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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️
@daveproudlove.bsky.social
Writer - urbanism, place, football, buildings, music | Published by Pitch Publishing | Appears in Turnstiles, Football Heritage, Brum Dispatch, Tribune & others | Socialist | Dad to Dylan | #MDANT

'King of obscurity' - KFC
Pinned
Worth reposting following today's Autumn Statement 👇
While the British left is buried in factional debate, Reform is rapidly securing a foothold in former socialist heartlands across the country — paving the way for a nightmarish far-right takeover of the British state.
Reform Is Dominating Post-Industrial Britain
While the British left is buried in factional debate, Reform is rapidly securing a foothold in former socialist heartlands across the country — paving the way for a nightmarish far-right takeover of t...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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“Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches” - Johan Cruyff

Out in 2026 via Pitch Publishing

'Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game'

#StreetFootball

📸 Johan Cruyff Management
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
In 1906, A.R. Wood completed an overhaul of Tunstall's Jubilee Primitive Methodist Chapel

Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'

Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice

📸 Englesea Brook Chapel & Museum
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Wayne Rooney - the last street footballer

Out in 2026 via Pitch Publishing

'Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game'

#StreetFootball

📸 Getty Images
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Reposted by Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️
Have a good one Dave.
Wish i could be there.
A few picys would be appreciated?
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Reposted by Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️
'Winter Hedgerow'
Bitumen : Paint

'Time of the Season'
Exhibition at Two Doors Studio. Alsager.
alsager.nub.news/whats-on/art...
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This. Again
Ironic that this government was elected with a landslide majority on a one word slogan of "change". Given how worried it is that delivering anything even close to that label would upset too many people.
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In North Staffordshire, where public transport is beyond dire and virtually non-existent after 6pm, the business to be in is taxis
It'd be cool if the "increasing the cost of motoring hurts poor people" people cared anything like as much about cost to people who rely on public transport - who are disproportionately likely to be poor and disabled, and who consistently face far greater increases in cost.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This. Muddling through is exactly what it is
There's no obvious big picture sitting above this budget beyond muddling through.
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Hilarious
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Cloud over Chantry Island and its lighthouse shortly after sunset for the #SensoryArt theme #lines

#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #landscape #clouds #sunset
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Diego Maradona - el pibe de oro

Out in 2026 via Pitch Publishing

'Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game'

#StreetFootball

📸 Getty Images
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"Allow mayors", i.e. across *parts* of England
BREAKING: Tourist tax to be introduced across England.

The money raised is intended to be invested in local transport, infrastructure and the visitor economy to attract more tourists

news.sky.com/story/touris...
Tourist tax to be introduced across England
The new visitor levy will allow mayors to impose a "modest" charge on overnight stays to invest in local transport and infrastructure.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Forton Services is my bestselling T-shirt. Wear the M6 brutalist icon.
Made in the UK. Sizes XXS to 5XL.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“What he had was unique, you can’t coach it” - Johan Cruyff

20 years ago today, the world lost George Best

@footballheritage.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches” - Johan Cruyff

Out in 2026 via Pitch Publishing

'Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game'

#StreetFootball

📸 Johan Cruyff Management
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Reposted by Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️
Oil Paint Drawing
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reposted by Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️
The other night in Gilfach Goch/Evanstown
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Reposted by Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️
L.S. Lowry visiting Oldham #Lancashire

📸 Timelapse Library
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Reposted by Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️
Wood & Goldstraw carried out a remodelling programme at Burslem's Adelaide Pottery during the 1920s and 1930s

Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'

Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice
November 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Reposted by Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️
Peel Croft, Burton-upon-Trent - a former Football League ground (home of Burton Swifts and Burton United), before becoming the home of Burton Rugby Club until 2018

A Lidl supermarket now stands on the site

📸 Heed Hopper and the Derby Telegraph
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Diego Maradona - el pibe de oro

Out in 2026 via Pitch Publishing

'Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game'

#StreetFootball

📸 Getty Images
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️
1960’s Ariel Black & White photos showing part of Moorland Road School Burslem & first year’s hut classrooms, individual playground, with Senior Boys Tech drawing unit & behind ‘huts’ the school dinner canteen. Also railway line and potttery Bottle Kilns

Titanic Brewery is now where the huts were.
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Football isn’t just a game — it’s Britain’s X-ray.

In our latest episode, @davidgoldblatt.bsky.social joins FootPol to unpack his new book, Injury Time, diving into Brexit, covid, inequality, climate change and how football reveals the state we’re in.

Do listen!🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/2253650/epis...
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM