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Josh Bland
@joshbland13.bsky.social
PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge. Specialise in cultural heritage and football. Media hack, sports activist, drummer. WBA. 78/92.

Work here: https://cambridge.academia.edu/JoshBland

Ramblings here: https://joshbland.substack.com/
I go pretty hard at a loud minority of Coventry fans who have been defending the extortionate prices their club charges. I hope the sensible majority can recognise this isn’t an anti-Coventry article! It’s anti-exploitation.
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Yeah I'd be delighted!
August 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
...in terms of finding out more. I think the best thing to do is look up on the Cambridge site! It's got more info/links to publications there!

www.arch.cam.ac.uk/staff/josh-b...
Josh Bland
www.arch.cam.ac.uk
August 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Thanks so much Sarah! So I've been working with three clubs - Newcastle United, the Mariners and Horden Community Welfare FC. Clubs of different sizes, but all bound by a post-industrial context. I've spent a lot of time in all three communities and have come to love them all... (1/2)
August 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Couldn’t agree more.
August 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thanks so much Chris!
August 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Thanks Bruce!
August 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thanks so much Dave ❤️
August 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I’m not sure about talented but thank you so much! I think my first article was about Neymar (then at Santos) and about how he was never going to amount to anything 😬 not sure how history will judge that!

Hope you’re keeping well!
August 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Getting there! Writing up as we speak, should be submitted within 3 months or so! Cannot wait to have it done and move on to pastures new to be honest...
August 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It’s a grim portent I think…I sense football is becoming a key political battleground, especially if you look at where the next election is going to be won and lost…
August 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I’ll leave that to the creative imagination of the reader 👀
August 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM