Writer - urbanism, place, football, buildings, music | Published by Pitch Publishing | Appears in Tribune, Football Heritage, Brum Dispatch, & others | Socialist | #MDANT | LM ♥️ | Dad to Dylan
'King of obscurity' - KFC
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴☠️
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14 August 1981, during a Bundesliga match between Arminia Bielefeld and Werder Bremen, Ewald Lienen suffered one of the most gruesome injuries in football history
Werder Bremen's Norbert Siegmann made a challenge that caused his studs to tear open Lienen's right thigh
The cut was 10 inches deep...
"The Man of Fire is a beast...has haunted the imagination of Stokies for generations"
'Spirit of Fire/Jack Frost' #TheHighClearing
@ianrpearsall.bsky.social @philshallcross.bsky.social @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social @barewall.bsky.social
Pen for hire
#Words #Football #Heritage #Place #Politics
Football in the desert near Agdz, Morocco
📸 Maique Madeira
"...in 1909, Wood built the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Brown Lees, a short distance from Biddulph..."
Coming soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'
Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice
#StreetFootball in Shibam - the Manhattan of the Desert #Yemen
Out 17 August 2026 via Pitch Publishing
'Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game'
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📸 Josef Hoflehner
Rather like this manifesto from @daveproudlove.bsky.social
HT @oldtrotter.bsky.social
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"Is ‘Fairytale of New York’ a product of the Potteries? What are the odds? Eighteen-to-one?"
'Fairytales?' #TheHighClearing
@ianrpearsall.bsky.social @philshallcross.bsky.social @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social @barewall.bsky.social
"Wood & Hutchings were commissioned to build what was christened Victoria Hall"
Coming soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'
Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice
"Tunstall is Wood Town"
Coming soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'
Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴☠️
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴☠️
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴☠️
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴☠️
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴☠️
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴☠️
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴☠️
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴☠️
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴☠️
Pete Miles
What real change might look like, give it a chance
