Paul Nicholls
@70smo.bsky.social
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Writer, sports, history, fiction
English cricket fans, get over those Ashes blues by reading "The Coping Stone" about the first English Football tour of Australia in 1925 (England won!) via
www.fairplaypublishing.com.au
@fairplaybooks.bsky.social
@footballandwar.bsky.social
@footballheritage.bsky.social
@petereedy.bsky.social
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The 100th anniversary of the (English) FA's first ever soccer tour of Australia in 1925 has passed by seemingly unnoticed in both countries. Here I discuss my book about this tour "The Coping Stone" with Suzanne Hill on ABC radio national.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
@fairplaybooks.bsky.social
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Soccer's Rise to Australian Legitimacy - ABC listen
"The Coping Stone - the First English Soccer Tour of Australia 1925" tells the story of soccer's rise to popularity in Australia. Paul Nicholls is the author of The Coping Stone, and joins Suzanne Hil...
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/nightlife/the-coping-stone/105561140?utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared
5 months ago
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Paul Nicholls
Fair Play Publishing
5 months ago
One Hundred Years ago today,
#Australia
played its third match at West Maitland in a five-match series, their first again
#England
. We published a book about it from
@70smo.bsky.social
a couple of weeks ago, 'The Coping Stone'. Find out more.
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Paul Nicholls
Fair Play Publishing
6 months ago
Chapter 1: "23 December 1861, the colony of Victoria Atop the Cape Otway lighthouse on the windswept southern coast of Victoria, a lookout sweeps a broad expanse of Bass Strait with a telescope. He spies something on the horizon. A ship!" It's
#football
history. But not as you know it!
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Paul Nicholls
Fair Play Publishing
6 months ago
"Is he dead yet?" The opening line of our
#newrelease
, which is out tomorrow. And it's all about one of the oldest sporting rivalries: AUSvENG. It's
#football
history, but not as you know it. Join
@70smo.bsky.social
&
@iansyson.bsky.social
at Gleebooks.
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Would be great to see you there at Gleebooks!
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6 months ago
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Paul Nicholls
Fair Play Publishing
6 months ago
REMINDER: It's π― years next week since the first
#AUSvENG
#football
matches. Join us at Gleebooks for the launch of a book that dives deep into the 5-match series written by
@70smo.bsky.social
with special guest
@iansyson.bsky.social
. Thursday 26/06, 6.30pm.
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Paul Nicholls
Fair Play Publishing
6 months ago
Our next
#reallygoodfootballbook
on the first English Soccer Tour of Australia in 1925, π― 'The Coping Stone' by
@70smo.bsky.social
is available now. Launched on 26/06.
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Paul Nicholls
Fair Play Publishing
7 months ago
A reminder about an important
#football
anniversary at the end of this month. Join us on the eve for the launch of
@70smo.bsky.social
book, all about it, with
@iansyson.bsky.social
. June 26th, Gleebooks.
gleebooks.com.au/event/paul-n...
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My book, The Coping Stone - The First English Soccer Tour of Australia 1925 launches at Gleebooks in Sydney on 26 June, hosted by
@iansyson.bsky.social
Join us as we discuss this milestone tour
gleebooks.com.au/event/paul-n...
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https://gleebooks.com.au/event/paul-nicholls-the-coping-stone/
7 months ago
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Paul Nicholls
Fair Play Publishing
7 months ago
An important Australian
#football
anniversary coming up this month: 100 years since the first
#England
soccer tour of Australia.
@70smo.bsky.social
has written a marvellous book about it, which will be launched by
@iansyson.bsky.social
at Gleebooks on 26th June.
gleebooks.com.au/event/paul-n...
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100 years ago today (5/5/1925) the first English FA team to visit Australia arrived in Fremantle at the beginning of a gruelling three month tour. Read all about it in my book, The Coping Stone, coming out through
@fairplaybooks.bsky.social
on 30 May 2025.
8 months ago
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Paul Nicholls
Fair Play Publishing
8 months ago
Two of the protagonists featured in
@70smo.bsky.social
forthcoming book, 'The Coping Stone' are the South Coast's James 'Judy' Masters &
#Arsenal's
Tom Whittaker, both of whom were WW1 veterans for their respective nations.
#LestWeForget
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Paul Nicholls
Ian Syson
8 months ago
The failure of sokkahtwitter to migrate over to here is frustrating. Hopefully I can get some take up on issues like this on
www.footballvictoria.com.au/news/search-...
I donβt really want to dip back in over there but I have on this matter.
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The search for Soccer Anzacs
As we pause to remember those who served on Australiaβs National Day of Remembrance, Tony Persogli
https://www.footballvictoria.com.au/news/search-soccer-anzacs
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ScotsFoundedFootball
12 months ago
1 of 5 OTD 1885 John Malcolm Eadie Fraser died in Sydney, Australia. I have posted on this before. I went to see his grave site when I was in Australia, last month. He is buried in a Presbyterian lair in the far west of Rookwood Cemetery. I want to explain why this topic is so important.
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Paul Nicholls
Fair Play Publishing
about 1 year ago
It's been a while (it's been a really busy two years π ), but our latest
#podcast
is available! It's David Weiner &
@niavowens.bsky.social
talking about 'The Goals That Changed
#Australia
', our fab YA non fiction. Have a listen & then buy the book!
https://buff.ly/4iMLuIv
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Reporting on an Australian v English artillery soccer match on Western Front 1916. Have you got this one Ian?
@iansyson.bsky.social
nla.gov.au/nla.news-art...
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04 Nov 1916 - "SOCCER" AT THE FRONT. - Trove
Mr. James Hutton, chairman of the Barnsley Patriotic Committee, has received a letter from Sergeant W. J. Snedden, telling of a game of "soccer" football ...
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133836845
about 1 year ago
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Just joined blue sky. Just making contact with a few people I know. Cheers
@texismith.com
@gedboy58.bsky.social
@fairplaybooks.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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