Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️

If you are into #groundhopping, football history, and culture, give me a follow! 🎙️ PODCAST: Look for ‘Outside Write’ wherever you listen ✍️ SUBSTACK: I post a new football travel or football history post each Sunday 📱 SOCIAL MEDIA: Also follow on Instagram 👉 outsidewrite.substack.com

Congratulations to Harry Kane on his Ballon d’Or win. What a phenomenal thing to be still seem to be improving at 33. Incredible athlete.

#OnThisDay in football, 27 Oct 1888 - First competitive meeting of Celtic (6-1) Rangers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 1892 - Leinster FA founded ☘️ 1893 - Oxford Utd formed as Headington FC 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1982 - Corinthians encourage people to vote 🇧🇷 Born: 1932 - Harry Gregg ☘️ 1957 - Glenn Hoddle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1971 - Theodoros Zagorakis 🇬🇷

#OTD 26 Oct 1863, the Football Association was founded, and members took the first steps to creating a rulebook. However, the place where those new rules were tested was South London. Read on... #London #footballhistory outsidewrite.substack.com/p/south-lond...

This post did REALLY well yesterday. Have you read my interview with Ostap Sip, the former groundhopper who photographs Ukrainian stadiums damaged by Russia? Read on... 🇺🇦 outsidewrite.substack.com/p/ukraines-s... #Ukraine #Groundhopping 📸 Ostap Sip

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

#OnThisDay in football, 26 Oct 1863 - Football Association founded 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1996 - Southampton 6-3 Manchester United, the 'grey shirt' incident 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Born: 1971 - Steve Howey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1980 - Cristian Chivu 🇷🇴 1984 - Jefferson Farfán 🇵🇪

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So, Bournemouth have beaten both Milan and Man Utd (A) 3-0 in the space of four days. They, Brighton and Brentford are finally making the Prem interesting. #premierleague #MNUBOU

NEW POST 🗞️ Ukrainian groundhopper Ostap Sip has been documenting the damage Russia has caused to his country’s stadiums since its full-scale invasion. He shares his story with us today, with some striking photos from his book, ‘Stadiums of War’ 🇺🇦 outsidewrite.substack.com/p/ukraines-s...

It’s good to see all the momentum moving in the right direction 🇬🇧🤝🇪🇺 Br*xiteers got what they wanted, it was every bit as 💩 as many of us warned it would be, so now it’s time to repair the damage they caused. Gets my vote. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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#OnThisDay in football, 25 Oct 1908 - Sporting debuted green/white halved shirts 🇵🇹 2003 - Benfica inaugurated the new Estádio da Luz (pic) 🇵🇹 2016 - Carlos Alberto died 🇧🇷 Born: 1916 - Stan Cullis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1962 - Steve Hodge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1969 - Oleg Salenko 🇷🇺 2000 - Dominik Szoboszlai 🇭🇺

NEW POST 🗞️ Ukrainian groundhopper Ostap Sip has been documenting the damage Russia has caused to his country’s stadiums since its full-scale invasion. He shares his story with us today, with some striking photos from his book, ‘Stadiums of War’ 🇺🇦 outsidewrite.substack.com/p/ukraines-s...

Dropping tomorrow, I have an interview with Ostap Sip, who's been chronicling the damage to Ukrainian stadiums caused by Russia. It's a fascinating insight. 🇺🇦 Sub/follow 👉 outsidewrite.substack.com #Ukraine 📸 Ostap Sip

Since it's @sheffieldfc.bsky.social's 169th birthday, here's a post on the world's oldest derby and what Sheffield brought to the FA Rulebook... outsidewrite.substack.com/p/the-rules-...

#OnThisDay in football, 24 Oct 1857 - Sheffield FC founded 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1878 - First official exhibition match held in Ireland ☘️ 1920 - Osasuna founded 🇪🇸 1946 - FK Sarajevo founded 🇧🇦 Born: 1966 - Roman Abramovich 🇷🇺 1975 - Juan Pablo Ángel 🇨🇴 1985 - Wayne Rooney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1990 - İlkay Gündoğan 🇩🇪

This is the monument to José Manuel Soares Louro (Pépe) at Belenenses 🇵🇹 The young star died #OTD 23 Oct 1931. It's suspected his mother mistakenly put caustic soda in her chouriços (sausages) instead of salt, and Pépe ate one... This and many other stories are in my next book, Barrio Clubs (2027)

The nerve-wracking final FINAL proof of a book😬. I’ve done this three times before but it doesn’t get any easier. This is the very last chance to pick up any typos or inaccuracies or weird-looking sentences before the whole thing is committed to print soon. Will keep you posted on release date.

#OnThisDay in football, 23 Oct 1931 - Belenenses star Pépe died, allegedly poisoned accidentally by his mum 🇵🇹 (pic) 1968 - Zamora CF founded 🇪🇸 2004 - Bill Nicholson died 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Born 1940 - Pelé 🇧🇷 1961 - Andoni Zubizarreta 🇪🇸 1978 - Jimmy Bullard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1992 - Álvaro Morata 🇪🇸

I'm just sending out invitations for the winter series of the podcast 🎙️ Back for 10 weekly shows from 30 Nov. Sub/catch up on 260+ episodes here: open.spotify.com/show/41nxyOU...

#OnThisDay in football, 21 Oct 2023 - Bobby Charlton died (86) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Born: 1902 - Eddy Hamel 🇺🇸🇳🇱 1933 - Paco Gento 🇪🇸 1959 - Kevin Sheedy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪 1967 - Paul Ince 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1981 - Nemanja Vidić 🇷🇸

#OnThisDay in football, 20 Oct 1876 - Middlesbrough founded 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1905 - Galatasaray founded 🇹🇷 1951 - Claudio Ranieri born 🇮🇹 1961 - Ian Rush born 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 1976 - Diego debuted for Argentinos Juniors (aged 15, wearing 16) 🇦🇷 1982 - Luzhniki Stadium disaster🇷🇺 1990 - 21-man brawl at Man Utd v Arsenal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

#OnThisDay 20 Oct 1976 🇦🇷 Diego Armando Maradona made his Argentinos Juniors debut just days short of his 16th birthday, becoming the youngest player ever in Argentina's top flight. Here's how you can discover his early days for yourself in Buenos Aires outsidewrite.substack.com/p/on-the-tra...

#OnThisDay 20 Oct 1976 🇦🇷 Diego Armando Maradona made his Argentinos Juniors debut just days short of his 16th birthday, becoming the youngest player ever in Argentina's top flight. Here's how you can discover his early days for yourself in Buenos Aires outsidewrite.substack.com/p/on-the-tra...

#OnThisDay in football, 20 Oct 1876 - Middlesbrough founded 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1905 - Galatasaray founded 🇹🇷 1951 - Claudio Ranieri born 🇮🇹 1961 - Ian Rush born 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 1976 - Diego debuted for Argentinos Juniors (aged 15, wearing 16) 🇦🇷 1982 - Luzhniki Stadium disaster🇷🇺 1990 - 21-man brawl at Man Utd v Arsenal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

How Burnham could craft a wholesome, structured conversation on our relationship with Europe... ...in a manner which gets us well away from the divisiveness of 2016. 👇👇

This week's article is your #groundhopping guide to #Belfast ☘️ One of the oldest and best football cultures, IMO outsidewrite.substack.com/p/the-ground...

#OTD 19 Oct 1993 Norwich City became the first English side to beat Bayern München on their own patch. @robinireland.bsky.social and I discuss that match and more in this podcast. Navigating modern football through the lens of the canaries. #NCFC #norwich open.spotify.com/episode/0BDL...

#OnThisDay in football, 19 Oct 1886 - Original Chesterfield FC founded 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1901 - Czech FA formed 🇨🇿 1954 - Sam Allardyce born 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1993 - Norwich first English team to beat Bayern at home 🦜 2002 - Wayne Rooney youngest goalscorer in Prem (16) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2007 - Drogheda Utd won LOI title 🇮🇪

All three of my books are currently rated 4.6⭐ on Amazon. I guess I'm just a 4.6⭐ kind of writer 🤷🏻‍♂️

I guess now is as good a time as any to explain the Brighton-Palace rivalry… Just don’t call it the ‘M23 Derby’, whatever you do… #BHACRY outsidewrite.substack.com/p/why-bright...

I didn’t know much about about Abdul El-Sayed before watching this but I knew as soon as I’d seen it that he’d worked as a teacher — and sure enough he was an assistant professor in epidemiology. This is how you walk a student through a dumb take.

🇦🇷🐰 OTD 1998: a 16-year old Javier Saviola scored on his River Plate debut (a 2-2 draw away at Gimnasia de Jujuy), becoming the club’s youngest ever scorer at 16 years, 10 months. Saviola’s record was broken by Franco Mastantuono in April 2024 (16 years, 8 months, 10 days)!

Finally topped 1,000 followers on Substack! Thanks, all 🙌🏼 They're from: 🇬🇧 50% 🇺🇸 16% 🇮🇪 5% 🇪🇸 3% 🇨🇦 2% 🇩🇰 2% 🇵🇹 2% 🇩🇪 2% ROW 18% Sub/follow 👉🏼 outsidewrite.substack.com

We have just published an updated version of the Football Gazetteer of Wales - the complete directory of Welsh football grounds, with addresses, public transport advice and directions. Plus some tourism and pub recommendations for visitors. welsh-football.net/the-football...

#OnThisDay in football, 18 Oct 1918 - Fortaleza refounded 🇧🇷 Died: 2005 - Johnny Haynes (one day after his 71st birthday) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2019 - Rui Jordão (67) 🇵🇹 Birthdays: Guy Roux (88)🇫🇷 Julio Orlaticoechea (68) 🇦🇷 Nelson Vivas (57) 🇦🇷 Robbie Savage (52) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Ryan Nelsen (49) 🇳🇿 John McGinn (32) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

NEW POST 🗞️ Your #groundhopping guide to Belfast ☘️ The city has one of the world's oldest football cultures and several spectacular must-see grounds. Read on... Have you been? What did you think? outsidewrite.substack.com/p/the-ground...

Schedule 🗓️ 🗞️ NOW: Film Review: The Match 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇷 🎙️ NOW: The History of the Fanzine w/ @danielgraywriter.bsky.social 🗞️ 18/10: Groundhopper's Guide to Belfast ☘️ 🗞️ 25/10: Ukraine's Stadiums of War with Ostap Sip 🇺🇦 🗞️ 01/11: Non-League Adventures: Worthing FC Sub/follow 👉🏼 outsidewrite.substack.com

#OnThisDay in football, 17 Oct 1919 - Leeds United founded 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1973 - Eng 1-1 Pol 🤡 2015 - Howard Kendall died 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Born: 1934 - Johnny Haynes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (pic) 1940 - Jim Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1963 - Sergio Goycoechea 🇦🇷 1968 - Graeme Le Saux 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1976 - Sebastián Abreu 🇺🇾 1977 - André Villas-Boas 🇵🇹

Schedule 🗓️ 🗞️ NOW: Film Review: The Match 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇷 🎙️ NOW: The History of the Fanzine w/ @danielgraywriter.bsky.social 🗞️ 18/10: Groundhopper's Guide to Belfast ☘️ 🗞️ 25/10: Ukraine's Stadiums of War with Ostap Sip 🇺🇦 🗞️ 01/11: Non-League Adventures: Worthing FC Sub/follow 👉🏼 outsidewrite.substack.com

@lofcsupporters.bsky.social and the O's Somme Memorial Fund in partnership with @leytonorienttrust.bsky.social, @footballandwar.bsky.social, The WFA, and the Army FA will host a Remembrance Event on 5th November. It is a free event with a number of talks. More details and how to book your place👇

#OnThisDay in football, 16 Oct 1878 - Ipswich Town founded 🚜 1956 - Jules Rimet died 🇫🇷 1996 - Guatemala stadium disaster kills 84 🇬🇹 2002 - David Seaman's 75th and final cap for England 🧤 Birthdays: Kaizer Motaung (82) 🇿🇦 Falcão (73) 🇧🇷 Mehmet Scholl (56) 🇩🇪 Franco Armani (40) 🇦🇷

This is the Estádio Nacional do Jamor in Lisbon, where Celtic won the 1967 European Cup final. It's become something of a pilgrimage site for Bhoys fans since, and I'm sure plenty will head there today ahead of the Benfica match at the Luz tonight. #Celtic #Lisbon

#OnThisDay in football, 15 Oct 1885 - DSV Concordia founded 🇳🇱 2004 - Spurs' double-winning manager Bill Nicholson died 🏆🏆 Birthdays: Stanley Menzo (63) 🇳🇱 Jorge Campos (60) 🇲🇽 Didier Deschamps (58) 🇫🇷 Vitor Baía (57) 🇵🇹 Andy Cole (55) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Robinson (47) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David Trezeguet (49) 🇫🇷 Mesut Özil (38) 🇩🇪

This is the Estádio Nacional do Jamor in Lisbon, where Celtic won the 1967 European Cup final. It's become something of a pilgrimage site for Bhoys fans since, and I'm sure plenty will head there today ahead of the Benfica match at the Luz tonight. #Celtic #Lisbon