Articles discussing football fans.
Football rivalries are intense - football fans (normal, loving people in day-to-day life) take perverse pride in hating rival clubs, rival fans and rival players.
Sometimes...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 8 comments
So it is that time again, Germany v England in Berlin on Wednesday night. And what better way to get a different perspective on a rivalry that has had as much written about...
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Written by Neil Jones. One comment
As we sports fans know, the best drama is unscripted. (Of course, a lot of the worst drama is unscripted too, but bear with me.) The finale to the Formula One season proved this as Lewis Hamilton lost the World Championship on the penultimate lap and...
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Written by Fredorrarci. 3 comments
I’m not alone. I know I’m not. A twenty-something (twenty four if you wanna get picky about it) lad from the suburbs, who for as long as he can remember has been hooked on one thing. Not girls, not cars, not cricket. Football. The Beautiful Game,...
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Written by Neil Jones. 11 comments
Indubitably, the face of football is changing – dramatically. I use the last word well aware that many of you might prefer another adverb of choice, but I find emphasis to be expedient. Verily, it cannot be denied that every weekend while we sit...
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They just never learn, do they?
After a summer of overspending and overambition, the recent news coming from Rushden and Diamonds doesnt come as too much of a shock.
We all knew it was promotion or bust, and we all knew it would go wrong...
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Written by Shaun Murphy. Leave a response
English Liverpool’s fan group, ShareLiverpoolFC, issued an eight month countdown today to the final deadline for club owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. The group announced that when the financial crunch comes, ShareLiverpoolFC will bid to...
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Written by Soccerlens. Leave a response
Whether you’re a Gooner, a Geordie, or a Kop, the most obsessed of us lot all have one thing in common – at one point or another, we’ve all been hurt and betrayed by our beloved football club before.
It’s the kind of unparalleled hurt...
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Written by Guest Authors. 21 comments
The year had to have been 1998. I remember dragging an old, decrepit, yellow blanket down the stairs from the upper level of the house I lived in. Out of habit, I checked the calendar: the date read October 1. For whatever reason, I had neglected to...
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Written by Guest Authors. 4 comments
Admission prices have rocketed at Deportivo La Coruña. The average cost for a ticket to see my local team play Real Madrid in the opening game this season was about €55 (₤40). To British fans, and especially those following English Premier League...
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Written by Guest Authors. 4 comments
The Ronaldo saga, possibly the most tedious bout of “will-he-won’t-he” transfer talk ever, was the bane of most United fans lives over the summer. Here we were, champions of England, champions of Europe, and all anyone wanted talk...
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Written by Penguinissimo. 22 comments
America and soccer have never had much more than a tepid amateur relationship. The paradox of this relationship resides in the fact that there are more soccer players in the United States than England, France,...
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Written by Guest Authors. 21 comments
There were a couple of unsavoury crowd incidents last weekend in the Premiership. They’ve rightly received a lot of attention, which has a lot to do with how rare this kind of behaviour has been in the top league over the last few years.
Every...
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Written by Betfair. Leave a response
Let’s face it. For many of us, the Internet means one thing and one thing only: free stuff! Whether it’s music, movies, or even porn, the Internet is like the Holy Grail when it comes to getting stuff for free. That even extends...
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Written by Victor Li. 7 comments
The current group of players who wear the England shirt are the proportion of the premier League dream team. The likes of Gerrard, Lampard, Rooney, Ferdinand and John Terry would be welcome in any squad in Europe. Before you click away thinking I am...
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Written by Anthony McGuane. 2 comments
Following your favorite football team or league can be as complicated as heart surgery. Between all the rules governing what matches can be watched live and what TV subscriptions and equipment you need, trying to watch football live can be both difficult...
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Written by Victor Li. 15 comments
I hate Liverpool and I hate Liverpool fans. This isn’t to say that I don’t have a mate or two who is afflicted with Liverpool support and this isn’t to say that as a rule I believe all individual Liverpool fans are scum of the earth,...
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Written by Scott the Red. 74 comments
As a child, the summer holidays brought about a family trip to a campsite in Europe. We’d get in the car to travel down to Dover and I would always be wearing my United shirt. After hours and hours of driving, we’d pull in at our designated...
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Written by Scott the Red. 23 comments
Do you boo players from your own club? If you do, how can you sleep at night?
To boo a player playing for your club is seen as the ultimate act of betrayal by some and a birthright by others. If you have paid your hard-earned cash to watch a...
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Written by Oliver Fowler. 14 comments
Booing is generally an attitude that isn’t tolerated by football fans, with the true die-hards feeling as though they should give their support to the players in their team, no matter what.
However, it is this attitude which has allowed...
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Written by Scott the Red. 8 comments
In conversation recently, I made the observation that it is impossible or even churlish to ignore the season Manchester United have had. Winning the League, the European Cup, plus the incredible goal-scoring feats of Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo excepted,...
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Written by Guest Authors. 6 comments
First off, as a sort of disclaimer I would like to start off by conceding that I am by no means an expert on the topic of football fanzines. I have read a few in my time, but have not...
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Written by Hugo Steckelmacher. 3 comments
Are you a ‘true’ fan?
In the year or so of managing Soccerlens, I’ve heard this quite often: you’re not a true fan, if you were you’d … (add your own rationalisation here - these usually run along the lines...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 74 comments
A few hours after the referee had blown the final whistle, I find myself sitting in a restaurant, opposite a beautiful woman, picking at a calamari entrée and throwing a glass of (rather cheeky) Chardonnay down my throat.
“You okay tonight?�?...
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Written by Tony. 14 comments
According to the United Nations, and in common with the majority of countries in Western Europe, the United Kingdom is facing a potentially catastrophic problem.
Strangely, given its gravity, it’s a big issue that goes largely...
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Written by Tony. 4 comments
This was forwarded to me via email. The bloke that sent it swears blind it is a true story. For what it’s worth, my opinion is it probably isn’t.
Written by Tony. 15 comments
