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Andy Mitchell
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#OTD
9 March 1936, death of Alexander Watson Hutton, the Scottish founder of the Argentinian Football Association. The school teacher from Edinburgh overcame tragedy and challenges in his early life to be celebrated as the 'father of Argentine football'.
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The early years of Alexander Watson Hutton
When Argentina lifted the World Cup in 2022 and retained the Copa America in 2024, the roots of their success were traced back to a Scottish pioneer, Alexander Watson Hutton. He overcame...
https://www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-history-news-and-blog/the-early-years-of-alexander-watson-hutton
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Good article by
@rorysmith.bsky.social
in today's
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
about the friendly rivalry between Real Sociedad & Athletic Club in the Basque derby
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Real Sociedad & Athletic Club: Inside the friendly derby
The rivalry between the two Basque clubs proves that hostility needn’t be the ultimate expression of authenticity
https://share.google/dvsPsTL3bP1bl8xM1
2 days ago
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Nutmeg Magazine
6 days ago
👀 Well look at this. It's only the lovely cover of our World Cup special issue. That's right, WORLD CUP SPECIAL. 📖Published late March. 🛒 Get in early and pre-order yours:
tiny.cc/rgrz001
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Simon Kuper
7 days ago
The 24-year-old me who published Football Against the Enemy in 1994 did not imagine this, but in April we're republishing the book as a "classic edition" 32 years on, with a new introduction + a "Where are they now?" from me. Will feel weird. Preorder here
geni.us/OpNA
Plus our first ever audiobook
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Matthew J I Wood Design & Illustration
15 days ago
With so much AI-generated imagery about, being a self-employed illustrator can feel a bit daunting. To support someone who takes a couple of days to produce each illustration, please head over to
matthewjiwood.com
and take a look, or simply share this post - both hugely appreciated. Matthew
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North London derbies this season have been like the Three Musketeers they've been all 4-1
#NLD
16 days ago
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The arrival of these two beauties mean I now have a complete set of
@thesefootballtimes.shop
16 days ago
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The Sweeper Podcast
20 days ago
🇺🇾 To the best of our knowledge, no country worldwide has a higher proportion of top-flight clubs from its capital city region than Uruguay!
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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️
22 days ago
The Outside Write podcast, the original football travel, culture, and history podcast, is *BACK* this Sunday for a ten-week, ten-episode series 🎙️ These are the first five. Looking forward to welcoming Nebojša,
@miguellpereira.bsky.social
, Mark,
@dermotmcorrigan.bsky.social
and Gonzalo onto the pod!
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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️
about 1 month ago
06.02.26 La Segunda 🇪🇸 Leganés 1-0 Granada 🎟️ €50 (I know, right 🤷🏻♂️) Att: 8,796 Decent atmosphere and quite a few Granadinos at Butarque tonight Freezing cold, but I finally got to see the greatest mascot in world football, Súper Pepino (Super Cucumber) 🥒
#groundhopping
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Ooty, Ooty be a Hibee
about 1 month ago
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Really enjoyed the two part "It was what it was" by
@jonawils.bsky.social
&
@draper-rob.bsky.social
on Imre Hirschl, the Hungarian 🇭🇺 with no real coaching pedigree who introduced WM to Argentina 🇦🇷 and helped Uruguay 🇺🇾 win the 1950 World Cup.
open.spotify.com/episode/1z57...
about 2 months ago
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Nutmeg Magazine
about 2 months ago
We’re still accepting YOUR World Cup Gallery submissions this week! Send your photos and memories to
[email protected]
. Here’s John @londonhibee - one of Nutmeg’s original kickstarter supporters - in Turin.
#spfl
#scotland
#worldcup
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Perhaps it won't be forgotten after all
@jonawils.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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Clapton CFC
about 2 months ago
⚽ Next Men's First Team match ⚽ First away day of 2026 - a cup quarter-final trip to Tooting Bec 😍 📍 High Road (Chipstead FC) 🏆 London Senior Trophy 🚇 Chipstead 🎟️ £6 | £4 concessions 🍻 Bar open and food on sale
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/01/16/m...
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Hibernian Football Club
2 months ago
A special plaque has been unveiled in the Meadows commemorating the first ever Edinburgh Derby back in 1875! 🪧 The special occasion was officially marked on Thursday with a plaque on Boroughloch Lane. 🔗
tinyurl.com/4ek3wbnf
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Philippe Auclair
2 months ago
Link to the
@thefsa.bsky.social
's blueprint document "Stop Exploiting Loyalty":
thefsa.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️
2 months ago
NEW POST 🗞️ With the US set to host its second World Cup, let's go back to the roots of soccer in the US 🇺🇸 They go back way further than the MLS or NASL Read on... 👉🏼
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
#History
#WorldCup
📸 Chris Lee and
@londonhibee.bsky.social
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2 months ago
Received this and the Scotland edition today; my, they are superb. Ordered the out of stock version of Norway from Stanchion books, but can’t source the Sweden issue. The Portland one also looks fantastic
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ScotsFoundedFootball
2 months ago
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#scotsfoundedfootball
On my walk on Friday, I passed by Hampden Bowling Club. It looks fine, despite its impending closure. By the end of February, it will be no more. I have no idea what Glasgow City Council are going to do with it. That £150,000+ repair to the roof is not going away.
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Jerry Howse
2 months ago
Same here. What a great year it’s been.
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Proud to be a
@claptoncfc.co.uk
member
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Happy New Year! The CCFC end-of-year review for 2025 - Clapton Community FC
By whatever standard you judge it, 2025 has been a hell of a year for all of us. However, I think I speak for most of us when I say that our little fan-owned football club has been a beacon throughout...
https://share.google/NySjprfTfXjwc5siz
2 months ago
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Martin da Cruz
2 months ago
🚨 NEW YEAR, NEW BOOK Uruguay: Football’s First Global Power, 1918-1930, my sequel to From Beauty to Duty. Coming June 2026 via @PitchPublishing 1924 Paris Olympics. 1928 Amsterdam. Inaugural World Cup, Montevideo 1930. And the story in between… Preorders soon, please share & follow for updates!
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My
@futbologyapp.bsky.social
2025 year. 65 games across 8 countries and 13 new grounds stretching from Santiago 🇨🇱 and Montevideo 🇺🇾 to Kelty 🏴 and Tashkent 🇺🇿 Lovely to meet and go to games with
@adambrandon84.bsky.social
in Chile & Don in Uzbekistan Thanks to
@pibedebarrio.bsky.social
for 🇦🇷 & 🇺🇾
2 months ago
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My family continue to have great taste when it comes to buying football book gifts. This year's Xmas haul includes titles by
@andymitchellmedia.bsky.social
@simonkuper.bsky.social
@futboleslaleche.bsky.social
& Aidan Smith Pictured here along with the now traditional pic of the re-stacked bookshelf
2 months ago
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As a
@thehibees.bsky.social
fan and a
@glorystudio.bsky.social
subscriber I was always going to be biased, but the new Hibs issue is fantastic. Well done to everyone involved
@hibstrust.bsky.social
@danielgraywriter.bsky.social
@irvinewelsh.bsky.social
et al
#GGTTH
2 months ago
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Bruce Gorrie
2 months ago
One for the SOL fans from a different angle
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Best of Scotland... 🏴 on Instagram: "How good is that honestly, absolutely unreal. 👏 The best anthem in football?"
752 likes, 23 comments - scottishsocial on December 28, 2025: "How good is that honestly, absolutely unreal. 👏 The best anthem in football?".
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS0Tw32iALS/?igsh=am4yaDZ0ZnkyNjdz
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Hibernian Football Club
2 months ago
A huge three points in Leith! 💚
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A fascinating article by
@andymitchellmedia.bsky.social
highlighting yet another Scottish football pioneer in South America
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3 months ago
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Andrew Downie
3 months ago
This subject could easily be a book length essay. The key question is why Scottish football, or rather all the other clubs in Scotland, make no attempt to challenge underlying reasons that mean they have almost no chance of winning the league.
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Yesterday at
@claptoncfc.co.uk
was Match 2025 for me. A nice
@futbologyapp.bsky.social
milestone to make just before the end of the year of the same number
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3 months ago
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Interesting piece highlighting some of the problems of Scottish football in today's
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
by
@rorysmith.bsky.social
. I particularly like the phrase "toxic insularity" to describe the inherent conservatism and small-mindedness
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
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Wilfried Nancy’s green shoes tell the story as Celtic lur...
The Bhoys are one of many clubs caught in European great lacuna, unable to settle on an identity
https://observer.co.uk/news/sport/article/strange-tale-of-nancys-green-shoes-as-celtic-lurch-further-into-crisis
3 months ago
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It's always a good day when there's a delivery from
@thesefootballtimes.shop
and an even better one when it contains 2 magazines
3 months ago
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📚 Dame Bola/Tears at La Bombonera (Christopher Hylland)
3 months ago
🇧🇷 🤝 🇨🇴 Chapecoense will be wearing this kit on their return to Série A in 2026; it commemorates the 2016 plane crash which killed the majority of their squad. The colours are those of Atlético Nacional, fellow finalists who gave Chapecoense that year’s Copa Sudamericana title
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A spirited fight back in the 2nd half by ten man
@claptoncfc.co.uk
is ultimately in vain as Newbury Forest triumph 4-2
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3 months ago
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HT: Newbury Forest 2
@claptoncfc.co.uk
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For the first time in over 38 years of living in London, I've had to pay attention to the destination of an eastbound Central Line train. Follow
@claptoncfc.co.uk
and see the World (well the Far East of the Central Line at least)
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3 months ago
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With 2 late goals for Girona in Donostia and the Anoeta emptying as Real Sociedad fans leave early, I'm worried about all the Basques in one exit
3 months ago
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Literally some Glory glory for the Hibees
#GGTTH
@glorystudio.bsky.social
@glorystudio.bsky.social
to the
@thehibees.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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Proud Lilywhites
3 months ago
Moments like today show exactly why visibility matters. LGBTQI+ fans shouldn’t have to shrink to make others feel comfortable. Tonight our flag still flies and our community will continue to stand strong. Pride will always have a place at Our stadium and Our Club
#COYS
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A great win for
@claptoncfc.co.uk
today
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3 months ago
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Football and War Network
3 months ago
Well worth listening to this talk this evening by
@jervisevans.bsky.social
if you are in and around Newport this evening
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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️
3 months ago
NEW POST 🗞️ Continuing my
#nonleague
adventures, I made a long-overdue visit to progressive Manchester club, West Didsbury & Chorlton The club enjoyed average crowds of 877 last season, more than twice the average in their division Why? Read on…
#groundhopping
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Non-League Adventures: West Didsbury & Chorlton AFC
In the leafy south Manchester suburbs, a vibrant fan culture is thriving in the ninth tier of the English football pyramid. I took a trip to ‘West’ to check it out for myself.
https://open.substack.com/pub/outsidewrite/p/non-league-adventures-west-didsbury
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ScotsFoundedFootball
3 months ago
2 of 4 This has been a labour of love and is a result of their quest to find the graves of every Scot who played for the Nation. How do you buy it? Simples.
tinyurl.com/3dy926bx
Get on to Lulu and have a wee look. Christmas giving is starting to look that little bit easier.
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Fifty Scottish Footballers
Fifty Scottish Footballers offers a vivid and poignant exploration of Scotland’s early international footballers, told through the places where their stories end. Born from a decade of painstaking res...
https://tinyurl.com/3dy926bx
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Andy Mitchell
3 months ago
It was not just a comment, it was an integral part of the winning design of the Meadows that it should provide an environment for playing football. In 1855. By the time Hearts and Hibs came on the scene, a whole generation had grown up with it.
#EdinburghHomeOfFootball
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I've just donated to help make the Old Spotted Dog Ground accessible for everyone.
@claptoncfc.co.uk
@oldspotteddog.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1499...
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Help us make the Old Spotted Dog Ground accessible for everyone
THE PROBLEM
https://chuffed.org/project/149972-urgent-help-us-make-the-dog-accessible-for-everyone?utm_campaign=success&utm_id=149972&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_source=chuffedreferral
3 months ago
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Fair play to
@rorysmith.bsky.social
, I didn't expect to open this morning's
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
and find a double page spread on the Falkirk Ultras
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‘It is an identity’: The march of the Scottish ultras | The Observer
https://share.google/Bla836z5HAPh79O0t
3 months ago
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A great 0-3 away win for
@claptoncfc.co.uk
against FC Romania 🇷🇴 in Cheshunt
3 months ago
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On my way to watch
@claptoncfc.co.uk
away at FC Romania 🇷🇴. Sadly in Cheshunt rather than Bucharest
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3 months ago
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@barcajim3.bsky.social
I thought you'd be interested in the article and the book
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3 months ago
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