Fandom drives people to do a variety of outwardly strange things, from scarf collecting to lucky-shirt rituals. Via the Uni Watch Blog comes a great example: billsportsmaps.com, the site of a fan who crafts his own maps of various sports leagues around the world. Some are computer-generated, some hand-drawn, and all gorgeous […]
Rangers and Celtic of Glasgow are renowned for their historic enmity; yet the most notorious football riot of the pre-World War One days in Britain saw the two sets of fans united in a pitch invasion at the 1909 Scottish Cup Final.
That riot at Hampden Park was one sparked by frustration, as supporters of […]
This new series will look at significant pitch invasions from the past. We start with one of the most memorable: the 1923 F.A. Cup final, the first to be held at the new Empire Stadium (which would later be known as Wembley), and one which attracted the largest crowd ever assembled for a football […]
