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Some new for my followers in
#India
- I'll be appearing on Extraaa Serve on
@SonySportsNetwk
from 1pm onwards with a big announcement for audiences there. Check it out on Sony Six, Sony Ten 2 and Sony Ten 4. See you soon!
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But within three years, things changed as different markets in the region no longer had the rights to live/recorded
#PremierLeague
action.
However
#FootballFocus
was already established in those markets, so we decided to go ahead without featuring any
#PL
footage! (2/n)
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Said it all along. Mourinho was an expensive mistake. Now where does this season go for
@ManUtd
? More reaction and analysis on
@FOXSportsAsia
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My heartfelt thanks to the people I met in S Africa and the viewers across Africa for making me so welcome. Goodbye -- until the next time!
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@ManUtd
Fantastic news. A man who knows how to show gratitude but also how to fight his own battle.
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I’ve never know as many people beginning tweets with, “I’m not even a Liverpool fan but...” — this is truly amazing.
#LIVBAR
#ChampionsLeague
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Guys, I don’t support a team. If you support
@ManUtd
or
@ChelseaFC
that’s great, but you’re letting that colour your take on this. I didn’t comment as
@LFC
fan or someone who has it in for
@realmadriden
or Ramos. Just as a neutral pissed off that Salah ended up hurt
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And that's about that. A last sign-off from the Stade de France. Thanks for watching! See you all for
@premierleague
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Football is ridiculous.
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30 games still to be played this
@premierleague
season. 30! But some folks on here are already trying to push an “it’s Liverpool’s to lose” narrative. Probably also aiming to get a “bottle it” theme up and running early doors. Please, no.
@premierleague
#titlerace
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Last night we aired our 557th and final episode of
#jdshow
on
@FOXSportsAsia
- my heartfelt thanks to everyone, here in Asia and around the world, who contributed these past 4-plus years. For more on the show and what might happen next:
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Alexis Sanchez has been hitting all the wrong notes since he played the piano on arrival at
@ManUtd
- does he still have a role to play and is Solskjaer the man to get a tune out of him?
#FACup
#JDShow
@FOXSportsAsia
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“Dropped” - I honestly read this and thought they had cancelled them. Then realised I’m just old.
Germany, Spain and Belgium have dropped their away kits for Euro 2020 🤩
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So sad to hear about the passing of Joost van der Westhuisen. A great Springbok who fought such a brave fight
#RIP
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@SonySportsNetwk
#sirfsonypedikhega
😄 What do you make of my Hindi?
@jamosfoundation
@donhutch4
@bhogleharsha
@joybhattacharj
@YUVSTRONG12
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And how about the Fellaini factor at
@ManUtd
? He does the job at front and back but still some fans aren’t satisfied, saying he is helping Jose wallpaper over cracks. What say you?
#JDShow
@FOXSportsAsia
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So, I turn my back for a night and Coutinho goes for 142 million, Mark Hughes finally goes, Conte v Jose goes to another level. And Man City go and score 4
#FACup
goals!
#JDShow
@FOXSportsAsia
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Went back and looked at that 1st half showing from
@ManUtd
once I’d seen touch maps and average positions graphics. Just not good enough tactically and the manager has to take the blame for that. Individuals performed poorly too but that
#MUNMCI
failure was largely on
#solskjaer
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Sublime finish from
@chetrisunil11
sees
@IndianFootball
regain the lead in this entertaining
#AsianCup2019
clash with Thailand. Get onto
@FOXSportsAsia
if you aren’t already.
#THAvIND
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Whenever I cover an
@Arsenal
game, if
#Zinchenko
and especially
#Partey
are named in the starting XI, I start to see the Gunners as likely winners of that game. But the real difference this season has to be the presence of
#Saliba
#ARSTOT
#NorthLondonDerby
@premierleague
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Odd game in many ways but a lot of credit to
@ManUtd
and Mourinho for getting most of the tactical calls right. Salah nullified.
#JDShow
@FOXSportsAsia
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From the sophistication of the
@ManCity
first-half approach play to the visceral thrill of
@LFC
’s stunning goals, roared on by a baying
#Anfield
, to KDB’s composure, that was a stunning
@premierleague
showpiece last night. A clash of the Titans that did not disappoint.
#LIVMCl
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I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised at Germany’s exit. Recent World Cup history would suggest so. But still... wow!
#KORGER
#FifaWorldCup18
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What a
#ManchesterDerby
we have in prospect! One team that can’t stop scoring and another that is showing remarkable powers of recovery. So, who wins?
@ManCity
@ManUtd
#MCIMUN
#JDShow
@FOXSportsAsia
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Nice one Peter Drury! That indeed was Danish Dynamite. Pickford finally beaten and by a beauty from
#Damsgaard
!
#ENGDEN
#euro2020
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