The new issue of @wsc.co.uk is out now, featuring my take on #itfc and their flirtation with Farage, alongside the usual brilliant content from @danielgraywriter.bsky.social @camsell59.bsky.social and others. Available in shops or online from www.wsc.co.uk/shop/wsc-464/

Cheers Gavin. Looking forward to reading it all, possibly while avoiding you beating us on Sunday.

An inside page from When Saturday Comes issue 464. The page features an article titled ‘Spot Checks’ by Glen Wilson with pictures of Wales football players and the subheading ‘Despite another campaign ending in heartbreak, Craig Bellamy has revitalised Wales’. The words of the article are blurred out.

The new issue of @wsc.co.uk (464) is out now.

Includes 750 words from me on Wales’ World Cup (non) qualifying campaign.

Thanks, Glen. I'm saving it to read while staying in a static caravan this weekend.

Another peek inside the pages of our World Cup special issue:

📖 @danielgraywriter.bsky.social celebrates the wondrous oddities of USA '94 alongside beautiful photography from @homesoffootball.bsky.social

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Cover of the book Sunday best

Very much enjoyed @danielgraywriter.bsky.social 's ramblings about our 'day of rest'. Entertaining and evocative.

Thanks so much, Mike. Very chuffed to see this.

The Slow Match Report: Côte d’Ivoire 1 Scotland 0 A defeat by the docks, but who cares when there's a Scouse welcome, a dram in the flask and, dammit, we’re going to the World Cup

'At times, it could not even be regarded as proceeding at walking pace; instead, it rattled along with the slow and dispiriting murmur of a faulty Stannah stairlift...'

My latest Slow Match Report is now up on Nutmeg FC:

www.nutmegfc.co.uk/p/the-slow-m...

✍️ Coming this afternoon on Nutmeg FC:

📝 @danielgraywriter.bsky.social's latest Slow Match Report from last night's Scotland game in Liverpool.

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Thanks so much, Colette. Funnily enough, an ice cream van with the MOTD theme as its tune just visited my street and I thought of being at Cowdenbeath during Covid and hearing lonely chimes in the dark streets beyond the players' shouts. Hope you enjoy it if you read it, Mark.

👀 Today's peep in the pages of our World Cup special issue: @danielgraywriter.bsky.social watches a 90s fly-on-the-wall classic for the first time.

📺 A time-travelling piece for all you fans of Hooch and Lynx Africa out there.

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👀 Well look at this. It's only the lovely cover of our World Cup special issue. That's right, WORLD CUP SPECIAL.

📖Published late March.

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I love hearing from people who have read my books. It's great to know that readers – and other writers – are enjoying Upon A White Horse. It will be out in paperback on April 23.

I loved it so much. One of those books that will stay with me for a long time.

That man @peteralanross.bsky.social has done it again. Just finished reading 'Upon a White Horse' - beautifully written, frequently moving, peppered with lovely bits of humour and just endlessly interesting. Well, it does have an end, sadly, but you know what I mean. Superb.

Tremendous!

“All those living a relegation season know their death sentence already; that is half the agony.” Daniel Gray’s latest slow match report on Kelty Hearts.

Belated thanks, Dani!

The Slow Match Report: Kelty 1 Peterhead 1 On Valentine’s Day, broken Hearts were mended after old-fashioned romantic Ross Cunningham came off the bench to woo his admirers with a late leveller

'His kick, though, curved through the air and out of play again at the far side of the goal. It was like watching someone walking into a room and forgetting what they were there for...'

My latest Slow Match Report is up on Nutmeg FC:

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The Slow Match Report: Kelty 1 Peterhead 1 On Valentine’s Day, broken Hearts were mended after old-fashioned romantic Ross Cunningham came off the bench to woo his admirers with a late leveller

'His kick, though, curved through the air and out of play again at the far side of the goal. It was like watching someone walking into a room and forgetting what they were there for...'

My latest Slow Match Report is up on Nutmeg FC:

open.substack.com/pub/nutmegfo...

“It was Valentine’s Day and lonely Hearts had a microwave meal for one in the freezer and an old DVD of When Harry Met Sally primed.”

@danielgraywriter.bsky.social’s despatch from Kelty. Read now on Nutmeg FC.

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🎵Is that a blue sky? Is that a blue sky?
It's about damn time, yeah, it's about damn time🎵

Whoever this manager selects plays a type of football I can't remember seeing our lads conjure. Pass follows pass like a fast-ticking clock, but no dull sideways motion. Viva Hellberg 🇸🇪

Haha! Wow. This is a hyperinflation event. Wheelbarrows piled high with Toffifee imminent.

Christmas at last on Teesside 🎄

Thank you, Peter.

The Slow Match Report: Hearts 2 Rangers 1 Last Christmas, Hearts gave us a bleak draw with Moldovan minnows. This year, they're streaking ahead of their domestic rivals... even Sir Walter Scott couldn't have made it up

Lovely stuff, as per, from @danielgraywriter.bsky.social on an early christmas present for the Tynecastle faithful:

www.nutmegfc.co.uk/p/the-slow-m...

The Slow Match Report: Hearts 2 Rangers 1 Last Christmas, Hearts gave us a bleak draw with Moldovan minnows. This year, they're streaking ahead of their domestic rivals... even Sir Walter Scott couldn't have made it up

'Hearts pursued them with the studied voraciousness of street pigeons hunting Greggs crumbs...'

My latest Slow Match Report is up on Nutmeg FC now. Let me be your favourite waste of time⬇️

www.nutmegfc.co.uk/p/the-slow-m...

'Tynecastle was volcanic, berserk. Somewhere in Lapland, Santa opened another can...'

🗒️New Slow Match Report tomorrow. Our @danielgraywriter.bsky.social at Hearts v Rangers.

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Haha! It is.

Ha! Brilliant Tom. Fantastic that you were there.