Liam Walsh 🎈

I am running London Marathon on 26 April 26 for Helen & Douglas House: NOW ‘Red Balloons’🎈

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

Proud #FathersDay2023 ‘Red Balloons: A Father, A Son’ publication day for me 🎈

Thank you so much to Ad and Rob @HalcyonPublish1 for making this happen 🎈

Each sale benefits @SUDCUK1 🎈

Order here > https://t.co/3jPDCyycfR 🎈

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

❤️ 🎈❤️
#stfc

[Stanchion Books - the football bookshop 📚 @StanchionBooks]

𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | RED BALLOONS: A FATHER, A SON, A MEMOIR by @liampw

An affecting, yet ultimately hopeful journey through grief and the search for answers. More than anything, it's a family footballing love story.

@HalcyonPublish1

🛒 https://t.co/PVZYBWPcba

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

@themodfather79 @dphunt88 D7U

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

So in the end it didn’t matter what time the roll call was, because in the DR I couldn’t hear it anyway.

Same issue I wrote about in Red Balloons as it caused personal grief, & years on, like all else at #stfc, nothing has improved.

This is a club sleepwalking to the edge 1/2

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

@BatchStfc Yes, I really felt for @swindonred and @chrissie1965 tonight … they and many others deserve so much better

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

Those trying to hold #stfc to account (@so69fangroup, @LoathedStranger @T_STBL @IvoGraham @bcks109 @DanWood_Adver etc) are too few.

Those tasked with holding it to account @TrustSTFC are too lame.

Apathy or urgency? It’s up to us 2/2

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

Congratulations @swindonred - awesome achievement on a hot day with London at its crazy, beautiful best. I loved tracking you through your journey.

3:30:31 PB for me with very sore legs and a lifetime of memories #stfc

[vic morgan @swindonred]

Well I did it. I shuffled round the old @LondonMarathon course.

Many people said “well done grandad” don’t know what they mean 😂.

A mad, crazy, bonkers experience with thousands of great people lining the streets. Thanks to them and all who’ve sponsored me for @PhoenixSwindon

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

This is what 21 miles sounds like 😬 💤

“Hope you’re enjoying your chocolate” 😂

https://t.co/pfXudPw7uo

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

@SamMorshead_ Yep - “It could be safe standing. It could be a lower-grade revamp to protect against crushing. It could be a review of stewarding policy.”

The lowest of bars that my (admittedly athletic) tortoise would skip over with ease.

But this is #stfc rather than Reptile Olympics 🐢🥇

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

@hologramfactory I've (ridiculously) only been once too - 0-0 as well!

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

In my earlier thread > https://t.co/tAdu4fZWtg I said I’d be back with positive, aspirational ideas and examples.

Here are just a few. There are dozens of others, you’ll have your own.

Supporting #stfc doesn’t have to be like this ... 1/10

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

A considered, sensible contribution to the #stfc atmosphere, ground redevelopment doom loop thank you @SamMorshead_ @talkinghawes ... unfortunately the content just makes me angrier. Another year wasted & I fully agree, the impasse must be broken ... 1/7
https://t.co/Ftl8BeKzUp

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

@DanWood_Adver Admin Costs FC

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

St Andrews was a dump. I’d seen #stfc play there in a crowd of 4,026. St Pauli’s Millerntor was loved, but primitive. Nobody here had heard of them.

Football without vision is nothing.

Just a few ideas.

It doesn't have to be like this ❤️🤍10/10

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

And finally - where were those giant clubs in 1994 - the year the DR was completed and time stood still at Swindon Town?

In 94/95 Fortuna Dusseldorf averaged less than #stfc. They now average over 40,000 ... 9/10

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

Making it happen for #stfc?

Here's a simple six step guide on understanding what fans value and how to drive improvement ... 8/10
https://t.co/pH0yW9CpNh

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

Back to Germany. Yes, St Pauli are a genuinely unique club and now a global brand. At the core is hugely personal connection and belonging. With care and intent, they can be nurtured anywhere. A recording studio in the new Town End? Let’s crack on ... 7/10 https://t.co/AXCmUO2Rek

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

Or for balance then, how about West Didsbury & Chorlton in the North West Counties League?

Club-branded Session IPA? Yes please ... 6/10
https://t.co/cKmbYatBn8

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

And here’s an example of that ambition coming to life: Birmingham City’s recent proposals. Again, the scale is not for #stfc , but wow, the vision, the sense of heritage and community, certainly should be ... 5/10 https://t.co/6P5X3Hd4aY

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

So now, maybe I'd be a yes to an enabling development on the DR green.

It could be part of a wider urban renewal partnership in the immediate area. The CG would be the heart of a new community.

24/7 use is not just sticking a hotel in the corner of the #stfc car park ... 4/10

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

What I really like about this article is that it made me reconsider what options for the NECG footprint could be like. Forget the investment scale of this, but imagine how points 1-10 could be relevant and transformational for #stfc ... 3/10 https://t.co/EJP30B2m3T

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

We’ll start with Dusseldorf, since their ground featured in #stfc’s redevelopment brochure. Faced with a failing business model they offer 5 free games a season.

They've doubled commercial income and tripled merchandising.

Bloody freeloaders! … 2/10

https://t.co/LV3smD1hRA

[Liam Walsh 🎈 @liampw]

In my earlier thread > https://t.co/tAdu4fZWtg I said I’d be back with positive, aspirational ideas and examples.

Here are just a few. There are dozens of others, you’ll have your own.

Supporting #stfc doesn’t have to be like this ... 1/10