Gaz Shaw

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Web and IT troubleshooter. MA from @icshc.bsky.social, MBCS at @wearebcs.bsky.social, formerly of @insplacemanagement.bsky.social. Salford fan. — 👨‍💼 linkedin.com/in/gazshaw 🔮 medium.com/@gazshaw 🧑‍💻 gazshaw.co.uk 👹 salford.leaflet.pub

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Longform Stories

Resolutely Indomitable

The bribe offered to Captain Risman

Apr 30·2 min read·281 words

The Original Red, White and Blacks

Another thing appropriated by United?

Apr 22·2 min read·286 words

How did Manchester United become known as ‘The Red Devils’, really?

Because there are issues with the established lore

Apr 21·10 min read·1986 words

Centenary City

Salford marks 100 years since its royal charter

Apr 21·3 min read·551 words

Bon Anniversaire

30 years of Super League? We’ve got our own celebrations, mate

Mar 30·2 min read·332 words

Nofoaluma Bounces Back

Needless to say he’s had the last laugh

Mar 2·5 min read·844 words

Gus Risman and Me

And French rugby league’s golden jubilee

Feb 3·7 min read·1303 words

RLFANS.COM calls it a day

The most significant supporters network of the noughties logs out

Feb 2·5 min read·888 words

‘Profane language at very high volume’

The Salford Bard on Terrace Culture

Jan 26·1 min read·186 words

Richard Osman’s House of Games

Where is Kazakhstan/Kersal?

Jan 23·1 min read·153 words

Hammersmith Horror?

A dreaded banana skin – to avoid being clotheslined by Hills Hoists

Jan 20·2 min read·266 words

Volume 7, Match 1

Salford RLFC opens new account against early favourites Oldham

Jan 19·3 min read·555 words

A New Normal

Leaning into the ‘be thankful you have a club’ vibe

Jan 13·2 min read·396 words

Annus Horribilis

2025 was, in other words, the worst of years

Jan 7·3 min read·558 words

The Seventh Epoch

Salford RLFC Ltd marks a new chapter in a 152 year saga

Dec 30·2 min read·212 words

The Martin Parr photo

From an evening at The Willows in 1979?

Dec 29·4 min read·733 words

Salford’s Christmas Day Record

More Cliff Evans than Cliff Richard

Dec 24·9 min read·1724 words

Salford Football Club Company Limited

Another previous shell of the club

Dec 9·2 min read·279 words

The Insolvent Champions

Club life during its company’s death

Dec 3·4 min read·680 words

It’s over, finally

Or the end of the beginning

Dec 3·2 min read·289 words

The Appliance of Science

Lance Todd on rugby league training in 1909

Nov 13·3 min read·594 words

Free cigars

That test match when they doled out complimentary stogies

Nov 12·2 min read·258 words

Adieu, pet

Newcastle looks done as a Magic Weekend venue

Nov 11·2 min read·271 words

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

It began with limited tackles: why the gulf in class between England and Australia

Nov 10·2 min read·237 words

Checking your sources

A timely reminder to not take the information you find as read

Nov 7·2 min read·386 words

The Bridewell

Watching test match rugby league in Liverpool

Nov 6·3 min read·591 words

Everyday Mancism

I live in Salford goddammit

Nov 6·2 min read·217 words

The Hardy Core

What effect will missing out 2026 have on Salford’s core support?

Nov 6·2 min read·318 words

The Big Shorts

Not James Lomas’s knickerbockers but the economy

Nov 6·3 min read·418 words