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Fred Atkins

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Journalist, film-maker, Kent correspondent for ECB Reporters Network and Wisden. New website: thekentspitfire.co.uk

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The BBC never fucking shuts up about immigration. It has a special little guy who bobs around in the Channel pointing at small boats and doing a scary voice.
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 19/05/2026
Show me that bottle cunt now. #bottlecunt
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SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
LMAO
I ALWAYS LOVED VAR DON'T LOOK AT MY PREVIOUS TWEETS
IRON GIANT, DOG DRAWINGS
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Be amazed if any fucker watched it for long enough to find out.
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Our post-Derbyshire feature with Matt Milnes is now live for subscribers: thespitfire.counterpress.media/features/mat...
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Matt Milnes on Derbyshire, career-best figures and being
The 31-year-old enjoys a career day, taking outstanding figures of 6-12
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Edition 33 of The Back Page is live. Via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk Or on Adobe indd.adobe.com/view/267cdb3...
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Diary of a Cricket Season: Day 3 • The Spitfire • Kent Cricket independent news
Storm Rodney, getting an E in biology and the problems of playing cricket in April when
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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Diary of a Cricket Season: Day 1 • The Spitfire • Kent Cricket independent news
The Spitfire Diary: a series of occasional entries from the front lines of the County Championship
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Edition 32 of The Back Page is live. Via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk Or on Adobe indd.adobe.com/view/8d12d18...
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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No need for blind optimism: 6 reasons why better days lie ahead for Kent in 2026 • The Spitfire • Kent Cricket independent news
Dudgeon, Dawkins and disarray in the opposition ranks - why Kent's fortunes are set to improve
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
NEW this morning on The Spitfire: Three-day wickets and twin-spinners: Kent plot a tactical shift ahead of the 2026 season. thespitfire.counterpress.media/features/new...
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New year, new tactics. Three-day wickets and two spinners when the sun comes out. • The Spitfire • Kent Cricket independent news
Kent are trying to be smarter when it comes to tactics this year.
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
‘Le Baby Gunneurs …’
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Edition 29 of The Back Page is live. Via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk Or on Adobe indd.adobe.com/view/fc9f431...
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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Edition 28 of The Back Page is live. Via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk Or on Adobe indd.adobe.com/view/cc84d15...
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Edition 27 of The Back Page is live. Via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk Or on Adobe indd.adobe.com/view/82e1d24...
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Edition 26 of The Back Page is exactly the barrel of laughs you were hoping for after two defeats in a week. Via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk Or on Adobe indd.adobe.com/view/d8f631d...
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Edition 25 of The Back Page is live Via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk Or on Adobe indd.adobe.com/view/9aea579...
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The Back Page
the stones back page
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Here’s a take. ‘Matt’ from the Telegraph is as funny as typhus. Cheers.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Here’s a poem called ‘Message to the 14-Year-Old Me’.
Message to the 14-Year-Old Me
 
Believe in yourself.
You can do anything you set your heart on –
except A level physics, perhaps.
Well, all the sciences really.
 
DIY is a bit of a no-no, too.
See also: driving; skiing; map reading;
cooking pasta in the right quantities;
relationships; origami.
 
Don’t even think about running
your own business. Or singing in tune.
Best to steer clear of all activities which require
good hand-eye coordination.
 
Forget ice-skating, tending house plants,
dealing with spiders, the correct spelling of the word
‘enjambement’. I could go on.
But do not despair – for given time
 
and with a little luck on your side –
you can achieve a basic level of competence
in a limited number of simple, unremarkable things,
you just need to believe in yourself.

Brian Bilston
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Edition 25 drops tomorrow at 9 am.
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Edition 24 of The Back Page is live Via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk Or on Adobe indd.adobe.com/view/b7100ac...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Edition 22 of The Back Page is live Via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk Or on Adobe indd.adobe.com/view/d0fb364...
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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Don't recall any calls for police chief resignations from the Daily Mail et al when the actions of South Yorkshire Police killed 97 people at Hillsborough in 1989 and then lied about it. No one died at Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 15/01/2026
NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.
John Hurt enjoying a meal in the film Alien
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Observation: when Peter Brackley commentated on Serie A he never sounded like he was doing it from the studio. Matt Smith not only sounds like he’s doing it from the studio, it sounds like he’s only doing it because the real commentator got knocked off his bike on the way to the ground.
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Colder than Sittingbourne, and that is saying something.
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Edition 21 of The Back Page is live Via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk Or on Adobe indd.adobe.com/view/89eb436...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I am at real risk of saying something I'm going to regret. Every word of the post below is a lie, and its author deserves to burn in Hell for eternity.
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Edition 20 of The Back Page is online after our Christmas break and this week’s edition has been compiled in a euphoric stupor following the victories over Dover and Hornchurch. Available on Adobe: indd.adobe.com/view/bfb9afc... And via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Edition 19 is the final Back Page of the year and it's packed with seasonal cheer from the front all the way through to the back: Available via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk/ And on Adobe: indd.adobe.com/view/1a8b3e19-4671-42bf-afb4-540049baec17
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Edition 18 drops at 9am tomorrow.
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Cover star count so far by @ntnhan_017 and @acerhelen Sam Corne 2 George Elokobi 2 John Gilbert 2 (1 + 2x 0.5) Deon Moore 2 Riley Court 1.5 TJ Bramble 1 Ruben Carvalho 1 Dajon Golding 1 Lenny Holden 1 Antony Papdopoulos 1 (2x 0.5) Josh Redfearn 1 Jephte Tanga 1 David Sesay 0.5
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Edition 17 of The Back Page is live: Via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk/edition-17/ On Adobe: indd.adobe.com/view/ad270b23-cf9e-4a11-8508-2fee29670839
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Edition 17 - The Back Page
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This week's edition is a barrel of laughs. Via our website thestonesbackpage.co.uk/ And on Adobe: indd.adobe.com/view/238163a1-eb13-47ef-b30b-831250c8cf06
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Edition 15 is live: Via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk/ On Adobe: indd.adobe.com/view/b965dce2-1669-48e4-afff-d38fcc11cf2a The true story of how Maidstone United became "Masivo" in Spain. A very happy Steve Watt on Scotland, Steve Clarke, number two goalkeepers and part-time football.
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JOHN NIVEN @nivenj1.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I watched Trump’s entire Capitol speech live. He 100% encouraged what happened. Now people are resigning over saying that? WHAT THE FUCK?
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 18/11/2025
You'd have to have a heart of stone not to love that for Kieran Tierney ❤️
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Labour’s latest attack on asylum seekers is cruel & counterproductive. How does it help community cohesion to hold threat of deportation over vulnerable people? We don’t need an arms race with the hard right over asylum, we need safe routes & European cooperation #bbclaurak
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Edition 14 is out now: Rumours, bent journalism and take over talk. Steve Watt: Influencers, offside calls and how to keep your dressing room happy. Chippenham reports and reaction. Via our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk/ And on Adobe: indd.adobe.com/view/ea831c08-c0dc-449a-8f30-6525b3469511
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Paul Hayward @paulhayward.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
There are people in this industry who wouldn't know impartiality if it ran them over pontificating about impartiality.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/11/2025
🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Edition 13 is available now: Website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk/ Adobe: indd.adobe.com/view/783406bf-430a-4c4a-8ac7-db228cdf1ca4
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected. More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Edition 12 is out now on our website: thestonesbackpage.co.uk/ And on Adobe: indd.adobe.com/view/5fb19f54-8669-4c02-9690-6637eb74e04a
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Tomorrow's front cover.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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Fred Atkins @fredatkins1973.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
PLUS: Women's FA Cup preview Alex's Corner: When admins go rogue Alan Thatcher's non-league round-up The Stones Quiz: the 1989-90 season Gossip, rumour and schadenfreude at the back.
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