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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️

@outsidewrite.bsky.social

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The curious fan’s football Substack and podcast. Run by Chris Lee, author of 📕Origin Stories (2021), 📘The Defiant (2022), and 📗Shades of Green (2025). Groundhopping and football culture and history. More 👉 https://linktr.ee/outsidewrite

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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hi Bluesky 👋🏼

Here’s a little video about what I do. Please give me a follow if you’re into:

🏟️ Groundhopping
🧐 Football history
📣 Fan culture and political football

I have a blog and podcast, and also use Substack for daily historical factoids and medium-length content.

#groundhopping

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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 10h

Agreed, I thought it was great

Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 11h

I was *super* conscious of my middle-class Home Counties accent when I had to ask for my ticket there - so conspicuous. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 12h

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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 12h

Let’s hope so. At least the Greens are doing it and actually getting attention

However, as with Br*xit, it’s the “don’t knows” and voter apathy that are the key obstacles

Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks good, especially since @footballheritage.bsky.social praises Hearts’ heritage efforts so much 😉

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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 13h

Labour are way behind the public mood on this (and many things), hence they’re haemorrhaging support to LDs and Greens (more so than to rEfOrM)

Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 13h

I think if we (the progressives) can see off rEfOrM in 2029 then the route to discussing rejoining will gather pace. If not before

Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks, Michael 🙌

Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 14h

Finally.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 14h

I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

www.independent.co.uk

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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 14h

...more on this fascinating story in my latest book, Shades of Green: A Journey into Irish Football 📗

Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 14h

#OnThisDay 13 Oct 1972

Derry City resigned from the Irish League at the height of the Troubles, as other sides didn't want to travel to the Bogside

The club was stuck in junior (amateur) football until 1984, when a new plan was launched to get the Candystripes playing south of the border

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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 14h

Good mix of museums and sites there, John.

Do you have a favourite?

I listed a few of mine in this piece for @footballheritage.bsky.social

www.footballheritage.co.uk/football-mus...

Football Museums — Football Heritage

www.footballheritage.co.uk

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 18h

My first academic publication on soccer and politics is out! It lays out the basics of my theoretical framework of “soccer as civil society” and argues that this is threatened by “modern football” through the tandem of “illiberalism” and “neoliberalism”.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 19h

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Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 18h

It’s an absolute gem. My favourite football stadium on earth

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 22h

NEW POST 🗞️

2025 marks the centenary of a landmark Art Deco exhibition in Paris.

To mark it, I am writing a series on some of the great Art Deco stadiums from around the world

Starting with my favourite, El Palacio Ducó, home of Huracán 🇦🇷

Have you been?
outsidewrite.substack.com/p/iconic-foo...

Iconic Football Stadiums: Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó (Huracán)

In the Buenos Aires barrio of Parque Patricios is an absolute gem of an Art Deco stadium and a must for groundhoppers. It’s my favourite stadium on earth and the home of Club Atlético Huracán.

outsidewrite.substack.com

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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! Will seek that out

Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 1d

#OnThisDay 12 Oct 1492 🌎

Columbus lands in the Caribbean

Here are three books on how European arrivals altered the indigenous culture

📕 The Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano
📙 Patria, Laurence Blair
📘 Small Earthquakes, @shafikmeghji.bsky.social

Any others you'd recommend?

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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 1d

NEW PODCAST 🎙️

@footballheritage.bsky.social joins me to discuss how clubs and nations should celebrate football history

Find it wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

Spotify link:
open.spotify.com/episode/53HX...

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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 1d

#OnThisDay 12 Oct 1902 🇦🇹🇭🇺

Austria hosts Hungary in Vienna, winning 5-0

It's thought to be the first international between continental European sides not involving British or Irish sides

More on the roots of football around the world in my first book, Origin Stories 📕

Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 1d

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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.bsky.social · 2d

Great night / una serata piacevole

Thanks for inviting me along / grazie per il invito 🙌🏼

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ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 2d

What an insightful night!
Bill Hern and @outsidewrite.bsky.social delivered talks on players who'd made the history of football and stood up to racism and to fascism
Our thanks to co-organisers Brigata Ultra Clapton, to Bill and Chris for their talks and to the attendees for their engaging questions

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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 2d

Finally read this by @barneyronay.bsky.social on Gary Neville and flags. It’s great. And important.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Flag alert! Gary Neville may not be Orwell but he is a very English type of patriot | Barney Ronay

An easy target for accusations of luxury hypocrisy, Neville has at least tried to address an issue that has everything to do with aggressively flag-draped and militarised modern sport

www.theguardian.com

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