Part of being an utterly hopeless football obsessive means that the World Cup is absolute heaven; ever since immersing myself in Espana 82 while on holiday on the Costa del Sol, I absolutely relish every tournament when it comes round. In many ways I still retain the character traits of that nine-year old boy who […]
Finally, after being back in the country for four days the Football Nerd gang are beginning to shake off the hangovers and clear our heads after the fun, games and merriment we had enjoying the opening week of the World Cup over in Russia. We will be chronicling our adventures in full in due course, […]
So here we are at last, the dust is settling on the domestic seasons in Europe and we can now concentrate on the four week extravaganza of football that is the latest chapter of the World Cup. For self-confessed football obsessives, while nothing will ever replace the ebb and flow of following our team(s) through […]
Having missed out on tickets for Liverpool’s last two appearances in the Champions League Final, Our Kid was absolutely thrilled that he managed to secure a ticket for this year’s Final in Kiev, although getting there and back was to prove far more challenging than he thought! Upon learning late on Thursday that his planned […]
After three arduous seasons in exile, on Saturday afternoon at Wembley my hometown club Tranmere Rovers, to the immense relief of their long-suffering supporters reclaimed their place in the Football League. But of course they were never going to do it the easy way! Rovers lost their league status in 2015 after back-to-back relegations that […]
Without actually planning it in any way, I found myself heading to the London Stadium yesterday evening for West Ham’s penultimate home fixture of what has been a relatively tempestuous season for Hammers fans. I have visited the stadium on several occasions previously for the Olympics and Paralympics in 2012 for which it was originally […]
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 […]
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