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Chris Nee
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Writer and podcast presenter/producer of @astonvillareview.com | Freelance football and sports writer | Views are not those of my employer because I don't have one
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And still be in bed by 12.
I knew how to make petrol bombs at 11, says James McClean
October 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Are you a strategist now, you fucker?
October 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Well, well. If it isn't every thought I had in a meeting between 2017 and 2024.
Are you a strategist now, you fucker?
October 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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What a fucking world.
"We should have done proper research before jumping on what we thought was a social media trend," the organisation said.
September 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Marina
September 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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September 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Brackley Town tunnel
September 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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It's only five games but still, this is ridiculous stuff. What a time to be alive.
NPL Midlands table with Coventry Sphinx in second
August 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Birmingham City have set their sights on thriving, not just surviving, in the Championship.

They've reunited ex-Celtic teammates Tomoki Iwata and Kyogo Furuhashi to help them do it.

This week's football newsletter.

Here: hpbp.substack.com/p/birmingham...
High Protein Beef Paste
July 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Birmingham City signed a second Japanese player last week. Then a third.

In reuniting Tomoki Iwata and Kyogo Furuhashi, City are building a Premier League push on proven players from football's most fashionable market.

Read and subscribe for free right here: hpbp.substack.com/p/birmingham...
"Any question marks lingering over Kyogo Furuhashi's ability will make him more dangerous than ever in the Championship. He's good enough to be one of the division's leading scorers and presumably fired-up enough to show it."
July 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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June 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Takashi Usami's identical Magical Kicks free kick
June 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Frasier advises a jilted man not to try too hard to get his ex back. Lee Carsley's advice to his Young Lions tonight will be much more positive, as the aim to retain their U21 Euros title.
June 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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June 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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May 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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FOOTBALL IS COMMUNITY.

This week's High Protein Beef Paste is about football, fans and St Mirren. As usual.

Check it out: hpbp.substack.com/p/football-i...
"Maintaining football clubs in, with, through, and for communities takes effort. Keeping a club attached to its social foundations doesn't happen without deliberate, proactive effort."
May 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Gary Lineker doesn't know the Laws of the Game. Pass it on.
A player, substitute or substituted player who commits any of the following offences is sent off: denying the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity
May 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Whatever it takes, I suppose.
Charlton edge Wycombe to book L1 play-off final date with Leyton Orient
May 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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May 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Stone Cold!
May 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Yokohama F. Marinos, Yokohama FC, a malicious merger and a football city with an unusual history.

This week's football newsletter is about the bottom two teams in the Japanese top flight.

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"Flugels and Marinos merged in 1999 to become Yokohama F. Marinos. They play at the Marinos' stadium in the Marinos' colours. They carry the Marinos' history. This wasn't salvation but subsumption. The real salvation is that a new club emerged in its wake."
May 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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MUH AIDER!
Rimsy and Listy
May 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Rob McElhenney, Ryan Reynolds and Wrexham are asking English football some very awkward questions.

Maybe they're necessary questions too.

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"For all the tangible food Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds are doing for the town of Wrexham, all the positivity and promise they're engendering in its football club, their success leaves football with some uncomfortable questions."
April 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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On Matt Grimes, the Coventry City midfielder who makes the ugly stuff look beautiful like nobody else in the EFL.

This week's football newsletter.

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"Frank Lampard took the first opportunity he got to sign the best deep-lying midfielder in the EFL. When he's not directly involved in an attack, Matt Grimes is a master of filling the gaps depending on who else has gone where."
April 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Now that's a programme cover.
Coventry City v West Bromwich Albion programme cover
April 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM