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Andrew Jai Presly @andrewjaipresly.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

👇🏼 🫱🏼 That’s where Milan are Henry, they’re f’ing there! Albeit a nailed on 0-0 tonight as you said on the Pod. Would gladly take that right now but let’s roll the footballing dice once more eh. Looking forward to reading the blog 👏🏼 #ForzaNapoli 🩵🤍🎲 ⚽️

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

We’ve got two greats playing each other tonight for #MilanNapoli. The blog is back & here I consider what makes great players great. (With some help from Diego Maradona, football tactics and Paddy Considine’s acting in Shane Meadows’ films) intheshadowofvesuvio.substack.com/p/de-bruyne-...

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Mike Adams @ronpickering.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Great episode, loved Michele's naked schadenfreude at the Tribuna. A friend is getting me a ticket for city game so may see there, as a Romanista United fan (mainly FC now) I'll still be firmly siding with the Partonopei

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

74 is here! @getnapolitickets.bsky.social & I discuss: 😇 Who is the most Jesus like of Napoli's players? 🏟️ Decibel Bellini fiasco 💪 Napoli v Cagliari 🤬 ADL trolling the world? 💶 Away tickets for UCL games podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... open.spotify.com/episode/64Bz...

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

New blog! I process my emotions with Cholito, Raspadori and Osimhen all leaving the club. I then look forward to the future by going back through #NapoliSorrento in detail. Please subscribe to the new substack and share!! intheshadowofvesuvio.substack.com/p/cholito-ra...

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Cholito, Raspa and Osimhen - Three Very Different Farewells

Henry bids farewell to Napoli icons and looks forward to the future following Napoli's most recent pre-season friendlies.

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

New blog! With the arrival of VMS, @sscnapolifc.bsky.social have the best goalkeeper in @seriea.bsky.social for the first time in the ADL era. To celebrate this, I look back at the legacy of goalkeeping since 2004 in Naples. intheshadowofvesuvio.substack.com/p/goalkeeper...

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Napoli have really got these shirts right. Pretty rapid arrival from Italy, replica option is really high quality and is a normal fit, too. Design is beautiful and full of Neapolitan iconography when you look closely

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
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L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

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Stephen Kasiewicz @skasiewicz.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Quite a few really bad career decisions in the mercato. Osimhen and Retegui among them. No point in discussing the merits of other leagues (money talks as ever) but worth emphasizing again, that the Italian top flight remains one of the best in the world. Tired of people talking down Serie A.

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

First blog is here! Welcome To Napoli Lorenzo Lucca I write about:- 9️⃣ the enjoyment of ‘proper strikers’ in Italy 🗣️ Uanema Jeppson and Neapolitan language 🌟 a history of Napoli ‘bombers’ 🤔 how Lucca will fit into to Conte’s side intheshadowofvesuvio.substack.com/p/lorenzo-lu...

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Lorenzo Lucca: Welcome to Napoli!

In his first blog for this new site, Henry Bell goes deep on why Lorenzo Lucca's signing excites him. Content warning for long-time pod listener Daniel Bowen: this post contains food references.

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

🪶 Bit of news from me 🪶 In 2025/26 I’ll be writing about Napoli every week as part of the In The Shadow Of Vesuvio Substack that we’ve just launched. I’ve really missed penning pieces on calcio and Naples and hope a few of you will be glad to see me back. intheshadowofvesuvio.substack.com

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In The Shadow of Vesuvio | Substack

For extra In The Shadow of Vesuvio bits. Click to read In The Shadow of Vesuvio, a Substack publication. Launched 3 hours ago.

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

72 is here! Me & @getnapolitickets.bsky.social discuss:- 👕 Our new beautiful shirts 🇧🇪 Kevin De Bruyne’s arrival 🙋‍♀️ Listener Questions 🤔 Pros and cons of Conte driven mercato 🏟️ Stadio update podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... open.spotify.com/episode/7HtQ...

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Andrew Jai Presly @andrewjaipresly.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Heartening! Deserves the 🩵. Amidst euphoria of Naples for Scudetto #3 Fiorentina match I bought Kim’s FaceGame shirt in what it turned out was a v challenging size Medium. I think he left for Bayern literally the next day so gone before it turned up. Low moment though still worn (just!) with pride 🙌🏼

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Andrew Jai Presly @andrewjaipresly.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

“McTominay isn’t idolised here but that’s not the same as not being idolised in say London. He is still 100% being assaulted every time he comes out of his house…….in a good way!” A Michele classic there 😆 Great ep as usual 🙌🏼 Kim is a majorly underrated cult hero for me. An absolute collosus! 🩵🤍

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

71 is here! We discuss:- 💩 71’s significance in Neapolitan culture 💶 the state of play with Osimhen 🤔 Osimhen’s Napoli legacy 🦸 What makes a Napoli mito? 🙋‍♀️ Listener questions open.spotify.com/episode/1D5H... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Came out a while ago but if anyone wants to relive Napoli’s Scudetto weekend episode 70 is here:- podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... I’m still coming down!

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Omg @okwonga.bsky.social with the most perfect answer to *that* mailbag question. McFratm managing his club in Genoa is the purest @stadio.football vibration that has ever been sounded.

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I’m in Ischia, otherwise known as @legalizemaradona.com’s ancestral home. Christ on a bike it is wonderful

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Club Remontada @clubremontada.com · 02/06/2025

NEW – Napoli Serie A Champions! 🔵🇮🇹🏆 Conte's Napoli secured the title this season by a single point. Here is the most-used formation, most-used 11 (by minutes) that fit it, and then the next 5 most-used players as 'subs'. Enjoy! Fans, you can pick up a print here if you wish! ➡️🛒 buff.ly/3fDCDvh

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The Guardian's Football Weekly podcast @footballweekly.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

‘That’s why a state is different to a rich man or venture capitalists, however unpleasant they may be, they’re not as bad as a state and never will be.’ The Football Weekly panel discuss PSG's Champions League win. @maxrushden.bsky.social @nickybandini.bsky.social @jonawils.bsky.social

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

69 is here! A bonus mini pod made in Naples podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... open.spotify.com/episode/1MVt...

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Michael Hartt @michaelhartt.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

No club in Europe is like Napoli. No place in Europe is like Naples. #napoli #SSCNapoli #scudetto #forzanapolisempre

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Andrew Jai Presly @andrewjaipresly.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Has Michele survived the night?! Hope so. Very very special to be there. Grande Henry! 👏🏼👏🏼🩵🤍🏆🥇🫶🏼

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Curva B last night in Naples. The whole city feels hungover today but in a very pleasant way!

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Just got home. What a night. 4 felt better than 3. Thank you Naples!

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Beech trees in Pollok Country Park in Glasgow. There are few things in life as green as brand new beech leaves - perfect for a little bit of shinrin-yoku forest-bathing as it is also known. #glasgow #trees #pollokcountrypark #forestbathing

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It’s been fun persuading a fair few English and Scottish folks to watch Serie A this season. The quality of coaching, drama at either ends of the table and general absurdity of the league has got them hooked - even if the days of Baggio and Vieri are long gone.

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Last minute sale of some of @mogwai.scot tickets for tonight! #Mogwai secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/3600616EA...

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Stephen Kasiewicz @skasiewicz.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Bloody Genoa! Frustrating watch again. Conte's tactics, the defensive aberrations and general lack of urgency at times. Plenty to discuss on your podcast. McTominay great again though and Gilmour impressive. At least they didn't lose.

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Maybe concentrating on the defence would have been a better idea

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Conte has clearly focussed on the attacking shape this week. Napoli looking so much more dynamic up front with multiple players in the box for every attack. Smart approach with all the fixtures comings against sides in the bottom half. #NapoliGenoa

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Nicky Bandini @nickybandini.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Utterly, utterly incredible. One of the most dramatic football ties I've watched in almost 20 years covering this sport. A reminder of why we all fell in love with it to begin with

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Italian football: actually quite good. Inzaghi the best one-off fixture manager in the world. Will win a World Cup with someone one day

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Stephen Kasiewicz @skasiewicz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Great to speak to @football-italia.bsky.social editor Lorenzo Bettoni about the success of the Scottish players in Italy this season. We talk about Adams, Gilmour, Ferguson and of course Scott McTominay. Watch on YouTube here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQgQ...

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Scotsmen CONQUERING Serie A and one more coming

YouTube video by Lorenzo Bettoni

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

A lovely piece of writing, this.

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Recording a pod if anyone has any unusual questions to ask or pizza pics to review

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Andrew Jai Presly @andrewjaipresly.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

A big step closer after today’s result & boost psychologically to have a significantly inferior GD yet still have it come down to a one off match. Like the team who finishes 6th winning the playoffs in the Championship, free hit mentality. Permission to get excited…..🙏🏼🩵🤍

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Serie A Scudetto play off is ON!! Goal difference is for premheads and losers

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Respect to my neighbour who is firing up his BBQ in sunny (but freezing) suburban Glasgow. He’s donned a retro Sampdoria shirt with ‘Souness’ on the back

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

C’mon ragazzi!! A scrappy win means the Scudetto playoff is on. Would be the first time since 1964 and my bones are telling that’s what is going to happen #MonzaNapoli

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Art Morelli @legalizemaradona.com · 19/04/2025

he has a very good case for most valuable player even if they come up just short on the scudetto, imo

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

What a fucking player is Scott McTominay Right through the whole season he’s been the guy who has stepped up. Scotland’s finest is Napoli’s finest!! #MonzaNapoli

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James Horncastle @jameshorncastle.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Thoughts and prayers

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

When was the last time Napoli had a good second half?

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Henry Bell @henrybellcalcio.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Just saw Spiritualized for the first time. The played the whole of Pure Phase then Cop Shoot Cop as an encore and WOW. Still utterly amazing

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.

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