This week, Photo Daily will look at a sadly ubiquitous presence around football worldwide — the police. Today, we see the police in London herding the Swansea supporters heading for Victoria Coach Station, after Millwall had beaten the Welsh team 2-0 last March.
Photo credit: chrisjohnbeckett on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.
Editor’s note: This is the second part in a three part series by furtho looking at Omiya Ardija, a Japanese team living in the shadow of their near neighbours, the Urawa Reds. Read the first part here, which looked at Omiya’s remarkable promotion to the top Japanese division, a joy tempered as their inadequate stadium [...]
Waiting in vain for Don Fabio (Reuters Soccer Blog)
The Goalkeeper stands alone (Run of Play)
EPL fans connect over internet (EPL Talk)
African footballers to storm Swedish shores (Road to 2010 World Cup)
Paris, a dangerous place to fail (The Offside)
Crap football songs (Extreme Groundhopping)
The magic of the Indonesian Conductors (Jakarta Casual)
Soccer and ice hockey together at last, [...]
As we look forward to Euro 2008, we shouldn’t be fooled that domestic Swiss football runs like clockwork. Joe Westhead explores the game there from the passion of the Zurich derby to tragedy in the “Disgrace of Basel”.
Derby Day
It’s never just a game. It’s never just three points.
Grasshoppers Club Zürich are not having [...]
England are on the verge of appointing a new manager, which means that it’s a day to have opinions. If Italianness is not a quality you look for in a football coach, this is not the day to keep your thoughts a secret. If you had a dream about David Beckham last [...]
Today’s photo daily, the latest in our Croatia series, was sent in by a reader directly. The words below are his, too, explaining the night that these flares went off as Zvonimir Boban made his last lap around Maksimir Stadion, Zagreb.
Boban day was held on October 7th, 2002. Some forty thousand spectators were in attendance, [...]
MLS Underground has decided to shift focus and start covering MLS supporters in all their glory or lack thereof. The site also wants to create a sort of directory of all things MLS support. A great project in the works for American fans.
As The Offside comments, it’s tragic that Watford’s Alhassan Bangura faces deportation after his application to stay in the United Kingdom was turned down by the Asylum and Immigration Authorities. There is a petition here protesting the decision.
Editor’s note: Urawa Reds spent the past week basking in the global spotlight at the World Club Cup, but there’s more to Japanese football than them as Furtho explains in part one of a three part series looking at “Squirrel Nation”.
The Derby
There’s half an hour to go before kick-off. Away behind one goal, a huddled [...]
