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Lionel Birnie

@lionelbirnie.bsky.social

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Co-founder of The Cycling Podcast.

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Lionel Birnie @lionelbirnie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thanks to @olliebayliss.bsky.social for having Simon and me on his excellent BBC Three Counties Non-League Show to talk all things @hemelfc.bsky.social and our Magic Roundabout podcast. 🎧 Listen again from 20mins on BBC Sounds here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Lionel Birnie @lionelbirnie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

⚽️ It's matchday, it's raining – proper football weather – and we're looking forward to Hemel Hempstead Town v Weston-super-Mare. Episode five of The Magic Roundabout will be out midweek. Thanks to everyone who has taken time to send a message or leave a review on the series so far

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Lionel Birnie @lionelbirnie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Spies, spires and the 262nd tallest building in Britain. Episode 4 of The Magic Roundabout, featuring me and @simongillphoto following @Hemelfc is online now wherever you listen to podcasts. It's a podcast about football, but not as you know it... podfollow.com/6795556331

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Lionel Birnie @lionelbirnie.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

🎧 If you are a @hemelfc.bsky.social fan on the way to @farnboroughfc.bsky.social today, catch up on pre-season and the opening game in the first two episodes of The Magic Roundabout. podfollow.com/6795556331

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The Magic Roundabout

Join Lionel Birnie and Simon Gill as they spend a season on the road following the fortunes of their home town team, Hemel Hempstead Town. Their adventure will take them from Farnborough to Farnham, M...

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Lionel Birnie @lionelbirnie.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Either Van Aert needs a win for confidence very badly or Visma-Lease A Bike are playing 5D chess and they’re trying to lull Van der Poel into thinking he can take Van Aert to the line on Sunday no worries.

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Lionel Birnie @lionelbirnie.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Take nothing away from Powless, his riding in the closing stages was ice cool but he can’t have believed his luck that Visma Lease A Bike just wanted to take it all the way to the line without trying anything first.

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Lionel Birnie @lionelbirnie.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

That finish at Dwars Door Vlaanderen was like setting up a striker who hasn’t scored since August with an open goal only for him to pop it wide from four yards.

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Lionel Birnie @lionelbirnie.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

My first post on The Alternative 92 tells the story of my trip to Monday’s Dundee Derby in the Scottish Cup. This is the first of an occasional series documenting my football travels past and present. open.substack.com/pub/thealter...

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Tangled up in blue

January 20, 2025: Dundee neighbours meet in the Scottish Cup fourth round

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