Chris Lepkowski (new account)

Author: THE SLUM SPORT, the story of 85/86. Ghosted: THE THIRD DEGREE.

Sports Journalism course director, B'ham City Uni.

Sports journalist + FWA member.

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🎁Father's Day is looming large - treat your dad to a book about football from another time.

THE SLUM SPORT explores the 1985/86 season; the reset after the horrors of the previous campaign.

Includes exclusive interviews with those who were there.

https://t.co/m2zSjAUd1j

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@FootballInT80s There are two types of World Cup: 1 - the football is brilliant, and memorable; 2 - there is drama and great stories are created. Ideally you want a crossover of both (1986 for instance). 1990 very much in the second bracket. There is a third type: 2010 (crap in both respects)

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@gavin_poulton The greatest player 99.9% of folks won't have seen play, let alone heard of, is now going to be a major club blunder - all based on some very spurious reports of a potential transfer linking him with EIGHT (8) clubs [waves at agent]

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@bagshaw2112 Guessing 1967

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@bagshaw2112 1986.

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@WayneSBarton Good luck with this. Suspect this will fly off the shelves. It ought to.

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@sidlowe Now nervously tip-toeing through X to find out which one of the remaining members might be trending...

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@Mexico86HQ Oft forgotten what a shock this was. Portugal did not have a good side, yet england were so poor on the day

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@CWeatherspoon_ Kalvin Phillips v2 if not careful. We can't have nice things in football (and I'm not even a forest fan)

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@Juzzer70 Great pic

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@markpolky Bless you Mark. Alan used to live next door to me when he was at WBA and was kind enough to be interviewed for my book From Buzaglo to Balis. A lovely man. I hope you're ok today

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What they said about THE SLUM SPORT:

"...a fantastic read about one of the most compelling seasons in English football..." @draper_rob

"...suitably wistful in places, suitably withering in others..." @OliverKay

"...it truly is a cracking read..." Barry Davies MBE

[ESPN @espn]

ANOTHER UPSET AT THE FRENCH OPEN! 😱

With World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka's loss, there will be no former major champion left in both the men's or women's semifinal.

The last major when that happened was the 1977 French Open.

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The only people excited about Sticks’n’Sushi coming to Birmingham are the people who are yet to eat there. When are we going to use these central spaces for Brum talent and not another mundane outside chain?

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@untypicalboro @CharlieMoloney 10 things you didn't know about such-and-such, though...

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@iainmacintosh_ Agree with this. Five is too many, and bloats squads unnecessarily. Many of those players could be getting regular football further down the pyramid. There are too many players being stockpiled at clubs for five minutes here or there,

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@HLTCO There are some excellent broadcasters on that station, but you'll only generally hear them on Saturdays covering games. Those are the proper radiomen/women. The regular shows (H&J and Trans EE a big exception) are generally just there to rabble-rouse

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What they said about THE SLUM SPORT:

"...a fantastic read about one of the most compelling seasons in English football..." @draper_rob

"...suitably wistful in places, suitably withering in others..." @OliverKay

"...it truly is a cracking read..." Barry Davies MBE

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🎁Father's Day is looming large - treat your dad to a book about football from another time.

THE SLUM SPORT explores the 1985/86 season; the reset after the horrors of the previous campaign.

Includes exclusive interviews with those who were there.

https://t.co/m2zSjAUd1j

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@Matt1McArdle @CarlAlexander74 Studs on a hard surface. Nothing could possibly go wrong there

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@CarlAlexander74 oh yes.

[The League Magazine @Theleaguemag]

Southend United 1979

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@fifamedia Why are you involved in booking up mass amounts of hotel rooms, limiting supply for fans and thus causing them to buy at higher prices, before cancelling as you don't need them, after fans have paid way over the odds for them in an artificial shortage and economy you created?

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@Theleaguemag Fantastic pic. More stadia need running tracks when it comes to international football. So much more aesthetically pleasing