The Hoddle of Coffee: Tottenham Hotspur news and links for Friday, December 28

Hi, anyone that’s there!

Apparently, it’s Friday. The holidays have thrown off my ability to sense and recognize days of the week.

Ramble of the Day

Every now and again, I think about how I share plenty of football-related news and links and how there’s so much news outside of the sport I don’t end up sharing. I’m obviously not going to start dropping links about the day’s main headlines; it’s not what I’m here to do, and you could really easily find that elsewhere.

I’m thinking more about the random articles that have nothing to do with football that I sometimes think everyone I know should read because they’re that good and interesting. For example, upon several recommendations, I read “What is Glitter?,” Caity Weaver’s piece for The New York Times, last night, and it was remarkable. Weaver goes to a glitter factory and learns as much as possible about the sparkly thing. More than anything, though, you learn that the glitter business is a very secretive one, which is probably something you haven’t thought about because you’ve probably never actually thought that much about glitter.

There’s also a really big mystery that we get closer to the end of the piece. The manager of the factory Weaver visits, Glitterex, says the biggest market for glitter is a genuinely surprising one, but one that can’t be revealed. Someone in the Cartilage Free Captain writers’ room shared that there’s a Reddit thread dedicated to solving the mystery, for some supplemental reading once you’re done. I definitely spent a few minutes reading through it.

tl;dr: Bonus not-football long read!

Links of the Day

Inter Milan will play two closed door home matches following the team’s 1-0 victory over Napoli, which saw violence beforehand that resulted in a fan’s death and Napoli’s Kalidou Koulibaly racially abused.

Western Sydney Wanderers’ Roly Bonevacia said he was racially abused by Adelaide United fans during an A-League match on Boxing Day.

Bayern Munich’s Kingsley Coman was involved in a car accident, but was not injured.

Arsenal manager Unai Emery was charged with improper conduct after accidentally kicking a bottle at a Brighton fan on Boxing Day.

Today’s longer read: Suzanne Wrack speaks to the Afghanistan women’s national team players who allege that the federation’s president, Keramuudin Karim, sexually assaulted them for The Guardian