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Rob Mathison

@robmwrites

Writing & other content things. Writing instructor @UBCExtended. Slowly writing #VWFC '79 & #HMFC '86 football books

Vancouver, Canada Katılım Ocak 2011
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@AroundTheFunnel And we thought that would be the strangest decision of the last couple of games...
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My Dad, a lifelong #Hearts fan, did his National Service in Edinburgh when Hearts won their last title in 1960. We experienced the last day of 85/86 together. He's now 90 with Alzheimer's & I'll be watching with him at his care home. The chef's a Jambo - pies & chips are promised
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@ketchell Just saw your piece on the Whitecaps. Vancouver Whitecaps ST holder and lifelong Hearts fan here who travelled in the opposite direction on Tuesday for the final week. The squeakiest of squeaky bum times
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FourFourTwo@FourFourTwo·
🎰 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗼𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗿: Community and capitalism go head-to-head in MLS as winner keeps the Whitecaps 🏔️ Vancouver Whitecaps has a winning team with over 50 years of history, Thomas Müller is the current captain, and they play in an incredible city hosting seven World Cup matches this summer. 🤔 So why could they be relocated to Las Vegas? 🏟️ They are one of the only MLS clubs that still rent their stadium, meaning match-day revenue is low and annual losses are high 🚫 Current owners have had the club listed for sale for 18 months, with no viable offer emerging 🃏 A formal bid to relocate the Whitecaps to Vegas landed with the league office on 30 April ✊ Fans have launched a movement #SaveTheCaps in a bid to keep the club in Vancouver 🔗 FFT spent four days in the city speaking to players, fans, media and the club CEO fourfourtwo.com/team/fear-and-…
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Rob Mathison@robmwrites·
Meanwhile, back in Vancouver...
Vancouver Police@VancouverPD

VPD officers tracked down a big, furry suspect last Tuesday around 1:00 a.m. after the VPD received 911 calls about a black bear wandering around Commercial Drive and Grandview Highway. Patrol officers located the bear, and the Emergency Response Team assisted when the bear was getting a little too close to people nearby. The BC Conservation Officer Service was called, while VPD officers contained the bear as it moved toward Hastings and Commercial. When the Conservation Service arrived, the bear was tranquilized and taken to North Vancouver. Nobody was hurt, the bear slept it off, and was released without charges.

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Rob Mathison@robmwrites·
@AndyMitten Not just any song, the Hearts Song with the players on backing vocals. Available on 7" with a free poster.
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Might have got carried away at the newsagent. Good to see Match still going but no Shoot! it seems. Plus one Panini album each for the kids with the aim of competing Canada and Scotland
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Oh well one more game to go. Mathematically Hearts were champions at half time though, which was fun.
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Mark Donaldson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Mark Donaldson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@DonaldsonESPN·
‘Right now it's Hearts this, Hearts that, Hearts everything. If there was a 25th hour in the day we’d spend the extra 60 minutes thinking about Hearts… and still want the 4th official to add more time so we can ponder for longer’ I try to set the scene: espn.co.uk/football/story…
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Rob Mathison@robmwrites·
Not so much “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” as planes, tram and ambulation on the way from Vancouver, Canada to Tynecastle for the potential title decider. The same trip went well in 2012 so wearing the (hopefully) lucky scarf. Cmon the JTs
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Ben Steiner
Ben Steiner@BenSteiner00·
BC Place is ready to go for the World Cup. The grass was grown locally in Abbotsford, by a company run out of Langley and Burnaby. It looks stunning. Roof open today.
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JAY JANOWER@JayJanower·
Good Whitecaps news on the horizon? @GlobalBC Sports has learned FIFA VP Victor Montagliani, representatives of 3 local First Nations bands, City of Vancouver, Provincial/Fed govt and MLS officials meeting on Weds..hope is to get MOU signed on new 4-5yr BC Place.
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So many great new(ish) football magazines around these days from all over the olace. 15 year old me would have been in dreamland. I only had Shoot!, Match and World Soccer to choose from
These Football Times@thesefootytimes

Introducing our new series: Anthology. In it, we cover various competitions from each year of a decade, starting, naturally, with the 1990s. Join us as we explore 1989/90 first. We'll release a new year alongside each magazine over the coming ten issues. thesefootballtimes.shop/ant

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Rob Mathison@robmwrites·
@barneyronay On the upside, football content-wise, for those not captured by social media there are a lot of really great football books being published at a rapid rate, not all by the well-known names. Quite hard to keep up.
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Barney Ronay@barneyronay·
Reel life. it’s happening very quickly. nobody asked for it. It destroys all other forms. We really need to stop pumping this shit into young people’s heads theguardian.com/football/2026/…
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I've been researching & scribbling a book about the 85/86 season in Scotland, focusing on the Hearts boys and interviewing lots of them-but also D Utd and Aberdeen from that era-for about 4 years now. The Epilogue is currently writing itself in real-time.. nail-biting stuff
Adam@adam___74

This is genuinely the best video I’ve ever seen.

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Rob Mathison@robmwrites·
End of an era. I assumed Panini albums were sacred. FIFA is dismantling everything that made the World Cup such a global phenomenon. Kids from the around the world's gateway into the WC has always been the Panini album. theguardian.com/football/2026/…
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Scarves Around The Funnel@AroundTheFunnel·
Farewell peeps. What a week. Please give the boys a big cheer for me in the last three games ❤️🇱🇻
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Heart of Midlothian FC
Heart of Midlothian FC@JamTarts·
Hospitality Giveaway 🌟 @OFX are giving away a pair of tickets for the Big Matchday Experience for our final home game of the 2025/26 season. TO ENTER ➡️ Like this post and comment below with who you would bring with you!
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