I've written a very personal take on what it's been like 'Bearing Our Stripes' in the last few Toon rollercoaster decades as part of this out now: hernebooks.com/product-page...
chrisbowlby1.bsky.social
Wrote this as a kind of continuation of the running conversation I had with my son Ewan before he died. About what football has meant to me, and him, and the people and world around us. Looking forward to hearing what readers think.
My obituary in the Times today of the great Romanian coach Mircea Lucescu who once wrote ‘the football life is a harsh, deceitful, sometimes ungrateful, sometimes wonderful life’.
www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
Really enjoyed talking about my book 'No Complacency' with @simonpryde.bsky.social and the team at BBC Radio Newcastle's Total Sport @hernebooks.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I have a feeling the height of spying in German football was probably when the Stasi ran BFC Dynamo in Berlin
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
chrisbowlby1.bsky.social
chrisbowlby1.bsky.social
chrisbowlby1.bsky.social
chrisbowlby1.bsky.social
hernebooks.com
Join Simon Pryde and former players from Newcastle United and Sunderland for Total Sport.
www.bbc.co.uk
Polyglot Romanian coach who captained his country, endured Ceausescu’s rule and won trophies across Europe while navigating the egos of the game, dies aged 80
Home lives in black and white ⬛️⬜️
This is Newcastle.
Introducing the 26/27 Newcastle United home jersey, available now.
shop.newcastleunited.com/collections/...
