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When Saturday Comes @wsc.co.uk · 29/09/2026

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A great evening in London to celebrate the release of @danielgraywriter.bsky.social’s new book Fanzine: The story of football’s alternative press, brilliantly hosted by @sebdwhite.bsky.social and @stanchionbooks.bsky.social Get your copy from the WSC shop: www.wsc.co.uk/shop/fanzine/

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tomorrow we are leaving after a week's shopping in London: stockings, tea, underwear, biscuits, flashlight, books about judo & karate, 1 pair of shoes, frying pan (Teflon), silks & scarves, slides etc plus Albert Hall (Vienna concert), Mousetrap & Puccini in Cov Garden. Hope you will like the crab.

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James Welham @jameswelham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Chat on the @wsc.co.uk podcast about Bob Stokoe only being 43 when Sunderland won the FA Cup compelled me to look him up. (a) actually on only 42 (his birthday was in the September)?and (b) good grief.

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Chris @missingintheslips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This arrived a couple of days ago. Evening into night shift babysitting the House to make sure the wedding goes off without damaging it, so a perfect time to read on. It is, of course, excellent so far. @nightwatchmanxi.bsky.social @camsell59.bsky.social

Issue 55 of The Nightwatchman. Its (dare I say it?) iconic cover is a shade of turquoise this time.

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"But that's tomorrow " the driver said, " First you got to get through tonight. It's tonight I'd be worried about, I was you." "I'll decide what I'm gonna worry about," the fat man said. Decision to reread George V Highins early work vindicated inside two pages.

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Suddenly wonder why my grandparents always called Staithes "Steers"

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Make-up covered the cuts for the wedding day but everyone was shook up.

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A deadly high stakes game of cat and mouse...

Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

'The walls were lined with books, many in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present'. Time spent reading Ross Macdonald is never wasted.

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

An email from Cross Country trains informing me that the processing of my delay-repay claim is delayed...top work from the department of irony

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

An entertaining gentleman - as film critic on a conservative Catholic newspaper he reviewed films he had made-up and interiewed their imaginary directors, until the editor found out and fired him. A Belgian Hasek.

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Watched first episode of Westies. As usual with US depictions of the Irish wonder how annoying it would be if every time you walk down the street somebody starts playing something jaunty on the fiddle.

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Passenger on Avanti West Coast just apologised for whacking me on the shoulder with his back pack as he walked past. The end of the world is nigh

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ten goals from zero possession. Tony Pulis's dream...

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Calling all unabashed football nostalgists - this is terrific. youtu.be/qX6YS6CxzE0?...

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1969: The Life of a Football Manager | Man Alive | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

'Now get ready to have a good time...this exciting isn't it?' Compelled to get out the boxed set of one of the greatest comedy shows of all time

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Publicity drawing for Forton services on the M6 near Lancaster, 1963.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

We made our own entertainment in the old days

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Old Ebor @oldebor.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In 1919, league cricket in England became a genuine competitor to county cricket, able to attract the best players. For a time, administrators feared the effects of the Lancashire League and Bradford League. It was largely, but not entirely, a question of money. open.substack.com/pub/oldebor7...

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"There is only one question — a financial one"

County Cricket and the Lure of the Leagues

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

‘FIFA’s ethics committee?’

Ronnie Corbett looking perplexed in the four candles sketch

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Stupidly excited to have refound my 2017 Omloop cap. Partner oddly less enthusiastic about me wearing it in public...

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Rediscovered my uncle's WW2 Fleet Air Arm scrapbook...started when he was appointed commander of 893 Squadron..

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Every so often you find something that reminds you that your Mum had dementia...

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Clearing out parent's flat. Find this photo of my Dad in Malaya c.1952. Dingo scout car "Cleveland". 12th Royal Lancers.

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Infantino nowhere to be seen...

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

He's come a long way since he was miming being rapped in chains next to Howard Jones

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"Irvin Cobb of the New York World coined the phrase "Innocent bystander" and got the phrase "stuffed shirt" from one of the girls in the brothel he visited afterwards to celebrate". Ah, Jimmy Breslin...

"The editorial writing on economics was done by a reporter who had been recruited in Colorado, blew the train ticket money on whiskey and only made it to New York by volunteering to accompany a casket from Denver to Albany"

From the same Jimmy Breslin piece: "The worst sin for a reporter was not producing a sensation. Their most famous news-page headline, eight columns of it, read "DOES IT HURT TO BE BORN?"

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Jimmy Sirrel's Lovechild @jslovechild.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Reading some old Jimmy Breslin stuff about his early days as a reporter in New York and come across: "I pulled open the M drawer. In the front was a large card that said everything about Hearst Newspapers' system of thought and filing: MENTAL HEALTH -SEE INSANITY"

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Jimmy Greaves' testimonial v Feyenoord, 1972. Not sure what's going on beside the tunnel.

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Why the relentless focus on how many people die in wars and not on the vast majority who survive them?

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Harry Pearson @camsell59.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you want to know the origin of the phrase left in the lurch and pegged out. And even if you don't. open.substack.com/pub/boundles...

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Playing Cribbage

Harry Pearson on a swaggering cavalier's card game that was streets ahead of its time

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Working men’s club, Middlesbrough, 1976, photo by Philip Jones Griffiths.

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Fans with their classic chants of "If you don't jump your feet have likely been nailed to the floor by the secret police"

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Joe McDwyer @bitoredbhoy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The ref should spray that foam in Messi's gob

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I hope there's not a full time show

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I could watch this all day, and it feels like I have

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

You can say what you like about the Americans but they certainly don't know how to put on a show

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One of my favourite memories of watching the 1966 World Cup final on TV was close ups of the celebrities in the crowd such as Wilfred Bramble, Monica Rose and Derek Nimmo.

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