Great Reputations: Pegasus – the New Elizabethans
Post-war Britain, a land of austerity, near-bankruptcy and rationing. Football was enjoying a boom in attendances, brylcreem proliferated the dressing …
Tag: Non-League
Modern Football: A short film from Aragón, Spain
Regional football is another world. A million miles away from professional football, the essence of the game still survives, in its truest form,…
The bad Italian job: How Francesco Becchetti sinks Leyton Orient from the verge of Championship to the risk of failure
The most iconic instant of Leyton Orient 2016-17 campaign is probably the final home game played against Colchester. The O’s were already relegated fro…
Deportivo Galicia – The Spanish football team making their way in England
“Yes, Barcelona are a great team - but could they do it on a wet, Tuesday night at Stoke?” In England over the last couple of decades, most successful…
Can non-league launch an Os revival?
Featured on the football website Game of the People, flying the flag for football as it should be - everywhere. About 40 years ago, I was visiting Bri…
Vegan football, Silkmen, Cardinals and Sandgrounders: The wonderful world of the National League
Every season the painfully drawn-out spectre of relegation for fans of struggling clubs holds far more dread than the final, mathematical certainty tha…
Turning the tide – a photo essay
Featured on, award-winning photographer, David Bauckham's website - Centre Circle Publishing Although the Football Association was formed in October 1…
Way out west
Penzance vs. St. Dennis For many Cornwall is arguably more closely associated with Rugby Union than Football, and it’s true that the Cornwal…
Manchester? Glasgow? The only way is Ossett
So which is the biggest footballing derby? Manchester United taking on Manchester City? Celtic against Rangers? Real Madrid versus Barcelona? For me, i…
United London FC – The world’s first managerless football club
As the Euro’s came to an end last week and England got knocked out by Iceland the week before, I’m sure I wasn’t the only fan shouting at the TV of…