Supporting Coventry City: An Emotional Investment
WORDS: TOM FURNIVAL-ADAMS It feels like the last 10 or 15 years have been a prolonged psychoanalytic journey for Coventry City supporters, but like a downtrodden prole, the longer the downward...
View ArticleSupporting Everton: An Optimistic Passenger
WORDS: MARK GODFREY When your football team start to match your personal aspirations, it’s an addictive, dizzying concept, as Everton supporters discovered in between 1984 and 1987, but enduring the...
View ArticleTogether For The Goal
EDITOR: MATT HOMER PRODUCER: NICK GOULDS Japanese fan culture is an organised passion and being a core supporter of a J.League club involves dedication, love and loyalty. Last year, two amateur English...
View ArticleThe Happy Doonhamer
WORDS: GIANCARLO RINALDI “The Queen of the South will rise up,” we like to say, quoting the line which makes ours The Only Team in the Bible. Yes, there have been long spells of emotional grey skies...
View ArticleCrazy Hearts But No Regrets
WORDS: JOEL SKED From the outside, it might look as though the last decade has been a dystopian nightmare for Hearts supporters. Tynecastle has been the setting for some of the most bizarre scenes in...
View ArticleGladbach Away: ‘This Is What Tradition Looks Like’
WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY: PRZEMEK NICIEJEWSKI Following away supporters on the road in European competition can be a colourful hobby for a photographer, so when the hordes of Gladbach travelling fans...
View ArticleHereford: The Rebirth of a Football Club
WORDS: DOMINIC BLISS After seeing their club go under last December, Hereford supporters immediately set their hearts and minds to rebuilding it from scratch. Now back home at Edgar Street, they are...
View ArticleWhen The Saints Go Marching Down
WORDS: EUAN McTEAR Relegation is usually a time for mourning, but as Saint Mirren return to the second tier of Scottish football they do so with as many fond memories of the nine years in the top...
View ArticleTwo National Teams Without Nations, Yet…
WORDS: EUAN McTEAR The Basque and Catalan national teams are not recognised by FIFA or UEFA and only play occasional friendlies, but passions run high whenever their representatives take to the pitch....
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Matchday at Kingstonian
PHOTOGRAPHY: MATT O’SHEA WORDS: RUPERT CANE Going behind the scenes at a non-league ground on a matchday is an uplifting experience. Every week, thousands of people up and down the country dedicate...
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