Steve Welsh

@miniboro.bsky.social

BY DAY: Full-time Snr Service Designer BY NIGHT: Occasional Freelance Illustrator NOWADAYS: Sheffield BACK IN THE DAY: Middlesbrough twitter.com/miniboro_dotcom

Extraordinary moment during miners’ strike when police and pickets forgot hostilities and played football. Nottinghamshire, March 1984, photo by Guardian's Denis Thorpe. Said it reminded him of the Christmas Day truce during WW1.

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By public demand I'm doing signings before AND AFTER the @Boro match tomorrow. Seriously, lot of people said they don't want to buy then carry it around. So I'm doing 11.30-12 then I'll back in club shop after the game. Come & let me solve your Christmas present problems.

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Jim Abrahams, one of the creators of the highly quotable movie "Airplane!," has sadly passed away. In 2016, he gave us the backstory on how its most enduring joke, "Don’t call me Shirley," may have saved the entire production. vulture.visitlink.me/whJogz

...btw in case there was any doubt which #Boro keeper I've gone for, it simply has to be Stephen Pears. Greatest goalie England 'nearly' had and literally the first name on the Boro team sheet growing up. 🧤