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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 1h

You should absolutely check out our sponsors, btw. First ten people here get a free legal consultation and Joelson are lovely, they did lots of set-up work for my new thing.

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Was thelewisbell @lewisjbell.bsky.social · 1h

I like how you have the Pro Evo version of Newcastle's central midfield general as a sponsor

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 1h

Does Ruben Amorim deserve three years? Does time automatically equal success? And are Germany sleep-walking into a sticky situation? We asked @sebsb.bsky.social that last one.

ROUTE ONE is here and here only because we're moving studios. Got ourselves a fancy pad.

pod.fo/e/33a47b

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 3h

We've got another lovely @dannykellywords.bsky.social column on the site today.

"It has taken a decade and a half for the scales to fall from hypnotised eyes. Orthodoxy is out; invention and variety is in; the game is much better for it."

trackrecordmedia.org/2025/10/09/t...

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 19h

A fiver says she's read the name once, on her focus group sourced briefing paper that very morning.

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 20h

If you said that to Kemi Badenoch she'd look at you blankly BECAUSE LIKE FUCK HAS SHE READ ANY FUCKING PRATCHETT.

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 1d

As staff begin to leave, is there an end to Sheffield Wednesday's misery? We're speaking to bsky.app/profile/yesw... from The Sheffield Star, we've also got @stighefootball.bsky.social on Villa's revival. And some gorgeous stats too.

WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK1I...
LISTEN: pod.fo/e/33986e

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 2d

I think about 15% of the show today was just me reading out the names of sacked Watford managers. Baffling.

I can't think of any other industry where people so demonstrably dreadful at recruitment would be allowed to keep recruiting.

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 2d

Why doesn't Harry Kane want to come home? @sebsb.bsky.social has some ideas. And why is Nick Woltemade so misunderstood @georgecaulkin.bsky.social ?

Plus: How many sacked Watford managers can you name?

LISTEN: pod.fo/e/338ddc
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfa_...

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 3d

Come on now, Liverpool aren't bad. You all thought they were invincible two weeks ago. @tonyevans92a.bsky.social brings some common sense to ROUTE ONE. @dermotmcorrigan.bsky.social has got things to say about Barca too.

LISTEN: pod.fo/e/337ff9
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXl...

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 3d

Well, that settles it. Got to complete the trilogy now.

I found the first two fascinating. Everyone is perma-shitfaced and horny, smoking endless cigarettes, driving their cars after half a bottle of scotch, it's another world. And she can turn a page too, she had me invested in showjumping.

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 3d

Come on now, Liverpool aren't bad. You all thought they were invincible two weeks ago. @tonyevans92a.bsky.social brings some common sense to ROUTE ONE. @dermotmcorrigan.bsky.social has got things to say about Barca too.

LISTEN: pod.fo/e/337ff9
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXl...

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 3d

I loved the Rivals TV series so much that I went and bought Riders, loved it, then read Rivals too. Absolutely mad set of books (see glorious quotes below) Jilly Cooper's a legend.

Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 3d

RIP JILLY COOPER! A queen who wrote THE most readable books in existence. People saw my thread of epic Jilly quotes and decided I was saying the books are shite. You COULDN'T be more wrong. Go and watch Rivals today.

Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Oct 18

🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.

1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 5d

The Newcastle one was perfect because it started badly, then got worse and then implausibly improved over time ending with a CL victory. Perfect. This is far too successful.

Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 5d

Alas, this has not been my experience thus far.

Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 5d

Ah, this was established in episode two, y’see. I cannot imagine how confusing it would be to find this for the first time time in episode 13

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 5d

You are much much better at this game than me. I got sacked in eight games the first time I played as Everton

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 5d

This is not the first message I’ve had like this. In fact, we’ve had meetings about this. The one scenario that no one foresaw was me doing well.

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 5d

And if you need the first episode (and a simple trail of next episode links) then you need this:

trackrecordmedia.org/2025/08/15/f...

FM Classic: Return to Goodison – S1 E1 – Track Record

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the new FM Everton classic, a veritable Monkey Claw of a transfer window and a familiar sense of foreboding as a promising start begins to fall apart.

trackrecordmedia.org/2025/10/03/f...

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 6d

Here's a big weekend preview ROUTE ONE with @knoxharrington.bsky.social on Liverpool, @sebsb.bsky.social on unbeaten Dortmund and @mattdaviesadams.bsky.social on poor old Ange.

WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAhp...
LISTEN: pod.fo/e/3366fa

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 6d

Easy day for me really, just recorded what I've been saying since the summer: Arsenal are a fine football team in a stable environment, defensively excellent, their bad days aren't really bad and I don't think we've seen the best of them yet.

It's just nice that @tim-stillman.bsky.social agrees

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 6d

ROUTE ONE is here in which I posit the theory that Arsenal's superpower is being boring and that's why they'll win the title @tim-stillman.bsky.social concurs. We've got @adrianjclarke.bsky.social on Lampard's incredible Coventry too

WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfHy...
LISTEN: pod.fo/e/335caf

Is Arsenal’s superpower ‘being boring’?

YouTube video by Route One Football

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