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The Network is made up of colleagues and historians who have an interest in the different elements of the relationship between football and war
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The latest issue of @wheresthebar.bsky.social is now on sale. Order online or if you are at the @wealdstonefcsc.bsky.social match this evening buy a copy and have a chat with @oneeye.bsky.social 😉

It's 125 years to the day since pioneering goalie Leigh Roose won his first Wales cap in a 2-0 win v Ireland. He was playing for Aberystwyth Town at the time having just completed his science degree at Aberystwyth University. Read 'Lost In France', my book about Leigh's life, to find out more.

Ukrainian football three years on. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

(1/11) 🧵Quick thread about my new book Two weeks to go...📗 My third book, 'Shades of Green: A Journey into Irish Football' is out via @pitchpublishing.bsky.social on 10 March If you're pushed for time, here's an overview in 41 seconds... youtu.be/DnQZ0jyZCU4?...

Denis Law would have been 85 today. A key member of the United Trinity alongside Best and Charlton, the Lawman scored 237 goals across 11 years at Old Trafford. He became the first (and to date only) Scotsman to win the Ballon d'Or in 1964. bit.ly/4k4gyEi

Have you downloaded this week's podcast yet? 🎧 Joseph O'Sullivan - AKA Football Travel Man - joins me to discuss his work photographing football in Buenos Aires and Montevideo It's a cracking episode 👇 bit.ly/41f3SSh

What a club ⛏️ 🔵⚪️ #ExTerraLucem

The free entry Valence House Museum & @dagenhaminvince.bsky.social exhibition is now open, supported by the Army FA, @bssh.bsky.social, Essex County FA, The Western Front Association & @footballandwar.bsky.social More information @ valencehousecollections.co.uk/events/the-

FREE Entry to our ⚽️💚Exhibition💚⚽️ @ Valence House @footballandwar.bsky.social about one of the Greatest Women's Football Teams of All Time the Dagenham Invincibles @lbbdcouncil.bsky.social @justaballgame.bsky.social @gothiron.bsky.social @bssh.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social

For anyone anywhere, it’s available online to purchase at wheresthebar.co.uk and some back issues are also available!

If you are in London on 17/3 and at a loose end after work, please pop down to my book launch at Dulwich Hamlet - just 15 mins south from London Bridge at East Dulwich I’ll be doing a talk, Q&A and then signings Hopefully, see you there! #booksky

The free entry Valence House Museum & @dagenhaminvince.bsky.social exhibition is now open, supported by the Army FA, @bssh.bsky.social, Essex County FA, The Western Front Association & @footballandwar.bsky.social More information @ valencehousecollections.co.uk/events/the-

The latest issue of @wheresthebar.bsky.social is now on sale. Order online or if you are at the @wealdstonefcsc.bsky.social match today buy a copy and have a chat with @oneeye.bsky.social 😉

@outsidewrite.bsky.social will be launching his new book with a St Patrick’s Day talk at @dulwichhamletfc.bsky.social hosted by @blitzwalker.bsky.social & @footballandwar.bsky.social @stanchionbooks.bsky.social will be selling the book at this free entry event More info👇🏼 bit.ly/3WG66bS

The free entry Valence House Museum & @dagenhaminvince.bsky.social exhibition is now open, supported by the Army FA, @bssh.bsky.social, Essex County FA, The Western Front Association & @footballandwar.bsky.social More information @ valencehousecollections.co.uk/events/the-

It would have been Sinisa Mihajlovic’s birthday today. I found him the most fascinating person to write about in my book. Hugely complicated, contradictory and a person of real sliding door moments. A real Channel 4 Gazetta Football Italia of a player

Talking to dad. Told me about a mate of his back in the fifties. Terry Mac was 16 playing for a works team against United youth. They had a kid bouncing around the pitch like a tank! Nobody could touch him. At the end Terry asked who he was? ''He's called Duncan Edwards son.''

The free entry Valence House Museum & @dagenhaminvince.bsky.social exhibition is now open, supported by the Army FA, @bssh.bsky.social , Essex County FA, The Western Front Association & @footballandwar.bsky.social More information @ valencehousecollections.co.uk/events/the-s...

Andrew Watson. A pioneer and a Scotch Professor. He was born in Guyana, the son of a Scottish sugar planter and a local woman named Hannah Rose. He became Scotland's first black association footballer, and one of the world's first. He captained Scotland at international level too. A legend.

The 168th episode of my podcast🎙️, 'Soccernostalgia Talk Podcast’ is now up on YouTube as well. For this episode, I interview Belgian Football fans Mr. Jeffery Goeman and Mr. Bart Bollaert as we discuss the Belgium National Team during the 1984 UEFA Euros qualifiers.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I6D...

Membership of FSE is free & open to: 👥 National Supporters Organisations 📍 Local Supporters Groups 🙋 Individual supporters Make our collective voice as supporters even stronger. Become a member today. ✍️ bit.ly/48Wenf2

Brazil legend Socrates was born #OnThisDay 19 Feb 1954 Check out my podcast with his biographer, @adowniebrazil.bsky.social about the great man and wider football culture in Brazil 👇🇧🇷 outsidewrite.co.uk/podcast-foot...

UK followers over 18 - someone I know’s son is doing a survey of fans’ views on football shirts and sustainability as part of his uni dissertation Can you help, please? Takes about five mins Thanks so much 🙌🏼 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/leeds/an-e...

CRYING IN THE RAIN (The first game back after Munich) Manchester United v Sheffield Wednesday. 19th February 1958. johnludden25.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/c...

Everton inside-left focus: Wally Fielding. 'Nobby' joined EFC after the war, in spite of protests from Charlton Athletic, with whom he'd been an amateur, pre-war. An excellent schemer who was at the club until the late 1950s. He enjoyed attending EFC functions in later years.

👀 PIN BADGES Just taken delivery of @nonleaguevolunteers.co.uk pin badges from Gorilla Badges❤️ Still taking a break but these will be on sale very soon.

Original poster of People's Olympiad, Catalonia's antifascist and anti-racist response to the 1936 Nazi Olympics. Sports inc rugby, chess and Basque pelota. Participants inc "Algerians, Jews, Czechs, English, Basques", etc. Athletics, chess, football, etc On display at Barcelona Olympic Museum.

#OnThisDay 18 Feb 1882 ☘️ Ireland (then one national side) plays its first soccer international at Bloomfield, Belfast England romp to a 13-0 win in terrible conditions It's still a record win for England, 143 years on More on Irish football's international journey in my new book bit.ly/3ZuaStC

As Bradford City of Culture starts The Sporting Lunchtime Lectures are back! The Referee is a Gringo @DrAlexJack1 @pedroelprofesor the tale of British referees who swapped Molineux for the Maracanã & Boundary Park for La Bombonera @TheRecordCafe free entry. open.substack.com/pub/sportinglu….

Free Exhibition in DAGENHAM to 29 March with @footballandwar.bsky.social Like our funky postcards @blitzwalker.bsky.social @lbbdcouncil.bsky.social @whuhistorian.bsky.social @stanchionbooks.bsky.social @outsidewrite.bsky.social

Stanley Matthews, Duncan Edwards and Billy Wright Framed sketchbook page from resident Workers Gallery #artist and researcher Gayle Rogers Drawing of these 3 iconic footballers of yesteryear #football #sportshistory www.workersgallery.co.uk/product-page...

Compendium to the 167th episode of my podcast, 'Soccernostalgia Talk Podcast’ with Polish Football Expert Mr. Christopher Lash @rightbankwarsaw.bsky.social. Poland National Team during the 1978 World Cup. soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2025/02/comp...

Bunny Shaw’s celebration >>>>> ✊🏾 Protect Bunny Shaw ✊🏾 #MCWFC

I'm doing a talk in Cambridge on women's football in Colombia on the 4th April, thanks to the kind invitation from Will Huddleston. Tickets are free, book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/footnotes-...

22.06.1974 Hamburg - The only game in the history of divided Germany. #1974worldcup #worldcup1974. @refbooks.bsky.social

NEW POST 🗞️ It feels weird seeing Maradona in red, but that's how it all began I made a pilgrimage to Argentinos Juniors and 'La Casa de D10S' (House of God) to discover Diego's early career and life Have a read 👉 outsidewrite.co.uk/on-the-trail... #BuenosAires

Great schedule coming up, will be tuning in for these

Under 2️⃣4️⃣ hours until our podcast is back. We’re absolutely buzzing. Been a long winter break but we’ve been working away to bring you some excellent conversations this year. Remember to check out our back catalogue too. Tell us what you want to hear on our podcast next 🤝

Football match at the ground of Europa, Barcelona's 3rd or 4th team (with Sant Andreu), then and now, in front of the Sagrada Familia in 1915. By Frederic Juandó Alegret.

@outsidewrite.bsky.social will be launching his new book with a St Patrick’s Day talk at @dulwichhamletfc.bsky.social hosted by @blitzwalker.bsky.social & @footballandwar.bsky.social @stanchionbooks.bsky.social will be selling the book at this free entry event More info👇🏼 bit.ly/3WG66bS

The Sterling Ladies FC to the Lionesses: The Legacy of the Dagenham Invincibles of WWI This free exhibition supported by the Army FA, @bssh.bsky.social, Essex FA & Western Front Association is now open @ Valence House Museum More information 👇 valencehousecollections.co.uk/events/the-s...

Support the non-league magazine @wheresthebar.bsky.social Back copies available and a new issue will be out soon

Upcoming Podcast Schedule 🎙️ 🇧🇷 Groundhopping in Brazil (available now) 📸 Photographing BA and Montevideo football 📗 My new book launch pod (with guest presenter) 🇨🇴 Women's football in Colombia (@drpetewatson.bsky.social on for a joint-record 4th appearance) 🇦🇷 The Kentish Roots of Newell's Old Boys

Come on down to Dagenham + learn about some other Dagenham Legends ⚽️ Sterling Ladies FC ⚽️ FREE EXHIBITION @footballandwar.bsky.social @dulwichhamletfc.bsky.social @hernehillvelodrome.bsky.social @lbbdcouncil.bsky.social @stanchionbooks.bsky.social @outsidewrite.bsky.social

The Sterling Ladies FC to the Lionesses: The Legacy of the Dagenham Invincibles of WWI This exhibition supported by the Army FA, @bssh.bsky.social, Essex FA & Western Front Association is now open @ Valence House Museum More information 👇 valencehousecollections.co.uk/events/the-s...

Born #OTD 16 February 1847. Arthur Kinnaird, football's first superstar: nine FA Cup finals (five wins), a Scotland cap, FA President for 33 years. "He did more to popularise soccer than any man who ever lived" See www.scottishsporthistory.com/arthur-kinna...

We've lent a few of our framed pictures to the Royal Oak pub in Charlton Lane #cafc