open.spotify.com/episode/7lrp... here’s the Spotify link to the new episode of La Pausa on @ybtahoab.bsky.social. The focus is on South American football club tours to Europe in the interwar years. Tales of Friedenreich, Arellano and other legends of the 1920s

La Pausa: Encounters 2

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Oh my god, we’re back again! Episode two of La pausa, examines footballing encounters between Europe and Latin America. In this one we look at the first football tours by Latin American teams to Europe, including Paulistano, Nacional, Boca Juniors, Colo Colo … enjoy, like and subscribe

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Pause for La Pausa: Back into the South American Studies department we go today, for module two of our Latin experience. Host Stuart Horsfield is joined by @allbluedaze.bsky.social @scraggy74.bsky.social and @drpetewatson.bsky.social yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/la-pausa-e...

This coming season, I'm keen to do more in-person talks and podcast interviews. My specialisms are: 🔥 Football and politics (particularly anti-f@scism) 📣 Fan/ultra culture 🧐 Football history 🏟️ Groundhopping and football travel Portfolio here 👉 www.outsidewrite.co.uk Please DM if interested.

I always forget what the priorities are here and it’s never what it should be.

1966 REVISITED: Today we are joined by the great author Norman Giller - the ONLY journalist to be in the dressing room on this day 60 years ago. England 4-2 West Germany. Enjoy this journey back to English football's greatest day! yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/the-book-c...

The Book Corner: Norman Giller World Cup 1966

There's some people on the pod...

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The segment of the radio programme I was on yesterday with the brilliant Marcela Mora y Araujo can be listened to here: radiocut.fm/audiocut/ent...

Entrevista Marcela Mora y Araujo y Peter Watson

Entrevista Marcela Mora y Araujo y Peter Watson

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Just updated my linktree with various recent podcast and Argentinian radio appearances, plus the World Cup Analysis article. Here’s the link - all my outputs go here linktr.ee/drpetewatson

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View drpetewatson’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like YouTube, Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

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Just been on Corresponsales en línea again, debating various Argentinian football controversies and issues on the World Cup. An honour to be on with Marcela Mora Y Araujo again. Might be online somewhere if anyone wants to listen to the conversation (from about 2.20-3pm GMT). Radio Ciudad

Will be on the Corresponsales en línea radio programme on Radio Ciudad in Buenos Aires this Sunday at around 2.30pm. Going to be discussing conspiracies, corruption, controversies around the World Cup apparently.

Or maybe…the podcast 'Why can't England win?' Inthis episode, the focus is on the impact of memories, press narratives, identities and cultural values on World Cup performances, explaining defeat and victory, success and failure. Give it a listen on: open.spotify.com/episode/5Qoh...

You Have To Say That's Magnificent: Can England Ever Win?

Podcast Episode · Your Boys Took A Hell Of A Beating · 20 July · 1hr 33min

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Missing the World Cup? Read: Colombia - whose shirt is it anyway? worldcupanalysis.ws/paris-2024/c... a short article where @drpetewatson.bsky.social discusses politics and the politicization of football around the presidential election for the World Cup analysis project.

Colombia - whose shirt is it anyway? worldcupanalysis.ws/paris-2024/c... Here in this short article I discuss the footballization of politics and the politicization of football around the presidential election for the World Cup analysis project. Check out the other articles too

Looking for a new retro football podcast? Give it a listen & a follow 👇 bsky.app/profile/ybta...

If you aren’t already following the @ybtahoab.bsky.social account and listening and subscribing to the podcasts, and you like listening to fans, writers and the odd academic taking about football, then why not?

Never mind the tactics, here's the bollocks. From my input only, obv.

Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating@ybtahoab.bsky.social · 2w ago

It is 60 years since England last won a major tournament after finishing 3rd in the 2026 World Cup. So, what next? @drpetewatson.bsky.social @themagicofthecup.bsky.social @scraggy74.bsky.social talk national identity, history & Englishness yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/you-have-t...

Donald Trump, to coin a phrase he would recognise, has ‘lost bigly’ this World Cup in the global gaze of the footballsphere following the Balogun red card fiasco, being booed yesterday and looking like a fool with the trophy celebrations. Doesn’t affect his voters’ opinions of course or power

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2w ago

is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it

It is 60 years since England last won a major tournament after finishing 3rd in the 2026 World Cup. So, what next? @drpetewatson.bsky.social @themagicofthecup.bsky.social @scraggy74.bsky.social talk national identity, history & Englishness yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/you-have-t...

You Have To Say That's Magnificent: Can England Ever Win?

So it’s now 60 years and counting since England last won a major tournament after finishing third in the 2026 World Cup.

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Wide ranging discussion here about the types of issues that arise after an England World Cup tournament exit, where they come from and the problems involved. Listen, like and subscribe!

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It is 60 years since England last won a major tournament after finishing 3rd in the 2026 World Cup. So, what next? @drpetewatson.bsky.social @themagicofthecup.bsky.social @scraggy74.bsky.social talk national identity, history & Englishness yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com/p/you-have-t...

Will be interesting to see how the Argentinian press narratives spin this final and how it will be remembered / erased. Very little positive to rescue in this game and doesn’t fit into many identity values. Maybe the worst part of aguante. Can’t even feel hard done by.

All the narratives trying to make this Lamine Yamal’s World Cup are pretty tedious and totally inaccurate. Didn’t do much. But then the media need to create a hero and Spain are a collective so they struggle

@kvikmyndapod.bsky.social just found your podcast. Big fan of Icelandic cinema so just downloaded all episodes of films I’ve seen so far. Looking forward to listening

Henry pollock’s Shithousery credentials going to be tested in Argentina today. Does he have the stones for a Falklands are English banner or is he a serial shusher and yapper?

Facebook has revealed that today 13 years ago was the last time I went on holiday

Will be teaching or 17 modules this year. Playing module Pokémon, gotta teach ‘em all

Predictably the press have mostly taken their eyes off the ball by ironically just looking at the football during this World Cup…

Jules Boykoff@julesboykoff.bsky.social · 3w ago

Important to note that amid the World Cup—but far from host cities full of international journalist—“ICE last month arrested more [people] than any month in the history of the agency,” said Tom Homan, White House ‘border czar’

Lets go back to the beginning - at least for official matches between #England and #Argentina. Here is the programme for the first in 1951 - a 2-1 win for England thanks to a late Jackie Milburn goal. This belonged to referee Richard Maddison, who officiated in Argentina in 1949 and 1950.

Since the teams for this semi final were established it has been an hourly battle not to engage with so many tweets and social media posts from both nations. Have messaged my Argentinian friends wishing them luck and for a good game. No doubt the game will become future podcast/ class content!

This is a unusually bad Indian side. Maybe Ireland didn’t do that well in beating them as well.

Suryavanshi - can he do it on an English wicket with bigger boundaries on a Thursday evening? not yet

What a surprise, being asked to do even more next year. Anyone else want to do anything? Anyone?