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‘FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME’

OUR WEBSITE IS NOW LIVE - DOTTEDLINE.WORLD

FOOTBALL CULTURE FIRST, EVERYTHING ELSE COMES SECOND.

#Dottedline by @itsdottedline

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7 months ago

THE CHAIR #002

FEATURING @stoicmil

OUT ON TUESDAY.

BROUGHT TO YOU BY DOTTEDMAG

#004 #heritage #dottedmag by @itsdottedline

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10 months ago

DOTTEDMAG #004 HERITAGE - OUT NOW

004 focuses on understanding & exploring
how footballing culture has changed and evolved through our generations. Be it thought processes, systems, philosophies or ideals, the series of topics seek to question how it’s affected us in the present & how we perceive it to be in the future.

Link in the bio.

Chief Editor.. @ajdotts
Editor.. @deji.aw

Art & Editorial Design.. @tundeawoyemi

Photography.. @eyeonxuest x @_filmpoetry

Models.. @nemobxng, @nubiand0ll_ , @imedd_delakar, @brandymakuendi

Contributors.. Theresa Fianko, @nathmutu, @deji.aw , @shelat.neel, @shailjabahety, Adam Khan, Joseph Taylor, Tristan Scott, Tom Watkins, @aaronjaffe11, James Turell, Olakunle Afolabi, Charlie Baker, Muqwaddam Malik & @sharufa___

#004

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a year ago

Six years ago, our editor wrote about a fifteen-year-old breaking into Birmingham City's first team. This week, we close out the story — the chapter that turned "promising teenager" into a name people stopped needing to explain.

Opening day at the Bernabéu, and he scores on debut. By season's end: a LaLiga and Champions League double, nineteen non-penalty goals, a shoulder dislocated mid-season that he simply refused to let stop him. A Champions League final against the club that raised him. A Euro final lost the same summer, same shoulder, still unrepaired.

Then the version everyone forgets — the season Mbappé's arrival pushed him out of the role that made him. A twelve-game goalless run. An emergency cameo at right-back. Surgery finally, two years too late, missing the start of a season for the first time in his career.

And now, three managers in one campaign — Xabi Alonso gone by January, Arbeloa gone by June, Mourinho back at the Bernabéu thirteen years after he first left it. Bellingham, still finding his footing under a fourth different system in as many years, still the same player underneath it.

This is the version you don't get from a highlights reel — the cost behind the medals, before the headlines caught up.

@itsallign carries the numbers next. Same years, the other lens.

#dottedmag #realmadrid #bellingham by @itsdottedline

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11 days ago

Six years ago, our editor wrote about a teenager breaking into Birmingham City’s first team in the Championship. This week, we go back to him.

Jude Bellingham has gone from a sixteen-year-old holding his own in the second tier to a Champions League winner, a Real Madrid mainstay, and one of the defining midfielders of his generation. That’s the story we want to tell properly, not as a quick stat update, but as an actual account of how someone gets from there to here.

We’re splitting the telling in two. @itsdottedmedia will carry the words, the context, the moments that mattered, the version of this story you can’t get from a highlights reel.

@itsallign will carry the numbers, running his performance through our VEI model to show, season by season, exactly how his output has developed over that time.

Same player, same six years, two different lenses. First deposit, revisited.

#dottedmag #bundesliga #bellingham by @itsdottedline

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16 days ago

Six years ago, our editor wrote about a teenager breaking into Birmingham City’s first team in the Championship. This week, we go back to him.

Jude Bellingham has gone from a sixteen-year-old holding his own in the second tier to a Champions League winner, a Real Madrid mainstay, and one of the defining midfielders of his generation. That’s the story we want to tell properly, not as a quick stat update, but as an actual account of how someone gets from there to here.

We’re splitting the telling in two. @itsdottedmedia will carry the words, the context, the moments that mattered, the version of this story you can’t get from a highlights reel.

@itsallign will carry the numbers, running his performance through our VEI model to show, season by season, exactly how his output has developed over that time.

Same player, same six years, two different lenses. First deposit, revisited.

#dottedmag #premierleague #bellingham by @itsdottedline

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20 days ago

VEI scores every player 0 to 10, against real peers only — same position, same league, same season. Here’s what six years of it shows about Eze.

His first two Palace seasons sit below average — a young winger finding his level, then a season cut short by injury. Then the turn: the Hodgson resurgence crosses above average for the first time, followed by his genuine peak the year after, elite in front of goal and elite on the ball.

Then the strangest chapter. The FA Cup-winning season actually scores below average — not because the attacking numbers dropped, but because his defensive output hit its lowest point of any season measured, even as the trophy cabinet filled up.

Arsenal’s still being written. One thing hasn’t changed across all six years: his defensive number has never once crossed above average, at either club.

#Eze #VEI #Align by @itsdottedline

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a month ago

As we’re going to be analysing 100s of players on this page, we thought we’d take a minute to explain the model behind the numbers.

VEI scores every player 0 to 10, built the same way for everyone — compared only to their real peers, same position, same league, same season. Not legends. Not reputation. Just who they’re actually playing against.

5 is dead average. Below 4.5, behind the pack that year. Above 6.5, one of the best in the group. Above 7.5, the kind of season people are still talking about a decade later. Nobody really touches 10 — that’s peak Messi air.

This is the scale everything on this page runs on. Worth knowing before the rest of it means anything.

#VEI #Align #FootballAnalytics by @itsdottedline

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He was released by this club at thirteen. Fourteen years later, he called the manager himself — before Tottenham could finish signing him — just to ask if the door was still open.

It was. £60 million. The number 10. The same age Ian Wright was, walking the exact same road home.

He wasn’t even registered in time to play the day they announced him. Watched his own unveiling from the stands.

Then it started writing itself. First goal in the League Cup. First Premier League goal against the club that raised him. A hat-trick against Tottenham in November — the first North London derby hat-trick the Premier League has ever seen. Two more in February. Five derby goals in one season. Nobody’s done that since the 1930s.

A first Champions League goal in March. Then the final in May, against PSG — and in the shootout, the same shadow that found him at the Community Shield found him again.

One trophy short of the story he was writing. Still writing it.

#Eze #Arsenal #NorthLondon #Dottedmag #blackexcellence by @itsdottedline

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Five years. One club that turned a £17m gamble into the best story South London had. An Achilles that nearly ended it before it started. A goal disallowed by half a second on opening day, and a referee apologising for it after.

Then the season that outweighs every other one — top scorer, ever-present, the boy who couldn’t score eighteen months earlier turning into the one the whole team leaned on.

An FA Cup final winner. First trophy in 119 years. A Community Shield three months later, and a missed penalty that nobody could’ve known would echo.

Then the ending, the way endings sometimes go — messy, half-finished, a goodbye match he never got to play.

Palace gave him the shirt Ian Wright wore. He spent five years proving he deserved it.

#Eze #CrystalPalace #dottedmag #blackexcellence taken in Selhurst Park by @itsdottedline

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a month ago

Six years ago, our editor wrote about a 14 in the Championship. This week, we go back to one of them.

Ebere Eze has gone from a promising academy talent to one of the most watched attacking players in English football, an England call-up now firmly part of the conversation. That’s the story we want to tell properly, not as a quick stat update, but as an actual account of how someone gets from there to here.

We’re splitting the telling in two. @itsdottedmedia will carry the words, the context, the moments that mattered, the version of this story you can’t get from a highlights reel.

@itsallign will carry the numbers, running his performance through our VEI model to show, event by event, exactly how his output has developed over that time.

Same player, same six years, two different lenses. First deposit, revisited.

#dottedmag #premierleague #eze by @itsdottedline

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‘Archiving stories, conversations and ideologies that stand the test of time.’

Football media moves fast, and most of it is built to be forgotten just as quickly. In 2020, we set out to do the opposite. Dotted.Mag became a tangible product, something that could hold stories, conversations, and ideologies worth returning to, not just reacting to.

Issue 001 was where that started. Our editor profiled 14 players featuring in the Championship at the time. Six years on, they’re standing at the top of elite football.

That’s the story we want to keep telling. So we’re introducing Dotted.Bank, a running archive on our website where old stories get revisited. First up, we’re going back to those to see exactly how far they’ve come.

#dottedmag #footballmagazine #premierleague by @itsdottedline

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