John Irving

Football, food and travel writer. Translator from/to Italian. Resident in Italy. Author of the bestselling 'Pane e football' (Slow Food Editore, 2102).

[Stanchion Books - the football bookshop 📚 @StanchionBooks]

𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | THIS IS FOOTBALL by @danielmelamud

A sumptuous celebration of the timeless beauty of football its greatest and most stylish players, from past heroes to today's stars, along with its hallowed grounds

@Rizzoli_Books

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[NutmegMagazine @NutmegMagazine]

Temporarily forget your relegation fears like Iain with this beauty, available here:

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𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | OUT OF THE BLUE by @All_Blue_Daze

The ultimate. behind-the-scenes story of @ChelseaFC's unlikely 2012 @ChampionsLeague triumph.

@PitchPublishing

🛒 https://t.co/NEGNyFNOzS

[John Irving @irving_john]

Many thanks.

[Chiacchierata Calcistica @CCalcistica]

@blzzrd @irving_john This is a wonderful article. I left Scotland to study in Turin 30 years later, and you could almost sense a kind of 2nd hand nostalgia for the period, perhaps fumed by 15 years of Berlusconi.

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𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | CALCIO by @Footymac

🇮🇹 Still the definitive history of Italian football.

🛒 https://t.co/MfbYo5mIcN

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𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | DUTCH MASTERS by @All_Blue_Daze

The story of how Ajax came to dominate the European game as the epitome of footballing perfection.

@PitchPublishing

🛒 https://t.co/D3NCQO1izp

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𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | SOCCER VS. THE STATE by Gabriel Kuhn (foreword by @boffwhalley)

A timely reminder of the ways football was, and still can be, a radical arena - full of solidarity and resistance, unchained from the shackles of big business.

🛒 https://t.co/8Rop7q9sMI

[John Irving @irving_john]

Thanks!

[Simon Newton @SimonNewton5]

@blzzrd @irving_john Fine piece. Grazie mille!

[John Irving @irving_john]

Many thanks for the kind words. As it happens, John Foot was frequently in touch while researching his book. Cheers!

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

@blzzrd @irving_john Remarkable piece and a fine companion to John Foot’s recent book. Great quote from Berlinguer: How can you expect to stage a revolution if you don’t know the Juventus score?

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

@blzzrd @irving_john Remarkable piece and a fine companion to John Foot’s recent book. Great quote from Berlinguer: How can you expect to stage a revolution if you don’t know the Juventus score?

[John Irving @irving_john]

@blzzrd Thanks. Very kind of you!

[Better Red Than Dead @BRTD1989]

@blzzrd @irving_john A wonderful piece of writing from John.

[NutmegMagazine @NutmegMagazine]

🎉 Our World Cup special has started falling from letterboxes across the land.

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[Jonathan Wilson @jonawils]

As we approach the World Cup qualifying play-off between Italy and Northern Ireland, a look back at the Battle of Belfast and how Northern Ireland qualified for the 1958 World Cup at Italy’s expense.

For Patreon members on It Was What It Was.

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Turret 41a on #hadrianswall #nationaltrail in the @NlandNP

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📕 Calling all @FalkirkFC and @saintmirrenfc fans.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Our World Cup special is for sale in the Falkirk club shop today.
⚽️ Get your copy before kick-off.

[John Irving @irving_john]

Honoured to be republished by Blizzard. Many thanks.

[The Blizzard @blzzrd]

The Years of Lead

Juventus, Torino and visiting Turin during Italy’s decade of political violence

This piece was written by @irving_john for issue 40

Read: https://t.co/brHnu6vZnF

[Jonathan Wilson @jonawils]

Want to know more about me and my career?

I mean it seems a bit weird, and I’ve no idea why you would, but here we are…

https://t.co/6QXGDd2ByX

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👀 Peek of the day inside our World Cup issue, which lands very soon indeed:

📖 @AdamClery rewinds the video for Brazil v Scotland at World Cup '74.

🛒 To read the full piece and many other splendid articles, pre-order some print goodliness here: https://t.co/vWDV6jWub1

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