Did we used to have a long reads section?

Flaneur

l.q.navarro. Apologies pal, I should have mentioned you in the post

oneallanclarke

This isn’t the longest of reads (and being the YEP you’ll need an adblocker to read it properly) but it’s a fascinating account by Graham Smyth from a few years back of a Leeds fan who was living in East Germany in the 60s and 70s and met the team twice when they played in Eastern Europe in the Fairs Cup:
‪ https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/drinks-with-leeds-united-behind-the-iron-curtain-and-stasi-permission-to-watch-the-revie-boys-2858602

Flaneur

https://archive.ph/uujQc

oneallanclarke

Flaneur
Brilliant 👍🏻

Flaneur

The Pool of Life:

https://www.livpost.co.uk/the-pool-of-life/

fulmine

Flaneur
Very lucky to have seen a rough cut of the first doc.
Can’t recommend Jeff Young’s books highly enough, especially Ghost Town.

Anchor

I read this yesterday in the library.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/22/forty-years-in-the-siberian-wilderness-the-old-believers-who-time-forgot

Fascinating stuff.

CBIT

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mathew-bowyer-bookie-shohei-ohtani-ippei-mizuhara-1235417429/

CBIT

Misura https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/07/london-falling-patrick-radden-keefe-zac-brettler

MolOverBeethoven

The Cocaine Kingpin Living Large in Dubai Daniel Kinahan, an Irish drug dealer, commands a billion-dollar empire from the U.A.E. Why isn’t he in prison?

He's just been nicked. An incredible long read this from The New Yorker.

https://archive.is/Fp6cE

Travis_Bickle

MolOverBeethoven will read that later, cheers Mol. I read something a while back about some of the Italians that still control a lot of the world's drug movement, will try and find the link.

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos

Rudi’s just dropped another story on his substack page and it’s 100% acemans 👌

CBIT

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/23/lawrence-bishnoi-gangster-icon-modi-india

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