Craig (@ACasualBantam) / X

Craig

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Craig

@ACasualBantam

Writes about trainers Partial to the odd pair of adidas #bcafc #FlyEaglesFly

Bradford, West Yorkshire

Joined October 2016

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Craig
@ACasualBantam
Jan 10, 2023
Actually proud as fuck, pinning this forever 💙
adidas UK
@adidasUK
Jan 10, 2023
Replying to @adiFamily_
It's been a pleasure! It's people like yourself & your love for the brand that keep us going You've done a brilliant job of bringing the community together & it would only be right that we show our support when and where we can What you do for the brand will not go unnoticed💙
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Craig
@ACasualBantam
May 18, 2023
Replying to @ACasualBantam
And now I've not much else to say, just I'm crying, not sure whether it's happiness, or loss, but whatever it is, it's a good thing Today I seen a man I would never have seen again, but got the amazing luck to do so Mr Jeremy Higginson, the best fucking teacher I ever had ✌🏻
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Craig
@ACasualBantam
May 18, 2023
Went to do a job in Baildon this morning, and turned into one truly emotional roller coaster Pulls up, bloke about 70 greets us, I look and think I recognise you, he speaks and I know the voice, but just can't place it at all He wants observatory he is building waterproofed 1/?
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Craig
@ACasualBantam
Jun 28, 2024
Just had the gaffer think he can talk to me like absolute shit over nothing So I downed tools, and set off home immediately, I don't have much in life, but I have something in me that won't allow me to be treated like that, talked to like that I can hold my head up
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Craig
@ACasualBantam
Jun 16, 2024
Eni Aluko has been on the telly all of 5 minutes Already her infamous maths have been showcased, 2010 was 24 years ago apparently And the decision to have Foden play number 10, and also Bellingham to play number 10, just superb analysis Dreadful viewing, worst "pundit" going
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Craig
@ACasualBantam
May 18, 2023
Replying to @ACasualBantam
Didn't say a word in front of my gaffer, or anything Just gave me a look and said how are you in life Craig, and I told him happy, plodding on I shook his hand at the end of job, gave him a hug and looked him in the eye, and said the most heartfelt Thank You I'll ever utter 9/?
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Craig
@ACasualBantam
May 18, 2023
Replying to @ACasualBantam
Luckily my Nan took me in, about 11 or 12, and then raised me. My saviour, my nan was my everything But until today, I had never realised what that man did for me, what he installed in me. When I told him my name, he said he remembered me, and gave me a look...8/?
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Craig
@ACasualBantam
Oct 31, 2024
You've never seen a restaurant asking for drug dealers to come down and have a munch Until now Welcome to Bradford
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Craig
@ACasualBantam
May 18, 2023
Replying to @ACasualBantam
My gaffer said to me, you okay as I was a bit off, just head spinning, I said aye, he excluded me twice for fighting, which he did, but it was the rest that just came rushing back, bowled me over God knows how I finished the day, but I'm home, just started typing, as I do...10/?
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Craig
@ACasualBantam
May 18, 2023
Replying to @ACasualBantam
The man stood before me, who I only know as Jeremy Is in fact Mr Higginson, my head of year for both year 7 and then year 8 21 years later, randomly come across the bloke who had a massive impact on my childhood, the first person to tell me my parents were wrong to hit me..3/?
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Craig
@ACasualBantam
May 18, 2023
Replying to @ACasualBantam
Changed how I thought, made me look at things The first person to tell me I wasn't a bad person, that I wasn't even that badly misbehaved, & didn't deserve it He called social services, uproar, i started running away from home At the end of year 8, I ran away for good...8/?
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Craig
@ACasualBantam
May 18, 2023
Replying to @ACasualBantam
You see. It was just normal to me, all other kids would tell me how badly their dad would smack them, or use a belt or slipper, so it was just the same right? No, no it wasn't. No love in my house growing up, I just never knew. Mr Higginson freed me, in my mind...7/?
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Craig
@ACasualBantam
May 18, 2023
Replying to @ACasualBantam
Mr Higginson pulled me to one side, asked where the black eye was from, did I have a problem with someone in school No sir, I got tomato sauce on table, my mam slapped me in face His response changed my life, how he reacted, what he said to me. Made me realise it was wrong 6/?
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Craig
@ACasualBantam
May 18, 2023
Replying to @ACasualBantam
See i got battered as a child, like genuinely over the top beatings, abuse is the word, it wasn't do something wrong and get a belt for it It was ask my Dad if could buy some pokemon cards and he broke my nose for being selfish. I was 8 years old...4/?
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