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Senior lecturer in Multimedia Sports Journalism at @uninorthants , sports journalist since 2003 and PhD student. Likes: golf, books, Air Max 90s and The Smiths

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@JeffersonLake
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8 years
Clint Hill with a goal there to tell his grandchildren about. When he gets home
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17.5 pints each. Well done lads, great effort http://t.co/8pHH5XkeDO
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7 years
@Bogiesalterego @H8TheLeft @csmithbrantome @LBC exactly. I'm puzzled how people don't understand that
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8 years
Check out this absolute monstrosity of a football kit worn by Windsor FC against Daventry yesterday
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3 years
Some job news - later this month I will be departing @SkySportsNews to become a sports journalism lecturer at @UniNorthants ! I’m very excited and honoured to have been given this opportunity and can’t wait to get started
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Got to be honest, a big part of me loves the sounds of football in an empty stadium (NSFW)
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7 years
Today's interview assignments - Roman Reigns, Alexa Bliss, Charlotte Flair #wweraw25
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MK Dons have a strong FA Cup pedigree of course, having stolen the history of the club which won it in 1988
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Just had a stroll down the Kettering Road where the proposed, er, gathering site for this evening is. Shopkeepers seem in great spirits, helping each other board up their windows etc. People from all backgrounds working as one community. Oh and these have been put up
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@AlexM_talkSPORT @SuperKingofBros If they’re not called Joint Manipulation then what are we even doing here
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4 years
Huge fan of this announcement in this week’s Bury Times
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6 years
Sasha Banks in full Boss mode on WWE phono tonight. Guy asks if it was a dream match for her to fight Ronda Rousey: “Nah. It was a dream match for her to fight me though.”
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See what happens when you bring on someone from Northampton?
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Thank god Megan Rapinoe didn’t say this
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"I am like a Ferrari among Fiats." Zlatan gives his thoughts on the level of play in MLS.
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Two years ago the Cobblers absolutely strolled L2. Two years ago! The Wilder team barely needed to be touched, instead it was destroyed. An absolute disgrace.
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Part of me does feel a bit bad for the Peterborough fans. They’ve sold all of those players for an extraordinary amount of money and they’re still only in the same level as the Cobblers - and losing to them
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🙌It's been a while but the River Nen(e) is running claret tonight #ShoeArmy 👞
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Today is my final day as a full-time sports journalist with @SkySports . It's been an enjoyable and varied six years with the company and I'd like to thank all of the great people I have worked with and who have helped me during that time. Onto the next challenge! @UniNorthants
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This picture of Steven Fletcher with his new car should cheer Sunderland fans up http://t.co/st0maL6V89
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@AlexM_talkSPORT @IAmJericho in every interview I hear/read with people from AEW, they’re talking about WWE
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@JakeSharpeBBC Not answer the phone if Brighton or Fulham call
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2010: it 2011: is 2012: incredibly 2013: hard 2014: to 2015: Sasha/Bayley 2016: choose 2017: from 2018: these 2019: years
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What are your top @WWE matches from... 2010: 2011: 2012: 2013: 2014: 2015: 2016: 2017: 2018: 2019:
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The Leicester City squad have arrived in Thailand, which can only be good news for NTFC's close-season recruitment
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Always good to kick off an interview with @BeckyLynchWWE by saying you can get her cheap Sky. Yeah, there wasn't an awkward silence at all.
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My match of the decade for the 2010s and possibly my favourite match of all time. I just think it’s perfect
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3 years
A new chapter begins…
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6 years
Good luck to fans of all football clubs for the new season except on the day you play NTFC when I hope you have no luck and are very heavily beaten
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Great to get a long chat with @NatbyNature as part of pre-WrestleMania coverage for @SkySports
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So Northwich Victoria, the lowest ranked team in the FA Cup, won't be live on TV in round two. PS they're not owned by ex-Man Utd players
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Please, NTFC. Just this once. Give us a happy ending. Please
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Chelsea fans booing Raheem Sterling while cheering on their team of homegrown likely lads and lower-league bargain buys
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@AlexM_talkSPORT Don’t know about you but this comes off as massively minor league to me
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Northampton Town FC. It’s the hope that kills you. Every single time.
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Great to get a sit-down interview with Tyson Fury today, talking all things WWE and boxing. It’ll be on all Sky Sports platforms soon
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Delighted to confirm I have been appointed WWE Editor for Sky Sports! *smashes two cans of lager together and pours over face*
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First WWE event was WrestleMania VI, taped for me and my brother by our (more affluent) neighbours who had Sky. Never dreamt I’d be part of the Sky coverage of it but it was an absolute honour and there have been some great times over the past two years
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Incredible. The greatest sportsperson the town has ever produced
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A majority decision. Simply sensational. THE PRIDE OF NORTHAMPTON. @chantellecam
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I have now filed my final piece of content as WWE Editor for Sky Sports (the wedding!) and so ends a great two years for me on a personal and professional level. Peaked at the start when I interviewed my favourite wrestler of all time and there have been some other biggies too...
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Very much enjoyed the major geekfest that was our interview with @WWEEmberMoon yesterday and learning she has an Arya Stark-style list (Spoiler: Asuka is top of it)
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Fair play to Rashford, Sancho and Saka for having the courage to step up and take pens. Some more senior players didn’t
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the greatest football song ever recorded (and nothing comes close)
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31 years ago today: England, New Order and the release of one of the all-time great football anthems. “You’ve got to hold and give, But do it at the right time...”
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On this day in 2013: Wembley reporting duty for the league two play-off final between Northampton Town and Bradford City. And then the game kicked off and everything went horribly, horribly wrong
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Terrible news about Clarke Carlisle. A genuine role model in a sport in which so few actually justify such a title. Hope he pulls through
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In position at Oxford United with @TogletTim and @JakeSharpeBBC for @BBCSportNhants . Join us live from 7pm
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So Chris, to be clear - you’re going to build a title-winning side AFTER I stop covering the club?
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Just interviewed a true legend, and my favourite wrestler of all time, the one and only Ric Flair, for #RAW25 . Interview to come on @SkySportsNews !
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My time of covering #NTFC for the Chron will soon be coming to an end... http://t.co/uvAlBmvHT9
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Great to be back at the old place for a very productive meeting - setting up a very exciting series of sports reporting opportunities for our students at @UniNorthants
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@StateOfLinkedIn the “final header that could have changed history” was by an Argentina player
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3 years
superb photograph
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@James_ChronNTFC Hopefully he replicates his achievement with us by helping them reach League One
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Full-time at Stoke
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Never forget that Leeds United fans thought it was hilarious when NTFC were relegated at Elland Road in 2009
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my first @UniNorthants Open Day is on Saturday. The promotional video is ready to roll! More info here:
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Absolutely MIND BLOWN by Mitch Pinnock’s answer to the ‘tea or coffee’ question here
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Tough one for Wales, this. It’s almost been like men against… no, never mind
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That’s the best I’ve seen them play for years. Callum Morton, what a player
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4 years
GET IN! A famous night for the Cobblers! From 2-0 down, we’ve done it! 😍
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Back in the Sixfields press box after a short nine-year absence tonight for co-comms duty with @JakeSharpeBBC and @TogletTim on @BBCNorthampton
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Wishing the absolute best of luck to everyone at @NTFC tonight and to everyone who has them in their hearts. Ninety short minutes. Brace yourselves
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In position for #Wrestlemania ! Live updates to come at
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James Collins and John Marquis being named in the PFA League One team of the year is one of the biggest “here’s what you could’ve won” ever for NTFC fans
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9 years
Okay who did this? http://t.co/hH9kfgbjGX
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I think the one thing we can say with some certainty tonight is that Jermain Defoe is a fucking brilliant human being
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Confirmed: Kelvin Thomas has bought #NTFC
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Don't forget, #NTFC were unbeaten in 8 when they lost to Portsmouth in December so it's also just one defeat in 39 games
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Pretty much the greatest moment of my life
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Rob Page managing a team at a World Cup finals. Jesus Christ
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First visit as a fan to stadiumMK tonight and while it is undoubtedly a nice ground it is a bit like watching football in a Sainsbury's
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So it turns out England play better when they pick young, hungry, fearless players instead of the tired, established old guard. WHO KNEW
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Seriously is there any way we can just play Oxford every week
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Today marks 18 years in journalism for me. It’s been a glorious adventure which has taken me to New York, Toronto and Fleetwood. I wonder what the next 18 years will bring in this rapidly-changing business...
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Want to become the best fighter in the world? Be interviewed by Lake
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Man Utd are bloody awful to watch. Imagine having to support absolute dross like that and not a side like the Cobblers
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Merry Christmas to my twitter followers. I hope you all have a really nice time
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Pleased to confirm I have signed for Sky Sports. Very excited about this next chapter of my career
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10 years
Cobblers flag in Miami for England v Ecuador game #ntfc http://t.co/ByQ33biZnG
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50, of course, being their average away following
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Managed to snag this charity shop find at the weekend - and it’s even signed by the great man!
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Finally, freshers’ week is here at @UniNorthants ! And after we set a new record for percentage of female students on our Sports Journalism degree course last year I am delighted to confirm we have broken that record again this year
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Brighton in the Prem eh... I remember when their away end was three miles from the pitch and Bayo tried to kill Adam Virgo in a Portakabin
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For the “crowd noise” for the Cobblers game tonight is it just going to be loads of people shouting GET IT FORWARD?
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WE'VE GOT O'TOOLE #nut
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Ivan Toney currently looking like the ultimate "one that got away" for Northampton Town
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Blimey
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Chris Wilder for Pope
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I've never seen a Cobblers player send four opposing players the wrong way with a single touch before. John-Joe O'Toole did tonight
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Congratulations to @ntfc on winning League Two and I apologise for holding you back for all of those years
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@pressgazette Unfollowing this account now if this is the standard of ‘news sources’ you’re citing
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The things I do for this company
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Gonna go out on a limb here and say Chris Wilder was not sober on that bus
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"And then, Dragon, Michael Jacobs put us 2-1 up in extra time. I couldn't believe it, mate."
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big fan of Keith Curle protesting against what is probably the clearest red card in the history of the sport
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Georges Santos is 50 today. You remember him. "Santos has history with Andy Johnson. That first challenge will be interesting..." Heavens above.
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World of cricket in state of shock as England selectors remember Northamptonshire exists
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"Delighted to finally get this over the line and can't wait to give it 110 per cent when the season kicks off. I know a few of the lads at the club already and it's a great bunch in that dressing room"
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3 years
Bit of a transfer coup for our Multimedia Sports Journalism team. Welcome to new lecturer @JeffersonLake who has joined @UniNorthants from Sky Sports. 👌 Full details:
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All set for week 1 semester 1 year 1 of Multimedia Sports Journalism at @UniNorthants . Looking forward to meeting the (bumper) new cohort and getting stuck in #thepyramid #onesentenceoneparagraph
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