Club Heritage
Where Football Kit Colours Come From and Why They Stick
Ask supporters why their club plays in a certain shade and most will give you a story that sounds certain and turns out to be...
Every November the same thing happens: the council closes the grass pitches after one wet weekend, your Tuesday session gets cancelled three weeks running, and by January the squad has forgotten half of what you built in autumn.
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Club Heritage
Ask supporters why their club plays in a certain shade and most will give you a story that sounds certain and turns out to be...
Club Heritage
Ask ten supporters why their club is called what it is and you will often get ten slightly different stories, some of them...
Coaching Notes
You are 1-0 down, the players are walking off with their heads low, and you have roughly 12 minutes before the referee wants...
Youth Football
Picture a Saturday at 9:15. Fourteen under 10s are jogging two slow laps of the pitch, half of them chatting, three of them...
Fan Culture
Eleven weeks, 34 volunteers, 410 square metres of fabric and one very nervous phone call to the club's safety officer.
Player Development
A 1.72 metre centre-back once told me he had stopped going for headers against big strikers because "there's no point".
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Three writers who come at football from different angles: one breaks down match tactics and substitutions, one writes about player and youth development from time spent on training grounds, and one covers fan culture and club history. Every article carries a byline, and every byline links to everything else that person has written.