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David Bevan

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📖 Author of The Unbelievables: The Remarkable Rise of Leicester City (2016) ✍️ Co-founder of The Fosse Way: bsky.app/profile/thefosseway.net 📸 Member of the Streetsnappers Collective 🦊 #LCFC 🛡️ #NorthantsCricket 🦁 #AthleticClub

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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 22/10/2025
NEW: Hull City 2 Leicester City 1: Mauled by the Tigers ✍🏻: @jamesknight517.bsky.social
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Hull City 2 Leicester City 1: Mauled by the Tigers
Leicester put in their most disappointing performance of the season as they slumped to defeat on the east coast.
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 19/10/2025
NEW: Leicester City 1 Portsmouth 1 - And now, your unlicensed crypto casino all-stars! ✍️ @davidbevan.bsky.social #LCFC
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Leicester City 1 Portsmouth 1: And now, your unlicensed crypto casino all-stars!
There were boos and empty seats as Leicester City threw away a lead for the second home game in a row – games which have summed up the wider situation at the club both on and off the pitch.
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 09/10/2025
NEW: From brilliant to barking mad - We pick Leicester City’s player of the season so far ✍️ Matt Jedruch | @helsy33.bsky.social @iainw198.bsky.social | @davidbevan.bsky.social | @jamesknight517.bsky.social #LCFC
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From brilliant to barking mad: We pick Leicester City’s players of the season so far
We’re less than one-fifth of the way through the Championship season, so there’s plenty of time for a strong candidate to emerge from the pack. But who has stood out in Leicester City c…
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 01/10/2025
NEW: Leicester City 1 Wrexham 1: Shambolic second half sees Foxes throw two points away "The same players for whom fan patience expired seasons ago are still playing. They’re still making the same mistakes. Others are just trundling around..." ✍🏻: @helsy33.bsky.social #lcfc
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Leicester City 1 Wrexham 1: Shambolic second half sees Foxes throw two points away
The Championship draw specialists versus the plucky, newly promoted darlings Wrexham. Did you see a potential banana skin in the making? Maybe. You probably also aren’t surprised to read that…
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
An away day for the ages watching Northants win at The Oval. That was special #T20 #Cricket #Northamptonshire
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Can we shake up interviews with players and managers? “How important is it to get a win today?” “Really important”
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 09/08/2025
NEW: Leicester City fans big season predictions for 25/26: Finishing position, points deduction, and what we want to see @jamesknight517.bsky.social @helsy33.bsky.social @davidbevan.bsky.social @iainw198.bsky.social @ryan-hubbard.co.uk #LCFC
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Leicester City fans big season predictions for 25/26: Finishing position, points deduction, and what we want to see
Ahead of Sunday’s big kick off, we polled the Wout Faes fan club to get their predictions for the upcoming campaign.
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 08/08/2025
NEW: LCFC 2025/26 preview: Is this the real squad, is it just fantasy? "How do you preview a season with as wide a range of possibilities as this one? How do you talk about a team that has the potential to be multiple, diametrically opposed versions of itself?" ✍🏻: @jamesknight517.bsky.social
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Leicester City 2025/26 season preview: Is this the real squad, is it just fantasy?
On Sunday afternoon, a crisis-hit chaos club owned by a Thai billionaire takes to the field for the first game of the new Championship season. And Sheffield Wednesday will be playing too! Arf!
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I didn’t read a better book last year than @vermontgmg.bsky.social’s oral history of 9/11 I haven’t read a better book this year than @vermontgmg.bsky.social’s oral history of D-Day
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Next week’s switch to post-Tour life is going to hit harder than most. Good job we’re going on holiday
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Today’s All-Ireland Hurling Final probably summed up why I love sport more than any sport I actually follow on a regular basis. Unbelievable second half performance from #Tipperary #GAA
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Happy 9th birthday to The Unbelievables. More unbelievable by the day with the current state of #LCFC
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 30/06/2025
NEW: Leicester City, 2025/26: 50,000 people used to live here. Now it’s a ghost town Leicester City’s decision to part ways with Ruud van Nistelrooy last Friday leaves us with plenty of questions to ponder as pre-season begins this week. ✍🏻: @jamesknight517.bsky.social #LCFC
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Leicester City, 2025/26: 50,000 people used to live here. Now it’s a ghost town
Leicester City’s decision to part ways with Ruud van Nistelrooy last Friday leaves us with plenty of questions to ponder as pre-season begins this week.
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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Me and you, outside, in the Official FIFA accredited media shuttle pick up zone C sponsored by Budweiser, right now.
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Splendid and tremendous night with @alexikokopops.bsky.social watching @shitrock.bsky.social in Bristol. What a band
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 23/05/2025
Fosse Friday 054 is struggling to squeeze through your letterbox Russell Martin! Jeff Schlupp! Conrad Logan! And the small matter of a few PSR-related charges Just another week in the life of #LCFC
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Fosse Friday 054 - 23 May 2025: 158 pints of Peroni, £19.4m losses and 1 Nigel Pearson
This week's update is playing the hits before reality catches up with us
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 19/05/2025
NEW: It was Jamie Vardy’s world and we just lived in it - Leicester City 2 Ipswich Town 0 “That noise was special, something we haven’t heard too many times this season, to greet something we’ll never see again” ✍️ @davidbevan.bsky.social #LCFC
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It was Jamie Vardy’s world and we just lived in it: Leicester City 2 Ipswich Town 0
And just like that, it’s over. Could Jamie Vardy score his 200th goal in his 500th appearance? Haven’t you been paying attention? This had to be a fitting end to the fairy tale.
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 15/05/2025
“Utterly ridiculous”: Jamie Vardy’s most underrated goals We’re sadly counting down the days left for the 🐐 at #LCFC ✍️ @helsy33.bsky.social @davidbevan.bsky.social @iainw198.bsky.social @jamesknight517.bsky.social
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“Utterly ridiculous”: Jamie Vardy’s most underrated Leicester City goals
As the clock ticks down on Jamie Vardy’s Leicester City career, we face a conundrum. What more can we say about our greatest ever player? Here’s the first of three JV9-themed questions …
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 27/04/2025
NEW: Wolves 3 Leicester City (R) 0: An informal Foxes forfeit "In case you were hopeful that relegation, or Jamie Vardy’s departure announcement may have lifted the fear and inspired Leicester City to score, win or do something, there was no need. The Foxes were as soft and ineffective as ever."
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Wolves 3 Leicester City (R) 0: An informal Foxes forfeit — The Fosse Way
In case you were hopeful that relegation, or Jamie Vardy’s departure announcement may have lifted the fear and inspired Leicester City to score, win or do something , there was no need. The Foxes wer...
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Things that have been more gripping than this entire Leicester season so far - part 3,691: The last two episodes of #UniversityChallenge
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I’m Still Here. Knew this would be great as soon as I saw the trailer. Everything about it was spot on, already looking forward to returning to the soundtrack 🎬🍷 Cinema night with @evaduffy.bsky.social
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: We need to stop lying about what makes lost boys such easy marks for cons
Economically depressed young men are aggressively targeted with the oldest, most seductive pitch there is — money for nothing — by bad faith actors with enormous wealth
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 20/02/2025
NEW: If you could ask Leicester City Football Club one question, what would it be? ✍️ @davidbevan.bsky.social @iainw198.bsky.social @jamesknight517.bsky.social @helsy33.bsky.social #LCFC
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If you could ask Leicester City Football Club one question, what would it be? — The Fosse Way
There are so many talking points around Leicester City at the moment that it’s hard to arrow in on just one. But that’s exactly what we’ve tried to do this week - if you only had one question you cou...
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Nine years since I called my book chapter about Jeffrey Schlupp “The Future of the Left” and now he’s starting a Champions League knockout game away at Bayern Munich First time I’ve thought maybe I was right after all (although in reality it was just to get a @shitrock.bsky.social reference in)
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 08/02/2025
NEW: Manchester United 2 Leicester City 1: Ticket prices and terrible decisions As Leicester go out of the cup, the match report looks at: 😴 Magic of the cup? Not for the neutrals 🤑 Ticket prices and tourists 🇳🇬 An Ndidi boost ✍🏻: @helsy33.bsky.social
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Manchester United 2 Leicester City 1: Ticket prices and terrible decisions — The Fosse Way
Two Premier League teams, one enduring their worst ever home record versus a side with no clean sheets in 19 games except make it the FA Cup. Despite this, Leicester had won only once at Old Traffor...
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 04/02/2025
NEW: Leicester City’s grand plan finally revealed - Do nothing “This is the first time a transfer window in the top flight has combined a lack of activity with the stench of relegation. As with defeat at Everton, it somehow feels both like deja vu and a new low” ✍️ @davidbevan.bsky.social | #LCFC
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Leicester City’s grand plan finally revealed: Do nothing — The Fosse Way
As the final hours of the January transfer window ticked down, relegation-haunted Leicester City sat by and watched as rivals strengthened. What message does that send to a fanbase losing hope that th...
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Either they’ve completely ruined the Champions League group stage or Leicester have decimated my interest in wasting my free time watching other football. Maybe both
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A fine book haul from @booksellercrow.bsky.social yesterday (shame we picked your day off!)
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 20/01/2025
Over the past few months, @jamesknight517.bsky.social has been gathering evidence on all potential suspects in the shameful murder of a once above-average football club. What follows are the raw notes from that investigative journal. Can you follow the clues to discover WHO KILLED LEICESTER CITY?
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Play the great Leicester City blame game — The Fosse Way
Less than four years ago, Leicester City were FA Cup winners and perennial top four contenders. Closing BT Sport’s coverage of the FA Cup final in 2021, Jake Humphrey said: “Huge congratulations to L...
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
🍦 #Photography #StreetPhotography #London #Soho
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 17/01/2025
Foodbank for Fulham: Support Leicester’s homeless with a donation this Saturday “There are many Leicester fans for whom the work of Union FS is an enormous source of pride. The impact of their efforts relies on people getting involved and bringing whatever they can” ✍️ @davidbevan.bsky.social #LCFC
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Foodbank for Fulham: Support Leicester’s homeless with a donation this Saturday — The Fosse Way
This Saturday sees the fifth annual edition of the food bank organised by Union FS to support Leicester charity The Bridge - Homelessness to Hope.
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Ongi etorri @mrpentlandclub.bsky.social #AupaAthletic 🦁 🔴⚪️
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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Favourite thing today: Over the Crossbar, an ongoing project by photographer Ryan Pierse of football goals around London and southern England. A glorious set www.instagram.com/p/DEaCZoiBpA...
Football goals covered in fog in ReadingAn aerial view of a football goal next to a car park in GunnersburyAn aerial view of a football goal under a motorway in LondonA football goal next to uneven line markings in Gunnersbury
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Just finished book one of 2025 - Godwin by @josephoneill.bsky.social Very thought-provoking both in content and construction, and I flew through it to know what would happen next Great Christmas gift @evaduffy.bsky.social! You can buy it from @booksellercrow.bsky.social here
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Godwin Joseph O'Neill // Bookseller Crow Bookshop, Crystal Palace South London
Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother Geoff, born and raised in the UK, is a desperate yo...
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 30/12/2024
NEW Leicester City 0 Manchester City 2: Play like that again and we might be fine? @helsy33.bsky.social on: 💎 El Khannouss & Buonanotte adding some spark 🦊Our best 90 minutes but our pitfalls 🗓️ New year, new us?
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Leicester City 0 Manchester City 2: Play like that again and we might be fine? — The Fosse Way
The last game of 2024 and Leicester needed a win over struggling Manchester City to avoid ending it in the relegation zone. Despite it being our most complete ninety minutes, it wasn't to be. But it d...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I wrote about how much, how fiercely and why, I hate A.I. On eternal cons, a dying earth and talking dogs. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/
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The Gist: AI, a talking dog for the 21st Century.
Séamus O'Reilly on the year's biggest con, AI. This is a Christmas Cracker Gist.
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Watching Leicester is no fun at the moment. This game in particular was never going to be fun. Enjoy!
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
A virtuoso performance from our number one and @jamesknight517.bsky.social on match report duty It doesn’t disappoint… #LCFC
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Alex @alexvio.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Relegation graph just dropped lads #lcfc
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 15/12/2024
NEW- Newcastle 4 Leicester City 0: The Nightmare Before Christmas 😓 Mayday, mayday, Mads injured 🎯 Open season on Leicester's defence ⏰ Squad weakness and a tough month ahead ✍🏻: @helsy33.bsky.social
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Newcastle 4 Leicester City 0: The Nightmare Before Christmas — The Fosse Way
Put down your mince pies and maybe pour a slightly bigger than recommended glass of mulled wine to process what we just watched. This was a Leicester City away day at Newcastle, less about spreading f...
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Just when I’d recovered from crediting Bobby Decordova-Reid with a brilliant assist live on BBC radio for a deflected shot, Spotify’s AI auto-transcription of the episode has got me giving the #LCFC job to Vanessa Roy 👩🏻‍💼 🤝 @owynnpalmeratkin.bsky.social
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 10/12/2024
NEW: Local heroes and England legends - When Leicester City won at Newcastle United “There was no way he could have got the ball and 99 per cent of players would have pulled out, but unfortunately he was one of the one per cent” #LCFC #NUFC #NEWLEI ✍️ @davidbevan.bsky.social
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Local heroes and England legends: When Leicester City won at Newcastle United — The Fosse Way
Leicester City only won one of our first 26 away games at Newcastle. It was a special one - a 5-1 win in 1928 when the great Arthur Chandler scored four goals - but we’re going to focus on another com...
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Every time I change my mind twice I the space of 0.1 seconds about which direction I want to walk in, it’s going to remind me of Patson Daka v West Ham. A very niche “but did he mean it, Clive?” #LCFC
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Generative AI has praised me for “embracing every facet of human experience through your music” That really meant a lot to me, coming from two made-up people #SpotifyWrapped
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Although this (via @jwherrman.bsky.social) is about US politics, lots of relatively trivial ventures must also be affected by Musk’s changes to Twitter I initiated @thefosseway.net’s move here partly because our engagement suddenly went through the floor. And it did feel “strange and a little sad”
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A question for #BookBlueSky - if the first sentence of the book you’ve started reading is staggeringly inept, do you keep reading?
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 04/12/2024
NEW: A new fox in a legend’s socks - The emergence of Bilal El Khannouss 🦊🇲🇦 “The right coach at the right time can make a huge difference to a player’s career. The arrival of Ruud van Nistelrooy at this time in Bilal El Khannouss’s development feels timely” ✍️ @davidbevan.bsky.social | #LCFC
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A new Fox in a legend’s socks: The emergence of Bilal El Khannouss — The Fosse Way
Sometimes it only takes one performance from one player to turn the narrative. Step up, Bilal El Khannouss.
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The Fosse Way @thefosseway.net · 04/12/2024
NEW: #LCFC 3 West Ham 1: The Flying Dutchmen. We're back, baby. 👌 RVN's tweaks 😍Bilal's brilliance 😨Giving up 30 shots to West Ham ✍️ @jamesknight517.bsky.social 📷 @helsy33.bsky.social
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Leicester City 3 West Ham 1: The Flying Dutchmen — The Fosse Way
Ruud van Nistelrooy’s first game as Leicester City manager was the night football became fun again.
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Lots to work on defensively but that was a team that will fight and the commitment to attack was clear My voice will not be at its best tomorrow - the sign of a good night on Filbert Way. He comes from Zambia #LCFC
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David Bevan @davidbevan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Finished this very interesting book by @markaldridge.bsky.social last night. I’m firmly team Suchet so enjoyed getting a more well-rounded picture of Poirot plus finding out why the ITV series is structured so strangely
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