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Jun 5, 2021
Pretty fly for a SoFi.
Los Angeles sports culture - how different it is to Manchester, England where I grew up and most other European cities. One sport...
DM
Jun 2, 2021
When will we start making Mental Health number one?
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...
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May 22, 2021
Interview: From the Chaddy End to the Yellow Wall, an Oldham fan’s fight for his club.
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...
DM
May 16, 2021
Wrexham AFC, the Hollywood takeover.
In November 2020, in the midsts of a global pandemic, Wrexham AFC, one of the few professional Welsh football clubs to play in the...
DM
May 10, 2021
24 hours in Dallas: Mavs, Rangers, Canelo and the Grassy Knoll.
Towards the end of March 2021, Eddie Hearn the British boxing promoter and fast becoming one of the most powerful men in world sports,...
DM
May 3, 2021
Interview: On the front line, the Old Trafford protest and the fight against greed.
Last month, the twelve self proclaimed biggest football clubs in Europe, headed by the President of Real Madrid, Florentino Perez,...
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Aug 26, 2020
The day I met Carlton Palmer in just a towel.
August 2002. Stockport County had just been relegated after five years in the Championship and started the new season with plenty of...
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Aug 19, 2020
Serie A, twice in a day. Part Two - Fiorentina
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...
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Aug 19, 2020
Serie A, twice In a day. Part One - Bologna
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...
DM
Aug 18, 2020
Rome - Derby della Capitale
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...
DM
Aug 18, 2020
El Clasico - Santiago Bernabeu
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...
DM
Aug 18, 2020
El Clasico - Camp Nou
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...
DM
Aug 17, 2020
Champions League Final 2003
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,...
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Aug 17, 2020
San Siro
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...
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Aug 17, 2020
Amsterdam
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...
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Aug 17, 2020
City City what’s the score?
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...
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Aug 17, 2020
Stockport County - Giant killers
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...
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Aug 17, 2020
Dejan Savicevic- the best I’ve ever seen.
On November 19th 1991, Manchester United hosted Red Star Belgrade in the European Super Cup. It was meant to be two legs, between the...
DM
Aug 17, 2020
Welcome
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,...
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