Rick Walton
waltwriting.bsky.social
Rick Walton
@waltwriting.bsky.social
Anti-fascist. ‘Free-wheeling absurdist’. ‘Good bloke’. Writer & sports coach.

bowlingatvincent.com / sportslaureate.co.uk

3 books widely available - the latest being POWER CHORDS.
Pinned
Hey people, you bought my book(s) yet?
1. ‘An original thinker; rare, these days’ @paulhayward.bsky.social
2. ‘Authentic, wise & beautiful’ @georgedobell.bsky.social
3. ‘A life in music. Beautifully told’ @memorialdevice.bsky.social

#football #cricket
#music #punk

www.amazon.co.uk/POWER-CHORDS...
Two HUGE chances for #Shaw. (Personal view? Over-rated, but hey-ho). #City should be 2-up.

#WSL #LeicesterCity #ManchesterCity
December 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Hey @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
One final attempt at nobbling you. Think you would like my new book on growing up through punk. Happy to send you one.

#PowerChords #punk #protest
#music #books
December 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Don't mind #Archer manifesting dislike of #Smith and #Aus. Use that contempt; control it.

#Eng #ashes25
December 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Reminder that goddess of boogaboog Ms. @TimWhitleytimw1 curated a #PowerChords Tribute #Playlist in my honour.
1. Awww, shucks.
2. Go listen.

#music #books #punk #newwave

open.spotify.com/playlist/5Tt...
December 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by Rick Walton
Hunger strike in British jails and no one bats an eyelid.

Please let’s get the word out.

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Britain’s biggest hunger strike in decades – and the media won’t touch it
THE Palestine Action hunger strike is on track to become the largest since the 1981 Irish republican protest led by Bobby Sands, yet campaigners say it has faced a “mainstream media blackout.”So far, ...
morningstaronline.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Reposted by Rick Walton
Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Almost one of those 0-0 massacres, with #Liverpool almost light years ahead. But #Wirz again getting plenty touches for no impact, & the reds not clicking around the penalty box, means some of us are almost snoozing on the settee. Half-time.

#Leeds #PremierLeague #analysis 🤓
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Mariners. Nolton. Emporium for #books. & *everything*…

#Pembrokeshire #Christmas
#sales 🤓
December 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
#Starc bowling pretty much flat-out, at #Stokes & #Brook. Great sight.

#Ashes #Aus #Eng
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I kid you not. Power cut(s). But laptop alive, on battery. No sound as #Eng inevitably falter. Meanwhile I have just finished #Hamnet. I am genuinely a bit tearful.

#Ashes #trauma
#books
Alternative plan will be to turn sound down (& barely look) & finish off #Hamnet, which I have devoured in two days.

#books #Ashes #trauma
First ball I seeeee... #Crawley, wooden-footed, reaches out at a wide one from #Starc. It's bad u10 cricket. He's scored ten in the over but it's still a bloody disgrace *given where we are*.

#Ashes #trauma
December 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Alternative plan will be to turn sound down (& barely look) & finish off #Hamnet, which I have devoured in two days.

#books #Ashes #trauma
First ball I seeeee... #Crawley, wooden-footed, reaches out at a wide one from #Starc. It's bad u10 cricket. He's scored ten in the over but it's still a bloody disgrace *given where we are*.

#Ashes #trauma
December 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
First ball I seeeee... #Crawley, wooden-footed, reaches out at a wide one from #Starc. It's bad u10 cricket. He's scored ten in the over but it's still a bloody disgrace *given where we are*.

#Ashes #trauma
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Knew it was coming. Didn’t get up.

#Ashes #analysis
December 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Finding (some) peace by leaving bedroom curtains open & wallowing in the #supermoon.

More cloud & rain, so less of that cool, restorative brightness, but welcome nonetheless. 🙏🏼
December 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Reposted by Rick Walton
Credit to Alex Brooker on #theLastLeg for labelling this the inaugural Bellend'or.
Trump awarded inaugural Fifa peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington.
The Guardian.

Wtaf hell is this. Way to suck up Gianni Infantino. He's done nothing for peace. And you made that award up just for him.
You nazi loving, racist mutt pos!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Trump awarded inaugural Fifa peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington
US president receives new Fifa honour as scrutiny grows over Infantino’s political alliances and Trump’s disputed record on global conflicts
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Couldn’t watch today’s carnival of the grotesque. Might’ve smashed the tellybox.
Incredible that Infantino (& that infant) have sunk FIFA *even lower than ever!*🤷🏻‍♂️⚽️

Insert your own swearwords... 🤬
FIFA have essentially politicised football. Unequivocably. Therefore, they have completely lost all rights to sanction any individual player for political protest or display of allegiance on the pitch.
December 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Locals. Me & my #books will be @marinerswales Nolton tomorrow - Sat - for their #Christmas #Market Shindig.

Join us.

#music #sport #everything 📖 💥 🎄
December 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The world... is on really bad drugs...

#Trump #Infantino #FIFA 'peace'
“This is truly one of the great honours of my life.”

FIFA President Gianni Infantino gifted U.S. President Donald Trump a gold trophy, a medal and a certificate.

Trump is the winner of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize.
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
So #Eng's dropped catches. Tired? Demoralised? Clearly for one or two, players failed to pick up the flight of the ball. So lack of practice *with this ball* under lights, (or in daylight?) All factors. All part of being behind again, in the game. Against an ordinary #Aus side.

#Ashes #ashes2025
If I'm the #Aussie batters I'm definitely asking the ump to tell #Archer to take that three-hundredweight of vanity gold from off of his neck. 😳

#Eng #Aus #Ashes2025
Oof. Then immediately #Carey is dropped by #Duckett. Then #Smith IS CAUGHT!!

#Eng #Aus #ashes2025
December 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
If I'm the #Aussie batters I'm definitely asking the ump to tell #Archer to take that three-hundredweight of vanity gold from off of his neck. 😳

#Eng #Aus #Ashes2025
Oof. Then immediately #Carey is dropped by #Duckett. Then #Smith IS CAUGHT!!

#Eng #Aus #ashes2025
Interesting. #Green out *intimidated* by #Carse.

#Aus #Eng #ashes25
December 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Oof. Then immediately #Carey is dropped by #Duckett. Then #Smith IS CAUGHT!!

#Eng #Aus #ashes2025
Interesting. #Green out *intimidated* by #Carse.

#Aus #Eng #ashes25
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Interesting. #Green out *intimidated* by #Carse.

#Aus #Eng #ashes25
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Yes I am claiming that wicket.

#Joffra #Weatherald
#Eng #Aus #Ashes2025
Been kinda *monitoring*, asyado, but do I actually wanna get up properly... & watch the #Ashes? Given what I’ve been hearing?
Or do I stay in #supermoon-filled dreamland? 😬

#Eng #Aus #cricket
December 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM