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Liverpool’s fate hanging in the balance today (Fanhouse)
Jack Warner thwarted in the Carribean (Sunday Herald)
Remembering Garrincha (Run of Play)
Ghana struggling to cope with African Cup (Reuters Soccer Blog)
George Weah to  join Valiente Koriyama? (Japanese Non-League Football)
MLS fans at the Superdraft (Fanhouse)
The Europeanisation of African football (The Times)
Landon Donovan: The Best (Who Ate All The Cupcakes?)
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With the Africa Cup of Nations just a matter of thirteen days from opening in Ghana, I’m hoping to put together a chunky Pitch Invasion feature on African football to coincide with the event. As usual, we’re looking for writing and photography that explores things not covered by the mainstream football media.
So if you’d like […]

Editor’s note: As we’ve spent all week looking at non-league football in England, I asked our columnist in Italy, Vanda, to explain the world below Serie A and B there.
When it was suggested that I could write something about lower and non-league football in Italy, my initial reaction was Eek. Most Italian football fans are […]

In collaboration with Bill Turianski from the brilliant billsportsmaps.com website, today we present a basic primer on the English football pyramid as we continue the week’s non-league theme.
Some of you might be well versed in this already, but it will be useful for those perhaps hazy about the levels that fall below the Premier League […]

The Dripping Pan: no-one seems to know quite why, but that’s the name of Lewes F.C.’s home ground, and it sure beats the Emirates for evoking the curious and archaic history of British football. On Saturday, I watched East Sussex’s county town take on Havant & Waterlooville Football Club in the Conference South (known for […]

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 […]

Thanks to the photos of Jon Hall on Flickr, we bring you the first ever Pitch Invasion scarf battle from Serbia. It’s “the eternal derby” in Belgrade, 24th February 2007 .
First, Red Star Belgrade fans:

Editor’s note: China. The elephant in the room when it comes to the 2018 World Cup. Knowing he was recently in China, I asked my blogging friend from Gramsci’s Kingdom to give an overview of their bid, in the second of our series on the World Cup 2018 candidates (see part one on the […]

Editor’s note: Most of you will have noticed that we often linked to Rome-based blogger Spangly Princess during the recent crisis in Italy. Well, she’ll now be writing regularly for Pitch Invasion, and today brings us an update on the Catania-Palermo rivalry, ten months on from the death of a policeman that marked the previous […]