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The curious fan's football travel, history, and culture blog and podcast. Author of ‘Origin Stories' and 'The Defiant'. Also @CMRLee .
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🚨I'm no longer proactive on this channel
You can connect with me over on Threads, Instagram, Bluesky and Facebook
Just look for Outside Write
I'll leave the a/c open for replies and DMs but otherwise goodbye 👋
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Manchester United’s highest defeat was 11-3 versus
@CorinthianCas
in 1904.
Will it be topped this afternoon? 🤔
#MUNLIV
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#onthisday
21 Aug 1898 🇧🇷
Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama is formed in Rio de Janeiro, adding football in 1915
In the 1920s, its diverse team faced a fight for acceptance by the establishment clubs
What happened next shaped Brazilian football forever…
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So, Bohemians had apparently gone 100+ games without a goalless draw…🤦🏻♂️
Great experience, anyway. What fans, what a ground, those floodlights 😍, all that history - definitely my club in Ireland 🖤❤️
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NEWS 📢
I can finally reveal my second book!📚
🗓️ Out 10 October 2022
It's called 'The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism', via
@PitchPublishing
You can learn more in this blog post and thread 👇🧵
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I am just thinking of grounds with famous mountain backdrops
🇮🇹 Juve Stabia - Vesuvius 🌋
🇮🇪 Sligo Rovers - Benbulben⛰️
🇬🇮 Gibraltar clubs - the Rock ⛰️
There must be loads - especially in/around the Alpes, Pyrinees, Highlands etc. Not just ranges, but specific mountains 🤔
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Spotted this sticker on a pipe half way up the dome of Berlin cathedral today. Seriously, who takes
#SWFC
stickers on holiday with them?
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Linfield are the world’s most successful domestic side with a record 56 titles (including 25 doubles)
Twice the club has won seven trophies in a single season
It also owns Windsor Park (built 1905), home of the Northern Ireland national stadium since 1910
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Spanish clubs without a geographical name 🇪🇸
RCD Espanyol ('Spanish' - Barcelona)
Osasuna ('Health' in Basque - Pamplona)
Real Sociedad ('Royal Society' - San Sebastian)
Real Betis ('Betis' = Roman name for the Guadalquivir river - Seville)
#LaLiga
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NEWS 📢
My first book, 'Origin Stories: The Pioneers Who Took Football to the World' is out in April 2021 via
@PitchPublishing
📚
Read more here 👇 or follow thread...
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Well, this is the best book on Irish football I have read so far
Real in-depth research and expect storytelling from
@cormacmoore
If you want to know why soccer divided into Northern Ireland and the Republic, while rugby and cricket etc stayed all-Ireland, give it a read
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NEW POST 📢
My write-up on the very special experience at
@bfcdublin
So many reasons to visit Dalymount Park soon...
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If you voted Reform. Feel free to unfollow.
You’re not my people.
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My author copy of my next book has arrived! 📚
‘The Defiant’ charts a century of football against fascism and the far right in Europe and Latin America.
Out via
@PitchPublishing
on 10 Oct.
More on ‘The Defiant’ here
👉
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#OnThisDay
24 August 1910 🇧🇷
@CorinthianCas
trounce
@FluminenseFC
10-1 at the start of a Brazilian tour that culminated in inspiring the foundation of
@Corinthians
For more on the roots of Brazilian football, read my book 'Origin Stories' 👉
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Last match of my League of Ireland tour🇮🇪
Alas, another 0-0, but I am here for the atmosphere and the grounds, to be honest.
Is there a better setting that Sligo Rovers’ Showgrounds in the shadow of Benbulben?
Lovely club, really celebrates its history
#groundhopping
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NEW POST📢
Start your Sunday with this list of the best writing on South American football 📚⚽️🌎
Includes classics from
@jonawils
@BomboneraTears
@pedroelprofesor
@RhysWRichards
@Politicultura
@winkveron
and many others...👇
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Just as it's 'Ukraine' not 'The Ukraine', there are some other things to address in football nomenclature:
✅ Athletic Club, not Athletic Bilbao
✅ Sporting Clube de Portugal, not Sporting Lisbon
Also, no need for the 'Glasgow' prefix on Rangers and Celtic.
What else?
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NEW POST 📢
A Sunday morning
#longread
for you on
@Glentoran
's famous old ground, The Oval
I was shown around last month. It's just behind Boca's Bombonera on the groundhoppers' bucket list, apparently
Here's why...
#groundhopping
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Serious Ayresome Park vibes at Tolka Park for Shels v Peamount
Love these old skool grounds in Ireland
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Bit of a leftfield one for
#WorldBookDay
but I thoroughly recommend this read on the trials and tribulations of supporting Sligo Rovers
Like Fever Pitch but funnier and about a less successful side
Huge thanks and kudos to
@gerrytastic
for the recommendation
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Solid read on the Belgrade derby and its geopolitical position...
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Last 'fairytale' league champions...
🏴 Leicester City (2016)
🇫🇷 Montpellier (2012)
🇳🇱 FC Twente (2010)
🇩🇪 Wolfsburg (2009)
🇵🇹 Boavista (2001)
🇪🇸 Depor (2000)
🇮🇹 Hellas Verona (1985) - or Napoli (1987)
Who else?🤔
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What's your country's equivalent of the English "cold, wet Tuesday night at Stoke"?
ie. a tough and inconvenient away match that some players might not fancy that's entered the footballing lexicon
🤔
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#OnThisDay
13 Sept 1931
Fiorentina star Bruno Neri (circled in this book cover shot) refused to perform the obligatory pre-match 'Roman salute'.
Neri would fight for Italian partisans in WWII and was killed in combat in July 1944.
More on this from me next year...
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Clubs that started out as cricket clubs 🏏
🏴 Sheffield FC, Hallam FC, ‘The Wednesday’, Sheffield Utd
🇮🇹 Milan, Genoa, Napoli
🏴 Clydesdale
…probably a few more…anyone?
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My second book, The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism, has been out 13 months today.
If you have read it, do please leave a review wherever you bought it or let me know what you thought 📚
Thanks!
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Sport and politics shouldn’t mix, right? 🤔
It has since at least Roman times.
If only someone had compiled a list of the best political football books…👇
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Had a great time this evening chatting to the team at
@thesefootytimes
about football’s relationship with politics and 100 years of football against fascism.
Listen out for the podcast soon…🎙️
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#OnThisDay
14 July 1927
William Alexander Mackay, the man who introduced football to southern Spain and founded its first football club,
#Recre
de Huelva, died aged 67.
For more on the pioneers of Spanish football, check out my book, 'Origin Stories' 👉
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HISTORY 🇪🇸>> Spain’s oldest club,
@recreoficial
, turns 130 soon. 🎁
¡Enhorabuena
#recre
!
Here’s the full story 👇
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Quick video overview of my new book, 'The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism' 📚
Out NOW via
@pitchpublishing
Here's a more detailed blog post with more info
👉
If you're interested in sports and politics, go grab a copy!
#Twitterstorians
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Went to the
#Juventus
Museum today, and I have to say it's one of the best club museums I have visited. I was in awe, tbh - mostly because many of my favourite players have donned the famous bianconero shirt.
Not my team in Italy, mind. 👇⚫️⚪️⚫️
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#OnThisDay
18 Dec 1889 🇪🇸
Spain's first football club
@recreoficial
is founded in Huelva, led by Scotsman, William Alexander Mackay
For more on the roots of football in Spain and elsewhere, read my first book, 'Origin Stories'
👉
¡Feliz cumple,
#recre
!
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NEW POST 🗞️
The story of Belfast Celtic, Irish football's lost giant
Celtic are still the third most successful side in Northern Ireland, despite having pulled out of the league 74 years ago
But why pull out at the peak of your powers?
Read on...
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What do you think of our new logo?
A fan of the podcast designed it 🙌
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Teams that look awesome in maroon:
Torino 🇮🇹
Hearts 🏴
Barça (kind of) 🇪🇸
Sparta 🇨🇿
Cittadella 🇮🇹
Livorno 🇮🇹
Lanús 🇦🇷
Northampton Town 🏴
Metz 🇫🇷
Servette 🇨🇭
Stenhousemuir 🏴
Who else?
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#OnThisDay
3 Nov 1903
Former students of a school in Rosario, Argentina, set up a football club, naming it after the school's founder, Isaac Newell of Kent, England, who'd brought football there.
¡Feliz cumple, Newell's Old Boys!
More 👉
[📸
@Newells_en
]
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About to record a podcast on Paraguayan football 🇵🇾
So mate at the ready... 🧉
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#OnThisDay
14 April 1931
The Second Spanish Republic is proclaimed
The man to break the news in the capital is Madrid FC president, Rafael Sánchez-Guerra
More on football in Spain during the Republic, the Civil War, and under Franco in my new book
👉
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ITALY 🇮🇹 >> Love Italian football? Then make sure you read the best books and blogs, and listen to the best podcasts about
#Calcio
Italiano.
Check out our list 👇
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Got a few Quilmes in my latest beer order.
Little football factoid about the town of Quilmes is that its football club - Quilmes Atlético Club - is the oldest surviving football club in Argentina 🇦🇷
Founded 1887, it featured in the second season of the football league in 1893.
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I've updated my post on the best books, podcasts and blogs on Spanish football to include the excellent 'Los Leones' by
@JervisEvans
Full list here👉
I'm all ears, what should I add? 🇪🇸
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Dropping this weekend... 🇮🇪
Stay tuned for my groundhopping guide to
@shelsfc
of Dublin
#Groundhopping
#Shels
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ITALIA 🇮🇹
Continuing our Italian theme this week, here is the best writing and podcasting that you will find about the Italian game. ⚽️
Did I miss any? mi sono perso qualcosa? 📚
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#OnThisDay
25 July 1892🇩🇪
Hertha Berliner Sport-Club is founded
In 1963, the club was a member of the inaugural Bundesliga season, unique for the fact that it was in West Berlin, then separated geographically from the other West German sides
Have you been to a Hertha match?
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#OnThisDay
17 July 1936 🇪🇸
The Olimpiada Popular (Popular Olympics) was due to be taking place in Barcelona as an alternative to the upcoming official Berlin Olympics in Nazi Germany
However, a coup led by General Francisco Franco ended things, and the
#SpanishCivilWar
began🧵
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🧵Ahead of
#Euro2024
, here's a mammoth thread of podcasts and reading on the history of football in the host country, Germany 🇩🇪
1/ First up, an overview of how the game got started in Germany and how it's evolved
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Three months today... 📚
My first book comes out via
@PitchPublishing
A country-by-country guide to how football got started in (rough) chronological order. ⚽️ 🌍
Read all about it 👇
#history
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Finally started reading this book by
@martindacruz_
🇺🇾
I am heading down to MV this winter, my first visit for 24 years, so reading up before I go
Listen to Martin discussing the roots of Uruguayan football on my podcast
▶️
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Happy 129th birthday to
@recreoficial_en
, Spain’s oldest football club.
Feliz cumple al
#Recre
, primer equipo de fútbol en España. 🇪🇸
Get the full story here / Toda la historia aquí 👇
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Tonight I am recording a podcast with
@thesefootytimes
discussing my book 'Origin Stories' on how football spread around the world ⚽️🌍
All very exciting, it's one of - if not *the* best - football podcast out there.
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It’s a year to the day since my second book came out 📚
It’s been largely well-received in academic circles, it peaked at No.4 in the Amazon UK football book charts, and my publisher entered it for the William Hill prize.
Here’s more 👉
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#OnThisDay
18 Dec 1889
The first of two meetings took place at Huelva Recreation Club, held by Dr. WA Mackay.
They led to the founding of Spain's first football club, now known as
#Recre
de Huelva ⚽️🇪🇸
More on the roots of Spanish football in my book
👉
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It's 18 months since 'The Defiant' was released📚
It seems to have done OK; a couple of times in Ireland recently I got "Ah, you're the football against fascism guy", which was cool
I am keen to do more talks around football and politics.
More here👉
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Been watching “20 Years of the Argentine First Division” on Netflix.⚽️🇦🇷
Amazing! I remember some of it from Transworld Sport as a kid but episode 1 has early Batistuta, Ortega, Zanetti, Crespo and *that* Bielsa “¡Newell’s Carajo!” moment 👇
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Good news! The podcast will return in the autumn🎙️
I am just sending out invitations to interviewees and will be recording in early October and releasing fortnightly soon after.
Got some cracking guests lined up.
Find 200+ episodes wherever you get your podcasts...
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#OnThisDay
22 Oct 1975
Lazio refused to play Barça in a UEFA Cup match in protest at some executions of political prisoners by the Franco regime
Lazio forfeited the tie
More in my second book, The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism👇
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#OnThisDay
26 Dec 1860
The world's oldest derby between
@sheffieldfc
(red/black) and
@HallamFC1860
(blue) is first played at Sandygate Cricket Ground, Sheffield under 'Sheffield Rules'
For more on the roots of football worldwide, read 'Origin Stories' 👉
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NEW PODCAST 🆕🎙️
Boca Juniors is an iconic club 🔵🟡🔵🟡🔵🟡
115 years of history is a lot to fit into a 36-min
#podcast
with
@winkveron
!
☑️ Early years
☑️ Rivalry with River Plate
☑️ Maradona, Riquelme, and more...
Download/listen 👉
#BocaJuniors
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New Post >> The best Italian football books, blogs and podcasts. Featuring
@footymac
@GentlemanUltra
@footballitalia
and more... 🇮🇹
Check out the full list 👉
#Goodreads
#Italia
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Football Factoid ⚽️
Newell's Old Boys wear red and black in honour of England 🔴 and Germany ⚫️
England was the birthplace of Isaac Newell, who introduced football into his school in Rosario, while his wife was from Germany.
More in my upcoming book👉
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It will never not be weird - and also satisfying in a warm-glow-inside kind of way - to know that people will be receiving my books tomorrow as presents.
I hope those people enjoy them 📚
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Question for football historians 🤔
Before Pelé, who was regarded as the greatest of all time? Was there even such a thing due to a lack of global TV media?
Thanks
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New Post 🗞️
I look at the roots of France's oldest club,
@HAC_Foot
, and its influence over the modern game.
✅ Oxbridge roots
✅ New stadium
✅ Incredible academy
Read on...👉
[📸
@De_Dwarslat
/
@tomwfootball
/
@hacfans1872
]
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Fun football fact 🧠
@derrycityfc
are known as the ‘Candystripes’ due to its red/white shirt and black shorts…which it wears due to a close relationship with Sheffield United (below) - particularly Billy Gillespie, a Donegal man who won the FA Cup with the Blades in 1925
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NEW POST🗞️
I recently toured Ireland's west coast and took in matches at Galway Utd (Friday) and Sligo Rovers (Saturday)🇮🇪
Here are my
#groundhopping
tips...
Read on 👉
#LeagueofIreland
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My new book is out *tomorrow* 📢
I look at 100 years of football against fascism, from Mussolini to the 21st century culture wars
Want to know more? Listen to this week's podcast, kindly hosted by
@jameshendicott
Have a listen 👉
#Twitterstorians
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It’s
#WorldBookDay
📚
Here’s my contribution to the football library so far.
Mulling a third, but they are a *lot* of work…
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Thread🧵
I'm taking an extended break from recording the podcast 🎙️
I've been doing it since 2016 and it's become a very crowded space since I peaked in the UK football Top 40
Episodes still available:
Apple ➡️
Spotify ➡️
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Spotted in Tunbridge Wells - a plaque to the town's greatest gift to the world: Subbuteo!
Want to know the history of
#Subbuteo
? Check out my podcast with
@SubbuteoOnline
Download/listen 👉
#ThrowbackThursday
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The Outside Write Podcast is back tomorrow for a new series 🎙️
The first five below with thanks to
@MarkAOrton
@CEtchingham77
@WalfridPhD
@RabbitRabbitOn
and
@conorgoalie
...
Find it on all the usual platforms...
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#OnThisDay
31 Aug 1910 🇧🇷
@CorinthianCas
play an exhibition match in São Paulo, Brazil
Inspired by what they see, the very next day a group of locals get together to form Corinthians Paulista
More on (English) Corinthians’ influence on football here
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From the top of Anfield you can see the Welsh hills in the distance 🏴⛰️
Which got me thinking. From which other stadiums can you actually see another country? 🤔
Let me know in the comments 👇
#groundhopping
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Thinking about football clubs named after real people (directly/indirectly):
🇦🇷 Newell’s (Isaac Newell)
🇨🇱 Colo-Colo (a Mapuche leader)
🇨🇱 O’Higgins (Bernardo O’Higgins)
🇩🇪 Carl Zeiss Jena (scientist)
I am sure there are loads more. Let me know 👇
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#OnThisDay
30 March 1945 🇫🇷
Eugène Maës, the first man to score 5 goals in one match for France (1913) dies in a Nazi concentration camp aged 54, just days before the end of the war
More in my new book
👉
[📸 & Gilles Saillant]
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Ahead of
#NonLeagueDay
I got thinking about the most significant non-league clubs.
I think
@CorinthianCas
is right up there.
Here's why
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Followers will know I have been championing
@bfcdublin
on this side of the water for a few years. Great to see profile pieces like this - and make sure you get over to a game at Dalymount!
I think
@BFCDublin
are one of European football's most fascinating clubs They are fuelled by a humanitarian mission: to be a haven for every marginalised community.
It has been an honour to spend time with Bohs. This is their story.
⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Just 285 words left of book two's 75,000-word manuscript to go 📚
Then it's just a case of fact-checking and sourcing some more pics
Can't wait to tell you all about it...in a few months' time...
#amwriting
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ITALY 🇮🇹 >> Finally, this
#SerieA
season, arm yourself with the best podcasts, blogs and literature about Italian football.
We've listed them here, including works from
@GentlemanUltra
@SerieAShow
and much more 👇
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My debut book has one fan, at least...😺
(Out on 19/4) 📚
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Evening all.
Quick shout-out to anyone who's left either a rating or a review on the usual suspect channels. Thanks so much! 🙌
If you have read either of my books, I'd really appreciate a rating or review wherever you bought it.
Mulling a third book just now...
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#europeansuperleague
in the 1970s could include:
Ajax
Gladbach
Notts Forest
Hamburger SV
Leeds Utd
Anderlecht
Saint-Etienne...
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Hands up if you’re old enough to remember seeing these two play together 🙋🏻♂️
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Are there any St. Patrick's Athletic fans/historians in my network, please? Thanks!
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Around a quarter of you got this right
The first penalty in international football was awarded here at Solitude (home of Cliftonville), in Belfast, to Ireland against England on 5 March 1892
Stoke GK Bill Rowley saved the PK from Linfield’s Samuel Torrans + the follow-up!
#wednesdaywisdom
football quiz 🧠
Where was the first penalty kick in international football awarded? 🤔
Was it…?
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Always been fascinated by South American players with British names - the MacAllisters, José Luis Brown (and ancestors), Carlos Babington, Sebastian Coates, Hector Cúper (Cooper) - who else?
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NEW POST 🗞️
This is the first African football team to tour Britain, Ireland, and France (1899-1900)
Learn about their story and the challenges they encountered here👉
#BlackHistoryMonth
#Twitterstorians
[📸 National Archives]
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The best Italian football writing and listening... 👉
Updated to include:
✅
@milanobsession
✅
@SempreIntercom
✅
@SempreSSCNapoli
✅
@ASRomaPress
✅
@Lazio_Lounge
✅
@SerieAFFC
Thanks to
@sms19661
for the additional tips 🇮🇹
#SerieA
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