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Luke Connelly
Jun 7, 20201 min read
SHINDIGGER west coast pale ale
This one's a local affair. If you, like many inhabitants of the North West of England, frequent Manchester’s Northern Quarter of a...
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Luke Connelly
Jun 6, 20206 min read
Making Up The Numbers?
I always find something particularly disconcerting about European clubs entering their B teams into the same professional structure. In...
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Luke Connelly
May 24, 202011 min read
Sometimes it's just Fate. ISTANBUL 2005.
The idea that one isolated event can happen and change everything forever simply doesn’t work. Single moments do not occur, without...
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Luke Connelly
May 20, 20201 min read
SHREWSBURY TOWN
There’s a medieval feel to Shrewsbury’s badge. The latin contributes to this significantly. Floreat Salopia literally translates as “May...
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Luke Connelly
May 18, 20201 min read
WERDER BREMEN 03-04
Few Bundesliga teams packed a punch like the 2003-4 Werder Bremen side. Fewer still had a kit in the same bracket as this one. It is...
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Luke Connelly
May 16, 20202 min read
ALTBIER.
Farbeit for me to drone on in soliloquy about the ruthless, cruel aging process that befalls us all but it goes without saying that time...
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Luke Connelly
May 15, 20205 min read
EINTRACHT FRANKFURT UK.
Kommen sie bitte und listen… It’s happening. This weekend. The Bundesliga is back. Now I know you’ve grown close to your adopted South...
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Luke Connelly
May 2, 20201 min read
TOULOUSE FC
Few clubs in Europe have taken the leap and embraced the purple. Those who have generally succeed with aplomb. In that regard, look no...
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Luke Connelly
Apr 22, 20201 min read
paok Thessaloniki
At first glance, you could be quite dismissive of PAOK’s emblem, largely due to the number of eagle bearing badges seen across the...
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Luke Connelly
Apr 17, 20202 min read
WYLAM'S WXY4
I’m always conscious to vary the breweries from whom I source ales to review. In spite of this, it gives me great pleasure to introduce...
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Luke Connelly
Apr 13, 20207 min read
PEELING BACK THE CURTAIN.
Over 7,000 miles from North to South, 10,000 miles East to West, across 11 time zones, 2 continents and 5 climate zones, covering...
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Luke Connelly
Apr 11, 20201 min read
BOAVISTA FC
You can’t help but look at Boavista’s badge and think of the UEFA cup in its heyday. They reached the 2002-03 semi finals, narrowly...
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Luke Connelly
Apr 2, 20202 min read
EVERTON AWAY 2001-2
This kit symbolises a changing economy, a changing demographic of football fan. Pink (or salmon, as my evertonian mate tried to justify...
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Luke Connelly
Mar 27, 20201 min read
Sevilla FC
While this crest doesn’t overtly detail the name of it’s owner, there’s no mistaking who it belongs to. Yes, the difficult-to-decipher...
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Luke Connelly
Mar 27, 20201 min read
THE ECONOMIC GROWTH OF THE GEEK
The names of Wylam’s ales could quite easily be mod-rock album titles. And not mainstream albums either. Albums that are more Radio 6...
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Luke Connelly
Mar 22, 20206 min read
FOOTBALL MANAGER BEST SIGNINGS XI
Here's to Football Manager. Here's to escaping the everyday, pacing up and down your bedroom mid-match. Here's to suiting up for cup...
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Luke Connelly
Mar 16, 20203 min read
ALUN EVANS
Wolverhampton Wanderers: 1967-68 Liverpool: 1968-72 Aston Villa: 1972-75 Walsall: 1975-78 South Melbourne: 1978-82 Morwell Falcons: 1983...
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Luke Connelly
Mar 13, 20201 min read
MOORHOUSE'S WHITE WITCH.
This one's a throwback. It’s England vs Colombia, 2016 World Cup and you’re in the Hare & Hounds, Billinge, lucky enough to be sampling...
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Luke Connelly
Mar 12, 20201 min read
AS ROMA 2003-04
Pro Evolution Soccer 4 anyone? What a game! And if you’re going to pick anyone on the game, pick Roma (thankfully they had the Serie A...
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Luke Connelly
Mar 7, 20201 min read
SANFRECCE HIROSHIMA
"How can I ever let them go?" For the rest of the world, Hiroshima is entirely associated with one single catastrophic event in modern...
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