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Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

New from The Sports Specialist:

Party like it’s 1998. How Scotland changed the story.

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#Scotland #WorldCupQualifiers #McTominay #McLean #Hampden

Party like it’s 1998

How Scotland changed the story

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November 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

‘The win that Jack built’

A piece on sport giving us the story we crave where the good guy wins after turmoil. Emotional doesn’t cover it.

A beautiful night in Belfast where #JackLisowski did himself proud. He wasn’t the only one.

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The win that Jack built

When sport gives us the story we crave, and the good guy finally wins...

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October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

The dust has settled, but the disgraceful scenes in New York at the #RyderCup will not be forgotten.

Sport reflects society. And the lairy, unruly mob on the Saturday summed up exactly where we are..

Please read:

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SPORT LOSES ITS MANNERS

There’s nothing like manners.

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October 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

New from ‘The Sports Specialist’ on Substack.

#JamieVardy in Lombardy!

He’s not always easy to like - maybe that’s why he remains underrated - but there are few more remarkable ⚽️ careers.

And his late move to #SerieA with #Cremonese is fascinating!

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Vardy in Lombardy!

The veteran English striker's move to Italy is a fascinating plot twist

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September 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

New from The Sports Specialist.

This article will be like nothing else you read on #VAR.

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IT SUCKS TO BE RIGHT

VAR cynics called it correctly

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September 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

“Good people are out there”.

On trolling and genuine kindness.

Please read.

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#SkyeStout #KilmarnockWomen

Good people are out there

Good people are out there.

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August 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

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#FootballFables

August 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

Are #Chelsea really now the ‘world’s best team’?

And yes, I do realize this article could have been a single word only!

But #Infantino claimed #FIFAs #ClubWorldCup would prove who is world’s best….I’ve examined the case.

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Are Chelsea really the world's best team?

That's what FIFA wants us to think

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July 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

Fed up of the money & greed in sport?

Read this! Sport how it should be😍

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Th#islandGameses is about to start in Orkney. 12 sports, 2 thousand competitors, 900 volunteers.

It’s the 40th anniversary and needs celebrating! :)#orkney202525

THE ISLAND GAMES..a celebration of sport

The purest form of competition can be found in Orkney this month

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July 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

👽⚽️👀

Alien Football Fan:
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June 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

Who is the Alien Football Fan?
👀👽⚽️

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Lee Wellings @leewellings.bsky.social · Jan 13

Subscribe to The Sports Specialist in 2025.

Here’s why…

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#Booksky #sport #Substack

Subscribe to THE SPORTS SPECIALIST

In 2025 I’m asking you to become a paying subscriber to The Sports Specialist on Substack.com.

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June 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

My new fable is released today.

‘The Red Ball’ explores the pressures of life through cricket.

Link to fable:
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About ‘The Red Ball’
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#EngvInd #TestCricket #redball #Headingley

June 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

About my new fable The Red Ball:

“The game, and the way it was won, was an antidote to the frantic pace of the modern world. It had time to breathe.”

👀
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#cricket #Tests #EngvInd #WorldTestChampionship

About my new fable: THE RED BALL

My sporting fables have mainly been about football.

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June 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

FIFA’s #ClubWorldCup is underway.

Global brand #InterMiami drew opening game 0-0 v #AlAhly of Egypt. The MLS team were controversially invited while
#Liverpool & #Barcelona are amongst those missing out🧐

My original Q&A on the invite to #Messi’s team.

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Who got an invite to FIFA's Club World Cup?

The best brand, not the best teams.

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June 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

As promised, first article in a busy month for ‘The Sports Specialist’ @SubstackInc

Perfect time to sign up to paid content for a month and see if it’s for you.

It’s a hard-hitting one about the ‘humorous’ content used by gambling firms as a trap.

#banter

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Lee Wellings @leewellings.bsky.social · Jun 1

Happy June☀️😎

Good month to subscribe to ‘The Sports Specialist’ with two new fables released this month….plus #FIFA, #ClubWorldCup, #Ronaldo and the sly ‘banter content’ of betting companies.

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June 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

Happy June☀️😎

Good month to subscribe to ‘The Sports Specialist’ with two new fables released this month….plus #FIFA, #ClubWorldCup, #Ronaldo and the sly ‘banter content’ of betting companies.

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June 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

It’s 6 months since the release of #FootballFables (the ‘thinking fan’s book’! Time for a summer push!☀️

You can buy it here:
tiny.cc/7jqtzz

Please do spread the word (loved this review by the ‘Proper Football’ website) & thanks for your hol pics too! 😎📕

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May 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

Am I a #CrystalPalace fan? No. I’m from South EAST London :)

But I’m really pleased for them. Because that emotional #FACup win, and indeed Newcastle’s cup win, showed what fans really want.

And it’s not what we’ve been sold for 30 years.

New article:

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ONE DAY LIKE THIS WILL SEE FANS RIGHT

Palace’s Cup final win showed what fans really want

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May 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

What a lovely evening it turned out to be in the Costa del SE13 :)

Thank you to all who came, it was great to meet and talk to you, to @andithomas.bsky.social for his hosting & @sirobnik.bsky.social
for organising.

To be back in childhood library, reading from my book #FootballFables, was a joy.🙏🏼

May 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM

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Gandermonium

@gandermonium.bsky.social

Nice little jaunt out Blackheath way with a couple of the Welling mob for a soiree listening to @leewellings.bsky.social talk about his new book at Manor House Library. Nice!

May 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM

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Calico Projects

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This is happening tonight! Grab your (free!) ticket while you can!

Lee Wellings @leewellings.bsky.social · May 12

Please do join us for an event at Manor House Library in south east London this Tuesday.

I’ll be with fellow author Andi Thomas to talk about the beautiful & ugly sides of ⚽️ at the library of my childhood.

🗓️Tues May 13. Kick off 7pm

Link for free entry:
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May 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM

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Andi Thomas

@andithomas.bsky.social

I'll be hosting this - please do come along! it promises to be a fun chat about a really fun book

Lee Wellings @leewellings.bsky.social · May 12

Please do join us for an event at Manor House Library in south east London this Tuesday.

I’ll be with fellow author Andi Thomas to talk about the beautiful & ugly sides of ⚽️ at the library of my childhood.

🗓️Tues May 13. Kick off 7pm

Link for free entry:
calicolibraries.com/events/footb...

May 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

Please do join us for an event at Manor House Library in south east London this Tuesday.

I’ll be with fellow author Andi Thomas to talk about the beautiful & ugly sides of ⚽️ at the library of my childhood.

🗓️Tues May 13. Kick off 7pm

Link for free entry:
calicolibraries.com/events/footb...

May 12, 2025 at 6:55 AM

Lee Wellings

@leewellings.bsky.social

For some of us the football season is over.

I’ve taken the opportunity to pause sport, and serve Kant.

What does this mean? And why is it offensive to some?

Have a read 😘

#Eurovision #Eurovision2025 #Serving #Kant #Malta #MirianaConte

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