Stories

BY MARK GODFREY It’s been a week or two now but the shock of England’s humbling defeat at the hands...

Taken from Issue 11 of The Football Pink URI LEVY looks at the Brazilian club who led the way in...

BY RICHARD BEEDIE The dictionary definition of a ‘cult hero’ is ‘A writer, musician, artist, or other public figure who...

BY CRAIG MUNCEY Throughout football history, many prolific goal scorers have created their own headlines, nay legends; players such as...

BY JOSHUA LAW Sport and politics. Those words sit together about as comfortably as Barcelona and a rainy Tuesday night...

BY JACK CORBISIERO-PETERS Life presents opportunities when we have to decide whether to stick or twist. Do we apply for...

BY CONOR HEFFERNAN Many footballers can lay claim to the title of Africa’s greatest ever footballer, but few have captured...

BY FEARGAL BRENNAN As a computer game that helped to define a generation (or two) of football fans who sought something...

BY CRAIG MUNCEY Everyone loves a feel good story, someone who has overcome the obstacles put in front of them...

BY SCOTT SALTER Inter-war Poland proved to be a difficult period in the nation’s history. Following the end of the...

BY PAUL SAVAGE It’s September 1st 2001 and Michael Owen and Emile Heskey have just put Germany to the sword,...

BY CRAIG MUNCEY South America has produced many fantastic footballers over the generations, players such as Garrincha, Jairzinho, Pele, Diego...

BY MARK GODFREY Have you ever come to love someone who has hurt you badly? Maybe that’s too personal a...

BY MARK GODFREY The slightly decrepit, rudimentary wooden construction stands, perhaps a little apologetically, behind security ropes, affording it just...

BY B. STEWARD (real name and club provided)  A day out at the match has many different rituals for fans...

BY SUSAN GARDINER Stanley Matthews, once regarded as the most famous footballer in the word (at least in England and...

This article first appeared in Issue 10 of The Football Pink magazine ANDREW BOULTON casts his sceptical gaze towards the...

In the latest instalment of our Making a Stand series, GERRY FARRELL looks at a man whose name doesn't actually...

BY ALEX STEWART In spring 1990, Alexander McQueen, newly graduated from a Masters programme at Central Saint Martins, moved to...

BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM For many Parisians who wish to spend their summer holidays in the south west of France towards...

Words by Daniel Magner. Photographs by Tom Sparks With Eastleigh FC bowing out of the FA Cup after a valiant...

From Mods and Rockers to ‘dirty presents’ left on changing room floors, a surprisingly fierce rivalry has developed between two...

This article first appeared in Issue 7 of The Football Pink LIAM BILLINGTON dodges seabirds, rams and military no-go zones...

This article originally appeared in Issue 9 of The Football Pink Migration from Africa to Europe remains very much in...

BY MARK GODFREY - EDITOR While a galvanized Arsenal turned on the style to dismantle Olympiacos in Piraeus on Wednesday...

BY JAMIE WARD “They'll be dancing in the streets of Total Network Solutions tonight.” - Jeff Stelling Around the globe,...

BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM As countries go, there are few that can match the sheer stunning beauty of Andorra. Nestled firmly...

Pontiffs, Mussolini and casinos - part five in THE OUTSIDERS looks at an Italian club playing in Switzerland BY GLENN...

Next stop in THE OUTSIDERS series takes us to the tiny state of Liechtenstein. BY JEZ ROBERTS William Cook, writing...

The third instalment of our mini-series THE OUTSIDERS, we visit a city with a turbulent past and a club who...

Next up in our series THE OUTSIDERS, meet a team who are separated from their own country by metres yet...

Welcome to the first instalment of our new mini-series on teams who play their football in a country that is not...

BY TOMOS KNOX The four national teams of the United Kingdom are supposedly England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Each...

BY TOMOS KNOX Oceania is a continent scattered with far-flung atolls, miniscule islands, and larger, established countries such as Australia...

BY GERARD FARRELL Seamus Coleman is the best right back in the Premier League, well at least according to the...

BY GERARD FARRELL A World Cup in Brazil, it conjures up images in the imagination of the European football fan...

BY ALL BLUE DAZE One day, sitting in the office, I was chewing the fat over recent events in the...

BY MARK GODFREY When you’re used to winning nowt, even success in a raffle for a Christmas hamper or bottle...

MARK CARRUTHERS recaps the performances by African teams at previous World Cups and wonders if they are ready to fulfil...

BY ANTHONY HIGGINS Tony Higgins, author of the forthcoming book Homage to Murcia – A season of football anarchy, looks...

BY MARK GODFREY If you were asked to name football’s first world champions, what would be your response? Uruguay? You...

BY STEVEN KAY The game of football is the only truly global sport: played everywhere by everyone irrespective of social...

BY MARK GODFREY It’s a common misconception that England’s first defeat on home soil by non-UK international opposition came at...

BY EMILY LILES In October 2013, Aston Villa joined the long list of Premier League and Football League clubs whose...

BY MICHAEL HUDSON This is the club that Richie McLoughlin built, the ground he assembled, the players he trained. Offered...

JAY FREEMAN brings us the story of how two fans took their idea to Twitter and were responsible for gathering...

BY SIMON YAFFE IN Orhan Parmuk’s Istanbul: Memories and The City, the author takes the reader on a melancholic journey...

BY EMILY LILES Since the infamous 1980s milk advert, Accrington Stanley have been teased by football followers across the country...

BY DAN ROBERTS My wife would probably say that I spend far too much time watching or reading about football....

BY MARK CARRUTHERS This season is a rather historic one for Premier League football. For the first time in English...