The De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam has always held a strong mystic to me. It’s a stadium that first landed on my radar as a 13 year old...

A weekend taking in the Hamburg Derby followed by games at Werder Bremen and Feyenoord “didn’t look great on paper” according to one of...

As we lose the soul of football more and more each year to human rights abusers, attention seeking celebrities and American portfolio...

Early this year, somewhat out of nowhere, a "Diego double" had a nice ring to it in my mind as Napoli powered towards a first Serie A...

What is football fan culture? Ultimately it means different things to different people and different traditions in different countries....

2022 treated me to many incredible experiences. Some familiar and some completely new. Here's an illustrated look at a year to remember....

My wife, Mrs Junkie has been traveling to Colombia since 2011, visiting sponsored children, many of whom have become family. In 2012 when...

There are seven stadiums in the NFL that cost over a billion dollars to build. The league is rich with shiny new arenas, rising ticket...

There’s a two year period in the middle of Stockport County’s historic 90s decade where the club went through somewhat of a transition...

Further down this site you’ll find pieces I’ve written on Stockport County’s most glorious decade, the 1990s. The run to the semi finals...

I played around with many different scenarios of how and when to experience football in Buenos Aires, often regarded as the capital of...

I’m calling it year one because not only is it year one of me being a season ticket holder, which I hope I will be for decades to come,...

Atlanta was the first place I ever stopped in the US, a layover in 2005 on my way to see my future wife. I still to this day remember the...

Ever since LAFC made their MLS debut in 2018 I've wanted to go to a game. I'd been to a few Galaxy games down the years, mostly when they...

Los Angeles sports culture - how different it is to Manchester, England where I grew up and most other European cities. One sport...

When I think of Oldham Athletic in the 90s, so many things come to mind. The plastic pitch, (before plastic pitches got all fancy and...

In November 2020, in the midsts of a global pandemic, Wrexham AFC, one of the few professional Welsh football clubs to play in the...

Last month, the twelve self proclaimed biggest football clubs in Europe, headed by the President of Real Madrid, Florentino Perez,...

August 2002. Stockport County had just been relegated after five years in the Championship and started the new season with plenty of...

After a quick KFC at Bologna train station, it was back to Florence for my next calcio experience. We arrived back shortly before 7pm, i...