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Louis Kasatkin
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R.L.Correspondent - The Man in the Stand- Leeds Other Paper 1983-94.Poet in Residence Wakefield Trinity 1999-2001.Poet in Residence Wakefield Cathedral 2001-2007.Founder & Administrator Destiny Poets 2011 - to date.
January '90 "Last Exit to Brooklyn"(brilliant novel!)made it onto the Big Screen & St.Helens made it onto McLaren Field to take on Bramley as witnessed by renegade #RugbyLeague reporter #TheManInTheStand for #LeedsOtherPaper
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
#TheManInTheStand on #RugbyLeague Another former bastion of working class sporting cultural & regional identity succumbed to the poison of ideological Wokery and all its nonsense.
Rugby Football League EnglandRL telling Tales told by UN idiots ,full of sound & fury & signifying nothing.
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
NOVEMBER '75 #TheManInTheStand was years away from his incarnation. #LeedsOtherPaper was a fortnightly sans #RugbyLeague coverage.But EnglandRL & Rugby Football League had dreams beyond their own innate mediocrity.It's the Pink Floyd song that didn’t make it onto the "Wish You Were Here" album.
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
December '84 - Who are you gonna call? #LeedsOtherPaper guerilla frontline #RugbyLeague correspondent #TheManInTheStand. As "Ghostbusters"(should never have done a follow up) was bustin the UK box office,The Glassblowers were bustin The Chemics
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
February '86,Norwegian Rock sensations A-Ha were top of the UK Top 40 whilst renegade #RugbyLeague reporter #TheManInTheStand was in historic Eboracum /Jorvik for #LeedsOtherPaper
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
February '88,"Fatal Attraction" is top of the UK movies box office & steaming up the silver screen at the local Odeon and #TheManInTheStand is across the city watching Great Britain encounter France at #RugbyLeague for #LeedsOtherPaper
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
(Not quite on this very day) November 11 1984 -Castleford were destined to have a lousy season (it's deja vu all over again 40 years on!) Clint Eastwood in " Tightrope"was big at the Flicks & #TheManInTheStand was hanging about down t'lane for #LeedsOtherPaper for no particular reason.
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
ON THIS VERY DAY: #TheManInTheStand renegade #RugbyLeague correspondent was at Headingley for #LeedsOtherPaper
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
ON THIS DAY - NOVEMBER 5th. 1989 #TheManInTheStand ever present at #RugbyLeague Yorkshire Cup Finals for #LeedsOtherPaper .N.B. the nuanced insightful pejorative ascribed to the referee.
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
#TheManInTheStand ever present at #RugbyLeague Yorkshire Cup Finals for #LeedsOtherPaper .N.B. the nuanced insightful pejorative ascribed to the referee.
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It'sJanuary '88 ,Kylie Minogue is at the zenith of her Pop career in the Top 40 & Castleford aren't in theirs.Renegade #RugbyLeague reporter #TheManInTheStand is at Headingley witnessing their exit from t'Cup for #LeedsOtherPaper
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It's February '89 (but that's not important right now!) The Naked Gun is sat atop the UK cinema box office ,whilst the intrepid #RugbyLeague reporter for #LeedsOtherPaper #TheManInTheStand is in the Headingley South Stand enjoying the carnage.(but that still isn't important right now).
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It's November '84. The Pointer Sisters "I'm So Excited" is in the charts.Wheldon Road,Lagentium hosts An "Under 21s" International,providing #TheManInTheStand renegade #RugbyLeague reporter #LeedsOtherPaper with illimitable parameters for scathing invective & hyperbole.
November 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Apropos of nothing in particular, except #TheManInTheStand has his origin story all the way back to the very beginning of my decades long saga of letters to the Editor.These from #PontefractandCastlefordExpress October 1975 and the conclusion of the issues raised, January 1976.
October 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My second ever #TheManInTheStand #guerilla #RugbyLeague match report for #LeedsOtherPaper ,another 243 were to follow the next 7 seasons.This one watching the forefathers of the current 2025 Kangaroos in action. Plus ça change!!
October 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My second ever #TheManInTheStand #guerilla #RugbyLeague match report for #LeedsOtherPaper ,another 243 were to follow the next 7 seasons.This one watching the forefathers of the current 2025 Kangaroos in action. Plus ça change!!
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#TheManInTheStand #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague correspondent indulges the hyperbole.On a historic note Tait didn't start at FB - it was Hampson who got sent off early for nutting erstwhile rapscallion Gary Freeman.
October 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
#TheManInTheStand #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague correspondent indulges the hyperbole.On a historic note Tait didn't start at FB - it was Hampson who got sent off early for nutting erstwhile rapscallion Gary Freeman.
October 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Renegade #RugbyLeague #LeedsOtherPaper correspondent #TheManInTheStand travelled many a mile even as far as the coast of the North Sea,virtually half way to Denmark for this Olympian Classic.
October 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Renegade #RugbyLeague #LeedsOtherPaper correspondent #TheManInTheStand travelled many a mile even as far as the coast of the North Sea,virtually half way to Denmark for this Olympian Classic.
October 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
January '90,"Back To The Future II" is coining it at the box office & the Nicotine Mucous Trophy Final is back at the Big Spitoon,Headingley,where #TheManInTheStand rogue #RugbyLeague reporter is in the trenches for #LeedsOtherPaper
October 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
October '88 - The UK box office is going wild for "A Fish Called Wanda" & #TheManInTheStand renegade #RugbyLeague reporter for #LeedsOtherPaper is watching "A Fish Called Trinity" A dead Fish in fact,one that has ceased to be..
October 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
April '93 "Unforgiven" is on at the Flicks & #TheManInTheStand is on his way to Wigan with Castleford as embedded frontline #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague correspondent.Access all areas.One of the greatest published sports article of the generations. @rememberlop.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Was it really 40 years ago today? #TheManInTheStand does the timewarp, again for #LeedsOtherPaper. #RugbyLeague just like it used to be.
October 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Was it really 40 years ago today? #TheManInTheStand does the timewarp, again for #LeedsOtherPaper.
October 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM