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Nutmeg is the home of brilliant football stories, made in Scotland
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Issue 37 is off to the printers!

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Our man in Friuli. A Slow Match Report preview ⬇️
It's Saturday morning, which means time for the kabaddi on Trans World Sport and then the sublime Gazzetta...

A Slow Match Report preview ahead of my trip to Udinese v Bologna this afternoon:

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The Slow Match Report goes to Serie A
This weekend I am writing to you from Udine, inspired by Channel 4's Football Italia and Scotland's booming export of midfielders
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November 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
🎄Nutmeg Christmas Gift offers

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We realise you might have other things on your mind this week but there’s never been a better time to gift some Scottish football content for the friend or family member in your life.

🎁 And we have 3 Christmas Gift offers this year!
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November 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 In other Scottish football news...
Nutmeg Issue 38 is out soon ⚽️
And it's a free-kick special.

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November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📢 Nutmeg Issue 38 is now at the printers 📢

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November 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
📢 Nutmeg Issue 38 is now at the printers 📢

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November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
✈️ Nutmeg on its travels

🇺🇸 So pleased to see Issue 37 sitting on the shelves of Politics And Prose in Washington DC.

📚 If you run an independent bookshop, or know one that you think might want to stock Nutmeg, then message us
November 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🏁 Calling all @ayrunited.bsky.social fans

⚽️ Over FOUR issues of Nutmeg (#33, 34, 35 and 36) we followed the ups and downs of Ayr United’s 2024/25 season with a series of interviews with key people at the club.

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October 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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'Gannon-Doak on the left is a gift unopened and a toy kept in its box. It is a crime thriller missing its final page and bubble wrap un-popped...'

📝Get in the mood for this evening's game with @danielgraywriter.bsky.social superb Slow Match Report from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿v🇬🇷:

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The Slow Match Report: Scotland 3 Greece 1
Not since the rise of Sparta have Greeks suffered such traumatic defeat. It was an injustice, it was moonlight robbery — it was sheer, unadulterated Hampden joy!
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October 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
'Gannon-Doak on the left is a gift unopened and a toy kept in its box. It is a crime thriller missing its final page and bubble wrap un-popped...'

📝Get in the mood for this evening's game with @danielgraywriter.bsky.social superb Slow Match Report from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿v🇬🇷:

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The Slow Match Report: Scotland 3 Greece 1
Not since the rise of Sparta have Greeks suffered such traumatic defeat. It was an injustice, it was moonlight robbery — it was sheer, unadulterated Hampden joy!
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October 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
⬇️ Landing soon 🚨
📝The latest Slow Match Report lands this afternoon.

@d_gray_writer makes his international debut at Scotland v Greece and spends a lot of time thinking about the visiting manager's hair.

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October 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
📝The latest Slow Match Report lands this afternoon.

@d_gray_writer makes his international debut at Scotland v Greece and spends a lot of time thinking about the visiting manager's hair.

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October 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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If you only read one Fitbatweets newsletter a) what’s wrong with you and b) make it this one.

A new monthly throwback edition in collaboration with @nutmegmagazine.bsky.social. This month we go back in time to France 1998.

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World Cup Memories
It’s France 98 and Scotland are opening the tourney against holders Brazil. What could possibly go wrong
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October 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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📢 Nutmeg announcement 📢

📚 We’re now available in these Waterstones stores:
Glasgow Sauchiehall Street
Edinburgh West End
Livingston Almondvale

📕 Why not pop in and pick up a copy of the latest issue.

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October 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📢 Nutmeg announcement 📢

📚 We’re now available in these Waterstones stores:
Glasgow Sauchiehall Street
Edinburgh West End
Livingston Almondvale

📕 Why not pop in and pick up a copy of the latest issue.

@waterstones.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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My piece on seagulls, football, and overcoming our own anxieties. I'd like to make it clear I wrote this before seagulls entered the parliament yesterday (metaphorically) - though oddly it does cover both Douglas Ross and seagulls
How can seagulls be causing so much division?

Only a few weeks ago loving chants of “SeaGULL! Sea-GULL!! Sea-GULL!!!” were ringing out across Tannadice.

Probably just as well Douglas Ross wasn't running the line that night.

@liamkirkaldy.bsky.social

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The seagull has landed | Nutmeg Magazine
An avian intruder on the Tannadice pitch summoned vicarious trauma and enriched what was already a surreal European night.
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September 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
👋 Hello people of Portobello

📕 Issue 37 is now of the shelves of the wonderful
Portobello Books alongside some brilliant independent magazines

📚 If there are any other independent bookshops out there who would like to stock Nutmeg then do get in touch.

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September 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
How can seagulls be causing so much division?

Only a few weeks ago loving chants of “SeaGULL! Sea-GULL!! Sea-GULL!!!” were ringing out across Tannadice.

Probably just as well Douglas Ross wasn't running the line that night.

@liamkirkaldy.bsky.social

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The seagull has landed | Nutmeg Magazine
An avian intruder on the Tannadice pitch summoned vicarious trauma and enriched what was already a surreal European night.
www.nutmegmagazine.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
📭 Nutmeg Issue 37 subscribers
We're aware of some subscribers who are still to receive Issue 37.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
📢 Calling all Falkirk and Ayr United fans 📢

The latest issue of Nutmeg is now available in your club shops.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Brilliant football stories, made in Scotland ⚽️

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September 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Issue 37 is out now

📕 There’s an extract online at @theguardian.com

⚽️ @kennypieper.bsky.social asks: is it too late to reclaim the simple joy of just watching football?

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Are smartphones eroding the experience of watching football?
Phones make everything easier but they have bred impatience and diluted the escapism of going to games
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September 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
👋 Hello people of Portobello

📕 Issue 37 is now of the shelves of the wonderful @portybooks.bsky.social alongside some brilliant independent magazines.

📚 If there are any other independent bookshops out there who would like to stock Nutmeg then DM us.

Shares and bookshop recommendations welcome.
September 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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You can tell it’s autumn because issue 37 of @nutmegmagazine.bsky.social has arrived. (Page 180, Songs of Praise, all about the links between music and Scottish football fanzines by your truly)
September 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Friday football feeling!

Just published, my contributions to the new @nutmegmagazine.bsky.social (an interview with the great Meadowbank Thistle boss Terry Christie) and @wsc.co.uk (Sheffield Wednesday match feature with words by Tom Hocking).

Buy online or rush to your nearest newsagents!
September 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
📢 Nutmeg Issue 37 is out this week

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Includes: The erosion of experience.
Can we reclaim the simple joy of just watching?
By @kennypieper.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📢 Nutmeg announcement

📕 Issue 37 will be going out to subscribers today.

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September 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM