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Building a football club: The Dorking Wanderers story

The Vanarama National League is awash with owners, coaches and volunteers who go above and beyond the call of duty for their clubs, but there can be few men more dedicated than Dorking Wanderers supremo Marc White.  Perhaps that should be no surprise – White is the founder, owner and manager of the National League…

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Against the Odds: The ‘fluke’ results which cost Leeds United promotion

After 42 games last season, Leeds United occupied second place in the Championship with a three-point buffer to third. They’d won eight of the previous eleven matches, righting the ship after a difficult period from late December to early February. They didn’t win any of the last four games of the season. They managed only…

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How We Built An Influencer Marketing Business

This is a piece I published back in October on LinkedIn and I’ve finally managed to convince our editor to feature this on the blog. So without further ado, let’s talk influencer marketing. Over the past three years at Twenty3, we’ve built our own sports influencer network that we use to drive website traffic, app…

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Seven surprising statistics from this season’s Champions League

The Champions League is back – cue iconic pre-match anthem and inevitable goosebumps. Most of the Round of 16 ties are still alive and kicking, with Atalanta and Bayern Munich the only two teams who could be forgiven for thinking that their passage to the quarter-finals is a mere formality.  While we’ve witnessed the odd…

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Evolving the Twenty3 Content Toolbox

Every now and then it doesn’t hurt to take a look back and see how far you’ve come. Building the Twenty3 Content Toolbox has taken over two years of hard work for us. What started out as an internal tool to try and save the sanity of our graphic designer – it seems to have…

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What is a Flank Attacks visualisation?

If a weekly trip to the cinema was part of your life’s routine, you could have spent the last month only seeing high-class, innovative period adaptations. Little Women, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Emma.; films that take a classic and give it a new spin. And — as I always say — what’s good…

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Why Mr Southampton Ward-Prowse is the Saints’ most-important player

James Ward-Prowse is the sort of player every Premier League manager would love to have. Except he’s not always been appreciated by his bosses at Southampton. Until now. The Saints’ journey since returning to the Premier League in 2012 has been a rollercoaster ride. Highs and lows, a cup final, European jaunts and Great Escapes.…

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The Championship promotion race: What the numbers say

The Championship has given us some fantastic promotion battles over the past few years, from Fulham and Cardiff City’s race for second spot two seasons ago, to the top of the table tussle between Norwich City, Sheffield United and Leeds United in 2018/19.  But this season’s fight for a spot in the Premier League was…

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