Welcome all refugees, anti-homophobia flags, festival-like atmosphere and a few U-Bahn mishaps. Welcome to our match day experience at FC. St Pauli’s Millerntor-Stadion.
Read More A Visit to FC St. Pauli: The Glastonbury of FootballUltras boycott, half empty ‘Yellow Wall’ and a rather commercial atmosphere. Hear what we made of the Signal Iduna Park on a Monday night.
Read More Podcast: Borussia Dortmund – FC AugsburgHave a listen to our first podcast from the Union Berlin v SV Sandhausen match – although, we apologise in advance for the lack of sound quality at times.
Read More Podcast: Union Berlin – SV SandhausenGermany’s 50+1 ownership structure is heralded throughout Europe, but in a football world dominated by money, many threats to the ideology remain, with this particular one coming from the Hannover 96 chairman.
Read More Martin Kind and Hannover 96 threaten 50+1 ruleMarcelo Bielsa arrived in Lille to much fanfare, only to leave amidst confusion, disagreements and as of now, law suits. Now he seems bent on revenge against his former club.
Read More Bielsista could force Lille into administrationJoin us as we live blog the Bundesliga clash between high-flying Bayern and Werder Bremen.
Read More Live blog: FC Bayern v SV Werder Bremen – as it happenedPast master tactician, Helenio Herrera, and modern-day great, José Mourinho, were doppelgängers in all but looks.
Read More Helenio Herrera & José Mourinho: Both cut from the same clothFootball, a funny old game. Over the course of the year, your team suffers highs and lows. Here we cherry-pick our most iconic moments for 2017.
Read More Highs and lows of 2017Dros hyd y flwyddyn mae yna lawer iawn yn digwydd yn y byd pêl-droed. Ond be am i ni edrych yn ôl ar 2017 yn sydyn. Edrych ar yr hyn y cynigodd o i dimau Cymru a’r tîm cenedlaethol, ac ar yr hyn disgwylir nhw yn 2018.
Read More Barn y ffan: Edrych yn ôl ar 2017Morocco are heading to their first World Cup Finals since France ’98. We look into how everything is seemingly coming together for the Lions of the Atlas..
Read More Lions of the Atlas stride on RussiaDespite regularly portraying football fans as individuals intent on disrespect, disobedience and disorder, the UK Government’s football-related arrest figures for 2016-17 paints a different picture.
Read More Football related arrests fall in UKLazio ultras’ decision to leave stickers of Anne Frank clad in Roma colours at the Olimpico rightly caused uproar. But does the problem lie beyond football and deeper in ultra culture?
Read More Fascist Lazio ultras highlight ongoing issuesA recent trip to the Estádio do Dragão got us thinking about Porto and their devastating start to the season under Sérgio Conceição..
Read More Estádio do Dragão roars under Sérgio ConceiçãoAs a football manager, time often calls on you take necessary risks in order to win matches. Sometimes these risks pay off, other times they’ll blow up in your face..
Read More The art of substitutionsAs the Santiago Bernabéu fell quiet, Real Betis players and staff celebrated ecstatically. Yet, don’t expect complacency from the fans, as history shows them a high is so often followed by a low.
Read More Los Verdiblancos reach high on the yo-yo stringParis is a city which oozes elegance. A city with enough fine wine to get the whole world drunk. A city that counts itself amongst the world leaders in fashion and now also finds itself at the forefront of world football.
Read More PSG and the French Ligue 1 RenaissanceA visit to the Vicente Calderon in 2016 gave quite the unexpected insight into football fandom as an Él Colchonero was remembered.
Read More Remembering an Él ColchoneroWe look at the moral issues surrounding Paul Pogba’s world record transfer from Juventus to Manchester United. First published in Red News, issue 235, 08/08/16.
Read More Bad money dies, I love the sceneCeltic upped the safe-standing antes in the UK with their lively Celtic Park section. Surely it’s a matter of when, not if, the English Premier League follows suit? We look at the possibilities.
Read More Celtic Introduce New Safe-Standing SectionWe look into whether Louis van Gaal’s apparent faith in youth at Manchester United has been out of necessity, rather than choice.
Read More What might have been, Louis
