Just five of the World Cup 2014 stadiums will be use for the forthcoming football tournemant at the Olympics in two years time. Rio De Janeiro, along with Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Salvador and San Paulo will host the mens competition which starts on August 4th 2016 with the Final taking place on August 19th. The only […]
As Argentina and Germany prepare to play the final of the world’s greatest game in front of a 78,838 capacity crowd at the iconic Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, commonly known as “the Maracanã the first qualifying match for this tournament was played way back in June 2011. The first match on the road to Brazil was Belize against Montserrat and with just […]
Developed by Pablo Silva the vanishing spray which has been lauded by the worlds media during the 2014 World Cup has been in use since 2000 in a professional level over in the Brazilian Championship. The shaving foam look-a-like is 80% water, 17% butane gas, 1% surfactant and 2% other ingredients. When the referee sprays the turf the […]
A new event right on our doorstep for football lovers, Paul Bailey and Andy Bowler have organised it and the venue is the Haydock Con Club close to J23 on the M6. It’s on a Sunday as well and entry is free, 10.30 till 1.00pm. Latics don;t have a match that weekend due to England playing The Swiss […]
The blue & red Catalan club were renowned for having no sponsorship on their teams shirts but like all things in life money eventually talks. In 2006 the Camp Nou suits decreed that the charity UNICEF should adorn the playing shirts, this was to be a forerunner come the 2011-12 season when the Qatar Sports Investments committed all concerned […]
It could well be ideal for both the parties involved ?
One evening in the early 1990s my son Ned and I found a free table at Pascualitos café in the centre of Cali, awaiting the ‘classico’. It was hot and humid evening and the café, right across the street from the Pascual Guerrero Stadium, was doing good business. The café was run by true brothers. […]
Following on from an earlier TNS article http://thisnorthernsoul.co.uk/hereford-united-1978-2014/ Hereford United supporters staged a mock funeral march in a bid to sway the suits in the council chambers to block any transfer of the existing leases on the ground to the club’s new owner. Former owner David Keyte sold the club for £2 to Tommy Agombar after the club failed to […]
Now it would be so easy to show the stereotypical Geordies in relation to this scribing but I won’t stoop so low as to insult those “wonderful passionate football fans in the North East” © This particular piece concerns the obligatory yellow card that is produced when a player takes off his shirt usually after scoring a goal. […]
After walking thro’ the cow pens myself and loyal Latics fan’s realised our dream of watching our home town team play in the football league, Wigan Athletic’s first ever football fixture was away at Hereford United. The match ended 0-0 and we were happy just to be there, however fast forward to season 2014.15. […]