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. […]
The waiting is done & dusted, today is the day. Wallchart is on the fridge, the previews in the official handbook, World Soccer & When Saturday Comes plus the excellent BBC on-line information have been read & digested. I really hope the hype is turned into reality and we have a feast of football, the hosts […]
This country may have passed you bye in all the hype surrounding WC14, since joining UEFA in May 2013 a tiny British territory have played five full internationals, their record is W1 D2 L2 F3 A7. Their first victory game against Malta 1-0 was at Faro in Portugal, they will have to play all their “home” matches abroad […]
Soon to be at Stamford Bridge, ex-Atlético Madrid’s centre forward Diego Costa who is a La Liga winner but a Champions League runner-up now has a bigger fish to fry. It is virtually unknown for a top-flight Brazilian to snub his homeland and opt for a rival nation as he did in September last year. […]
Usually driven by the Southern based media, the North South divide is not just an English phenomena as on the over side of the globe a certain country who will be hosting one helluva footballing carnival has just that soccer situation. Brazil’s southern cities of Rio & San Paulo and to lesser extent Porto Alegre are the mainstay of club […]