Daniel Gray

🎵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:

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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⬇️

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'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.

Very chuffed to have been asked to write about George Best's time at Hibs for this gorgeous item by @glorystudio.bsky.social

BBC Radio 4 - Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross Peter Ross celebrates the landscape and people of prehistoric Britain and Ireland.

Thank you to everyone who has been listening to Upon A White Horse as Radio 4's Book of the Week. The final part is about Sycamore Gap and goes out at 11.45am today. It's also all available on BBC Sounds. I hope you enjoy it. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Ha! I totally missed this. Any luck?

'A corned beef man in a small plates world' is so #hmhb i'm already semi-singing it to two of their songs.

Haha! Yesssss.

Dan's latest ⬇️

Thanks, Dani. It was so lovely to see Italy at a different time to the summer (incredible as that is). A different kind of beauty.

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That ratio could put you in the same division as that Barnsley Haribo cola bottles binge man. Great for publicity and sales, though.

@danielgraywriter.bsky.social as ever setting the bar for football writing extremely high!

This match report is every bit as good as I hoped it would be

Thanks ever so much, fellow Dan.

And now they're widely back down to £1.50, it's absolutely fine to bash through one pack per 500 words. Probably.

"Supporters walked towards the bulbous steel of the modernised Stadio Friuli, itself resembling foil scrunched
round a giant focaccia." Such a great piece by @danielgraywriter.bsky.social which is by no means diminished by the no-show Scottish players.

Thank you so much, Dani. Yes, you are just the person to write it! The pages are there when you're ready as always, and hopefully even more Scots will have made the journey by then...

Thanks so much, Rick.

'The goalkeeper looked forlorn, alone and baffled, a corned beef man in a small plates world...'

🇮🇹My @nutmegmagazine.bsky.social Slow Match Report from Italy is now up ⬇️

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Coming tomorrow:

🇮🇹 @danielgraywriter.bsky.social's Slow Match Report from Italy.

⚫️⚪️Udinese v
🔴🔵Bologna

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This sums up why so many people of 'a certain age' still love Italian football

The Slow Match Report goes to Serie A This weekend I am writing to you from Udine, inspired by Channel 4's Football Italia and Scotland's booming export of midfielders

It's Saturday morning, which means time for the kabaddi on Trans World Sport and then the sublime Gazzetta...

A Slow Match Report preview ahead of my trip to Udinese v Bologna this afternoon:

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Thanks, matey.