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Rick Walton

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Anti-fascist. ‘Free-wheeling absurdist’. ‘Good bloke’. Writer & sports coach. bowlingatvincent.com / sportslaureate.co.uk 3 books widely available - the latest being POWER CHORDS.

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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 1h
Was a wee kid. But remember it.
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 10h
Sounds like you've nailed this one, son...
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 11h
WOW. That sounds fabulous!
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 11h
Nice wee town. You there now?
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 23h
'I swing – see what I did there? – between muting the tellybox and *really listening*. When the pundits are at it, I mean'. sportslaureate.co.uk - Let's go bowling. #cricket #coaching #Anderson #Broad
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Stuart Broad's Shocked Reaction After 500 Test Wickets
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 23h
'I swing – see what I did there? – between muting the tellybox and *really listening*. When the pundits are at it, I mean'. sportslaureate.co.uk - Let's go bowling. #cricket #coaching #Anderson #Broad
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Stuart Broad's Shocked Reaction After 500 Test Wickets
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 23h
#Savage endlessly banging on about the possible pen. Calls for consistency when clearly there can be none. Refs have to judge individual circumstances & motivations. #CrystalPalace #SturmGraz #football #punditry
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 23h
Chapeau to the ref in #Palace #SturmGraz. Been consistently waving away obvious exaggerations. #Bournemouth frustrated until #Evanilson loops in an outrageous header to break the deadlock. His partner #Rodrigues apparently had 5 yrs at #Real. Looks a Sunday League player. 🙃
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
#Anderson #Broad & #coaching #cricket stuff. Here: sportslaureate.co.uk
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Greenham Common, 1980s UK, 1st peace camp, women-only, active for 19 yrs protesting nuclear weapons. Embrace the Base event-30,000 women held hands around the US airbase fence housing Cruise Missiles, a 14-mile human chain #WomensArt
Monochrome photo featuring a line of women holding hands in silhouette along the outside of a tall wire fence
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Yes the seam is cantered; yes, some bowlers change their approach or 'block themselves off' a little, but awareness of finger pressure?!? Racing in, angry, knackered and under a cruel spotlight? Wow. This is truly elite-level consciousness. sportslaureate.co.uk #Anderson #Broad #cricket #coaching
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James Anderson's Intense Cricket Wicket Reaction
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
'You don’t stop learning. A-and obviously you shouldn’t'. sportslaureate.co.uk #coaching #cricket
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Coach Beard Thumbs Up from Ted Lasso
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
sportslaureate.co.uk - Let’s go bowling. #cricket #coaching #dude 😎
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Looks like another Reform member caught on camera saying racist things is blaming Racism Pills again. "Councillor Miller told us he was heavily medicated at the time due to a chronic pain condition, and he has now resigned from Reform UK." www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
Councillor Miller, who was elected as Reform councillor in May 2026, claimed that King Charles is secretly a Muslim.

"The Muslim thing is going to be that thing that takes over everything and then everyone just has one religion.

"Apparently King Charles is a f****** Muslim. Someone from the inside saw a f****** prayer mat and all that in one of his f****** rooms.

"I think that's f****** traitorous. Cut the c***1* head off, sorry."

Councillor Miller told us he was heavily medicated at the time due to a chronic pain condition, and he has now resigned from Reform UK.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Chalk wonder world!
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The #JasonArdal story is a) important & b) so obviously indicative of establishment mores that of course @bylinetimes.bsky.social were all over it. But this month’s diversions into music, football, theatre & t’internet brought different wows. Rich, engaging stuff. 👏🏻
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Field of Grass with Dandelions and Tree Trunks - 1890 botfrens.com/collections/46/content…
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#Russo is different - & better - than most forwards. Wonderful, natural athlete, with pace, heart & quality. #Mead (as sub) has again been mediocre, & #Godfrey bit nervy & ineffective? Poor miss. #Eng #Lionesses #Greece
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A great strike from #James - one of few genuinely two-footed players (male or female!) - & then a brilliant, twisting run from #Hemp finds #Stanway in space. Now 3-0. #Eng #Lionesses #Greece
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#Carter in for #Morgan. Fair enough. The latter looked insufficiently physical last time out. Early goal. Ideal. Should have been a massacre in Greece. It’s on, now. #Eng #Lionesses
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Aargh. Had hoped to see #NewDawnFades in #Macclesfield - family origins & MASSIVE CONNECTION to #JoyDivision all in play. Dallied coz have to think about indulgences. Sold out. 😬 🎸🤬 #music #lifesrichwotnots
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Like this. Just heard that relative from dad’s side (JT Walton) played for #BlackburnOlympic, the first Northern & working-class side to win the #FACup. (Late 19th century). Other family (including dad) played at #MacclesfieldTown. #football #class
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Phew. Bingewatch of #ColinFromAccounts done. Magbloodynificent.
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We all feel this about our teams, yes? 👇🏻 ‘You wanna caricature? Artell sent out a team without a midfield; or with one genuine midfielder and no legs’. bowlingatvincent.com knows better. Like you do. #football #coaching
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
‘Some will know I’m a part-time supporter. Happy for Proper Fans to correct and even abuse me. Up the #Mariners’. #Football #blog. About #coaching & everything. bowlingatvincent.com #LeagueTwo #GrimsbyTown
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The latest #Mariners (mis)adventure is on bowlingatvincent.com #football #coaching #GrimsbyTown #PortVale #LeagueTwo
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#Football #blogs on both bowlingatvincent.com & sportslaureate.co.uk - about your club as well as mine.
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Chicken Bro Soccer Ball on Fire
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
‘Some will know I’m a part-time supporter. Happy for Proper Fans to correct and even abuse me. Up the #Mariners’. #Football #blog. About #coaching & everything. bowlingatvincent.com #LeagueTwo #GrimsbyTown
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The latest #Mariners (mis)adventure is on bowlingatvincent.com #football #coaching #GrimsbyTown #PortVale #LeagueTwo
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We all feel this about our teams, yes? 👇🏻 ‘You wanna caricature? Artell sent out a team without a midfield; or with one genuine midfielder and no legs’. bowlingatvincent.com knows better. Like you do. #football #coaching
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I get that we ‘have that right’… but it’s still ‘orrible and unhelpful. Town were crap and the leadership did a woeful job of ‘changing things’. But don’t go booing your players. bowlingatvincent.com #football *everywhere* 😬💥⚽️
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thoughts arising - bowlingatvincent.com #GrimsbyTown #PortVale #LeagueTwo #football
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thoughts arising - bowlingatvincent.com #GrimsbyTown #PortVale #LeagueTwo #football
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Erm… another ‘disaster’. #Grimsby were bloody awful - a real mess. Obviously need at least one striker but badly exposed & badly organised, today. Great support… up until the end, when there were unhelpful but mebbes understandable boos. Season turned bad in the last month. #LeagueTwo #football
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
On a roll - well, a bacon roll any minute - so #GTFC away-day action it is. Never been to Port Vale. Am sure there’ll be a welcome. #UTM ⚫️⚪️ @officialgtfc Pic from #Grimsby #Fishing #Heritage #Museum
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Finishes 1-3. #Wiegmann allegedly tells it like it is, in private, so expect most players will have questions to answer. #Eng should have won 7-0 - possibly more. Epitomised by the woeful #Mead running offside & missing a tap-in in the dying seconds. #Greece #Lionesses
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Given the time & space to play in, hard to fathom how all of #Mead #James #Hemp can have been so wasteful. #Morgan & #Greenwood not been great, either. #Greece get one back. 1-3. If I’m the #Eng gaffer I’m having words…
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Took some time, but good strike from #LeTissier then a smart turn from #Russo establishes order. 0-3 with more to come, surely? #Greece #Eng #Lionesses
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
48 mins in, & some concern that #Eng have (remarkably) failed to score more than one goal. Poor referee, plus the occasional chance for #Greece…😬 could #Lionesses come a cropper, here? (They are 5 goals better than their opponents).
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On ITV+1 so only just seen that moment of genius from #James. She can be infuriating… but hardly anybody in world #football does *that*. #Lionesses #Eng #Greece
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Proper Footballl. #BlundellPark Cleethorpes. Michael Mouse Trophy but pleased to be here *for my 4th consecutive* Town game. #GrimsbyTown #Wales 🙃⚽️
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oof. That’s some start to the 2nd half, for #Wales. Clumsy challenge sees a defender sent off, then #Williams drills in the free-kick - possibly a bit too easily. 2-1. Dreamland. #Norway #NationsLeague
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Really don't do much telly so waddooo I know but hey - #ColinFromAccounts! Binge-watching coz brilliantly (painfully?) ON IT around people/relationships/sexuality the whole cowabunga. & performances sensational. & Aussies!?! Did it already win loads of awards? Surely? #TV #analysis
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Pep in a tight place. Perjury likely? Or unavoidable? The house is tumbling down.
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Foolish. Credibility shredded in a moment.
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Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The decision was announced a week after the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said the U.S. had declined to invite its members to observe November’s congressional midterm elections, a sharp break from past practice.”
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wider points, well-made. We're back - aren't we? - with the #Epstein Class.
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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If the choice is between watching #LewisSkelly 'put his body across' to draw a foul🤢 or #ColinFromAccounts 😄 it's a walkover. #Eng #Aus #TV #footballlegends
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".
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