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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Speaking as a United season ticket holder, I can confirm that we all lost confidence in Jim Ratcliffe quite a while ago.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This afternoon at #sls2026 I'll be presenting the findings of my upcoming monograph with @hartpublishing.bsky.social on policing and human rights. It's a big lecture theatre so please come along and support me!

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The cosmic ballet, goes on (filmed in Vinaros).

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Air quality in Manchester today due to moorland fires. World leading. #manchesterisred

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm not at all surprised by the attitude expressed by that Scotland fan. It aligns with my research with English fans (for many of whom the match was less important than the craic) and also with that done amongst Scottish fans in '92 by Richard Giulianotti. Gratuitous pic of my book follows...

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The building work in Manchester and Salford is crazy. Every time you look it seems that there's a new skyscraper or something

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Loved all those books. The '82 one with all the images of the stadiums is probably my favourite

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Thanks to the Football Supporters Association, Premier League away tickets are capped at £30. So someone here is making a lot of money.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Push up, lads, I'm putting some snow on this

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

To be fair, there's nothing in the MPS statement quoted in the article saying they would actually arrest for expressions of support for PA.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Very proud of the Stretford End today. www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Don't usually do academic gloating, but this is as decent a spot as any to proof read the new book. 'Policing and the Human Rights Act', coming soon.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We set out our arguments more clearly here, using a number of case studies of 'intelligence led' football operations, some of which were superb, some of which were a shambles. But very few operations, good or bad, played out how the intelligence suggested they would.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This pair have been an absolute menace for the duration of me trying to write the Human Rights and Policing book. I really could do with the opposite of an Acknowledgements section to reference them in.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Dear Donald Trump. In recognition of your unique commitment to fascists and other psychopathic fruit-loops,I would like to present you with my 2004-05 Frumba FC Psycho of the Season Award. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The University of Manchester looking suitably gothic this evening.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Rather pleased with our efforts for this year's advent window. And yes that is Father Christmas and not @markhamillofficial.bsky.social climbing into the AT-AT.

An advent calendar window scene of the Battle of Hoth

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Thunderstorms, landslides and floods. The low point was when the car we hitched a lift in started to float. The worst weather the locals could recall in many years.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Was an eventful journey back from the writing retreat. After being stuck on the island for over two days with no boats going in or out.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Have had a productive and enjoyable writing retreat in lovely Hydra and a book will be forthcoming from it. However, any mistakes will be those of the many cats who have interfered with my efforts, rather than my own.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I'll be on The Law Show this week on Radio 4 (and BBC Sounds), talking about football fan legislation. The other topics on the show are criminal court delays and protest cases.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This is a fascinating development in the Aston Villa v Maccabi TA story, using the language of human rights. Collective expressions of identity by football fans are protected under the ECHR and HRA, but being able to buy tickets for a particular match clearly isn't.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I can lend you this fellow for a few days. Mouse murdering is Wicket's raison d'être.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Anyone buying one of these things pre Halloween deserves the choking, stabbing, or electrocution hazard it will inevitably produce when the clock ticks to midnight.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

On the rattler across the pennines to @lawatleeds.bsky.social for today's '25 Years of the HRA' event. I will be presenting on Policing and the Human Rights Act.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Looking forward to attending #EuroCrim2025 in Athens this week. I'll be presenting on the impact of the Human Rights Act on UK policing, Friday 17.00.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

The damage that the proscription of Palestine Action (and undoubtedly some of the policing of this law) is doing to police legitimacy in this country is an unfolding nightmare.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Good luck proving the Mens Rea requirement here.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Last year's football disorder stats showed an increase in arrests but a similar reduction in reported incidents. This year's stats showed a reduction in arrests but an increase in reported incidents. Check out the BBC reports. I guess "football related disorder broadly stable" doesn't get clicks.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

On the plus side, it's good to see the term 'jibbing' enter government discourse.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

s.60 to be put in place to search for armbands or flippers ahead of tomorrow's gig. #yhihf

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Katie Stoker of @uomlaw.bsky.social presents her paper on football player migration post-Brexit at the Annual Sport and EU Conference in Naples.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The weather gods have heard that the Sport and EU conference is in town. Never been to one of these that hasn't been baking hot. Not even in Ormskirk.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The @n8prp.bsky.social Annual Policing Innovation Forum opens in York. This year's topic is Neurodiversity in the Criminal Justice System and we have a great variety of presentations and roundtable discussions from academics, police, and third sector practitioners.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

These are the ridiculous and unnecessary instructions for #MUFC fans travelling to Lyon this week. Sick of being treated like a criminal every time I attend a match in France. One day (I doubt soon) the French authorities will realise a good policing operation is about legitimacy not just control.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I first assumed the idea of the RHS "developing" a lawn which has dandelions and clover in it was an April fool's joke. But now I'm having second thoughts.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I haven't been able to follow the classified Signal chat debacle without thinking of Airplane.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

So my reading of the proposed protest pyro ban offence in the new Crime and Policing Bill is that you wouldn't commit a crime if you set off a pyrotechnic while marching to a football match even if you were also protesting (eg about ticket prices, ownership, super-league).

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It's only taken 10 years, but the University of Manchester Law Department finally has a staff photograph board. After this, anything is possible.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I admire and enjoy Spotify Unwrapped's annual attempt to make me appear more sophisticated and cultured than I am.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This was the queue for the turnstiles at kick off for one of the Stretford End safe standing sections. It's a security risk in itself if there was a terrorist attack (and at the end of it I wasn't even searched).

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

After the sad news about #TimothyWest today, I may need to rewatch the superb 'Eleven Men Against Eleven'. A quality bit of 1990s football nostalgia with West as the villainous football club chairman, Sir Bob.

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