After a scheduled second trip to Buenos Aires was canceled (by me) due to having a slight feeling of being financially exploited by my...

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...

Often referred to as "the fifth Grand Slam", Indian Wells has hosted the best tennis players in the world for two weeks a year since...

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...

Following on from last years trip up north, taking in the San Francisco Giants and San Jose Earthquakes, it was time to knock out another...

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’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,...

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 first moved to Southern California in 2007 the Los Angeles Lakers were just starting one of their many dominant spells, resulting...

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

In September of 2018 I remember sitting down and watching the Women’s final of the US Open between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka. There...

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...