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’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...

These tales are actually very real, I just couldn't think of a title and that's a banger of a song by Arctic Monkeys, back in the mid...

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...

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...

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...