Just a reminder that I pioneered getting banned from the Press Box by the entire Rugby Football League. #TheManInTheStand #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur. @rememberlop.bsky.social @forty20live.bsky.social
September 30, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Just a reminder that I pioneered getting banned from the Press Box by the entire Rugby Football League. #TheManInTheStand #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur. @rememberlop.bsky.social @forty20live.bsky.social
October '84 - Prince "Purple Rain" was drenching the Top 40 & Yorksher folk were in't middle of t' Miners' Strike.
#RugbyLeague for #LeedsOtherPaper meant raconteur nonpareil #TheManInTheStand attending public autopsies that were almost but not quite a facsimile of 13-a-side.
#RugbyLeague for #LeedsOtherPaper meant raconteur nonpareil #TheManInTheStand attending public autopsies that were almost but not quite a facsimile of 13-a-side.
October 2, 2026 at 8:34 AM
October '84 - Prince "Purple Rain" was drenching the Top 40 & Yorksher folk were in't middle of t' Miners' Strike.
#RugbyLeague for #LeedsOtherPaper meant raconteur nonpareil #TheManInTheStand attending public autopsies that were almost but not quite a facsimile of 13-a-side.
#RugbyLeague for #LeedsOtherPaper meant raconteur nonpareil #TheManInTheStand attending public autopsies that were almost but not quite a facsimile of 13-a-side.
From the #LeedsOtherPaper #TheManInTheStand Archives #RugbyLeague Match Report #Castleford #Wakefield @forty20magazine.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social
December 26, 2024 at 9:42 PM
From the #LeedsOtherPaper #TheManInTheStand Archives #RugbyLeague Match Report #Castleford #Wakefield @forty20magazine.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
#TheManInTheStand #LeedsOtherPaper #PoetinResidence #Wakefield #Rugbyleague Here's another treasure from the cavernous files. @wtrinityrl.bsky.social @forty20live.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
#TheManInTheStand #LeedsOtherPaper #PoetinResidence #Wakefield #Rugbyleague Here's another treasure from the cavernous files. @wtrinityrl.bsky.social @forty20live.bsky.social
July 21, 2026 at 9:04 AM
January 11, 2026 at 11:19 AM
40 YEARS AGO !! #TheManInTheStand Revolutionary #RugbyLeague correspondent of #LeedsOtherPaper engaged in Ideological Class struggle. @rememberlop.bsky.social @forty20live.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
40 YEARS AGO !! #TheManInTheStand Revolutionary #RugbyLeague correspondent of #LeedsOtherPaper engaged in Ideological Class struggle. @rememberlop.bsky.social @forty20live.bsky.social
A fog bound,sodden pitch looking like the battlefield of Towton 1461 ,a true Classic as witnessed by renegade #RugbyLeague correspondent #TheManInTheStand for #LeedsOtherPaper
December 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A fog bound,sodden pitch looking like the battlefield of Towton 1461 ,a true Classic as witnessed by renegade #RugbyLeague correspondent #TheManInTheStand for #LeedsOtherPaper
#TheManInTheStand renegade #RugbyLeague contemporaneous reportage for the roguish #LeedsOtherPaper including exclusive interview with Tony "The Tank" Gordon.
October 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
#TheManInTheStand renegade #RugbyLeague contemporaneous reportage for the roguish #LeedsOtherPaper including exclusive interview with Tony "The Tank" Gordon.
The original,first ever #TheManInTheStand report published in #LeedsOtherPaper. Unforeseen by anyone that coverage of 11 RugbyLeague Seasons (including 245 match reports) would ensue. @rememberlop.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The original,first ever #TheManInTheStand report published in #LeedsOtherPaper. Unforeseen by anyone that coverage of 11 RugbyLeague Seasons (including 245 match reports) would ensue. @rememberlop.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#LeedsOtherPaper 22 April 1993 #Castleford #Wigan #RugbyLeague @rememberlop.bsky.social @forty20magazine.bsky.social
December 28, 2024 at 11:54 AM
GREAT BRITAIN v. AUSTRALIA
(AUTUMN TEST SERIES 1990) 1
#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand went 100% proof panegyric!
(The match preview is included.)
(AUTUMN TEST SERIES 1990) 1
#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand went 100% proof panegyric!
(The match preview is included.)
January 20, 2026 at 7:13 PM
GREAT BRITAIN v. AUSTRALIA
(AUTUMN TEST SERIES 1990) 1
#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand went 100% proof panegyric!
(The match preview is included.)
(AUTUMN TEST SERIES 1990) 1
#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand went 100% proof panegyric!
(The match preview is included.)
40 YEARS AGO !!
#TheManInTheStand Revolutionary #RugbyLeague correspondent of #LeedsOtherPaper engaged in Ideological Class struggle.Whose Game is it anyway? @rememberlop.bsky.social @forty20live.bsky.social
#TheManInTheStand Revolutionary #RugbyLeague correspondent of #LeedsOtherPaper engaged in Ideological Class struggle.Whose Game is it anyway? @rememberlop.bsky.social @forty20live.bsky.social
August 17, 2026 at 6:45 AM
40 YEARS AGO !!
#TheManInTheStand Revolutionary #RugbyLeague correspondent of #LeedsOtherPaper engaged in Ideological Class struggle.Whose Game is it anyway? @rememberlop.bsky.social @forty20live.bsky.social
#TheManInTheStand Revolutionary #RugbyLeague correspondent of #LeedsOtherPaper engaged in Ideological Class struggle.Whose Game is it anyway? @rememberlop.bsky.social @forty20live.bsky.social
#TheManInTheStand #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur reminisces.Ephemeral & psychedelic rpreviews from the Xmas & New Year's editions, 31/12/92,7/1/93,24/1/93
February 4, 2026 at 8:56 AM
#TheManInTheStand #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur reminisces.Ephemeral & psychedelic rpreviews from the Xmas & New Year's editions, 31/12/92,7/1/93,24/1/93
ON THIS DAY: 28 SEPTEMBER 1986
Whilst Annie Lennox (the Eurythmics) was tearing up the charts,others were making more kinetic use of Thorns into sides at the Victorian Pleasure Gardens of Thrum Hall as reported by intrepid #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand for #LeedsOtherPaper
Whilst Annie Lennox (the Eurythmics) was tearing up the charts,others were making more kinetic use of Thorns into sides at the Victorian Pleasure Gardens of Thrum Hall as reported by intrepid #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand for #LeedsOtherPaper
September 27, 2026 at 9:24 AM
ON THIS DAY: 28 SEPTEMBER 1986
Whilst Annie Lennox (the Eurythmics) was tearing up the charts,others were making more kinetic use of Thorns into sides at the Victorian Pleasure Gardens of Thrum Hall as reported by intrepid #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand for #LeedsOtherPaper
Whilst Annie Lennox (the Eurythmics) was tearing up the charts,others were making more kinetic use of Thorns into sides at the Victorian Pleasure Gardens of Thrum Hall as reported by intrepid #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand for #LeedsOtherPaper
#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand post-1994.
: GLORY DAYS
FROM THE ORIGINAL WAKEFIELD POETRY ARCHIVES : April 18 2005.
#Wakefield #WakefieldCathedral #WakefieldCouncil #CathedralPoetinResidence #BlackHorsePoets #DestinyPoets #poetry #WakefieldPoetry
: GLORY DAYS
FROM THE ORIGINAL WAKEFIELD POETRY ARCHIVES : April 18 2005.
#Wakefield #WakefieldCathedral #WakefieldCouncil #CathedralPoetinResidence #BlackHorsePoets #DestinyPoets #poetry #WakefieldPoetry
April 8, 2026 at 7:17 AM
#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand post-1994.
: GLORY DAYS
FROM THE ORIGINAL WAKEFIELD POETRY ARCHIVES : April 18 2005.
#Wakefield #WakefieldCathedral #WakefieldCouncil #CathedralPoetinResidence #BlackHorsePoets #DestinyPoets #poetry #WakefieldPoetry
: GLORY DAYS
FROM THE ORIGINAL WAKEFIELD POETRY ARCHIVES : April 18 2005.
#Wakefield #WakefieldCathedral #WakefieldCouncil #CathedralPoetinResidence #BlackHorsePoets #DestinyPoets #poetry #WakefieldPoetry
Did you miss our online webinar earlier this week? You can now watch the recording of the event via @wcmlibrary.bsky.social's Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2UT...
October 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The greatest on The Road,embedded with the Team #Rugbyleague journalistic coup+ #LeedsOtherPaper match report by #TheManInTheStand #Castleford #Wigan. Nonpareil.
January 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The greatest on The Road,embedded with the Team #Rugbyleague journalistic coup+ #LeedsOtherPaper match report by #TheManInTheStand #Castleford #Wigan. Nonpareil.
27 October 1984 - T' Umbersard Classic. @hullfcofficial.bsky.social @leagueunlimited.bsky.social #Rugbyleague #LeedsOtherPaper
January 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
27 October 1984 - T' Umbersard Classic. @hullfcofficial.bsky.social @leagueunlimited.bsky.social #Rugbyleague #LeedsOtherPaper
#TheManInTheStand #LeedsOtherPaper Renegade,guerilla #RugbyLeague correspondent. 1983-1994.1999-2001 Poet in Residence, Wakefield Trinity.
October 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#TheManInTheStand #LeedsOtherPaper Renegade,guerilla #RugbyLeague correspondent. 1983-1994.1999-2001 Poet in Residence, Wakefield Trinity.
After #TheManInTheStand & #LeedsOtherPaper
26 YEARS A POET!
SILVER ANNIVERSARY + 1
NOVEMBER 1999 - First ever Poet in Residence in The World of #RugbyLeague at Wakefield Trinity.
@forty20live.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social
26 YEARS A POET!
SILVER ANNIVERSARY + 1
NOVEMBER 1999 - First ever Poet in Residence in The World of #RugbyLeague at Wakefield Trinity.
@forty20live.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
After #TheManInTheStand & #LeedsOtherPaper
26 YEARS A POET!
SILVER ANNIVERSARY + 1
NOVEMBER 1999 - First ever Poet in Residence in The World of #RugbyLeague at Wakefield Trinity.
@forty20live.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social
26 YEARS A POET!
SILVER ANNIVERSARY + 1
NOVEMBER 1999 - First ever Poet in Residence in The World of #RugbyLeague at Wakefield Trinity.
@forty20live.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social
October 27 1990 - Oh Happy Day!
#LeedsOtherPaper guerilla #rugbyleague correspondent #TheManInTheStand was there! (Match report & preview!)
#LeedsOtherPaper guerilla #rugbyleague correspondent #TheManInTheStand was there! (Match report & preview!)
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
October 27 1990 - Oh Happy Day!
#LeedsOtherPaper guerilla #rugbyleague correspondent #TheManInTheStand was there! (Match report & preview!)
#LeedsOtherPaper guerilla #rugbyleague correspondent #TheManInTheStand was there! (Match report & preview!)
#LeedsOtherPaper was there with full frenetic #RugbyLeague coverage, #TheManInTheStand wasn't! All regular contributors/writers had swapped roles for one issue & "Spig" got the honours! I did the TV reviews/previews for that issue!
@writerlytone.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social
@writerlytone.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
#LeedsOtherPaper was there with full frenetic #RugbyLeague coverage, #TheManInTheStand wasn't! All regular contributors/writers had swapped roles for one issue & "Spig" got the honours! I did the TV reviews/previews for that issue!
@writerlytone.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social
@writerlytone.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social