Leslie Mabon
@jobanmono2711.bsky.social
Personal account (@ljmabon.bsky.social for work). Football and climate change, and Oh No No No podcaster.
Likes: Raith Rovers, Iwaki FC いわきFC, Parma
Dislikes: conceding from cross balls
Likes: Raith Rovers, Iwaki FC いわきFC, Parma
Dislikes: conceding from cross balls
Getting the Raith Rovers UEFA Cup tops lined up - 30 years on. Home and away tops, plus the three teams we played: Gøtu Ítróttarfelag, Akranes, and FC Bayern.
October 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Getting the Raith Rovers UEFA Cup tops lined up - 30 years on. Home and away tops, plus the three teams we played: Gøtu Ítróttarfelag, Akranes, and FC Bayern.
Earlier this week - all my ‘Crociati’ Parma tops together for the last time before one heads off to a new owner! One of these shirts is not like the others 🧐 #Parma ⚪️⚫️ 🟡🔵
September 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Earlier this week - all my ‘Crociati’ Parma tops together for the last time before one heads off to a new owner! One of these shirts is not like the others 🧐 #Parma ⚪️⚫️ 🟡🔵
Day 8: Reminds You of a Loved One
These two. My wife's maiden name!
Reminder: donate here www.justgiving.com/campaigns/ch...
#CancerHasNoColours
These two. My wife's maiden name!
Reminder: donate here www.justgiving.com/campaigns/ch...
#CancerHasNoColours
July 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Day 8: Reminds You of a Loved One
These two. My wife's maiden name!
Reminder: donate here www.justgiving.com/campaigns/ch...
#CancerHasNoColours
These two. My wife's maiden name!
Reminder: donate here www.justgiving.com/campaigns/ch...
#CancerHasNoColours
Iwaki conceding in 2025 from opposition attackers cutting in from the left: a gallery
July 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Iwaki conceding in 2025 from opposition attackers cutting in from the left: a gallery
Day 7: Your Favourite Nameset
Has to be the Oleksandr Shovkovskyi Dynamo Kyiv goalkeeper shirt, with the name in Ukrainian!
#CancerHasNoColours
Has to be the Oleksandr Shovkovskyi Dynamo Kyiv goalkeeper shirt, with the name in Ukrainian!
#CancerHasNoColours
July 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Day 7: Your Favourite Nameset
Has to be the Oleksandr Shovkovskyi Dynamo Kyiv goalkeeper shirt, with the name in Ukrainian!
#CancerHasNoColours
Has to be the Oleksandr Shovkovskyi Dynamo Kyiv goalkeeper shirt, with the name in Ukrainian!
#CancerHasNoColours
Day 6: Your Oldest Shirt
Have posted this before, but it's my 1986 Cadiz CF shirt, from the first season that future Raith Rovers player, manager and Hall of Famer Antonio Calderon played for his hometown club.
#CancerHasNoColours
Have posted this before, but it's my 1986 Cadiz CF shirt, from the first season that future Raith Rovers player, manager and Hall of Famer Antonio Calderon played for his hometown club.
#CancerHasNoColours
July 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Day 6: Your Oldest Shirt
Have posted this before, but it's my 1986 Cadiz CF shirt, from the first season that future Raith Rovers player, manager and Hall of Famer Antonio Calderon played for his hometown club.
#CancerHasNoColours
Have posted this before, but it's my 1986 Cadiz CF shirt, from the first season that future Raith Rovers player, manager and Hall of Famer Antonio Calderon played for his hometown club.
#CancerHasNoColours
Day 5: A City You Love
This has to be a city I've been to every year since 2014 (except COVID): Iwaki City in Fukushima Prefecture, home to Iwaki FC.
#CancerHasNoColours
This has to be a city I've been to every year since 2014 (except COVID): Iwaki City in Fukushima Prefecture, home to Iwaki FC.
#CancerHasNoColours
July 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Day 5: A City You Love
This has to be a city I've been to every year since 2014 (except COVID): Iwaki City in Fukushima Prefecture, home to Iwaki FC.
#CancerHasNoColours
This has to be a city I've been to every year since 2014 (except COVID): Iwaki City in Fukushima Prefecture, home to Iwaki FC.
#CancerHasNoColours
Day 4: Your Most Colourful/Jazzy Shirt
Again, I couldn't choose one, so here are two - upsurprisingly both from the J.League in the mid-1990s.
Jubilo Iwata goalkeeper shirt, seemingly modelled on a World War 1 dazzle ship;
Sanfrecce Hiroshima home template
#CancerHasNoColours
Again, I couldn't choose one, so here are two - upsurprisingly both from the J.League in the mid-1990s.
Jubilo Iwata goalkeeper shirt, seemingly modelled on a World War 1 dazzle ship;
Sanfrecce Hiroshima home template
#CancerHasNoColours
July 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Day 4: Your Most Colourful/Jazzy Shirt
Again, I couldn't choose one, so here are two - upsurprisingly both from the J.League in the mid-1990s.
Jubilo Iwata goalkeeper shirt, seemingly modelled on a World War 1 dazzle ship;
Sanfrecce Hiroshima home template
#CancerHasNoColours
Again, I couldn't choose one, so here are two - upsurprisingly both from the J.League in the mid-1990s.
Jubilo Iwata goalkeeper shirt, seemingly modelled on a World War 1 dazzle ship;
Sanfrecce Hiroshima home template
#CancerHasNoColours
Day 3: Your Most Obscure Shirt
Not obscure to any Raith Rovers supporter over the age of 35, granted, but this is an Akranes shirt from the mid-90s, from the Icelandic league. This is the shirt Akranes wore when Raith Rovers played them in the UEFA Cup in 1995.
#CancerHasNoColours
Not obscure to any Raith Rovers supporter over the age of 35, granted, but this is an Akranes shirt from the mid-90s, from the Icelandic league. This is the shirt Akranes wore when Raith Rovers played them in the UEFA Cup in 1995.
#CancerHasNoColours
July 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Day 3: Your Most Obscure Shirt
Not obscure to any Raith Rovers supporter over the age of 35, granted, but this is an Akranes shirt from the mid-90s, from the Icelandic league. This is the shirt Akranes wore when Raith Rovers played them in the UEFA Cup in 1995.
#CancerHasNoColours
Not obscure to any Raith Rovers supporter over the age of 35, granted, but this is an Akranes shirt from the mid-90s, from the Icelandic league. This is the shirt Akranes wore when Raith Rovers played them in the UEFA Cup in 1995.
#CancerHasNoColours
Day 2: A Favourite Player
Couldn't pick one so have chosen four:
Paquito (Las Palmas)
Jürgen Klinsmann (Bayern)
Alessandro Lucarelli (Parma)
Makoto Hasebe (Frankfurt)
#CancerHasNoColours
Couldn't pick one so have chosen four:
Paquito (Las Palmas)
Jürgen Klinsmann (Bayern)
Alessandro Lucarelli (Parma)
Makoto Hasebe (Frankfurt)
#CancerHasNoColours
July 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Day 2: A Favourite Player
Couldn't pick one so have chosen four:
Paquito (Las Palmas)
Jürgen Klinsmann (Bayern)
Alessandro Lucarelli (Parma)
Makoto Hasebe (Frankfurt)
#CancerHasNoColours
Couldn't pick one so have chosen four:
Paquito (Las Palmas)
Jürgen Klinsmann (Bayern)
Alessandro Lucarelli (Parma)
Makoto Hasebe (Frankfurt)
#CancerHasNoColours
Day 1: A Country You Love
A trio of small countries that don't let themselves be pushed around: Czech Republic, Taiwan, and Lithuania.
🇨🇿 🇹🇼 🇱🇹
A trio of small countries that don't let themselves be pushed around: Czech Republic, Taiwan, and Lithuania.
🇨🇿 🇹🇼 🇱🇹
July 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Day 1: A Country You Love
A trio of small countries that don't let themselves be pushed around: Czech Republic, Taiwan, and Lithuania.
🇨🇿 🇹🇼 🇱🇹
A trio of small countries that don't let themselves be pushed around: Czech Republic, Taiwan, and Lithuania.
🇨🇿 🇹🇼 🇱🇹
On Twitter, @kitnerduk.bsky.social has initiated #CancerHasNoColours. I'll do it on BlueSky as that's where I post these days.
8 days, 8 themes. Wear/share your best football shirt that fits the theme, spread the word and donate to Bradley Lowery Foundation:
www.justgiving.com/campaigns/ch...
8 days, 8 themes. Wear/share your best football shirt that fits the theme, spread the word and donate to Bradley Lowery Foundation:
www.justgiving.com/campaigns/ch...
July 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
On Twitter, @kitnerduk.bsky.social has initiated #CancerHasNoColours. I'll do it on BlueSky as that's where I post these days.
8 days, 8 themes. Wear/share your best football shirt that fits the theme, spread the word and donate to Bradley Lowery Foundation:
www.justgiving.com/campaigns/ch...
8 days, 8 themes. Wear/share your best football shirt that fits the theme, spread the word and donate to Bradley Lowery Foundation:
www.justgiving.com/campaigns/ch...
Hunting for old Japanese shirts online is absolutely bloody exhausting. For every genuine one, you have to wade through fifty of these god-awful fakes 😑
June 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Hunting for old Japanese shirts online is absolutely bloody exhausting. For every genuine one, you have to wade through fifty of these god-awful fakes 😑
Hit the jackpot in a charity shop in Vienna last week. Picked this up knowing nothing about it because it looked funky. Did a bit of research back home, and learned it's a match-issue Venezia goalkeeper top from the 1992-93 Serie B season, issued to substitute keeper Roberto Menghini (not pictured)!
June 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Hit the jackpot in a charity shop in Vienna last week. Picked this up knowing nothing about it because it looked funky. Did a bit of research back home, and learned it's a match-issue Venezia goalkeeper top from the 1992-93 Serie B season, issued to substitute keeper Roberto Menghini (not pictured)!
There are bikes at Futaba Station, just north of Fukushima Dai'ichi, which can be rented with a 100 Yen coin... 🤔😅
May 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
There are bikes at Futaba Station, just north of Fukushima Dai'ichi, which can be rented with a 100 Yen coin... 🤔😅
So lucky my visit to Kyushu for family + work coincided with Iwaki FC's visit to the Peace Stadium to take on V-Varen Nagasaki. Rollicking 4-3 win that was more like Iwaki of last season with pinpoint crosses, rapid counter attacks and wild defending. V-Varen's ground very impressive too. #いわきFC
April 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
So lucky my visit to Kyushu for family + work coincided with Iwaki FC's visit to the Peace Stadium to take on V-Varen Nagasaki. Rollicking 4-3 win that was more like Iwaki of last season with pinpoint crosses, rapid counter attacks and wild defending. V-Varen's ground very impressive too. #いわきFC
It was! Was free to watch the game too. Also this fantastic mural at the gates on the way in to the stadium.
April 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It was! Was free to watch the game too. Also this fantastic mural at the gates on the way in to the stadium.
Was in Klaipeda on the Lithuanian coast for fieldwork. Took in a 2nd division game on the last day, seeing Neptunas Klaipeda beat Be1 NFA 3-0. Basketball is the main sport in Lithuania, so kudos to the 'Klaipeda Seaside Youth' who brought drums and flags! Be1 had a guy up front on loan from Airdrie!
April 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Was in Klaipeda on the Lithuanian coast for fieldwork. Took in a 2nd division game on the last day, seeing Neptunas Klaipeda beat Be1 NFA 3-0. Basketball is the main sport in Lithuania, so kudos to the 'Klaipeda Seaside Youth' who brought drums and flags! Be1 had a guy up front on loan from Airdrie!
Early start yesterday for Ventforet Kofu 1-0 Iwaki. That was much better and unlucky not to take something, but Iwaki have 2 goals from open play in 8 games, which tells its own story. It's the same strikeforce as last season minus Arima. Double up on Tanimura and you simply stop Iwaki scoring.
April 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Early start yesterday for Ventforet Kofu 1-0 Iwaki. That was much better and unlucky not to take something, but Iwaki have 2 goals from open play in 8 games, which tells its own story. It's the same strikeforce as last season minus Arima. Double up on Tanimura and you simply stop Iwaki scoring.
An excellent day. Been a good while since I’ve seen us win by three goals ‘in the flesh.’ It may have come to late for us to close the gap to fourth, but Barry Robson has got us playing some solid stuff and looking up rather than down. 5 unbeaten, time to pump up my tyres 🚴 🗺️
March 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
An excellent day. Been a good while since I’ve seen us win by three goals ‘in the flesh.’ It may have come to late for us to close the gap to fourth, but Barry Robson has got us playing some solid stuff and looking up rather than down. 5 unbeaten, time to pump up my tyres 🚴 🗺️
Yesterday was Purple Day to raise epilepsy awareness. As I don't have a purple Raith Rovers shirt, I took the chance on @onnnpodcast.bsky.social to break out this magnificent bargain I scored on Vinted a few months back: a long-sleeve Sanfrecce Hiroshima template:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ4B...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ4B...
March 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Yesterday was Purple Day to raise epilepsy awareness. As I don't have a purple Raith Rovers shirt, I took the chance on @onnnpodcast.bsky.social to break out this magnificent bargain I scored on Vinted a few months back: a long-sleeve Sanfrecce Hiroshima template:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ4B...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ4B...
Having seen it back, I think a red card for the goalkeeper is a little harsh here. There is a (mis-timed) attempt to get the ball, and it's so far out from goal and with 2 defenders covering that I don't think it's a clear goal-scoring opportunity. That said, he gave the referee a decision to make.
March 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Having seen it back, I think a red card for the goalkeeper is a little harsh here. There is a (mis-timed) attempt to get the ball, and it's so far out from goal and with 2 defenders covering that I don't think it's a clear goal-scoring opportunity. That said, he gave the referee a decision to make.
Firhill last night (+ my wife enjoying a cheeseboard in a 1995-96 Rovers goalie top). In isolation that's not a bad result - and if we don't make the playoffs it will be because of how bad we were earlier in the season, rather than games like this alone - but no quality whatsoever from either side.
March 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Firhill last night (+ my wife enjoying a cheeseboard in a 1995-96 Rovers goalie top). In isolation that's not a bad result - and if we don't make the playoffs it will be because of how bad we were earlier in the season, rather than games like this alone - but no quality whatsoever from either side.
In pre-Brexit days, Raith Rovers imported cult heroes and bona fide club legends from overseas. I've had great fun hunting down shirts from the clubs these guys played for. Recently got a 1986 Cadiz CF top (minus crest), hometown club of former player-manager and all-round gentleman Toni Calderón.
February 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
In pre-Brexit days, Raith Rovers imported cult heroes and bona fide club legends from overseas. I've had great fun hunting down shirts from the clubs these guys played for. Recently got a 1986 Cadiz CF top (minus crest), hometown club of former player-manager and all-round gentleman Toni Calderón.