Over thirty years ago in the days before Channel Four popularised Italian Football in this country, a quite remarkable story emerged from the exotic seeming Serie A, one that captured the imagination of this at the time teenaged football obsessive. None other than Diego Armando Maradona, disillusioned after a 2 –year stint at Barcelona characterised […]
As I described on these pages back in the autumn (https://football-nerd.org/2017/10/06/football-nerd-weekly-ramblings-a-dilemma-of-hopelessness-and-questioned-loyalty/), the increasing obsession brought about by Mrs Football Nerd and my continued attendance at Leyton Orient has built a major football-supporting dilemma for me. With Orient having been relegated out of the League for the first time in 112 years at the end of […]
The Premier League came ‘roaring’ (as we are always told it does by Sky Sports!) back into action last weekend after yet another infuriating and stultifying international break. Normally this is greeted with a huge sense of relief in the Football Nerd household, not solely because we have survived once again, but because it means […]
In the depths of yet another insufferable international break and with Orient being away, Mrs Football Nerd and I found ourselves at a bit of a loose end last week; at least until our friend Johnny, Chelsea season ticketholder and general football obsessive in much the same way that we are, shared with us the […]
After all the fun of our breakfast time Arsenal watching (https://football-nerd.org/2017/09/22/football-in-a-soccer-world-reflections-on-a-weekend-in-new-york-city-part-1/), Mrs Football Nerd and I spent the afternoon wandering through Manhattan’s Sunday street markets and watching the dance skaters in Central Park, before undertaking the long subway ride from Manhattan down to Coney Island. However It wasn’t the funfair or Nathan’s Famous Hotdogs that […]
Spending two years of my childhood living in New Jersey has imbued me with a certain sense of identification with the metropolis that is New York City, the strength of the bond created means that Mrs Football Nerd and I like to try and visit the city on an almost annual basis. Our most recent […]
Back at the end of April, Mrs Football Nerd and I had gone to watch already-relegated Leyton Orient at home to Colchester United in their last home Football League game (https://football-nerd.org/2017/05/05/the-terrible-state-of-leyton-orient-is-this-the-end-for-a-true-community-club/). That game will always be remembered for the protests about then owner Francesco Becchetti whose inept, if not frankly malicious, stewardship of the club […]
In what should probably more accurately be referred to as ‘a summer with slightly less football than usual’, immediately after our return from a weekend in Stavanger in which we had taken in two games in a weekend; Mrs Football Nerd and I were off to the inaugural Star Sixes tournament over at the ‘Arena […]
This adventure actually started back in March 2015 in Valencia when Mrs Football Nerd and I first encountered three kindred Norwegian football obsessives in an Irish Bar (where else?) watching the North London Derby. Bonded by the common language, humour and nostalgia brought out by our passion for the game; Hans, Nils and Evan became […]
Ever since the recommencement of the Eredivisie season after the winter break, there was a feeling that, at long last, my boyhood club Feyenoord was on a path to fulfilling its destiny and securing their first league title since 1999. As the weeks passed and the momentum grew, that feeling only got stronger. The self-same […]
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