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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 7h

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS: @brisbanestokie.bsky.social talks to @allbluedaze.bsky.social about his love for the Victoria Ground. Stoke City fans, you won't want to miss this. yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/home-is-wh...

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Home Is Where The Heart Is 4 - The Victoria Ground

God save the pub!

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Home Is Where The Heart Is 3 - The Hawthorns. @themagicofthecup.bsky.social talks to @allbluedaze.bsky.social about the ground that's closest to God. Includes details about a dubious blaze on Bonfire Night, European nights, and so much more... yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/home-is-wh...

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Home Is Where The Heart Is 3 - The Hawthorns

In pastures green

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS: Episode 2. @scraggy74.bsky.social talks us through his devotion to Liverpool's Anfield. @allbluedaze.bsky.social presents. @anythinglfc.bsky.social @spiritofshankly.bsky.social @lfchistory.net yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/home-is-wh...

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Home Is Where The Heart Is 2 - Anfield

Walk on...

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Cor Blimey, it's Biley vs Bailey: Derby v Man Utd. Meanwhile, a wayward parachutist avoids a drab affair at Spurs, and WBA's Peter Barnes demands to go to the loo. Not once, but twice. @themagicofthecup.bsky.social & @scraggy74.bsky.social yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/football-r...

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Football Revisited 1979/80: Para 1.20a Derby County v Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton, Manchester City v WBA 2/2/80

Dressed to kill

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS, part 1: @allbluedaze.bsky.social introduces a new series about those stadia that have a special place in our heart. @chrislepkowski.bsky.social goes all Charity Shield by offering up Wembley as the curtain raiser yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/home-is-wh...

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Home Is Where The Heart Is 1 - Wembley

The national stadium, old and new

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

ACTION REPLAY: September 11, 2001. @scraggy74.bsky.social talks about his recollections of a dark and surreal day, including Liverpool's Champions League game against Boavista - with minds very much distracted by events in the US yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/action-rep...

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Action Replay - September 11, 2001

By Steven Scragg

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Our very own Phantom Flan Flinger takes you to the first round of the 1967/68 FA Cup, where Runcorn are our plucky heroes, while a whole host of Davids are slain mostly by other slightly bigger Davids. This is the FA CUP! yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/the-magic-...

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The Magic of the Cup: 1967/68 - Part 2

Sex & drugs & sausage rolls

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Our own @scraggy74.bsky.social goes through his vast archive of newspapers. Things are moving on the transfer front with Ray Clemence, Ally McCoist, Imre Varadi competing for page-space with outraged Welsh female domino players. How very 1981 yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/what-the-p...

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What The Papers Said

By Steven Scragg

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Pete Watson @drpetewatson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Episode 3 of La Pausa now ready for your ears! More Latin American vs European football encounters, this time focusing on the first tournament meetings: the 1924 and 1928 olympics and the 1930 World Cup. Get comfy, get a maté, some Chilean wine or a Quilmes and press play. Like, share, subscribe!

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pause, for La Pausa. We look at Uruguay's historic impact on world football. @drpetewatson.bsky.social offers insight, @allbluedaze.bsky.social chips in with a few thoughts, while @scraggy74.bsky.social and Stu Horsfield mess around at the back of the class. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

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La Pausa: Encounters 3

Podcast Episode · Your Boys Took A Hell Of A Beating · August 12 · 2h 4m

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

ACTION REPLAY: August 10, 1985. When football and TV went to war: no televised English club soccer for 5 months. Was it the spiritual start of the Premier League? @chrislepkowski.bsky.social believes so... yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/action-rep...

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Action Replay – August 10, 1985

By Chris Lepkowski

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

THE MANAGERESS: @allbluedaze.bsky.social looks back on a ground-breaking TV drama that painted a different scenario of how football might unfold in the 1990s. 'Proper football men' are not welcome... yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/boys-and-g...

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Boys & Girls On Film: The Manageress

By Gary Thacker

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Pete Watson @drpetewatson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

open.spotify.com/episode/7lrp... here’s the Spotify link to the new episode of La Pausa on @ybtahoab.bsky.social. The focus is on South American football club tours to Europe in the interwar years. Tales of Friedenreich, Arellano and other legends of the 1920s

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La Pausa: Encounters 2

Your Boys Took A Hell Of A Beating · Episode

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Pete Watson @drpetewatson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh my god, we’re back again! Episode two of La pausa, examines footballing encounters between Europe and Latin America. In this one we look at the first football tours by Latin American teams to Europe, including Paulistano, Nacional, Boca Juniors, Colo Colo … enjoy, like and subscribe

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Pause for La Pausa: Back into the South American Studies department we go today, for module two of our Latin experience. Host Stuart Horsfield is joined by @allbluedaze.bsky.social @scraggy74.bsky.social and @drpetewatson.bsky.social yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/la-pausa-e...

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La Pausa: Encounters 2

Return match

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

MAGA = Fascist Anti- Science Pedo Lovers The GOP Russian sponored tankies with their kangaroo court all are just mad Fauci exposed their scam to sell hydroxychloroquine to Pedolf's stupid base instead of just getting the vaccine.

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Living in Spain, the impact of climate change is front and centre, with truly terrifying consequences. Such being the case the pro-fossil fuel support of Badenoch, Farage, Trump et al is not only blindly naive, but also borderline insanely selfish merely to maintain flow of oil-stained contributions

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Pete Watson @drpetewatson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Just updated my linktree with various recent podcast and Argentinian radio appearances, plus the World Cup Analysis article. Here’s the link - all my outputs go here linktr.ee/drpetewatson

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Dr Peter J Watson Official: Facebook, Twitter | Linktree

View drpetewatson’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like YouTube, Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Saw this and am convinced that irony must have exploded over him when he penned it. This is one of the people responsible for the perpetual sh!tstorm that is Brexit. Do shut up you shameless clown.

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Delighted to see that, following up on the the hardcover edition, my 'DUTCH MASTERS' book is scheduled to republish in paperback on 21 September. Now available to pre-order at a discounted price here: www.amazon.co.uk/Dutch-Master...

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I'LL NEVER PAY FOR PRIVATE HEALTHCARE! #NHS #FBPE 🔶 @wendynowak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Biinface de-binned. He's getting serious now. Vote for him if you're in Clacton! @countbinface.bsky.social #VoteCountBiinface #BinfaceForClacton

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It seems to be an unchallenged truth that Trump tried to cheat - when doesn’t he - for the USA team, and FIFA, apparently in the person of Infantino has allowed him to do it. The rest of the world, especially Belgium, now understand how ordinary Americans feel to be shafted by the Orange One.

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Flashback for July 4, 2026 28 points 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Play here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, July 4, 2026

Can you sort 8 historical events?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Tomorrow’s Independent front page:

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The Way Bac
Their promises of more jobs, more trade, more power for Britain have proved a con, Michael Heseltine writes as the Brexit vote 10th anniversary approaches. Never have so few done so much damage to so many with so little ability to execute what they lied about. Their scandalously false prospectus has turned to dust and ashes. Naturally, they blame everyone but themselves.
They are the guilty men and should...
...hang their heads in shame

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The fact that Thomas Massie lost a Republican primary because he wants pedophiles to face justice tells you everything you need to know about the state of the Republican party… Full stop.

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

⚽Join us on La Pausa, our new series dedicated to the game in South America. Stu Horsfield looks after the passports and is joined by fellow travellers @scraggy74.bsky.social @allbluedaze.bsky.social @drpetewatson.bsky.social yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/la-pausa-e...

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La Pausa: Encounters 1

They'll be drowning in the streets of Raith tonight...

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

#Stoke go down to 9 men at #Burnley, as hypnotist Romark continues to cast his spell on Manchester City boss Malcolm Allison. #MCFC drown in the mud at #Halifax. @scraggy74.bsky.social & @themagicofthecup.bsky.social look on with utter horror yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/football-r...

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Football Revisited 1979/80: Para 1.16b FA Cup Third Round: Burnley v Stoke City, Halifax Town v Manchester City 5/1/1980

Shay 69...

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I'm just relieved nobody is talking about how I said I bought a house in Clacton, then admitted it was in the name of my girlfriend, Laure Ferrari, even though she couldn't afford £885,000, which conveniently meant I avoided £44,000 in tax. Please don't share.

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Orban, clear your desk and sod off, mind the door doesn’t hit your fat right-wing ass on the way out. Massive congratulations to the Hungarian people. Now, who’s next …

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The words “as a brick” and “thick” come to mind, never mind the irony explosion!

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You seriously have to consider the possibility that the craven cowardice of the GOP is likely to allow that obnoxious and toxic moron to drop the world into a global conflict that future - if there is any future - historians will rightly condemn as insanity.

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I don’t want to terrify anyone, but this deranged lunatic has access to the nuclear launch codes.

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

With Bondi following Noem out of the door, is there a possibility that the old axiom about “women scorned” may come back to haunt the Orange Felon? 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

If it’s true that Bondi has been sacked, I earnestly hope that it doesn’t mean she has a bolt home to escape into when the day of reckoning finally arrives.

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Nate @nateduty.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Rep. Massie, make videos of you reading the Epstein files—place the ads on TV. Make videos of you interviewing Epstein survivors, make them into ads, and put them on TV. Run the ads 24/7 365 days a week, EXPOSE those guilty of raping children out into the light, for the world to see.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Why so many more migrants entering the UK in boats? Because Nigel Farage's Brexit party won the referendum after telling a pack of lies Pass it on! ps. Alternative routes for UK to get migrants it desperately needs to keep manufacturing & farming industries, NHS & social care going would help

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

OK. My career just peaked.

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Helen harrison (NOT the MP) @harrison-art.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The corrupt tories always knew it wouldn't work thats exactly why we had to get them out... DONT let Reform creep into the tories space.... DONT vote for fascists #ToriesGone628 #HopeNotHate #RejoinEU #NeverVoteReform

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

📚Today's Book Corner is all about THE SLUM SPORT, taking us back to the 1985/86 Football League season. @scraggy74.bsky.social @allbluedaze.bsky.social and book author @chrislepkowski.bsky.social talk about a campaign of readjustment yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/the-book-c...

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The Book Corner: Chris Lepkowski

The Slum Sport

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It's #Everton vs #ManCity. Panto season starts early thanks to referee Gwyn Owen. Meanwhile, #NFFC eh? What's going on there? @scraggy74.bsky.social & @themagicofthecup.bsky.social hold their nose & watch it all, so you don't have to. HELP! yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/197980-par...

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1979/80: Para 1.14a Everton v Manchester City 22/12/1979

Season's greetings

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Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating @ybtahoab.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

📚In ‘Diamonds in the Rough’, author Joseph Pope adds to the Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating library with the stories behind English football's most meteoric personal rises yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/the-book-c... @scraggy74.bsky.social leads us through the journey

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The Book Corner: Joseph Pope

Diamonds In The Rough

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Bullshit Barbie, with a straight face, (well, as straight as it ever is) said allied countries “are benefiting greatly” from the US-Israel war on Iran. Adding “I think the president is absolutely right to call on these countries to do more to help the United States to reopen the strait of Hormuz.”

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I’m no fan of limiting juries but, if it’s true that any new case will not be heard until 2030 (as apparently asserted by government), and the old maxim that “justice delayed is justice denied” holds true, arguing against the policy without advocating a feasible alternative may be less than helpful.

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Gary Thacker @allbluedaze.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I read recently that the United States is 240 years old and, across those years, it has only not been at war with someone or something for just 16 years. If true, and I’ve no reason to think it not, (happy to be corrected though), that appears to be one heck of a bellicose nation.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/03/2026

Exactly this. ⬇️ @jeevunsandher.bsky.social: "Members opposite promised us that by torching our relationship with Europe, it would make us richer and it would make us stronger. "They were wrong on both counts."

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