Lotfi El Hamidi, ex-NRC en nu redacteur bij De Groene Amsterdammer, reflecteert in zijn nieuwe boek op hoe zijn wereld veranderde na 7 oktober 2023. „Kennelijk moeten mijn dochters óók weer dat gevecht aan.”

Je hamburger of haar leven? Koe Angus werd toen ze nog een kalfje was alvast in 404 onderdelen verkocht. Nu nadert haar slachtdag. De vraag is: gaan haar kopers haar redden? Vooralsnog ziet het er niet goed uit.

Nu Donald Trump het vertrouwen in de Amerikaanse dollar ondergraaft, ruikt China kansen. Xi Jinping zegt dat de Chinese renminbi een wereldwijde reservemunt moet worden. „Een politiek signaal”, zegt China-expert Bert Hofman.

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Robin van Persie heeft flink van zich afgebeten op de persconferentie van Feyenoord in aanloop naar het uitduel bij FC Twente. Raheem Sterling kreeg kritiek op zijn ogenschijnlijk geringe fitheid bij zijn debuut vorig weekend voor Feyenoord. Van Persie vindt dat ‘misplaatst’.

Na een storing van bijna anderhalve dag is de Calandbrug weer open, meldt ProRail. De brug kon sinds donderdagochtend niet gebruikt worden, door problemen met de slagbomen. De motor van de slagbomen is nu vervangen, waardoor die weer zonder problemen open en dicht kunnen.

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La Liga has El Clásico, France has Le Classique, and Argentina goes full gun with its Superclásico. English football has no true equivalent, with Liverpool and Manchester United fans unable to agree on a name for their grand-slam meetings. Up in the land of fitba, there’s this weekend’s 450th Old Firm/Glasgow derby (delete as applicable according to your stringency on Scottish company law). And Germany has Der Klassiker, between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. The Bundesliga marketing suits have been out in force this week for the one game, played on Saturday evening, that brings extra eyeballs. Though questions are often raised over whether this is a true, classic rivalry; Dortmund have not won a league title since Jürgen Klopp was making his rounds in 2012.

I just hope the hapless Dortmund defender Ramy Bensebaini (yesterday’s Football Daily) does not follow my path. I too was directly responsible for four opposition goals in one game: one came from my taking a corner that curved behind every one of my teammates, allowing five of the other lot to advance on our puffing centre-back; another was me slicing a clearance so badly that instead of arcing down the touchline, it went at 90 degrees, landing at the feet of an opponent with enough time and space at the edge of our box for his own Grand Designs project. I never again played any form of competitive sport” – Michael Hann.

I feel compelled to point out that Ramy Bensebaini played left-sided centre-back of a back three against Atalanta rather than left-back (yesterday’s Football Daily). I noticed this because of the body language of his teammate Daniel Svensson each time Bensebaini recklessly served a goal up on Wednesday. Svensson was the recovering left wing-back at the Algerian’s side, head bowed and shoulders increasingly drooping” – Matthew Parham.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the collection of words at the bottom of Football Daily’s full email edition (that rarely makes any sense to me) are a form of the popular location app what3words and give the venue of that evening’s secret ‘drinks’ for the hard-working hacks. It hasn’t escaped me that, when there are more than three words, my theory sheds more water than something that sheds water” – Shaun.

Regarding yesterday’s last line ‘Hot Parents’ Chat Ahoy’ (full email edition), am I the only one wondering if it is the chat or the parents that are hot? Pray tell” – Martyn Shapter [neither – Football Daily Ed].​​​​

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I’ve been reading a very short book by Claire Baglin, translated by Jordan Stump, On the Clock. Set on the edge of somewhere in Brittany, all run-down blocks, dual carriageways and drive-in eateries, it’s a dark, sometimes funny story of a working-class family and a young woman starting work in a fast-food restaurant. Through a few short scenes we get a real insight into the quotidian soullessness of the work.

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Alexei Kostylev founded Readovka in 2011 and previously served as its editor-in-chief.