BY GARY THACKER Into the tail-end of the ‘Swinging Sixties’ England thought itself to be the beating heart of world culture. The Beatles, The Rolling

BY ZACH REES This is not so much a story about the game of football as it is a story of the people who religiously

·       Film explores city’s sporting success in the ‘80s amid political and cultural upheaval ·       Features interviews with Lord Heseltine, Peter Reid, Derek Hatton and

BY MATTHEW O’CONNOR-SIMPSON Situated in an affluent suburb of Manchester, West Didsbury and Chorlton are among the most interesting football clubs in the country. My

BY BIKASH MOHAPATRA It’s a strange coincidence. Maybe destiny played a major part. No matter how one perceives or chooses to describe it there was

BY NATHAN O’HAGAN Walter Smith’s managerial reign at Everton was characterised by dwindling crowds, dour football, and financial constraints as rigid as his insistence on

This article first appeared in Issue 21 of The Football Pink fanzine GERRY FARRELL looks back at how the UK government and the English FA’s

BY GARY THACKER In the 1998-99 season, Middlesbrough were a second-tier club. Relegation had cost them the services of such international luminaries as Fabrizio Ravenelli

This article first appeared in Issue 17 of The Football Pink fanzine HARRY COLLINS goes on the trail of a man whose career was tragically

This article first appeared in Issue 19 of The Football Pink fanzine Before you can be empowered you need to be informed. Raith Rovers fans

REVIEW BY PAUL McPARLAN @paulmcparlan Turkey as a footballing nation has been unforgivably neglected by the soccer literati during the course of its rich and

I arrived late at the Albert Camus Bar on George Street on a foul, wet, black Saturday in the first week of March. It was

BY LUCAS GILLARD Football in Berlin is a microcosm of the ethnic, social, political, and historical dystopia that was Germany’s 20th century. This became abundantly

BY GARY THACKER Many pub landlords have stories to tell. They’ve heard thousands and retold them all in any number of different ways. Some are

I met Gordon in the Homo Ludens Bar, at the west end of George Street, on a bright and windy day in February. The Bar

This article originally appeared in Issue 21 of the now defunct Football Pink fanzine. With England’s success at the World Cup a not-so-distant memory, BORA

This article originally appeared in Issue 21 of the now defunct Football Pink fanzine. The British are used to feeling hated by their European neighbours.

In the final part of our look back at football in 2018, GERRY JOHNSTON remembers 10 of the game’s most well known names who we

CHRIS MARSHALL attempts to answer the question: “Is this the dawning of a new golden era for Scottish Professional Football League and for Scottish football

Part 16 of our 2018 recap comes courtesy of IAN CUSACK as he looks at the changes forced upon one of the last bastions of

BY CONOR KETLEY In recent months, you’d be forgiven for putting the lack of fans in the stands at the Stade Louis II down to

JAMES JOHNSON runs through the runners and riders for the 2018 Ballon d’Or award to see if the Messi/Ronaldo era of dominance is at an