Chris Lepkowski
@chrislepkowski
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B'ham City Uni Sports Journalism course director • @batsonbook ghost • @blzzrd • freelance matchday reporter • ex-WBA & B'ham Mail. Latest book: THE SLUM SPORT
West Midlands
Joined February 2009
🎄Still time to order THE SLUM SPORT, the story of the 1985/86 football season. Exclusive interviews: Gary Gillespie, Graeme Sharp, Tony Cottee, Ron Atkinson, Jim Rosenthal, John Trewick and many more... "It truly is a cracking read" Barry Davies OBE https://t.co/ES6kuDoJXk
curtis-sport.com
PRE-ORDER - Release date: Mid-October 2025 THE SLUM SPORT is the in-depth story of the 1985/86 Football League season, as told by those who were there. As football dusted itself down following the...
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NEW EPISODE: ⚽️ Mason Avoids Axe As Blades Blunted ⚽️ January targets ⚽️ Peter Odemwinge #wba with @GoldbergRadio and @chrislepkowski (who thinks RM wasn't under immediate threat). https://t.co/TEQSqoyZFB
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Podcast Episode · THE LIQUIDATOR · 14/12/2025 · 33m
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@DailyMail What is also beyond parody is that the place @dailymail.co.uk chooses to highlight the gulf between booming Poland and failing Britain is Sunderland - a city famous for being the first to declare for Brexit. Shouldn’t it be thriving by now?
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Amazing, the @DailyMail manages to publish an entire feature bewailing (!!!!) the exodus of Poles from Britain without once mentioning Brexit. Apparently this outcome (which is what it campaigned for in 2016) is all the fault of Keir Starmer.
dailymail.co.uk
New statistics reveal that while 7,000 Poles arrived in the year ending last June, 25,000 returned home: a net outflow of 18,000. The UK's total Polish population has shrunk to 750,000.
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No. Ipswich, 61. Promoted. Won the league in 62. Forest, 77. Promoted. Won the league in 78. Watford. 82. Promoted. Runners-up in 83. Just Google this stuff, ffs. It is easily accessible.
Is Sunderland the best promoted team of all time ?
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🤩 Just in time for Christmas, the head of our Sports Journalism BA has published his latest book!
🎄Still time to order THE SLUM SPORT, the story of the 1985/86 football season. Exclusive interviews: Gary Gillespie, Graeme Sharp, Tony Cottee, Ron Atkinson, Jim Rosenthal, John Trewick and many more... "It truly is a cracking read" Barry Davies OBE https://t.co/ES6kuDoJXk
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Remembering FBTB friend and contributor Ian Hamilton on what would have been his 58th birthday. Thoughts with his family today
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As the @DailyMail loses its shit over an exodus of Poles from Britain, worth reflecting on the warm welcome that it and other parts of the rancid right-wing media gave them over the years
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New episode out now... @GoldbergRadio @chrislepkowski analyse a much improved #wba performance - and assess what The Baggies need in January. https://t.co/TEQSqoyZFB
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Podcast Episode · THE LIQUIDATOR · 14/12/2025 · 33m
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QPR can confirm its withdrawal from the Winter Cup, a youth tournament in Milan. This action was taken after one of our U13 players was subjected to racist abuse from an opponent on Saturday. Despite progressing to the next stage, we will not be continuing our involvement.
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Ballard has been one of the revelations of this season. Such a good footballer.
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Newcastle and Sunderland should always wear home shirts in any derby game, even if shorts and socks are changed
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How disgusting that thé newspaper which agitated most actively for Brexit is now trying to blame others for the departure of Poles from Britain! They are leaving because of Brexit. It broke Britain. Everyone can see it except you.
.@DailyMail: "The great Polish exodus: The arrival of 100,000s of Poles changed the face of 🇬🇧, but now they're returning home in droves for a better life in their low-tax, booming homeland. Could there be a more damning indictment of our decline?"
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Our MA course leader @paulbradshaw has published an update to his widely-used '7 angles for data stories' framework 👇
If you've used my 7 angles of data journalism stories you might have wondered about the similarity between ranking and variation stories. I've now written a post on the difference between them: https://t.co/b5xwp4ob8v
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Newspaper that rampantly encouraged hate against migrants, wonders why migrants don't wish to stay in the shitty Brexit 'paradise' it helped to deliver. If the news journalists who work for this loathsome rag could spend one day in the shoes of a migrant they might get it.
Daily Mail : "Poles fled the country because that's what we wanted with #Brexit, and now they're headed back to a better life in the ... EU." Wait, what ?
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Newspaper that rampantly encouraged hate against migrants, wonders why migrants don't wish to stay in the shitty Brexit 'paradise' it helped to deliver. If the news journalists who work for this loathsome rag could spend one day in the shoes of a migrant they might get it.
Daily Mail : "Poles fled the country because that's what we wanted with #Brexit, and now they're headed back to a better life in the ... EU." Wait, what ?
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Remarkable post match press conference from #CFC head coach Enzo Maresca here as he labels last 48 hours as his worst at the club and hits out at lack of support. More here: #CHEEVE
https://t.co/DWn04qZ07Y
nytimes.com
The head coach said the issue was a "general" one and that he is "very happy with the fans" after their win against Everton on Saturday.
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Thank you for the lovely review of THE SLUM SPORT. There is still time to buy the book before the final Christmas post. Please either contact me via DM (for a signed copy) or order via publishers @CurtisSport by typing The Slum Sport into Google.
Really enjoying The Slum Sport, the story of Football from the 1985/86 season! 📚⚽️ This book is actually quite fascinating my myself, as I was a mere toddler during the 85/86 season and yet the book has two real big assets for me that the clearly talented @chrislepkowski has
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Really enjoying The Slum Sport, the story of Football from the 1985/86 season! 📚⚽️ This book is actually quite fascinating my myself, as I was a mere toddler during the 85/86 season and yet the book has two real big assets for me that the clearly talented @chrislepkowski has
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Definitely a factor. Also feel his early performances were maybe tainted by a touch of imposter syndrome. That's only natural for a league newcomer. Clear he is very capable of flourishing at this level
I think it's mainly a case of a manager finally now playing the way to make the most of him!! Header v QPR and last night's finish were both fantastic goals. If he keeps scoring, he will be gone!!
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