Ben Wood

@goodreads Touching the Void by Joe Simpson.

What book really got you into reading?

@kisyrpk League one (third tier) actually

@SteveCoult40326 @iammattbrookes You could probably have left off the ‘ever to be promoted to the prem’

@WoodBenjamin11 @iammattbrookes And they also finished the regular season 5th in the table with a negative goal difference. The most boring and dullest team ever to be promoted to the prem

Loving all the deluded #htafc pups bemoaning the “poor quality” of League One this season. How disrespectful to those teams that actually did well, especially #imps & #bcafc No lads, you were just shite and are serial underachievers considering the amount of money you spunked 🤣

@Chris_Taylor32 Whatever happens in the remaining games, you have to give credit to everyone at the club. It’s been a brilliant first season back in league one. And something to really build on!

I know we all get pissed off and we’ve probably let slip a bit what was a great position in January but just look where the other promoted teams are. #bcafc

@rstj04 @JamesHTAFC @bcafcwin And been automatically promoted

@JamesHTAFC @bcafcwin Literally got to a League Cup Final, FA Cup Quarters and 2 L1 play offs in last 15 years but fairs beating Huddersfield is making this our best season for 25 years

Hell of a ride… #BCAFC

@iammattbrookes @SteveCoult40326 Am I right in thinking (I might be wrong) that they once got promoted without scoring a single goal in any play off game and just penalties.

@SteveCoult40326 They’ve not been automatically promoted since 1981. Play off team and even then reliant on penalties to progress. Not in their DNA to be the free spending swashbuckling team who outspends everyone else to promotion. But then yanks don’t know a lot about history.

@Chris_Taylor32 Anyone wanna tell him he’s also spelt his name wrong?

Anyone want to tell him he’s right footed? #bcafc

@hjpm2002 @BCAFCBH Might rethink that after seeing Connor Wynne’s defensive show so far 😂

@BCAFCBH Sounds like going Wakefield away was the smarter decision after all

Playing against 10 men sat back really exposes how reliant we are on long balls and winning scraps. Dire watch again, and we had the nerve to criticise Stevenage last week. Has to change the style at half time. #bcafc

@DearS_o_n Paying for paper bags. We were all told the charge for carrier bags was to reduce plastic, but lots of companies now have paper bags and charge you for them.

Name a huge scam that has been normalised?

#Friday #Facts to impress or bore your friends. On your phone calendar go to Oct 1582 there are 10 days missing. Pope Gregory 13th decreed removal of these 10 days to correct an error created by Julia’s Caesar in the Julias calendar and so started the Gregorian calendar. #History

@LeagueOne25 Think in this day and age probably is a foul. I do think keepers are way too protected though

Bradford City had a goal ruled out for a foul on Stevenage goalkeeper Filip Marschall from Joe Wright Where’s the foul?🤔 #bcafc #StevenageFC

@sciencegirl Religion

What is stopping humanity from living peacefully together?

"Welcome to my old neighborhood." Our @NASAArtemis II astronauts woke up on the sixth day of their mission to a special message recorded in 2025 by astronaut Jim Lovell, the pilot of Apollo 8.

@DrHelenFry Currently reading The Walls Have Ears, it’s a superb read so far!!

I also post over on Instagram! Instagram.com/DrHelenFry

@MrJamesMay I think you’re right. I guess it shows the difference in producing a plane based on the design of Schneider trophy racers and then slowly adapting that to the necessities of war.

Spitfires became progressively less pretty from the prototype onwards. Braced and ready.

@HistoryPegg Happy Birthday Ian. As always, wise words.

Now that I have done 21,184 revolutions of this wonderful blue planet and survived 508, 416 hours or 30,504,970 minutes. Here are some life lessons. I’ve lived through no internet, no Mobile phones, no online deliveries, wazzocks and pillocks not being able to spread their bile online and do you know what I’d go back there in an instant. Standing on an upturned plug in bare feet still hurts like hell and makes you swear loudly. If it looks hot, it tends to be hot. Why did you touch. That makes you swear a lot. If it looks hot, it tends to be hot. Why did you touch AGAIN FFS it’s still bloody hot. Are you STUPID it hurts even more. As you get older never turn down an opportunity to pee. Don’t use a kitchen mandolin ever you’ll lose a finger. Not worth the effort. As you get older telling people to shut the fuck up is one of the most satisfying moments in life. Remember the only difference between a fart and shitting your pants is enthusiasm. Think about it. 😂 Have a truly wonderful day. Big love Peggy. Ps I’m sure I’ve missed a few 🤣🤣🤣 #birthday #lifelessons

@JamieRaynor @BBCWYS @Hudsonweather @mbows23 As for VAR in the EFL no thank you, it’s completely taken the soul out of the game at the top level.

@JamieRaynor @BBCWYS @Hudsonweather @mbows23 My main solution for GK’s going down is if that happens no players are allowed to the sidelines and no manager is allowed to give any instructions either as a huddle or shouted on. If they do it’s a yellow card.

@DrHelenFry I had a teacher at school who was just the best history teacher and she made it come alive. I’ve been fascinated ever since.

What first sparked your interest in WW2 history?

@AwayDaysClub_ 100% worse thing to ever happen to football

Agree?