It’s been a year. You simply cannot argue with that. Look at the calendar.
This is where we lay it down. Inspired by iconic Liverpool fanzine The End, Ins and Outs is a regular across the MUNDIAL universe, a space for us to talk about the things we love and the things we really don’t love. What we’d keep, what we’d chuck. What we’d hold close, what we’d get rid.
To celebrate the end of the year (look at the calendar!) we’ve asked a load of people who have helped make this website brilliant over the past few months to contribute their Ins and Outs, and then stuck in some of our own for good measure. Have a read and then tell us what you like and what you don’t, do your own, ask your mates to do theirs on New Years Eve, get your parents to do it, your neighbours, whoever—and then send us theirs. We know you’re not exactly busy at the moment.
Anyway, Alan Carr voice: What a year it’s been.
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Scoring from corners.
Timothee Chalamet.
Putting little bets on in the actual betting shops.
Jacob Murphy. I love him. He's great craic, he takes the piss, he loves the Toon, he gives everything, he knows perfectly well that he's not Mo Salah, BUT ... I'm going to hit you with a hot take: If Jacob Murphy played in a system that deployed wing-backs—an Antonio Conte-style set-up—he'd be one of the best right wing-backs in world football. And I mean that. He was born for it. Andrew Martin, presumably after a few pints
Andrew Martin’s intro to his football x musicals piece in Issue 32.
Ademola Lookman.
Chocolate, holey cheese, mountains and all the things that will make the Women's Euros wonderful.