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Ian Syson
@iansyson.bsky.social
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Retired academic. Lives in Footscray, Australia. Football historian researching Soccer Anzacs. https://socceranzacs.com.au/
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 4d
He had little chance against Pure evil.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 5d
Her youth?
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 6d
Let them eat soggy biscuit.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 6d
Absolutely. It’s been coming a long time.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 7d
Check the tragedy tag on the menu. So many terrible things happened at the club.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 7d
If you want a similarly terrible story, on the same site look up Alma Kelly. It’s a tragedy in relation to women’s football.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 8d
Not directly related but here’s a story of Peter Coppock, a Newcastle great killed by lightning at training geordieminers.blogspot.com/2022/04/pete...
Peter Coppock
One of the rare images of  Peter Coppock, cropped from a representative team photo The last thing Peter George Coppock ever did was particip...
geordieminers.blogspot.com
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 8d
@rhysshelmerdine.bsky.social Hopkins st Footscray.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 9d
This is excellent, tragically so. Shows that Extra Judicial Killings have a long history in the Philippines, even before Duterte.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 9d
1972 sorry
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 9d
Marcos 1965. His actions in 1975 seem prescient.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 10d
Reading Philip Bowring’s excellent history of the Philippines. This passage about the end of ww2 is not surprising.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 11d
Recondite? Come on Joey.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 11d
Max eurosnobbery also. There’s a football shirt shop in Cebu that sells only MU, Liverpool, Arsenal, juve, RM, Barca. Doesn’t sell local club shirts — though it sells national team shirts.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 11d
They love it. And they start celebrating Xmas in September.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 11d
Where are you? They aren’t doing much in Philippines.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 14d
No. Sorry.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 14d
Philippines is woke? One of the most devout countries in the world can’t wish happy Christmas?
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 15d
SAFC were also strong during the rise of Nazism.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 16d
6 months driving in the Philippines or Vietnam would teach drivers some Zen.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 22d
He’s a Mackem?
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 22d
He talked about sitting on the hill at scg watching some icon (lindwall?) trundle. Can’t remember the exact details.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 22d
Like John Howard recalling cricket events that he could not have seen.
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 23d
Sokkah novel. Terrible cover. Anyone read it?
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Ian Syson @iansyson.bsky.social · 23d
Very funny mate. I’m in a French restaurant in the Philippines so my lol is inexplicable.