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Anyone but England: Five reasons some people want England to lose

I can vividly remember the first night out I had as a student just arrived in Madrid in the late…

6 years ago

World Cup Books 2018: A Literary Guide to 32 Countries

I am on a mission to find a cracking read on each of the 32 countries competing at Russia 2018.…

6 years ago

The CONIFA World Football Cup

 In London in early June 2018, a very special international football tournament is taking place. We went along to one…

6 years ago

17 stunning Art Deco football stadiums from around the world

The Arts Décoratifs (Art Deco) style of design and architecture was a distinctive modern movement peaking in the 1920s and…

6 years ago

Podcast: The Future of Safe Standing

Research shows that 15% of football fans would like to stand at football matches in the top flight of English…

6 years ago

Opinion: Time to bring back the European Cup-Winners’ Cup?

As the Champions League millions continue to concentrate power on the few, producing predictable outcomes at a continental and certainly…

6 years ago

Guest Post: The Ghost Stands

  In his debut post for Outside Write, Oliver Sidwell examines the efforts fans are making across England to bring…

6 years ago

Football Travel Podcast: The History of Football Fandom

In this podcast, we talk exclusively to Paul Brown, the author of Savage Enthusiasm, which chronicles the story of the…

6 years ago

Football’s symbiotic relationship with Spanish regional identity

As the 2017 Catalan independence referendum highlighted, Spain is a country of countries. Franco may be long dead, but his…

7 years ago

Enter the Dragon: An Englishman’s tale of following Wales

West Ham fan Andy Crisp moved to Cardiff some years ago. At Euro 2016, he even travelled to Lille to…

7 years ago