Nick Szczepanik's Avatar

Nick Szczepanik

@nickszczepanik.bsky.social

Football writer (and a few other things). 14 Super Bowls and one World Series. Bylined in every daily and Sunday newspaper. #BHAFC fan. Attempts neutrality in match reports. May occasionally venture opinions in other areas, but not to be taken seriously.

466 Followers  |  384 Following  |  22 Posts  |  Joined: 14.11.2024  |  1.9755

Latest posts by nickszczepanik.bsky.social on Bluesky

If a player stops during their run-up to take a penalty, the keeper should be allowed to be in front of the line.

10.08.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
Post image 10.08.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 23730    πŸ” 6315    πŸ’¬ 650    πŸ“Œ 297

Can we get something straight? Brighton and Hove Albion have not β€˜slapped a Β£115 price-tag’ on Carlos Baleba. It’s not the way they do transfer business. And anyway, I think Baleba should aim higher than Manchester United.

09.08.2025 09:16 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Vacancy: Marketing & comms lead at Charlton Athletic Women FC
cafc.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoa... #mediajobs

24.07.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can anyone enlighten me - is Prince Harry the Duke of East Sussex or West Sussex?

09.05.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On air at 5pm today on @radioreverb.bsky.social, chatting with
@nickszczepanik.bsky.social about our current form.

It's not all gloom, though. Really.

In association with Flowers Unlimited of 175-177 Portland Road, Hove.

24.04.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump and Vance have shown themselves for what they are today.

28.02.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone else get the impression from the way Trump talks about β€˜rare earth’ that he has no idea what rare earths actually are?

27.02.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A discarded box of McDonald's chicken nuggets, red with black lettering (and obligatory golden "M" logo). Above the words "9 Chicken McNuggets" is, in much bigger font, "STORMZY".

A discarded box of McDonald's chicken nuggets, red with black lettering (and obligatory golden "M" logo). Above the words "9 Chicken McNuggets" is, in much bigger font, "STORMZY".

Sighting of a celebrity wrapper

19.02.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Stormzy begins a lucrative collaboration with McDonalds - after deleting all his previous β€˜free Palestine’ posts.

Stormzy begins a lucrative collaboration with McDonalds - after deleting all his previous β€˜free Palestine’ posts.

14.02.2025 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 913    πŸ” 218    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 30
Video thumbnail

It's still possible for Stormzy to do the right thing. Cancel the deal and stand with Palestine. Leaving that much money on the table isn't easy, but he's already a multi-millionaire and an artist's credibility is worth far more than whatever McDonald's is willing to pay for it

18.02.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

stormzy clears things up

24.02.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 312    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1

80% of German VOTERS went for parties that promised to have nothing to do with the AFD...

MEDIA: Huge win for AFD!

23.02.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3792    πŸ” 792    πŸ’¬ 162    πŸ“Œ 52
Post image

How about an election in Russia?

18.02.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3005    πŸ” 549    πŸ’¬ 245    πŸ“Œ 50
Post image

The 'farmers' protest is a good time to remind people of the Just Stop Oil protestors who got 21 years, just for planning a protest.

Two tier justice indeed.

13.02.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1439    πŸ” 519    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 8

Why have the BBC sent Clive Myrie to Los Angeles to tell us the same things that their local correspondent Emma Vardy has been telling us for the past few days?

13.01.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I believe it is used where already installed. So at Norwich but not Tamworth.

13.01.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine watching disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow or 2012 and thinking that the apocalyptic weather scenes were the β€œunrealistic” part.

Turns out those scenes were almost bang on.

The unrealistic part was the humans working together to overcome the problem & save the world. Sigh.

09.01.2025 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 21216    πŸ” 2931    πŸ’¬ 383    πŸ“Œ 117

I just saw a post on Facebook start with β€˜Convicted Rapist Mark Zuckerberg….’ Let’s see how long this no fact checking lasts.

08.01.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 38207    πŸ” 5671    πŸ’¬ 1303    πŸ“Œ 337
Post image

It turns out that Farage was right; foreigners were coming for his job.

05.01.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6219    πŸ” 1238    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 112

It’s all very well Liverpool having players attacking the ball from beyond the far post at corners, but if Trent can’t get the ball past the first defender then what’s the point?

26.12.2024 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Impact of PSR on the 'Big Six', how matchday revenues are calculated Podcast Episode Β· The Price of Football Β· 26/12/2024 Β· 26m

Today’s refried sprouts @POF_POD with Kevin Day
⚽️Player Wages
⚽️Is PSR anti-competitive?
⚽️Amortisation πŸŽ„
⚽️What’s included in matchday revenue?
🍎 shm.to/box.ing
🎧 shm.to/d.ay

26.12.2024 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Happy Christmas to my followers. And everyone else.

25.12.2024 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Farewell then, Dan Ashworth.

08.12.2024 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
Video thumbnail

Hello @bhasc1.bsky.social. On behalf of our family, I just want to thank you for the lovely message and card you sent following John’s passing.
He was very proud of what your good natured campaign achieved and to see your new home.
Here’s a video we did in 2010 when he saw Falmer being built.

07.12.2024 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Must be Stoke?

02.12.2024 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Quite incredible that Kaoru Mitoma’s goal at Bournemouth isn’t on the MOTD shortlist for November goal of the month. Joao Pedro’s assist was such a work of art that it should be in the National Gallery.

01.12.2024 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or maybe not …

01.12.2024 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apropos of nothing. Oasis disbanded the season before Man City ended a 35-year wait for a major trophy and they reformed earlier this season.

01.12.2024 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 300    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 10

@nickszczepanik is following 18 prominent accounts