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Football isn’t just ninety minutes — it’s culture, kits, rivalries, and cult heroes. Writer behind The Terrace Archives. https://substack.com/@theterracearchive
Weekend Notes #6 - the weekend, written down.
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We certainly loved him. Last week we welcomed him into our Barclaysman anthology. theterracearchive.substack.com/p/barclaysma...
22.01.2026 13:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As of this morning, 1. FC Köln have sold over 41,000 tickets for their U19's UEFA Youth League game against Inter Milan on Wednesday, 4th Feb (kick-off: 6pm) - a new record.
The previous record for a Youth League fixture was 40,368 for Tabzonspor vs. Inter in April 2025.
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The second instalment of Shirt Wars is now live, here we’ll be exploring the templates that show kits aren’t just colours; they’re design languages...
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Crystal Palace packed a month’s worth of misery into a week — FA Cup exit, captain gone to City, manager announcing his summer departure, and a 2–1 defeat to Sunderland just to round things off.
18.01.2026 17:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Half the league’s modern history overshadowed by one club’s charges. That’s not success — that’s contamination.
16.01.2026 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Barclaysman #8
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Football isn’t escapism. It’s a weekly ritual disguised as chaos. A place to gather, complain, hope, and pretend we’re not checking the table every 20 minutes.
16.01.2026 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tomorrow's Barclaysman drops. One word: Yakubu.
10AM
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Interesting point, spurs have been in decline for years, it starts with the board and accountability. How many more managers, coaches and playing staff is it going to take before they wake up and realize the main issue sits with them.
10.01.2026 22:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Macclesfield knock out holders Palace to create the biggest FA Cup shock of all time!
10.01.2026 14:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Earlier in the week we highlighted Wrexham vs Nottingham Forest as our early FA Cup game to watch and it certainly delivered.
In todays early kick off, can Macclesfield, the Phoenix club of Macclesfield Town, create the biggest shock of the round at home to last seasons winners Crystal Palace?
Two hours of unfiltered FA Cup madness. Wrexham and Forest trading blows all night. It’s going to be settled from the spot.
09.01.2026 22:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There’s a particular kind of fear in the FA Cup when the TV cameras cut to a tiny away end and you can feel the giant‑killing brewing through the screen.
09.01.2026 20:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There's a unique kind of dread when your centre-back starts dribbling into midfield with purpose.
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Weekend Notes is the matchday‑programme side of The Terrace Archive — the scribbles, oddities, rumours and folklore of a full‑tilt weekend.
Weekend Notes #3 - The weekend, written down.
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The Barclaysman series is my love letter to the cult heroes — the folklore merchants who made the Premier League feel like a weekly fever dream.
One of my favourites is Tim Cahill: Everton's Corner Flag Boxer
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Football isn’t just ninety minutes — it’s culture, kits, rivalries, and cult heroes.
I write about the stories that outlive the scoreline: the shirts, the derbies, the folklore, the icons.
If football feels like identity and memory to you, you’re home.
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