Posts Tagged ‘Omiya Ardija’

Love, Revolution and Architecture: a Year in the Life of the Squirrel Nation, Part Three

By furtho • Jan 8th, 2008 • Category: World Football Culture

Read the final part of furtho’s brilliant three part series on Omiya Ardija, a Japanese team living in the shadow of their near neighbours, the Urawa Reds.



Love, Revolution and Architecture: a Year in the Life of the Squirrel Nation, Part Two

By furtho • Dec 17th, 2007 • Category: World Football Culture

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 […]



Love, Revolution and Architecture: a Year in the Life of the Squirrel Nation, Part One

By furtho • Dec 13th, 2007 • Category: World Football Culture

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 […]