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The highs and lows of following a match on social media
One of the best aspects of football is that we follow our teams through thick and thin, in all kinds of weather, and from various places.
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/ 6 months agoAn ode to the fractious border between home and away fans
Here follows a passionate footballing ode to that small strip of seats, that unstable gap, which separates away fans from home...
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/ 6 months agoFlint Mountain FC and the joys of Welsh football
The club intrigued me as I had never come across a team with ‘mountain’ in the name and from the outset...
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/ 10 months agoNewcastle United: The Cathedral on the Hill and Unforgettable Memories
When you say the words Newcastle United, it conjures up thoughts of entertaining football, famous names and famous managers, but ultimately...
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/ 10 months agoFor the love of the game #6: Stuttgart Scotland Euro 2024: A Photographer’s Journey – An ode to joy; a prelude to despair.
The half-built Neues Schloss (new palace) rises like a stone monolith in the distance as the poet feathers the parchment gracefully....
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/ 12 months agoFor the love of the game #5 Part 3: KV Kortrijk
Prologue Willem kneels on the lush Flanders grassland, his pike resting on the turf and his goedendag at 45 degrees to...
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/ 1 year agoFor the love of the game #5 Part 2: Lille
I’ve left Darren asleep in the room and gone down for breakfast early. There’s no rush to get going today, but...
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/ 1 year agoFor the love of the game #5 Part 1: PSV Eindhoven
A plump spectre stoops uneasily as he prepares to ascend into the incandescent white light, high above the chanting crowd. His...
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/ 1 year agoFor the love of the game #4 LOSC Lille
With a few days free in the diary, in the fortnight leading up to Christmas, what else was there to do...
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/ 2 years agoFor the love of the Game #3 (Part 3) – Die Alte Dame (The Old Lady), Hertha BSC
The Olympiastadion is an iconic stadium. In 1936, it became a symbol of Nazi power when it hosted the Berlin Olympics,...
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/ 2 years agoFor the love of the Game #3 (Part 2) – The Olympiastadion, Hertha BSC
I’m sat up in bed while I write tonight. It’s just a couple of days before we fly from Gatwick on...
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/ 2 years agoFor the love of the Game #3 (Part 1) – The Olympiastadion, Hertha BSC
It’s been a good few months since I’ve written a ‘For the love of the Game’ article, and I can’t wait...
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/ 2 years agoFootball fashion
Steve Tolmie examines the changes to the game's attire down the years... Sock it to ’em: Arsenal’s trendy long socks FOOTBALLERS...
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/ 3 years agoFor the love of the game #2 – The Kassam Stadium, Oxford United
What else was I going to do on the final Saturday of the League One season? I travelled to The Kassam...
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/ 3 years agoFor the love of the game #1 – Sixfields, Northampton Town
What else was I going to do with a free Saturday in March? On a balmy hot Spring Saturday, I traveled...
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/ 3 years agoDAN THE PHOTO MAN
NOTTS COUNTY FAN IAN KIRKE SALUTES PHOTOGRAPHER DAN WESTWELL’S EFFORTS TO CAPTURE THE CLUB’S AND SUPPORTERS’ SPECIAL MOMENTS... WITH Nottingham being...
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/ 3 years agoTOMMY’S THE TOPS
KEVIN HALLS EXPLAINS WHY TOMMY HUTCHINSON IS HIS COVENTRY CITY ALL-STAR... Class act: Tommy Hutchison in Coventry colours playing for Scotland...
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/ 3 years agoTHE ONE AND ONLY ST ANDREW’S
LIFELONG BIRMINGHAM CITY FAN KEITH DIXON DELVES INTO THE HISTORY OF THE BLUES’ FAMOUS OLD GROUND... Tough times: Birmingham’s St Andrew’s...
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/ 3 years agoBRYAN ROBSON CAPTAIN MARVEL
ROBERT J WILSON TAKES A LOOK BACK AT THE GLITTERING CAREER OF THE FORMER WEST BROM, MANCHESTER UNITED AND ENGLAND STAR......
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/ 3 years agoLIFE AFTER ENGLAND
SAM TODD EXAMINES HOW ENGLAND MANAGERS HAVE FARED AFTER LEAVING THE THREE LIONS HOTSEAT.... WITH a new three-year contract - worth...
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/ 3 years agoNOT SO SUPER SUBS
JOE ACKLAM SAYS THAT CALLS FOR FIVE SUBSTITUTES TO BE REINTRODUCED IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL ARE WIDE OF THE MARK... At the...
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/ 3 years agoTHE LIFE OF A FAN
TORQUAY UNITED SUPORTERS’ TRUST SUPPORTER LIAISON OFFICER NICK BRODRICK EXPLAINS WHAT IT REALLY MEANS TO BE A FOOTBALL FOLLOWER... Star quality:...
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/ 3 years agoWINNING VS ENTERTAINMENT
JOE ACKLAM GIVES HIS VIEW ON THE BALANCE BETWEEN WINNING AT ALL COSTS AND LOSING IN STYLE... Attacking intent: Raphinha in...
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/ 3 years agoFOOTBALL GODS
HARRY GORDON TAKES A LOOK AT PLAYERS WHO HAVE ATTRACTED MASSIVE ADORATION OF FANS... A POTHEOSIS is the glorification of a subject...
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/ 3 years agoSOARING SEAGULLS
BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION FAN TOBY REED-MCGILL REFLECTS ON HIS CLUB’S UPWARDLY MOBILE JOURNEY IF YOU had told Brighton fans 10...
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EFL
/ 3 years agoTHE UNEXPECTED RISE OF SWINDON TOWN
SWINDON SUPPORTER JOE ACKLAM ADMITS THE ROBINS’ FINE FORM IN LEAGUE TWO THIS SEASON HAS CAUGHT EVEN DIE-HARD FANS BY SURPRISE......
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/ 3 years ago‘WOR’ JACKIE AND THE TOON’S FA CUP TREBLE
COLIN ALLAN RECALLS WHEN THE LEGENDARY JACKIE MILBURN AND NEWCASTLE UNITED WERE CUP KINGS IN THE EARLY 1950S... Full stretch: Jackie...
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/ 3 years agoBOWYER’S BLUES
LIFELONG BIRMINGHAM CITY FAN KEITH DIXON LOOKS AT THE IMPACT OF BOSS LEE BOWYER AT HIS BELOVED BLUES... Demanding: Blues boss...
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/ 3 years agoBRING ON THE SHAKERS
HARRY PHENSHAW ON THE PLIGHT OF BURY FC AND A NEW DAWN FOR THE GIGG LANE CLUB... Before the storm: Bury’s...
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/ 3 years agoOH DANNY BOY
COVENTRY CITY FANATIC KEVIN HALLS RECALLS ONE OF HIS FAVOURITE SKY BLUES PLAYERS, WHOSE CAREER WAS CRUELLY CUT SHORT... Making his...
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