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1. Open forum: how online message boards offer a safe space for fans to open up
(Stories)
...  to writing numerous 1,000-word emails in response to any manner of issues about ticketing, transport and transfers raised by fans on NSC, that then end up being published in full for all to read. Thei ...
Created on 27 April 2018
2. Forget Panini – there’s a new type of football sticker to obsess over
(Stories)
... I once assumed that transport hubs would offer rich pickings but stickers seem to be removed fairly swiftly, although you may see some. The most common stickers seem to be British, German and Polish. ...
Created on 19 March 2018
3. Badge of the week ~ Buxton United SC, Guyana
(Stories)
... ho left Ladyman on a train but he apparently wasn't that bothered about her. In any case, the train features heavily in Buxton's iconography as a result of it being the chief form of transportation of bl ...
Created on 23 February 2018
4. From knotweed to music fans – how even top clubs' pitches used to suffer
(Stories)
... n Manchester City’s Champions League match against Borussia Mönchengladbach was called off last September, it was only after a biblical deluge that also took out a fair chunk of the local public transpor ...
Created on 12 February 2018
5. What We Think About When We Think About Football by Simon Critchley
(General)
... the other lauds the magical power of great goals and winning performances that transport fans to what he calls “sensate ecstasy”. It says much about the book, however, that my one abiding memory of it ...
Created on 20 December 2017
6. Fans across UK donating tonnes of food and clothes to help local communities
(Stories)
... joining regular volunteers to transport the donations to the charities involved. Donations from that match also went to homelessness charity The Invisibles, and Refuweegee, who aim to welcome refugees ...
Created on 07 December 2017
7. Life during wartime: how the Second World War exposed football’s regional divides
(Stories)
... of transportation intensifying, and no prospect of being included in a new southern section, both Bournemouth and Norwich decided to withdraw from League competition in the summer of 1942. They only returned ...
Created on 08 November 2017
8. Off the rails ~ The broken relationship between football fans and train travel
(Stories)
... of transportation,” read an official FA statement, following the controversy caused by setting the FA Cup final kick-off time at 5.15pm, “a small percentage of Cup final fans use the method of train travel.” ...
Created on 09 October 2017
9. From the archive ~ The Home Internationals always meant more to Scotland
(Stories)
... September ~ The end of May brings a sense of loss and melancholy to every football fan. The trophies have all been raised aloft, rinsed with cheap champagne and transported by open-top bus to meet the ...
Created on 11 September 2017
10. From the archive ~ How the old Wembley earned its worldwide affection
(Stories)
... e do those squat twin towers and rounded arches originate? If they look familiar it's because Wembley is the Colosseum of Rome transported to the North Circular Road, the style of a Mediterranean empire borr ...
Created on 27 March 2017
11. Game Changers
(Managers)
... chapters that are interesting are the interviews with the agent and the backroom staff. The sheer amount of gear a kit man has to transport for a Premier League club is crazy. At last the rules governing ...
Created on 12 October 2016
12. A history of England’s travelling support
(Stories)
... Supporters’ Association offered members who wanted to travel to Mexico the opportunity to travel on an organised trip to watch the tournament, with transport, hotels, a full English washed down with pints ...
Created on 29 June 2016
13. It’s time for football to reduce its environmental impact
(April 2016)
... Cup was supposedly carbon neutral, South Africa 2010 had the largest carbon footprint of any commercial event in the world and the figures for 2014 ignored the biggest cause of carbon emissions – transport ...
Created on 07 April 2016
14. Shankly’s Village
(Managers)
... reckoned with, it seems timely to be transported back to the village of Glenbuck. This was Bill Shankly’s childhood home and one that symbolises a footballing epoch – a century or so from the late Victorian ...
Created on 11 February 2016
15. Photo of the week ~ Middlesbrough’s Riverside
(January 2016)
11 January ~ Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium pictured with the town’s historic Transporter Bridge and sculptor Anish Kapoor's public art entitled Temenos. The photo was taken on the day Boro drew 1-1 wi ...
Created on 11 January 2016
16. Weekly Howl 21-11-14
(2014)
... s form of transport. And indeed one day, as the coach turned into the car park outside the ground of Mtibwa Sugar FC, a mob attacked, pulling the team out of the vehicle and selling them to a Pharoah ( ...
Created on 27 November 2014
17. Weekly Howl 31-10-14
(2014)
... an to the visitors, and lays on a programme of music that must have magically transported the City Ground faithful from a dark, autumnal east Midlands evening to the peaks and lakes of the spectacular Al ...
Created on 06 November 2014
18. Algeria and South Korea preview ~ World Cup 2014
(World Cup 2014)
... uickly bought, with the state promising to subsidise tickets and transport. Independent travellers will find it hard as Algerian credit cards are not recognised by other countries, so buying online is a non- ...
Created on 17 June 2014
19. Girls With Balls
(General)
...  might be taking home more than his expenses. There are excerpts from contemporary records and write-ups throughout the book, whose cadence (not to mention their moral outrage) transports you back in t ...
Created on 12 February 2014
20. Weekly Howl 18-10-13
(2013)
... st recent meeting in a packed underground carriage. The inventor of the hot tub was Samuel Hinny, an early Port Vale player who felt uncontrollably lonely in his bath at home after the transporting  ...
Created on 24 October 2013

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