Outside Write

Podcast: The Roots of US Soccer

At the time that association football took hold in the USA in the second half of the 19th century, it faced stiff

This is an episode I’ve wanted to record for quite some time! We’re talking about Groundhopping in Japan with Chris Hough, who

Loaded with history, blessed with noisy and expressive fans, and much closer to Turin city centre than Juventus, a trip to Torino

We talk to Dublin-based football historian Gerard Farrell about how association football took off in Ireland before partition in 1921 into what

Down in the seventh tier of English football you will find one of the most significant clubs in world football – Corinthian-Casuals

Guest writer Andrew Williams reflects on a Sunday evening Ligue 1 match at Stade Louis II, home of AS Monaco. Along with

Ernö Egri Erbstein is a name you may not be familiar with, but the Hungarian coach was the architect of one of

“Who comes to football in a suit?” the security guard asked as she checked us through. We’d come straight from work to

We discuss groundhopping in Romania with Bucharest-based Charlie Craven. Starting in the capital with the famous Steaua and Dinamo clubs, we also

In this guest post, Andrew Williams recalls his visit to Naples in 2017, to watch Maurizio Sarri’s free-flowing S.S.C. Napoli. He describes

We talk to football coach and writer Justin Walley about the fascinating story that he chronicles in his new book, One Football,

We explore non-league football on the fringe of suburban North London in this long-read guest post from local groundhopper, Alexander Sarychkin. I

Daniel Gray, author of Black Boots and Football Pinks: 50 Lost Wonders of the Beautiful Game, joins us on the podcast to

In this guest post, reader Andrew Williams describes the fan culture at Jurgen Klopp’s former club, Mainz, as Bundesliga football, beer and

We talk to Ondrej Zlámal, a Prague-based football correspondent, about groundhopping in the Czech Republic. For a country that you can traverse