#OnThisDay 12 Sept 2005 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 My favourite live sporting experience: seeing England win the Ashes urn back off Australia for the first time in 18 years 🏏 Having lived in Australia a few years earlier and gone to the 2002/3 Ashes tour 🤦🏻‍♂️, and taken a load of 💩 from Australians, this was SWEET.

🇮🇪 Irish broadcaster RTÉ will air the two Nations League matches between Ireland and Israel, but without commentary or studio coverage. The two matches are the subject of a boycott campaign due to the genocide in #Palestine. 👇

#OnThisDay in football, 12 Sept 1885 - Arbroath 36-0 Bon Accord 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 1974 - Leeds Utd sacked Brian Clough after just 44 days 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1989 - Liverpool 9-0 Palace 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1990 - Faroe Islands won their first competitive match 1-0 v Austria 🇫🇴

"Women are TOO EMOTIONAL to be president!!!!!"

Does anyone in my network follow #Millwall, and can you tell me if there are any markers to the Old Den on/around Cold Blow Lane, please? (e.g., a plaque) Cheers!

Last week, I asked you what your favourite UK motorway service station was. This guy actually chronicles them for a living! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Experience: I’ve visited every motorway service station in Britain

Some people don’t understand my lifelong enthusiasm for roadside stop-offs – now visiting and cataloguing them is what I do for a living

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Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

11 Sept is also La Diada Nacional de Catalunya 🟡🔴 On this date in 1714, Barcelona fell to Philip V at the end of the War of Spanish Succession...it's the same conflict in which Britain pinched Gibraltar. Catalan identity is HUGE for Barcelona's football clubs, as I cover in my next book (2027 TBC)

#OnThisDay in football, 11 Sept 1886 - Linfield opened its first ground ☘️ 1895 - The original FA Cup trophy was stolen from its display in a Birmingham shop window. Villa were fined £25 by the FA 🏆 Born: 1944 - Everaldo 🇧🇷 1945 - Franz Beckenbauer 🇩🇪 1962 - Julio Salinas 🇪🇸 1978 - Dejan Stanković 🇷🇸

This is Salgueiros’ mythical former stadium, Estádio Vidal Pinheiro, which they vacated in 2006 to make way for Porto’s expanding Metro. 🇵🇹 These last remaining visible terraces were demolished this week. More football heritage lost… 😞 You can read all about Salgueiros in my next book (2027)

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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NEW ARTICLE: Today marks the 116th anniversary of Cádiz Club de Fútbol. Our new article looks at its early homes, particularly the Campo de Deportes Mirandilla, a stadium that was crucial in the club's quest to establish itself in the professional leagues. espanaestadios.com/2...

Dropping overnight UK time Sunday/Monday 🎙️ @karimzidan.com joins me on the podcast to discuss the fascinating world of Egyptian football 🇪🇬 From the roots of the game, to the darkness of Port Said, to the joy of the 2026 World Cup, and more. Sub/catch up wherever you get your podcasts... Taster:

Please take 12 mins of your time today to watch @pibedebarrio.bsky.social's brilliant video on the wonderful Newell's Old Boys ❤️🖤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=osOS...

Newell's Old Boys | The Leprosos of Rosario - PIBE LIFE - Ep #21

YouTube video by Pibe de Barrio

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#OnThisDay in football, 10 Sept 1898 - Roker Park opened 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1910 - Sport Corinthians Paulista played their first match 🇧🇷 1985 - Scotland manager Jock Stein died after Scotland had secured qualification for Mexico '86 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 1993 - Sam Kerr born 🇦🇺 1995 - Jack Grealish born 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Having said after my last book, Shades of Green: A Journey into Irish Football (2025), that it would be my last...I just finished my manuscript for my fourth... Barrio Clubs: Football in the Shadow of Iberian Giants will be out next year (TBC) I've also started plotting two other future books...🤦🏻‍♂️

It's getting closer to a tipping point within the Conservative Party...

Upcoming long reads on Outside Write (1/2) NOW - The History of the Penalty Kick ⚽ 13/9 - The Best Books on Football in the Former Communist Bloc ⭐ 20/9 - Groundhopping: Defensor Sporting 🇺🇾 27/9 - 11 Clubs that Changed the World ⚽ Sub/follow 👉🏼 outsidewrite.substack.com

Burnham should scrap Labour’s red lines on Brexit and get closer to EU, voters say www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Burnham should scrap Labour’s red lines on Brexit and get closer to EU, voters say

New research shows just one in five voters think Brexit has been a success, heaping pressure on the new prime minister to improve Britain’s relationship with Europe

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#OnThisDay in football, 9 Sept 1893 - VfB Stuttgart founded 🇩🇪 1969 - Estadi Ciutat de València opened (Levante) 🇪🇸 1981 - Norway 2-1 England. "Your boys took one hell of a beating!" 🇧🇻 1993 - Diego Maradona signed for Newell's❤️🖤 Birthdays: 🇭🇷 Luka Modrić (41) 🇧🇷 Oscar (35) 🇵🇹 Danilo Pereira (35)

🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 I am extremely excited that the First View of my new article "Strongmen, Populism, and Soccer: Comparing Silvio Berlusconi, Viktor Orbán, and Donald Trump" is now available. It was quite an ordeal to get it past reviewer 2, but I made it with help of special issue editors.

Morning all. New Campaign:

#OtD 8 Sep 1943 during WWII, Italy formally surrendered to the Allies. However, Central and Northern Italy, remained in the hands of the Nazis and the fascist Republic of Salò. And so, working-class resistance to fascism continued. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

#OnThisDay in football, 8 Sept 1888 - The first Football League season kicked off 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2011 - Juve opened their new ground with a friendly v Notts County, who provided their stripes in 1903 Born: 1969 - Gary Speed (d. 2011) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 1969 - Chris Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1972 - Markus Babbel 🇩🇪 1994 - Bruno Fernandes 🇵🇹

An evening of League One football at Bromley v AFC Wimbledon ⚽️ Not been here for a decade, and Bromley are in a much better place now. Didn’t play well tonight and the visitors played much better football. I like what Bromley have done with the ground, though.

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

Have you read this week's post on the history of the penalty kick yet? How a fed-up goalkeeper from a tiny Ulster village came up with the most high-risk element of the game... Read on... #FootballHistory outsidewrite.substack.com/p/the-irishm...

The ‘Irishman’s Motion’ and the Birth of the Penalty Kick

Football’s most jeopardy-loaded moment, the penalty kick, started out as a concept suggested by a goalkeeper from a small Ulster village. This is how ‘the Irishman’s motion’ became a reality.

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OK, after a formatting issue (my bad), my latest two episodes are now up on Spotify: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Football in the West Midlands with Hijab Shah 🇺🇾 Uruguay's golden age with @martindacruz.bsky.social ...plus 260+ other episodes here: open.spotify.com/show/41nxyOU...

Football Travel by Outside Write

Podcast · Outside Write · Outside Write is a blog dedicated to football travel, culture and history. In this podcast we discuss travel tips for watching football abroad, discuss football history, soci...

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This week's podcast is up 🎙️ My guest is @martindacruz.bsky.social, and we're discussing Uruguay's golden age (1918-30) 🇺🇾 Find it wherever you get your podcasts, although I seem to have an issue syncing with Spotify right now... #Uruguay