Pre Covid-19, my new goal every year was to pick a 10 day period over two weekends to fly back to the UK to see family and friends and do...

In the late spring of 2005, our same gang of five headed to the Eternal City and the Rome Derby. Not the biggest game in Europe at that...

Our touring, touting squad had dwindled down to five but the prospect of two Clasico’s in the same season was too good to resist. Again...

In December of 2003 a group of eight of us headed to Barcelona for El Classico vs Real Madrid. None of us had tickets. I can only assume...

In May of 2003 I was still sharing a house in Altrincham with the same people. The Champions League Final that year was at Old Trafford,...

In March 2003, my mate Matt (Skinny, Skinwar, Turtle, Italian Li - I’ve actually never called him Matt) and I headed to Milan to watch AC...

My European football adventures began in a seedy bar in Amsterdam in December 2002. I had gone for a weekend with my three housemates. We...

The title of this may seem a little juvenile but believe it or not, Stockport County once produced an official DVD sold in the club shop...

A piece I wrote for the podcast and blog “The Scarf Bergara Wore” 96/97 - numbers that roll off the tongue for a lot of Stockport County...

On November 19th 1991, Manchester United hosted Red Star Belgrade in the European Super Cup. It was meant to be two legs, between the...

As an 80s kid, I grew up in South Manchester on Panini stickers, kicking a ball against a wall, by myself, until it was too dark to see,...