Mark Rasdall Writing
@markrasdallwriting.bsky.social
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Storyteller and writer of fiction and history books. Lives on a hill in Worcestershire.
Will Chelsea prune the Forest even further tomorrow, before returning to the Bridge to face Ajax? More key moments in the club's history can be found in The Chelsea Story, available on Amazon.
#ChelseaFC
#Chelsea
www.markrasdallwriting.com/history
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Surely Arsenal will win at Fulham tomorrow evening. A draw would only derail things yet again? Other key moments in the club's history can be found in The Arsenal Story, available from Amazon
#ARS
#COYG
#Arsenal
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2 days ago
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Leeds and Burnley resume hostilities at Turf Moor tomorrow, but will attack overcome defence? Key moments like these can be found in The Leeds United Story, available from Amazon
#leeds
#LeedsUnited
#lufc
#MOT
www.markrasdallwriting.com/history.html
2 days ago
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Just finished âWife, Mother, Liarâ by Sue Watson. Interested to know what people think. Pace was too slow for me, but interesting, alternative views of the past and the present by the two key protagonists
#BookSky
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Wife, Mother, Liar: An absolutely addictive and totally gripping psychological thriller with a breathtaking twist
For twenty-five years, my husband and I have been the ideal couple. Iâm shy, but heâs always been the life and soul of the party, a charmer, so I didnât worry the first time I caught him a little too ...
https://amzn.to/4oq0qyl
3 days ago
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Great to see multiple copies of my latest football history book 'The Aston Villa Story' being downloaded from Amazon overnight, especially in the USA. Wonder how Villa will do at Spurs on Sunday?
#AVFC
#Villans
#football
#soccer
#books
www.markrasdallwriting.com/history.html
3 days ago
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Now and then: England. Why do we always have to qualify?
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#football
#soccer
#ThreeLions
#WorldCup
#FIFAWorldCup
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England. Why do we always have to qualify?
I went to see a production of the RSCâs Measure for Measure in Stratford last night. The first thing I did at the end of the performance was turn my phone back on and look up the England result....
https://www.markrasdallwriting.com/now-and-then/october-15th-2025
4 days ago
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Walking away from the conspiracy to murder in Worcestershire. Family Fiction, the third of the Inspector Harcourt mystery stories, is available from Amazon and all good bookshops worldwide.
#worcestershire
#CrimeFiction
#fiction
#books
www.markrasdallwriting.com/fiction.html
5 days ago
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Chimes from the End Zone: latest in a series of articles where hindsight can become insight:
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We're all different. Or are we?
We all remember them, donât we? The girl with a speech impediment, the boy who couldnât walk properly, and another boy who smelled awful. Each was subject to not-so-secret smirks, outright...
https://www.markrasdallwriting.com/chimes-from-the-end-zone/were-all-different-or-are-we
9 days ago
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View over Worcestershire towards the Malvern Hills, the setting for the Inspector Harcourt mystery stories, available from Amazon and all good bookshops.
#worcestershire
#CrimeFiction
#fiction
#books
www.markrasdallwriting.com/fiction.html
11 days ago
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Loved being part of Worcester's Independent Authors' Fair at The Guildhall on Saturday (12 published books now, and counting!). Met some interesting fellow writers who had many surprising stories to tell...
#fiction
#football
#worcestershire
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13 days ago
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Chimes from the End Zone: latest in a series of articles where hindsight can become insight:
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#worcestershire
#retirement
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Normal
Iâve had a stressful couple of weeks. I know that I am luckier than many people, and this feeling is nothing compared to the stressful forty years of full-time work, but, then again, those strains...
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17 days ago
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Walsall, Peterborough, Wrexham... is anyone expecting another cup giant killing of Arsenal at Port Vale tonight? Sky obviously are!
#COYG
#ARS
#ArsenalFC
Read "The Arsenal Story," available from Amazon.
www.markrasdallwriting.com/history.html
25 days ago
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Where have all the Leeds United haters gone? They must have hated Saturday's LUFC performance: a 3rd consecutive Premier League win at Wolves, scoring at least 3 goals each time.
#LUFC
#LeedsUnited
#MOT
Read "The Leeds United Story," available from Amazon.
www.markrasdallwriting.com/history.html
25 days ago
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In that great Italian tradition at Chelsea FC, Maresca does seem likely to make his players offers they can't refuse; especially when losing at half-time to lower league sides.
#CFC
#Chelsea
Read "The Chelsea Story," available from Amazon.
www.markrasdallwriting.com/history.html
25 days ago
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Think Martinez and Watkins need to clear their heads quickly after the summer transfer speculation if Aston Villa are to progress this season.
#AVFC
#Villans
#football
#soccer
Read The Aston Villa Story, available from Amazon.
markrasdallwriting.com/history.html
27 days ago
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Wolves v Leeds United. A golden opportunity to get ahead?
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#lufc
#leedsunited
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A pack of wolves
âLeeds United head to Molineux again on Saturday afternoon, hoping for another clean sheet â and not at the away end for once. Unfortunately, I have a sense of doom, which has absolutely nothing...
https://www.markrasdallwriting.com/leeds-united/a-pack-of-wolves
about 1 month ago
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Now and Then: European football nights
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#football
#soccer
about 1 month ago
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Will Aston Villa get revenge against Crystal Palace tonight for last season's semi-final defeat in the FA Cup? The Aston Villa Story now available on Amazon
#astonvilla
#avfc
#astonvillafc
#villa
#villans
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about 2 months ago
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The fourth book in my History of Football series - The Aston Villa Story - has just been published and is now available on Amazon
#astonvilla
#avfc
#astonvillafc
#villa
#villans
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about 2 months ago
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Chimes from the End Zone: latest in a series of articles where hindsight can become insight.
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over par, and other existential threats
âWhen I lived and worked full-time in London, I would sometimes get up very early to drive the half hour to my local course and play nine holes of golf, before taking the Tube to the office....
https://www.markrasdallwriting.com/chimes-from-the-end-zone/over-par-and-other-existential-threats
about 2 months ago
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My latest thoughts on Leeds United as we take on Arsenal again.
#LUFC
#MOT
#LeedsUnited
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Flying High
Fifty years ago, to help me get over the devastating Leeds United field trip to Paris, my parents took me on a different kind of road trip to the north-east coast. We were accompanied on the radio...
https://www.markrasdallwriting.com/leeds-united/flying-high
about 2 months ago
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Now and Then: Sporting mobility still flies in the face of football certainty
#football
#soccer
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Sporting mobility
âThe first league game of the new English football season took place on Friday, featuring Luton Town and AFC Wimbledon. It was an intriguing fixture featuring a team that had been relegated last...
https://www.markrasdallwriting.com/now-and-then/sporting-mobility
3 months ago
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Itâs 47 years since I first walked along Woodhouse Ridge in North Leeds - a beautiful building block in my life
3 months ago
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Into a natural arena with chalk audiences on each side. John Bunyan used to walk here. I wonder if he too was full of wonder at the sight?
4 months ago
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Bedfordshireâs finest. On the John Bunyan Trail above Sundon
4 months ago
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Inspiring view from the garden for âBread of Heavenâ
4 months ago
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Chimes from the End Zone: a new series of articles where hindsight can become insight.
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Doctors' Calls
âMy doctor has just phoned to chat through some blood test results. I had already seen them via the medical records section of the health app on my phone, but he wanted to talk with me directly....
https://www.markrasdallwriting.com/chimes-from-the-end-zone/doctos-calls
4 months ago
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Pleased that lovely, independent Madhatter Bookshop on the High Street of Burford, in the heart of the Cotswold Hills, is now stocking The Proofreader.
5 months ago
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Thrilled that Patrick Neale at Jaffé & Neale Bookshop and Café in Chipping Norton has agreed to stock my fiction books.
5 months ago
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Now and Then: a new series of football history blogs, beginning with a quick look beyond the headlines at PSG
#football
#soccer
#PSG
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Paris Sans GalĂĄcticos (PSG)
So, Paris Saint-Germain only won the UEFA Champions League because they âditched the GalĂĄctico approach.â Youâll have read similar soundbites from so-called professional writers leading up to...
https://www.markrasdallwriting.com/now-and-then/paris-sans-galacticos-psg
5 months ago
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Working at a local polling station on Thursday, on the edge of the Cotswold Hills, several people commented that it was a shame Donald Trumpâs name wasnât on the ballot paper. I thought they were being ironic, but they werenât
6 months ago
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Time for Leeds United
#lufc
#LeedsUnited
to leave all this behind:
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Pottery ware and tear / Blog | No Place I'd Radebe
By Mark Rasdall
https://www.no-place-id-radebe.com/blog/2466340_pottery-ware-and-tear
6 months ago
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'Job Done Billy.' Not quite. Read about previous Leeds United encounters with Preston North End
#lufc
#LeedsUnited
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No longer invincible / Blog | No Place I'd Radebe
By Mark Rasdall
https://www.no-place-id-radebe.com/blog/2445130_no-longer-invincible
6 months ago
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Just popped in to see the lovely bookshop people
@scripthavenltd.bsky.social
in Worcester. They have an amazing summer of events planned, and are also stocking my novel Tales from Waxling Beach, set partly in the more distant summer of 1967
#Worcester
#Books
#Fiction
#Mystery
#Crime
7 months ago
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So which year do you think of when Chelsea play Tottenham? 2016 perhaps, or maybe even 1967 - the first all-London FA Cup Final? Read The Chelsea Story, available from Amazon in print and digital formats
#Chelseafc
#CFC
7 months ago
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So what does Swansea City mean to you? My latest Leeds United football history piece. Whatever the result, our promotion campaign won't end tomorrow
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#LeedsUnited
#lufc
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It's Swansea not a swan song / Blog | No Place I'd Radebe
By Mark Rasdall
https://www.no-place-id-radebe.com/blog/2415736_it-s-swansea-not-a-swan-song
7 months ago
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Lovely to join a panel discussion at Worcesterâs annual Writers Day at The Hive this weekend and talk about journeys into crime fiction
#crime
#mystery
#books
7 months ago
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My latest 'Weekend Words' piece is all about telling the time
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Weekend Words Some years ago, I wrote a verse called âTimeâ 'Time will⊠| Mark Rasdall
Weekend Words Some years ago, I wrote a verse called âTimeâ 'Time will tellâ he thought, as he dialled the speaking clock. I revisited it in my âPoems fromâŠ
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7 months ago
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So, the London theme continues! My latest Leeds United history piece takes us back to QPR
#leedsunited
#lufc
#leeds
#ALAW
#MOT#leedsleedsleeds
#leedsunitedfc
#lufcommunity
#lufcfamily
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Hoopla! Leeds United Calling / Blog | No Place I'd Radebe
By Mark Rasdall
https://www.no-place-id-radebe.com/blog/2385729_hoopla-leeds-united-calling
7 months ago
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Listen to my first audiobook for free in return for a rating/review on the Audible site.
#audiobook
#fiction
#books
My first promotion codes for The Proofreader from Audible are here:
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Fiction
Fiction page for Mark Rasdall - Writing. This page features fiction titles including the new Inspector Harcourt Murder Mystery crime series
https://www.markrasdallwriting.com/fiction.html#PROMO
7 months ago
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Pompey chimes with the end of the road. My latest Leeds United football history post.
#leedsunited
#lufc
www.markrasdallwriting.com/leeds-united
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Leeds United Blog
Blog post for football history posts and observations by a lifelong Leeds United fan
https://www.markrasdallwriting.com/leeds-united
8 months ago
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The outcome against West Bromwich Albion cannot be worse for Leeds United
#LUFC
#leedsunited
#mot
#LEEDS
than in 1971, can it? My latest football history piece:
www.no-place-id-radebe.com/blog/2356440...
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The offside Baggies / Blog | No Place I'd Radebe
By Mark Rasdall
https://www.no-place-id-radebe.com/blog/2356440_the-offside-baggies
8 months ago
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'Sure is a mighty chew!' Who remembers Texan Bars? Rowntree Mackintosh launched them 50 years ago with those iconic ads featuring a languid cowboy and the snoozing bandits. Test your memories further in Sweet Dates in the UK, available on amazon in print and digital.
#sweets
#confectionery
#history
8 months ago
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In 1887 Royal Arsenal's goalkeeper Fred Beardsley asked his old club - Nottingham Forest - if they would donate a set of their dark red â âredcurrantâ - strips to his new team, which they promptly did. Read more in The Arsenal Story, on Amazon in print and digital.
#ARS
#ArsenalFC
#coyg
8 months ago
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'Out from the Shed came a rising star...' Peter Osgood still lights up the sky at night after playing for both Chelsea and Southampton: the true king of Stamford Bridge. Read more in The Chelsea Story, on Amazon in print and digital.
#CFC
#ChelseaFC
8 months ago
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I was born in East Anglia and lived there for nearly two thirds of my life, before heading west to face the setting sun. Verses from The East is a reflection of that time, which seemed timeless. Available from Amazon in print and digital.
#poetry
#verse
#booksky
8 months ago
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For those of you on LinkedIn, my latest Weekend Words piece
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8 months ago
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51 years ago Leeds United won at Bramall Lane and went on to win the league.
#leedsunited
#lufc
www.no-place-id-radebe.com/blog/2341440...
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We filled your ground for you! / Blog | No Place I'd Radebe
By Mark Rasdall
https://www.no-place-id-radebe.com/blog/2341440_we-filled-your-ground-for-you
8 months ago
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Fantastic last minute win by Leeds United over Sunderland. I predict a riot if we win in Sheffield too.
#LUFC
#LeedsUnited
#mot
Catch up on events that got us to this point in our history: The Leeds United Story, on Amazon, in print and digital.
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My latest Leeds United football history post concerns events from over 50 years ago...
#lufc
#mot
#LeedsUnitedFC
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Slumberland / Blog | No Place I'd Radebe
By Mark Rasdall
https://www.no-place-id-radebe.com/blog/2327370_slumberland
8 months ago
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