Tim Wigmore

RT @timwig: 💸 £120 per hour for 1 on 1 coaching at Chelsea 💸 £2,000 + per week for Arsenal and Chelsea football development camps 💸 Private school paying 6 figures per year for a Chelsea development programme How clubs are monetising youth football

RT @underreviewcric: Sir Viv was two generations ahead of his time. And @timwig has the facts to prove it. Watch the first episode of Under Review, your weekly cricket debate podcast, on YouTube, Spotify & Apple. 🔗:

Strange series from Temba Bavuma: 179 for the ages in the second Test, but scores of 3, 1 and 0 either side - and out to off spin on each occasion

RT @TeleFootball: 💸 £120 per hour for one-to-one coaching at Chelsea 💸 £2,035 a week for Arsenal camps 💸 Private school partners with Chelsea for “six-figure sum” @timwig looks into Premier League clubs’ latest money-making trick in which entry is based on a child’s ability to pay, not play ⬇️

Temba Bavuma's defining innings. He's now averaging 54 as captain, compared to 34 before.

RT @TeleFootball: A growing number of young football talents are coming through independent schools, where football programmes now offer specialist coaching, sports science and professional-level scouting. @timwig explores how private-school football is booming ⬇️

'I do wonder whether you end up with a slightly more middle-class game.' Since 2016, the total number of teams in private schools has risen by over 4 times, with many schools using football as a recruiting tool. The rise of the middle-class footballer

Since 2021, Nike’s share price has fallen 76 per cent – knocking more than £150bn off the company’s market value. How it all went wrong for Nike: simultaneously attacked on both sides of the political divide, while rivals overtook them

RT @benjonescricket: Josh Hazlewood hasn't got this much swing in a Test since 2018 - the last time he bowled at Kingsmead. He is so often portrayed as the metronome, in some ways fairly - nobody bowls at his pace as accurately. However - he is so, so much more than a line and length merchant.

Josh Hazlewood's injuries have obscured that, when he's been fit, his Test performances have actually been getting better. Hazlewood's last 94 Test wickets have come at an average of 18.05

RT @SamJDean: Very exciting and a little bit surreal to have my hands on a hard copy. I’m also pleased to say that signed copies are available at @GoldsboroBooks via this link:

This will be really good

🏏 V excited about this, pls get involved Brand new YouTube channel called Inside Edge, covering some of cricket's most interesting stories. First video is out now ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 📺

RT @timwig: Great to hear Stephen Fleming say that England should pay more attention to the World Test Championship. England's disregard for the WTC has long been an example of the worst of English exceptionalism in cricket

RT @timwig: The 3pm Saturday blackout for UK football matches has endured since the 1960s, and been seen as an essential way to support the whole football pyramid and protect attendances. But the blackout is likely to end when the new TV deals begin in 2029

A lovely piece on the excitement around Max Dowman by @SamJDean

RT @timwig: An interview with Steve Smith. On why he's not sure if he will make the 2027 Ashes, how wobble seam is transforming Test cricket and his fears that spin is being pushed out of the longest format

Insightful from Greg Baum