Outside Write

Podcast: London’s Football Clubs and Fan Culture

I am on ‘home turf’ in this episode as I am joined by Mark Waldon, the author of London’s Fields: An Intimate

In this exclusive guest post, Stuart Gibbs describes the response of the Scottish Football Association (SFA) to the ban on women’s football

I am joined by Chris Hylland, whose new book Tears at La Bombonera is an account of his time groundhopping around South

My guest is Ralph Hannah, who runs the Guaraní Vision podcast focussed on Paraguayan football. He discusses the history of the game

Portugal lived under Western Europe’s longest dictatorship of the 20th century from 1926 until the Carnation Revolution of April 1974. One of the

My guest is Tim Hartley, author of Kicking Off in North Korea, in which he chronicles his incredible groundhopping experiences. We discuss

In this guest post, Irish football historian Gerard Farrell explores the role of Irish footballers in the early US soccer scene. If

I am joined by Rob MacDonald and Adam Bushby from Halcyon Publishing who have a book out, From the Jaws of Victory,

My guest is Dr Pete Watson, an expert in Latin American politics, history and football. Pete describes the relationship between football and

This week’s guest is Jonathan Grade, who worked on Channel 4’s iconic Football Italia show for nearly a decade from beginning to

*This post is a section from my second book, The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism In April 2019, an interesting

My guest is Kevin E. Simpson, author of Soccer Under the Swastika: Stories of Survival and Resistance During the Holocaust. He tells

My guest is Llew Walker from Corinthian-Casuals FC, who has a new biography out on the life of Andrew Watson, the world’s

I am joined by Karan Tejwani, whose new book Wings of Change, chronicles the controversial rise of RB Leipzig. We also look

Our guest is Stephen Hurrell, who blogs about the table-top football game Subbuteo at Subbuteo Online. We discuss the game’s roots from