Jon Colman
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Cumbrian sports reporter @newsandstar . Ghostwriter Matt Jansen & Paul Nixon autobiogs, author Carlisle Utd book 'Bolts From The Blues' (Vertical Eds). Views own
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🔓 We have a new subscription offer open - £3 for 3 months' unlimited access to all our
#CUFC
coverage
@newsandstar
. Full details in article if you'd like to give it a go ⤵️
OFFER:
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If this statement is right - that there was no consultation with EFL or non-lge clubs over key changes to the national knockout competition - then heads should roll, and all clubs should stand with Tranmere. Cast of enablers will be interesting too. Game at the highest is rotten.
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At a near deserted Brunton Park, Paul Huntington, who has captained his home city club to Wembley, shares a moment with his young family in the centre circle
#cufc
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Here at Carlisle United, a group of young fans are giving up their half-term week to spruce up the Warwick Road End at Brunton Park. It's their own initiative and is backed by the club and fan representatives. Absolutely fantastic stuff. More coverage to follow
@newsandstar
#cufc
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"Your club" is the most insidious part of this. It tries to present billionaires/obscenely wealthy clubs making 55 employees redundant as an unavoidable part of the people's game. Dismal.
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Not been on here for a while, and won't be for a bit longer, and here is why: our beautiful daughter Susie, born last Tuesday. Her mum is a hero, the maternity staff at the Cumberland Infirmary are wonderful, her dad is utterly besotted - and sleep is a fading memory... 🥰
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A great gesture from Fin Back's parent club Nottingham Forest, who have waived Carlisle's contribution to his wages whilst he recovers from injury.
An update on the Blues' other injured players was given by Paul Simpson today too
#cufc
#nffc
@newsandstar
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This wasn't easy to do, and is the most personal thing I've written but, as it will be the first football season I won't be able to share with my dad, I wanted to write something about our lifetime of following Carlisle United together:
#cufc
@newsandstar
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😡Carlisle have today joined the strong condemnation of the "disgraceful" changes to the
#FACup
and lack of consultation. Director John Nixon, an FA Council member, was only informed 15 mins before the announcement, they say⤵️
READ:
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Random idea for the "big clubs" /Premier League: piss off out of the EFL Trophy and use your massive squads of professionals in the occasional
#FACup
replay instead.
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Another lower-league club eased out of the lower-league cup by the richest of them all. Heartwarming.
FULL TIME | A stunning second half display secures a memorable victory for Paul Harsley's side at
@officiallydale
. We're into the
#checkatradetrophy
last eight. Get in!!!
⚫️ 2-4 💙
#mancity
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Never tweet when drunk, they say. So briefly breaking the rule. Thanks for putting up with all the gibberish. Honoured and humbled to be coming home with this. Blue Army
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But the occasional FA Cup replay is too much
The Club is delighted to announce it will be returning to Japan for the first time in 33 years this summer 🇯🇵
We will play reigning J1 League champions
@visselkobe
at the Japan National Stadium on 27th July as part of our preparations for the 2024/25 season.
Find out more ⤵️
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Congratulations to
@clinthill29
, who has been voted Carlisle United player of the year for 2017/18 by
@newsandstar
readers:
#cufc
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I can't und€r$tand why the €lit€ club$, rath£r than $€lfi$hly trying to aboli$h FA Cup r€play$ and th£ L€agu£ Cup, don't in$t€ad call for a r€duction in th£ numb€r of Champion$ L£agu€ game$. $ur€ly that would l€ad to l€ss fixture cong£$tion and f€w£r tir€d play£r$?
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First words from Taylor Charters.
"Not bad, eh..."
Aye, lad. Not bad at all
#cufc
(pic: Richard Parkes)
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📸Now this is a photo.
@dynel_simeu
celebrates Carlisle's win at Barrow. Pic by Richard Parkes
@Cardigan1979
for the
@newsandstar
#cufc
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Very proud and grateful to win this. Congrats to some superb fellow nominees - and to everyone who's dug deep for the regional media in a year like no other. Thanks to
@SportSJA
, great colleagues past and present, and every
@newsandstar
reader who puts up with my waffle ❤
The winner of the
#SJA2020
regional sports journalist of the year is
@joncolman
of the
@newsandstar
and
@cumbnews
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It's not too often a man with a coat reaches the away end to celebrate a goal before most of his team-mates. But then, not everyone is
@dynel_simeu
...
Photo by Richard Parkes
@Cardigan1979
for the
@newsandstar
#cufc
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Clubs threatening to sue the League. Clubs bickering endlessly over promotion/relegation formulas. You wonder, in a global pandemic and an economic crisis, if certain levels of the game truly realise how self-obsessed and tiresome it all looks. Priorities surely need to shift.
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A dark day in the history of the lower-league cup. This is what swallowing the money has led to.
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An eventful day ends wth Theresa May being banished to BBC2 so the nation can watch Richard Keogh tucking home the winning penalty in a shoot-out. The world isn't such a bad place after all.
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Time for a break for me now (
@MattyOHNews
will hold the fort for a bit). My 18th season covering
#cufc
will always be a very special memory. Thanks for all the magnificent crack on here - as ever you've helped make the job an absolute pleasure. Roll on League One.
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🚨BREAKING: It's the news Carlisle United fans have been waiting for - the Piataks' takeover is now complete, the club have confirmed
#cufc
@newsandstar
READ:
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Wonder if Philippe Coutinho has found time yet to talk to his Barcelona team-mates about his career highlight: nearly scoring a penalty against Carlisle
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Dean Henderson (Whitehaven) and Jarrad Branthwaite (Wigton) starting on opposite sides in the Premier League. Another fine night for Cumbrian football; two players who should inspire all young hopefuls in the county.
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Congratulations to goalkeeper Adam Collin, who has been voted Carlisle United's player of the year for 2018/19 by
@newsandstar
readers:
#cufc
@newsandstar
@AdCollin
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"I'm just about ready to march on Carlisle," says Ally McCoist. He wouldn't last five minutes on Botch
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🚨Breaking: Carlisle United have confirmed that the club's debt to Purepay has been "dealt with" by the Piataks ahead of the takeover.
Club haven't yet given details of the agreement - but it's a crucial step forward
#cufc
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BREAKING
Paul Simpson is back at Carlisle United as manager! What a story
#cufc
@newsandstar
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Carlisle United have just gone unbeaten in the league for an entire Prime Minister's tenure. They are also still yet to lose in the league under the current monarch
#cufc
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If 'Sports Personality of the Year' has any meaning, this man's name should be up in lights tonight. Either way - follow him, support him, take pride in him. A remarkable feat, a remarkable Cumbrian. A marathon a day for an entire year, for fantastic causes 🤯
10 Days to Get To 10,000 Followers
Can we do it?
Can we get the million?
#GetGaryTheMillion
by RTing and asking all your friends to follow this incredible man!
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Last word of the evening for these folk. 556 of them, Reading and back on a Tuesday night, to watch their team get spanked, barely stopped singing all night. Terrific support 👏
#cufc
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On the 15-minute mark, fans here at Wembley applaud in tribute to Lewis Michael Kirkpatrick, the teenage boy whose body was found in the River Eden yesterday 💙
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It can't be right that it's literally impossible for fans to get to a play-off final by train, and availability of coaches - and cost of getting there, especially in this financial climate - hasn't been in
#cufc
supporters' favour either. 15,000 a fine effort by the Blue Army 👏
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🏴BREAKING: Jarrad Branthwaite is called up to the England squad for the first time.
A proud moment and well-deserved achievement for the Cumbrian🙌
#efc
#cufc
#eng
@newsandstar
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FT: 2-0. Carlisle have beaten Harrogate at long ******* last 🙌
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Thanks to
@deanhenderson
for this interview before flying to Italy for the European Under-21 Championship. We talked about his west Cumbrian roots, Carlisle United, Championship glory, Premier League ambitions, international pride and more:
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Whatever the thoughts and views on Carlisle's performances and predicament, there should be nothing but praise for
@clinthill29
today. Hard to imagine how difficult a week it must have been, yet there he was, defending as he always does. All good wishes to him and his family.
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A national newspaper has genuinely just sent me a text of congratulations for leading Accrington to promotion 😂 Very kind but it's the lads who deserve the credit.
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The EFL Trophy is back tomorrow. It has served up some memorable occasions at Brunton Park since the arrival of Premier League Under-21s into the competiton. Here are just a few:
#cufc
@newsandstar
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"Carlisle's a shithole, I want to go home," a few Coventry fans are already singing. Think the M6 southbound is open, so not sure what's stopping them.
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💙 A wreath was laid at Valley Parade last night following a Carlisle fans' crowdfunding initiative, led by
@FlagsforUnited
, to pay tribute to the 56
#cufc
#bcafc
@newsandstar
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Today's front page: Tony Hopper, smiling, in his prime, in his beloved blue shirt. Lots of tributes inside.
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Back at work today - lost my wonderful old Dad earlier in the month, hence the prolonged absence from here. We watched CUFC together for many years and talked about/debated them until the end. A hard and strange time but it's time to crack on again, as he'd have wished 1/2
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The Blues are in a Football League play-off final for the first time, and my heart has nearly gone.
Match report
#cufc
#bcafc
@newsandstar
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You're released as a teenager, go away, graft and shine in part-time football, do so well that your home-city club ends up signing you again, and make a pro debut as well as that...must be a satisfying feeling for
@owenmoxonn
. Well played 👏
What a day! League debut, great atmosphere and most importantly 3 points🥳 still more to come from this group aswell 👏
#COYB
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Your regular reminder that this is what they really want and what the 🍕Trophy helps to normalise
Pep Guardiola suggests that Manchester City should be able to put their U23 squad into the Championship or League One after Carabao Cup game with Wycombe
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Dear EFL and Premier League. Here is your "rejuvenated" Trophy. Hope you're proud of what you created.
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🏆🎉 Congratulations to
@owenmoxonn
, who has been voted Carlisle United's player of the season by
@newsandstar
readers!
The midfielder won our annual poll by a big margin. Thanks to everyone who voted
#cufc
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Very best wishes to
@cufckit
as he leaves the Blues. You won't find anyone who's given more of themselves to the job and the club, and for such a long stint. Thanks and good luck, mate
#cufc
@newsandstar
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Can't remember feeling as despondent in my near 17 years covering
#cufc
. This is as serious as it gets.
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A man on whom the modern Carlisle United was built.
His coaching work leaves a precious legacy, along with the memories of a warm, funny, enduring character whose loss will be deeply felt.
My tribute to David Wilkes ⤵️
#cufc
@newsandstar
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Thanks, Joey Garner...
As the curtain falls on his four-spell Carlisle career, my tribute to a striker who gave the Blues his all and kept coming back for more ⤵
#cufc
@newsandstar
(£)
READ:
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🏆 Congratulations to goalkeeper Mark Howard, who has been voted Carlisle United's player of the season for 2021/22 by
@newsandstar
readers 👏
#cufc
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🗞️ Tomorrow's front page. Seventeen years since we've been able to write that headline! Reports, pics, Wembley magic all inside. Don't miss it
#cufc
@newsandstar
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A journey that should inspire every young Cumbrian footballer. Congratulations to
@deanhenderson
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Breaking: Carlisle United's
@owenmoxonn
is named in League Two's team of the season at the
#EFLAwards
.
Thoroughly deserved recognition for Denton Holme's finest
#cufc
@newsandstar
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💙 A couple of weeks ago, I caught up with
@nickanderton_
as he prepared to announce his retirement. He was very open about his cancer fight and how he's facing the present and future. We did some reminiscing too. Interview ⤵️
@newsandstar
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A good dribbler, dangerous at both ends...and of course a true blue. Thank you
@officialcufc
💙
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Very honoured and grateful to win this. Congrats to all the nominees and to the many more fantastic regional sports journalists out there doing great work
@joncolman
, of
@cumbnews
, wins Sports Journalist of the Year – Weekly Papers, while
@ExpressandStar
's
@mjmarr_star
wins Daily/Sunday title at
@RegPressAwards
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In the last few days the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and the $6bn fortune of Todd Boehly have met their match in a lad from Wigton. Lovely stuff
Three wins in a row.
Three clean sheets in a row.
Those Toffees. 💙
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It's
#CheckatradeTrophy
day, where Carlisle will be fined if they play too many young players in a cup that's supposed to help young players
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Just leaving the Peninsula Stadium, and I can still hear folk outside singing "We've got super Paul Simpson." The match ended an hour-and-a-half ago
#cufc
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Mike Sutton was a fine footballer and a dedicated, distinctive man who gave two positive years of his career to Carlisle United.
Today, he is afflicted by dementia - and his son,
@chris_sutton73
, believes the game has failed his dad.
Interview:
#cufc
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As Carlisle's season is now forcibly paused, now is a good time to give the players some praise for entertaining us and giving us plenty to cheer at an otherwise bleak time.
They've been a pleasure to watch and will be again. May they all keep safe and well.
(pic:
@bumblepics
)
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Nightmare when your main striker gets recalled in January, isn't it... ☹
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Blackburn's defence tonight, in a competition designed to help the England team in the long run, includes Wes Brown, 36
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They've done it -
@AnnanAthleticFC
are promoted!
Huge congrats to Peter Murphy and his team 👏
@newsandstar
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❤️There won't be better news than this all day - all year in fact. Brilliant to hear such a positive update from
@nickanderton_
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Absolutely devastating news from Carlisle United.
David Wilkes, the long-serving and hugely respected coach, has died at 59, the club have announced. Thoughts and condolences with his family and friends
#cufc
@newsandstar
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Hartlepool's "small town in Scotland" song is being met with "you're just a town full of smackheads" by some of Carlisle's finest. Lovely.
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Carlisle have now kept three consecutive clean sheets under Paul Simpson.
(And so what that two of them came in 2006?)
#cufc
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CONFIRMED: Dulwich Hamlet v Carlisle United in the FA Cup First Round will be televised live on the BBC, on Friday, November 8 (kick-off 7.55pm). United will receive a £75,000 broadcast fee
#cufc
@newsandstar
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