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Richard Wilson

@hyfprw.bsky.social
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All things Balkan football - particularly Croatia and Slovenia. Writer. Talker as heard on BBC, TSN and other acronyms. Read my nonsense at hyfprw.substack.com

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NHATional Scissoring Day ✂️ @nhathanielh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m not crying YOU’RE CRYING 😭😭😭 #AEWDynamite
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 21h
To put Ronaldo’s caps in perspective, for Modric to break his Caps record, he’d probably need to play to 2030.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kind of feel like some people watched Al Pacino in ‘SimOne’ and took the wrong lesson. AI Music will never take over music wholly because you can’t go and watch AI play live.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Investment or Integrity?
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You know who’d have sorted that out?
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Nfy Makes a Funny Face
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
North Macedonia-Scotland promises to be the least appealing game of the break. Neither have scored under their current managers - Scotland in 2, North Macedonia in 6.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Obviously the irony of Sky claiming anyone is destroying football shouldn’t be lost on anyone but it sort of makes a point - every City representative will get grilled about this till the appeal is done and the punishment meted out. Do you think players will hang around in Jan after 3 months of it?
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The bravery to promise two manifesto commitments for 2030, both of which he could easily deliver now, neither of which he can be sure to be in a position to deliver at all given he’s choosing to put an election in the way. That’s abject cowardice, not bravery IMO.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A perfect Nations League campaign definitely on the cards. World class goal from Krstovic and Adzic/Latkovic delivering from the bench.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
hyfprw.substack.com/p/yugoslav-f... This week's update is *checks word count* mercifully short with it being an international week
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Yugoslav Football Weekly Update 28/09/26
Missing club football yet?
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
After Israel-Ireland, the next flashpoint is Slovenia U21 vs Israel U21s. Slovenia are equally not fans of the Israeli state and, with the game due to happen in Ptuj, a local government official has called for the game to be moved/cancelled. In unequivocal fashion.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unreal news to wake up to about PAC. When I went to AEW last year, I spent a lot of time making sure I could capture him in flight and managed to, just about, get it right. RIP to a legend.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Congrats to Kosovo for winning the “most could not be bothered defensive effort of the season” award.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
FT Slovenia 0 Scotland 0 Frustrating for Scotland in the end. Poor first half but dominated the second half and should have won. Gilmour great. Two sides with zero strikers of this standard available.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HT Slovenia 0 Scotland 0 Scotland aren't better yet. Slovenia continue being on a gentle upswing. Slovenia's 3-4-3-ish working effectively for Sturm in particular. Would persevere with Matko just as he's in form and he's so streaky that's when he's impactful.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BBC complaining about the Stozice pitch that it shouldn’t be as it is. They needed to give it a week off last week because two sides play home games on it so it does get more than Olimpija playing on it.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Obvs there’s a lot of wild omissions but no 24 is perhaps the wildest Putting “best” to one side, there’s arguably no major series that changed how TV was viewed more than 24. We don’t have binging shows without it. We don’t have companion podcasts without it.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This should be fun when they get around to deciding what sanctions there are. You’d think titles should be stripped but the UK precedent of Rangers suggests they most certainly won’t be.
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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Munetaka Murakami is having the time of his life at his first champagne celebration
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How quickly will UEFA sanction Kosovo for the t shirts on the judgement shown at the goal? Obviously controversial and the rulings are subject to appeal, but it feels like it’s something UEFA will hate.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The design for the new Maksimir was announced today and no-one likes it. It does look a bit like a cardboard box with the overlapping roofing.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Serbian Superliga breaks up for winter the week before. Zvezda players would have to miss it but, bulked up by the MLS cohort, and I’d put a fiver on Serbia being the opponents in that one. Slovenia would also sync up with that one. Both have done random winter break friendlies in the past
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Carter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jason Benetti gets roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. #DNMW #Tigers
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This week's report covers the game of the season in Serbia, sad team animations, the new Ade Akinfenwa and a whole lot more as always. hyfprw.substack.com/p/yugoslav-f...
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Yugoslav Football Weekly Report 21/09/26
National teams and games of the season in Serbia and Bosnia
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tadej Pogacar at Strade Bianche 2027: “…and I took that personally”
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
FT Celtic 0 Rangers 1 0-4 would have been more appropriate. Celtic deficient in every area and all the coaching team could do was throw strikers on and hope. Men against boys.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Question at this point is if Celtic wait till full time for O’Neill to get emptied. Shambolic so far.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's International Prep Sunday for me which means my usual thread running through the picks for this break. Be worried for Serbia. June was disastrous but with a B team, esp vs Mexico. This squad is arguably too far the other way - missing two major players through injury in Milenkovic and Mitro...
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Partizan in deep trouble. Already second bottom - 3-1 down at HT tonight and down to ten after Milan Vukotic got a straight red for dissent. Must have been some dissent.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New episode on Croatian Footy Bilic, bad times at Dinamo and a lot more youtu.be/cCkDuFrseuk?...
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Bilić's First List, Dinamo in Trouble & Hajduk Winning
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
People will pore over why Celtic are bad but to take a sec to recognise how truly awful it is that Zachariassen got to this first for Fradi’s second goal last night. To describe McGregor as asleep to him running from behind would be an affront to narcolepsy.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Presumably within 24 hours of this being taken, Hilary Duff had literally killed the sport of Ice Hockey in Manchester.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sanctions from the Serbian FA are out - €8.5k fine for Zvezda for organisation issues in the unauthorised minutes silence as well as pyro. No sanction whatsoever for the massive war criminal tifo.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I had to put myself through it given the discourse so: is the new Bloc Party album as bad as people say it is? Yes. Emphatically so. There’s a key change in Muscleworks I literally went “ewwww” at and I’m not sure that’s the worst track on the album.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One fun element of Zoran Zeljkovic being the new Celje manager? Svit Seslar, perhaps Celje's best player, can't stand him and has publicly stated that he liked playing vs Koper just so he could stick it to him.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
hyfprw.substack.com/p/yugoslav-f... It's weekly report time - Celje change manager, Dinamo get blown apart by Osijek and a story to watch in Serbia. There's loads. Just loads and loads of news.
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Yugoslav Football Weekly Report 14/09/26
Campelos gone, Partizan in trouble and a potential Serbian shutdown
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Alexa, play the one hit of the girl group Shampoo”
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Madring? More like bo-ring
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As hilarious as the entire unionist cause having a collective fit will be, it’s genuinely insane that he’s said this when even Biden - Joe “I’m basically Irish” Biden - didn’t go that far. You can’t just say Ireland should unify because you’re pissy about not getting support on Iran.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Intriguingly, no-one seems to know why. Reading between the lines, I think it’s a case of things bubbling under since Arber Zeneli’s brother chose Sweden over Kosovo but that’s conjecture over other stories coming out at similar times.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Razaullah didn’t have a passport and a coach had to go to his village to find him as he had his phone off. Guaranteed his phone will be ringing off the hook after today.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A very different bit of writing - going in depth on Mladic, on Serbian society and just why football has been the frontline of opinions we find unconscionable these past couple of weeks... hyfprw.substack.com/p/the-right-...
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The Right of Memory
Serbia shows itself up, but do we misunderstand defence for depravity?
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A very different bit of writing - going in depth on Mladic, on Serbian society and just why football has been the frontline of opinions we find unconscionable these past couple of weeks... hyfprw.substack.com/p/the-right-...
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The Right of Memory
Serbia shows itself up, but do we misunderstand defence for depravity?
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You get one red card overturned and suddenly you’re looking to get EVERYTHING rescinded in your favour…
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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 07/09/2026
We just published an exclusive new investigation into Dan Boeckner, guitarist for Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade, who continues to spread hateful bigotry against Baltic and Ukrainian peoples.
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
OFK are the latest in trouble over a Mladic minute's silence. Only they and Zvezda (OFK are Zvezda's farm club) held one and neither were sanctioned by the FA so both will be charged by the FA over this. Sportklub report both Partizan and IMT (the away sides in those games) will also be charged...
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
To add to the Veciti Derbi fallout, apparently Crvena Zvezda didn’t tell Partizan in advance they would do the minute’s silence for Mladic. Protocol is that both sides agree this with the FA which, as Partizan were unaware of it, couldn’t happen. That’s not the bad bit…
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
hyfprw.substack.com/p/yugoslav-f... This week's weekly report with national teams, more Mladic and a rundown of the Veciti Derbi...
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Yugoslav Football Weekly Report 07/09/26
Another week talking about Ratko Mladic, anyone?
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Richard Wilson @hyfprw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just as a note, I’ve been advised the words on the banner refers to what Mladic said just before troops over-ran and massacred Srebrenica. Hard not to think the book needs throwing at the club now.
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