@mike-critchley.bsky.social
Sports writer St Helens Star and Leigh Journal. Rugby league fan, author and pub ticker.
I know- he’s been there a while
30.11.2025 21:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This really should be Birmingham’s Cavern
30.11.2025 20:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Half marathon Birmingham pub crawl - should be a sport this
29.11.2025 21:05 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, it’s like a country pub in the heart of the city - maybe like the Fighting Cock in Bradford
29.11.2025 20:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Think I’d already had a bit of a go at it to be fair
29.11.2025 20:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Always happy to revisit The Bull, an old favourite from my days at the Birrmingham Post and Mail in the late 90s. Still as wonderful as ever
29.11.2025 19:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Rattled off a couple of new ticks in Brum…Pure Craft Bar, Burning Soul and Wolf
29.11.2025 19:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today I revisited the street I used to live 30 years ago in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. Victorian toilets still in place on the corner of Court Road
29.11.2025 19:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Put your Saturday morning sudokus and wordles aside and tackle this…
29.11.2025 09:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy Lancashire Day folks
27.11.2025 09:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review of last Saturday’s Clone Roses gig at Shepherd’s Bush Empire
www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/2564438...
Yes, time flies
23.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One for you @cheetss18.bsky.social in Brixton yesterday
23.11.2025 15:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Clone Roses knocking it out the park and doing St Helens proud
22.11.2025 22:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Met up with my best man and former Birmingham MetroNews colleague Damian today in Brixton earlier today. Plenty of good tales
22.11.2025 18:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s good but they should have had James Roby in too- 40 today. (And while I’m on a posthumous one for my dad who would have been 88 today)
22.11.2025 14:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My dad Brian would have been 88 today. I’ll raise a glass later
22.11.2025 06:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m sure I will, thanks
21.11.2025 15:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Clone Roses pay tribute to Mani ahead if tomorrow’s big show in West London www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/2564069...
21.11.2025 14:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My daughter took the hint
21.11.2025 14:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Birthday present from our Rosa!
20.11.2025 18:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Where else to start my 60th year but Cracke in Liverpool. We go back a long way
20.11.2025 18:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Where the Saints summer era began
www.sthelensstar.co.uk/sport/256290...
It’s even better than I remember it.
15.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Farewell Sheffield till next time - a city with so many quality pubs.
15.11.2025 19:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1,826 Two & Six, Sheffield
15.11.2025 18:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fat Cat, still an old Sheffield favourite
15.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shakespeare- one of many old favourites in Sheffield
15.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In Sheffield…nipped in the Old Shoe, now off to Vocation
15.11.2025 13:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What a wonderful photograph
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