#OnThisDay 24 March 1976 🇦🇷
A coup in Argentina saw a military junta take control for seven years, during which an estimated 30,000 people 'disappeared' during the 'Dirty War'.
@rhyswrichards.bsky.social wrote a brilliant book about how the junta impacted the 1978 World Cup
#NuncaMas
Twenty Twenty Six.
I watched the final episode of this last night - Jerry Jones & Jimmy Johnson's reconciliation. I didn't expect to be in tears watching a documentary about a team I don't even like. Superb storytelling.
Goosebumps all over with Jimmy's 'How bout them Cowboys?!' cry!
If Rachel Traitors survives the game of chance, she's blotted her copy book a bit. It's not a convincing win. Like when a team wins a tournament but has a few penalty shootout wins along the way.
Great to see Gabriel Jesus put his injuries behind him and score again. Jesus comebacks don't get much bigger than this!
Christmas sport hierarchy:
1: World's Strongest Man
...everything else a distant 2nd.
NEW POST 🗞️
I know a lot of my followers are interested in South American football, so here’s a list of the Best Books on South American Football 🌎
Features @jonawils.bsky.social @hylland.bsky.social @rhyswrichards.bsky.social and more...
Any you’d add?
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You're going to need a bigger shelf!
Mi libro ‘Los Leones: La Historia Única Del Athletic Club’ ha sido traducido al castellano y verá la luz con El Gallo de Oro el 10 de noviembre. Mila esker/ Eskerrik Asko a todos los que me habéis acompañado en este camino - ya sabéis quiénes sois 🙌🏻 🔴⚪️ #AthleticClub 🎥 Maitane Recio
♾ DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA: the playlist
Diego Maradona should be celebrating his 65th birthday on Thursday 30th October, to celebrate I present a thread of songs written in homage to El D10S. (Spotify link at end of thread)
Nowhere does music and football better than Argentina!
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They have a play book:
•Say something racist.
•Say something racister.
•Say something racistest.
Then say, 'At the end of the day, I'm just a normal bloke who loves his family and his country. Is anything wrong with that?'.
Just shows, you're only one asteroid away from disaster.
📺No domestic football on TV for 6 months
👊fans rioting
🆔ID cards
⚡️electric fences
😨people crossing the road to avoid you
That was football fandom in 1985/86.
Thank God for Saint & Greavsie.
Read all about it in THE SLUM SPORT - the story of 85/86
Links below⬇️⬇️
Really enjoyed chatting to Chris Lee on the excellent @outsidewrite.bsky.social podcast about the Basque refugee children in Caerleon and those who went on to play for the likes of #AthleticClub and #RealMadrid. Have a listen in the usual places 🎧👍🏻 #RefugeesWelcome #StopWar #Euskadi #Gales #Cymru
You may as well dig a hole in the ground and shout into that. They don't take anything in.
Brevity really is the soul of wit. She's packed a hell of a lot into that 280 character tweet.
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Cymru 2 - 4 Belgium.
We've got some good players, but we definitely create more problems for ourselves than for our opposition.
It's an anxious experience watching this team, at the moment.
Ah yeah course it was, that was the whole point 😂. You'd be pleased to know my attention to detail was better when I actually wrote it
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I wrote a book about that World Cup. Scotland get a chapter, but of course, I had to mention Joe Jordan's Ninian Park handball.
Well, I guess I didn't *have* to.
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The way the Jets managed the final minute of that half was... interesting.
Any given Sunday. Especially last Sunday! #SKOL #NFLTottenham #Vikings
Chelsea are quite likeable under Maresca. Beating Liverpool won't hurt that.
As the comms said - Vikings were resuscitated several times in that game. Still a kick in the teeth to see them flatline after a half a dozen sacks and interceptions, though. #NFLDublin
Rams snatching defeat from the jaws of victory Vs Eagles. Never seen back-to-back blocked kicks before!
The existence of a Buendia and a Buonanotte in the Premier League suggests that there's also a 'Buenostardes' playing somewhere, waiting to be signed by Brighton.
