🗺️ Did you follow your team to a FIFA World Cup Qualifiers away match in the last few days? 🗣️ How was your experience? You can have your say on everything from travel arrangements to stewarding by completing FSE's #AwayFanSurvey. ✍️ Take the survey: bit.ly/3AYQ6da

Let’s just agree to rejoin the EU and fast-track that move, please! 🇬🇧🤝🇪🇺

NEW POST 🗞️ Your groundhopping guide to Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 Thinking about making that pilgrimage to football's greatest city? ✅ Safety ✅ Tickets ✅ Getting around 📚 Plus essential reading 👉 outsidewrite.substack.com/p/the-ultima... #groundhopping #TravelTuesday

Congratulations to Bosnia and Herzegovina for reaching a second World Cup 🇧🇦 I was at the country's first ever World Cup match against Argentina 🇦🇷 at the Maracanã back in 2014🇧🇷 Argentina won 2-1 with the crucial second being an absolute worldy from Leo Messi. #groundhopping #Bosnia

#OnThisDay in football, 1 April 1927 - Ferenc Puskás born 🇭🇺 1991 - Duván Zapata born 🇨🇴

England always disappoint in tournament warm-ups. #EngJap

The Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) turned 126 this week 🇺🇾 ¡Enhorabuena! To mark the occasion, I have removed the paywall from this long-read on the British founding fathers of South American football. Enjoy... #skystorians open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...

NEW POST 🗞️ Your groundhopping guide to Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 Thinking about making that pilgrimage to football's greatest city? ✅ Safety ✅ Tickets ✅ Getting around 📚 Plus essential reading 👉 outsidewrite.substack.com/p/the-ultima... #groundhopping #TravelTuesday

#OnThisDay in football, 31 March 1866 - a London XI played @sheffieldfc.bsky.social in Battersea Park, testing new rules 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1883 - Blackburn Olympic stun Old Etonians to win the FA Cup, the first working-class and northern team to win 1913 - Portuguese FA founded 🇵🇹 2001 - We lost David Rocastle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

NEW POST 🗞️ Essential reading for your commute: The Ultimate Groundhopper’s Guide to Visiting Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 Covering: 👀 Safety 🗓️ When’s best to go? 🎟️ Ticketing and logistics 🚇 Navigating the city 📚 Essential reading Have you been? What did you think? 👉 open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...

Dropping tomorrow on Substack... The Ultimate Groundhopper's Guide to Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 Delivered straight to your inbox ✉️ Sub/follow 👉 outsidewrite.substack.com #Groundhopping #Argentina

NEW PODCAST 🎙️ @betterredthandead.bsky.social joins me to discuss his new book on the USSR's national side ✅ Golden era ✅ Legendary coaches ✅ Demise ...and more... Download/listen ▶️ open.spotify.com/episode/7tEe... #ColdWarHistory 📸 Pitch Publishing

#OnThisDay in football, 30 March 1945 - Eugène Maës, former Red Star (Paris) striker and first man to score five goals in one game for France, died in a N*zi camp 🇫🇷 1946 - The world's longest match (3h 23m) recorded as Stockport County hosted Doncaster Rovers (cup) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1986 - Sergio Ramos born 🇪🇸

NEW PODCAST 🎙️ @betterredthandead.bsky.social joins me to discuss his new book on the USSR's national side ✅ Golden era ✅ Legendary coaches ✅ Demise ...and more... Download/listen ▶️ open.spotify.com/episode/7tEe... #ColdWarHistory 📸 Pitch Publishing

“We’re the famous Dulwich Hamlet and we look like Tuscany…” 🎶

Lovely morning at Loftus Road for QPR History Day and stadium tour. Scored a lovely 1998/99 season away shirt in great condition.

#OnThisDay in football, 29 March 1972 - Manuel Rui Costa born 🇵🇹 1973 - Marc Overmars born 🇳🇱 1987 - Dimitri Payet born 🇫🇷 1990 - Teemu Pukki born 🇫🇮 1991 - N'Golo Kante born 🇫🇷 2000 - Wales/Cymru play their first match at the Millennium (Principality) Stadium, losing 2-1 to Finland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

🚨Interview James O'Brien tells @jamesrball.com how Brexit logic is making papers defend Trump on Iran – because ‘they’d rather look ridiculous than admit they’re wrong’

#OnThisDay 28 March 1939 🇪🇸 Madrid fell to Franco's forces after nearly three years of siege. What role did (Real) Madrid CF play in the Spanish Civil War? It might surprise you... @miguellpereira.bsky.social joined me to discuss this and other #RMCF history ▶️ open.spotify.com/episode/44Mt...

It's #NonLeagueDay so get out there and support your local club. Here are some of my favourite non-league grounds: 1) @claptoncfc.co.uk with its International Brigades memorial ✊ 2) @dulwichhamletfc.bsky.social - my former local club 3) Enfield Town 4) Sandygate, Hallam, the oldest ground

The Iran national football team honored the Minab schoolgirls by holding small backpacks during the national anthem.

#OnThisDay in football, 28 March 1965 - Steve Bull born 🐺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1986 - Steve Mandanda born 🇫🇷 1990 - Michail Antonio born 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1990 - First England international broadcast live on satellite TV (Eng 1-0 Bra) 1996 - Benjamin Pavard born 🇫🇷

This is, hands down, the most disturbing podcast episode I have ever listened to. The stuff these people believe...

While our American cousins take to the streets to protest against Tяump's authoritarianism on No Kings Day, we're marching in London to prevent his divisive politics being imported to the UK. I'll be playing a few songs in Whitehall around 2:30pm www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#OnThisDay in football, 27 March 1972 - Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink born 🇸🇷🇳🇱 1974 - Gaizka Mendieta born 🇪🇸 1986 - Manuel Neuer born 🇩🇪

So grateful to be a neutral on World Cup qualifying playoff night 😬

I've played football/5-a-side around the world, and these are the various ways I've heard people warn you about an impending tackle: 🇬🇧 Man on! 🇮🇪 Watch your house! 🇦🇺 You're hot! 🇪🇸 ¡Atención! 🇩🇪 Mensch! 🇫🇷 Attention! Any you'd care to add?

NEW POST 🗞️ Who wears which colours because of whom? 👕 Football kit evolution stories. The city of Nottingham has a huge legacy... Read on... #footballshirts outsidewrite.substack.com/p/kit-evolut...

#OnThisDay in football, 26 March 1982 - Mikel Arteta born 🇪🇸 1983 - Norman Whiteside (17) becomes the youngest player to score in a League Cup final. He went on to score in the FA Cup final that year, the first player to score in both domestic cup finals ☘️ 1989 - Simon Kjaer born 🇩🇰

All the best to both the Irish sides tonight in their World Cup qualifier playoffs I've removed the paywall for today for my long-read on why there are two international sides on the island of #Ireland, while other sports are all-Ireland. #GAWA #COYBIG open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...

NEW POST 🗞️ Who wears which colours because of whom? 👕 Football kit evolution stories. The city of Nottingham has a huge legacy... Read on... #footballshirts outsidewrite.substack.com/p/kit-evolut...

Read it while it's free (or, even better, subscribe 😀) Your #groundhopping guide to visiting Club Atlético Independiente 😈🇦🇷 outsidewrite.substack.com/p/football-t...

This week's groundhopping post is all about visiting FC Porto🇵🇹 Possibly the easiest #groundhopping experience I can think of, from a ticketing, pricing and access perspective. Decent atmosphere, too... 👉 outsidewrite.substack.com/p/groundhopp... #FCPorto

#OnThisDay in football, 25 March 1876 - Wales/Cymru played its first international, a 4-0 defeat to Scotland in Glasgow. Happy 150th anniversary!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 1900 - Ferencváros opened its first ground 🇭🇺 1914 - Aris Thessaloniki was founded 🇬🇷 2000 - Jadon Sancho was born 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

#OnThisDay 24 March 2007 🇮🇪 The Republic of Ireland played its first soccer match here at Croke Park, home of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) It was controversial, but a sign of change More in my book, Shades of Green: A Journey into Irish Football www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/shades-...

NEW POST 🗞️ Your #groundhopping guide to visiting FC Porto 💙🤍🇵🇹 Accessible elite football in a beautiful city. ✅ Simple online ticketing ✅ Station right opposite the ground ✅ Decent atmosphere Read on… Have you been? What did you think? open.substack.com/pub/outsidew... #TravelTuesday

#OnThisDay 24 March 1976 🇦🇷 A coup in Argentina saw a military junta take control for seven years, during which an estimated 30,000 people 'disappeared' during the 'Dirty War'. @rhyswrichards.bsky.social wrote a brilliant book about how the junta impacted the 1978 World Cup #NuncaMas

#OnThisDay 24 March 2007 🇮🇪 The Republic of Ireland played its first soccer match here at Croke Park, home of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) It was controversial, but a sign of change More in my book, Shades of Green: A Journey into Irish Football www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/shades-...

NEW POST 🗞️ Your #groundhopping guide to visiting FC Porto 💙🤍🇵🇹 Accessible elite football in a beautiful city. ✅ Simple online ticketing ✅ Station right opposite the ground ✅ Decent atmosphere Read on… Have you been? What did you think? open.substack.com/pub/outsidew... #TravelTuesday

Dropping tomorrow on Substack...🗞️ Your #groundhopping guide to FC Porto 💙🤍🇵🇹 Don't miss out! Sub/follow 👉 outsidewrite.substack.com

Essential commuter listening! 🎧 Gonzalo Tobar joins me on the podcast this week to discuss politics and identity in Chilean football 🇨🇱 Find it wherever you get your pods. Here's the Spotify link: open.spotify.com/episode/3588... 📸 Gonzalo Tobar

Coming up this week on Outside Write 🎙️ AVAILABLE NOW: Football and identity in Chilean football 🇨🇱 🗞️ 24/3 - Groundhopping Guide: FC Porto 🇵🇹 🗞️ 26/3 - Football Kit Family Trees: Who wears what because of whom? 👕 Sub/follow 👉 outsidewrite.substack.com

Delighted to share that I was accepted into the British Guild of Travel Writers (@travwriters.bsky.social) this week! Seriously impressive company there, so I am looking forward to getting involved. My current book project is a sociological/groundhopping examination of Iberia 🇪🇸🇵🇹 - stay tuned...

#OnThisDay 22 March 2018 🇦🇷 René Houseman died, aged 64 🏆 World Cup 1978 🏆 1x Copa Libertadores 🏆 1x Intercontinental Cup 🏆 1x Argentine championship 🏆 1x Copa Chile

#OnThisDay in football, 22 March 1888 - Aston Villa director, William McGregor🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, wrote to various other clubs to propose the creation of a football league competition, which led to... the Football League 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1889 - Members of the Sheffield United Cricket Club agreed to form a football arm 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

NEW PODCAST 🎙️ My guest is Gonzalo Tobar, and we’re discussing politics and identity in Chilean football 🇨🇱 ✅ Ethically-founded clubs ✅ Clubs under the Pinochet regime ✅ The international side …and more! 📸 Gonzalo Tobar at Santiago Wanderers ▶️ open.spotify.com/episode/3588... Taster...

Have you caught up on this week's podcast yet? #Madrid's football scene with @dermotmcorrigan.bsky.social 🇪🇸 Here on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/5Cic... Or wherever you get your podcasts...

#OnThisDay in football, 21 March Some day for talented birthdays! 🎂 1961 - Lothar Matthäus born 🇩🇪 1963 - Ronald Koeman born 🇳🇱 1969 - Ali Daei born 🇮🇷 1980 - Ronaldinho born 🇧🇷 1989 - Jordi Alba born 🇪🇸 1991 - Antoine Griezmann born 🇫🇷

Not free to read for much longer… The remarkable story of Belfast Celtic ☘️ #skystorians #NIFL open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...