@aidanwilliams74.bsky.social
Football writer & podcaster, senior leadership These Football Times Featured @guardian and @athletic Sports nut. World Cup obsessive. Author 'The Nearly Men' & 'Euro 1984' Euro 1984: The Greatest Tournament You Never Saw https://amzn.eu/d/5HtKus7
And so we reach the end of our trip back to Euro 84. The excellent @aidanwilliams74.bsky.social & Jonathan O’Brien take us through a nervy final, it’s legacy and just how authoritative a performance it was from France & Platini.
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The greatest European Championship game of all time? @aidanwilliams74.bsky.social and Jonathan O’Brien run the rule over an incredible night when France and Portugal met in Marseille.
Out in the usual places now!
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Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden...etc
It's 1981. Join @scraggy74.bsky.social and @themagicofthecup.bsky.social for England's World Cup qualifier in Norway
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Is this the greatest tournament group of all time? 23 goals, drama to the very end, the emergence of 3 young talents, a disgrace that derailed the Belgians and, of course, Platini.
@aidanwilliams74.bsky.social guides us through
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Part 2 of our Euro ‘84 series is available now in all the usual places as @aidanwilliams74.bsky.social & Rob Smyth wrap up the drama of the qualifiers. Italy’s gap year, Northern Ireland managing to beat West Germany twice and not qualify and Spain needing to beat Malta by 11 clear goals…
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Our Euro ‘84 deep dive is underway with the story of the qualifiers that is as dramatic and remarkable as the finals themselves.
@aidanwilliams74.bsky.social joins Rob and Martyn to set the scene…
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substack.com/@yourboystoo... It's Friday afternoon, you need something to help the last few hours of the working week melt away, and we've got you covered. Join @aidanwilliams74.bsky.social and @scraggy74.bsky.social for Module 1 of Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating. 1980sTastic.
02.05.2025 12:27 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0If you enjoy your football nostalgia and have a penchant for the 1980s, we have just the thing for you...
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What are you listening to today? 🎧
Please check out my third appearance on @thesefootballtimes.shop where I discuss my new book 📗☘️with @aidanwilliams74.bsky.social and Matthew Gibbs 👇🏼
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Carabao Cup final review: @aidanwilliams74.bsky.social enjoys that rare feeling of Newcastle glory while a chilled Steven Scragg knows Premier League glory is on the horizon.
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Shearer's ready for the final...
16.03.2025 12:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Top of the league!
25.01.2025 00:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, lots to learn. It just hasn't been well covered before beyond the more recent superstars. So much depth to discover on this book.
12.12.2024 15:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And what a superb book this is from a terrific writer.
Can thoroughly recommend this book to enhance and grow your understanding of the fabulous world of Portuguese football.
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If you are more curious than ever before regarding Portuguese football and culture then gift yourself or someone you care (or don't, that's up to you) the only book you'll find out about it. Just follow the link for options on where to buy 👇
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We're going on a tour of Portugal! @miguelpereira.bsky.social is our guide as we discuss his fantastic book 'Bring me that horizon'.
Featuring @aidanwilliams74.bsky.social & @scraggy74.bsky.social
Still looking for a great gift for that football loving person in your life who knows that it was all way better in the past?
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Listen to the @thesefootballtimes.shop podcast where I discuss my book with @allbluedaze.bsky.social, @aidanwilliams74.bsky.social & Steven Scragg.
Inside The Hermit Kingdom: Football Stories from Stalinist Albania
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Decades: 1996/97. United win again, Newcastle sign Shearer, Boro reach two cup finals and lots more drama, with @robfletcher.bsky.social, @aidanwilliams74.bsky.social and Alex Ireland.
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Magnificent! And thank you 🙌
26.11.2024 21:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Every football fan loves a football book for Christmas, right?
For that nostalgic, stuck in the past, it was better in my day football afficionado in your life, can I suggest this epic saga:
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⚽️ We've got a limited number of recent back issues in stock. Get in quickly to secure yours (or a few for a mate this Christmas).
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Ah yes,that's a terrific book 👍
16.11.2024 23:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Glorious failure, the pain of an unjust outcome, the agony of a greatness unfulfilled, makes for such a better story than victory.
Except for Brazil 70 or France 84 of course,eh Gary...😜
Ok folks, I'm feeling like I should get to know you fine folk here in the new world.
So how about posting what football book you're reading, or last read?
For me, it's Jonathan Wilson's "Two Brothers". It's a superb and engaging read on those two contrasting sobs of Ashington.
Strong Mexico '86 vibes for me, with the slightly paler or more muted blue.
16.11.2024 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Beautiful...
16.11.2024 15:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Haha, yes. He was superb against France. And he was very much the archetypal free spirited talented genius. Lovely moustache too!
13.11.2024 23:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Quite so. A fine team belatedly, briefly emerged from the chaos of Portugal's campaign. Their inter-club squabbles were quite incredible.
13.11.2024 22:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes indeed. Arconada had been great in the semi-final with Denmark too. Equally not the ideal goal for Platini to round out his incredible tournament.
Spain were quite good in that final too, but the right team won. But yes, I agree, a real shame for Arconada.
