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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 6h

🤯 Killing Maradona is a #1 Best Seller! 🎯 No.1 in Football Biographies No.2 in True Accounts of Organised Crime - only behind London Falling No.2 in South American Football - sandwiched between 2 books on Ronaldo who is NOT South American! 😂 AND it’s only 99p right now!

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tfw you’re not nominated for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year (again) but you know thousands of people are reading and loving Killing Maradona and Narcoball anyway…

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today is exactly 3 yrs since I quit my job in telly after 20 yrs working in documentaries and sat down to write Narcoball. It’s also the day every year that Billie Joe Armstrong wakes up. So, there you go. Anyway, thank you everyone for all your support. Vamos!

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨Canada - hurry! 🇨🇦🍁 Fewer than 12hrs remain on the $1.99 e-book promo for Killing Maradona on the z-o-n… 📕 At that price you’d be mad not to! 🤯 Go go go! 🏃‍♂️💨

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

International break eh? Need a new book? Here’s two…

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bursts of sustained productivity followed by crashes of exhaustion. Doing my best to get back in the saddle and get things moving again after an extended end of summer break - that was much needed after a busy May/June/July with the launch of Killing Maradona and the World Cup…

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Been a bit busy juggling a few things the last few days - normal service to be resumed soon though…

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So, Lorenzo picks a starting XI perhaps slightly more conservative and experienced than mine. Ríos and Castaño in midfield, Suárez up front. Feels big for all 3 of those - for me, at least, I really need to see more than I have from them in a Colombia shirt.

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My Colombia starting XI for the game vs Mexico tonight. Was torn about GK. Not convinced by Montero but don’t rate Mier and Quintana is 32. Would rather have a youngster soon. Also at 9 - would be happy for Suaréz to start if he scores and gets confidence. Big “if” tho.

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But first, before the middle of the night wake up for Colombia, it’s England. Wait, haven’t I done this before too? Fml. PS - who knows the last team to beat Spain?

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Spare bed made up. 🛌 Alarm set for 01:40. ⏰ Yup, Colombia are playing a football match on the other side of the Atlantic, again! 🤣 Didn’t I just do this? 🤷🏻‍♂️ A new era for Los Cafeteros begins tonight in a friendly vs Mexico. 🇲🇽 Vamos! ❤️⚽️🇨🇴

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨Signed books alert! Larndaarn town, I can confirm that @hatchards.bsky.social Piccadilly has signed editions of both Killing Maradona & Narcoball, and @waterstones.bsky.social Piccadilly has a sneaky signed copy of Narcoball. Want a signed edition but not in central London? Check out my web shop.

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Author of Killing Maradona: How Cocaine, the Camorra and Crime Corrupted Football’s Greatest Talent (2026) and Narcoball: Love, Death and Football in Escobar’s Colombia (2024). Half British, half Colombian. Husband & father. Find my books and links in my profile.

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

👀 COVER REVEAL! 🇭🇺 The brand new Hungarian edition of Killing Maradona will be released exactly one month from today! Maradona Meggyilkolása is published by Skorpió Könyvek of Budapest. Love seeing the different artistic approaches to my work taken by different publishers from around the world.

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friday! You made it! Reward yourself with a new podcast episode for the weekend? How about this one, celebrating some of the greatest Colombian footballers (and haircuts!) ever to play the beautiful game? Go on, revel in these 80s & 90s icons! ❤️⚽️🇨🇴 open.spotify.com/episode/2BvV...

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Ray Mundo Futbol: 535: Late 80's and 90's Colombian Footballers with Author David Arrowsmith

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s Friday! Who needs a lunchtime listen or new podcast episode for the commute home or weekend? How about this one, celebrating some of the greatest Colombian footballers ever to play the beautiful game? Go on, revel in these 80s & 90s icons! ❤️⚽️🇨🇴 open.spotify.com/episode/2BvV...

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s the end for one of the very greatest in the history of Colombian football. A sad day, as James Rodríguez retires from international football. He made us dare to dream. He won’t be forgotten. I will go to my grave still watching that goal in the 2014 last 16 game vs Uruguay. ❤️⚽️🇨🇴

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🚨SALE NOW ON! 📚 Do you need a new book, or a new gift for the reader in your life? Well, there’s 10% off on my non-fiction on my web shop at the moment - so you can get Killing Maradona and/or Narcoball signed, sealed and delivered direct from me! davidarrowsmithauthor.square.site

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📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland) @hylland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

OTD 1997. 36-year old Diego Maradona scored the last goal of his career; a penalty in Boca Juniors' 2-1 win against Newell's Old Boys at La Bombonera. Maradona's last competitive game came on 25th October in the superclásico at El Monumental, in which he came off at half time.

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Really enjoyed today, speaking to a lovely and engaged crowd, hosted by Hatchery Writers Group, at Hove Library. Lots of brilliant questions in the Q&A at the end too.

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tomorrow, if you are in Brighton & Hove and free do come along!

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you can make it to Hove Library this Saturday, I’m giving a talk entitled Stanger Than Fiction : how to write compelling narrative non-fiction. Starts at 11am. All welcome!

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you can make it to Hove Library this Saturday, I’m giving a talk entitled Stanger Than Fiction : how to write compelling narrative non-fiction. Starts at 11am. All welcome!

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you can make it to Hove Library this Saturday, I’m giving a talk about writing compelling non-fiction. Starts at 11am. All welcome!

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦- have you got your copy yet? Only $1.99 for the ebook? 🤯 Hurry before someone realises their mistake!

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Got a strange hankering for sopa de plátano, maybe it’s autumn in the air or maybe I’m just missing my mother. But my Colombian cookbook doesn’t have it as a recipe. Argh. Anyone got a good one they use?

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

On this day in 1995 - but did you know this was the SECOND time Higuita & Colombia played at Wembley? The first was in 1988, in the Rous Cup, and I was there in the away fans section with my mum, to see Andrés Escobar score his only ever goal for Colombia.

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚨USA & Canada Kindle readers! The Killing Maradona ebook is currently on a flash sale on the ‘Zon for a ridiculous $1.99 - go, go, go! Snap up the #1 Best Seller in Soccer Biographies - a book that the latest reader review calls “definitive” and “masterful”.

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today in 1993 Colombia routed Argentina 5-0 in Buenos Aires to secure automatic qualification for World Cup USA 94 & condemn Argentina to a play off. Months later both would implode controversially at the tournament. Read both sides of the story in Narcoball & Killing Maradona.

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

With Argentine president Javier Milei turning the screw on Falklands Islands off shore oil drilling, and Trump perhaps prepared to keep the US out of it, is a new conflict with the UK in the air? In ‘82 Diego was the poster boy for the junta’s war over Las Malvinas…

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🍁 CANADA - Killing Maradona is still just $1.99, get it while the going is good! #ebook #kindle

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Happy 65th birthday to the one and only El Pibe Valderrama. Leyenda. I was lucky enough to see him play live in his prime - at Wembley in 1988, sat in the away fans section with my Colombian mother - for a 1-1 draw with Bobby Robson’s England. He bewitched the ball. ❤️⚽️🇨🇴

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

On deadline day, how about a new book - featuring a host of crazy transfer deals and near misses, including the incredible subterfuge that facilitated a move to Napoli, a world record transfer to Barcelona, and failed attempts by Sheffield Utd & Arsenal to sign Diego Maradona!

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As Lionel Messi retires from international football many will laud him not only as the greatest Argentine footballer ever but also as the best player of all time. But, before Messi, there was El Diego, and what a life he led…

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Need a bank holiday weekend read (or audiobook listen)? I got ya…

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Which is your favourite cover for Narcoball? I have always loved the original hardback edition (the table football players, as also used for the Finnish edition, pictured here) - and that Italian design is 🔥too… (NB - the flag logos are emojis added by me to label!)

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Need a bank holiday weekend read (or audiobook listen)? I got ya…

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Bank Holiday listen required? Look no further!

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John Salem @johnsalem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Greatly enjoyed this by @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social, reads like a thriller, review at johnsalem.co.uk/book-review-...

Killing Maradona, book by David Arrowsmith

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Love this! Thanks John - reads like a thriller is exactly what I was shooting for!

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Can’t quite believes Forest are getting Daniel Muñoz for around £20m. What an absolute steal. Glasner must be thrilled. A beast of a RB/RWB, incredible engine, strong, aggressive, assists and an eye for a goal. Vital for Palace & Colombia. Good luck in Nottingham, Daniel! ❤️⚽️🇨🇴

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🚨NEW PODCAST EPISODE! The Lost Boyos invited me on to chat about my latest book, Killing Maradona. We discussed the many highs and lows of El Diego's storied career, and life, as well as the mythology and legacy he has left behind (and a bit of Narcoball too!)… 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/64fS...

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David Arrowsmith: writing Killing Maradona, the joys and the tragedies of El Diego's life and career, and Narcoball football in Colombia.

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

René “El Loco” Higuita turns 60 today. A legendary goalkeeper for Colombia, and Copa Libertadores winning hero for Atlético Nacional, he changed the game and football history. His story, a key part of my book Narcoball, is darker and more complex than many know. ❤️⚽️🇨🇴

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yesterday I was in London and signed a copy of Killing Maradona @ Waterstones near Victoria - if you hurry you might snag it before anybody else does! 🏃‍♂️💨

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David Arrowsmith Author @davidarrowsmith.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

LOVE getting sent photos like this one from readers! 🤩📚☀️🏖️

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