Chris Etchingham
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Chris Etchingham
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Author of Emancipation For Goalposts: Football’s Role In The Fall Of Yugoslavia out now, likes football from far flung locations, Autistic/PDA which is a pain
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Booooo!! It goes by my friends front window and she doesn’t even live in France
Tour de France 2026 route announced 😀

Tour de France 2026 having a team time trial 😫
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#OTD 1966 • Aberfan Disaster 🥀

On Friday the 21st of October 1966, a wave of coal waste slid down the Aberfan Valley, taking the lives of 116 children and 28 adults with it.

#Wales #History
It finishes Arsenal 3-4 Atleti and Arsenal still pointless after three games

Barrios was excellent for Atleti who were so good with quick passes whilst being pressed

Dowman was excellent as you’d expect but so was Marli Salmon in defence despite the scoreli
It’s now Arsenal 2-1 Atleti, Max Dowman scores a penalty and for good measure riles up the Atleti keeper in the celebrations afterwards
Nine minutes gone in the UEFA Youth League game between Arsenal & Atleti, one goal and three yellow cards!
No I’ve just found out, so I think this weekend when I have a huge pile of ironing. I’m very rock n roll 😀
@dynamofootballbc.bsky.social I t hi I’ll there’s a documentary that’s just come out on Netflix about the Italian serial killer you mentioned on this weeks podcast if that’s your sort of thing?
Off to challenge a tiny Mancunian for a fight
Honestly you can’t hear a bloody thing!
No worries, the Jose book is full of shit stirring!
You know you’ll never get to the bottom of that list don’t you?! 😀
There Will Be Flags, the lesser known but more Gammon Daniel Day Lewis movie
Don’t dress like Graham Linehan or people who paint roundabouts to look like a St George flag and you’ll be fine 😀
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
Let’s Eat Grandma
Taylor Swift
Manics
The War On Drugs
The Goblin Band
Carter USM
The Unthanks
Oasis

I could add many more though but rules are rules and I can’t (Sprints, Burt Bacharach etc etc)
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
Rammstein
System of a Down
Creeper
QOTSA
The Prodigy
Lagwagon
Biffy Clyro
The Offspring (pre-2001, their new stuff makes me want to sit by the sea and weep)

I am more of a song than an artist person, and there is an unholy amount of Eurovision on my playlist.
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
Jack Off Jill
The Sonics
Audience
Townes Van Zandt
Ke/Hil
Voivod
Gene
Deathpile
@davidallengreen.bsky.social is the Home Secretary going to meet Maccabi and their fans to discuss this effectively going over the heads of the police who have made this decision?
Liverpool can spend £130m on Florian Wirtz but not buy a microphone so we can hear the questions that journalists ask to the manager during press conferences 😫
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Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.

Thank you.

An Aston Villa fan.