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So that is why they are one of the richest club in the world!

So that is why they are one of the richest club in the world!

Feb. 9 | The Deloitte Sports Business Group presents the Football Money League 2012 What is the most you have ever paid for a ticket for football? An official one, mind, not one from a tout. £50? Certainly not if you follow your team away from home and have...

An Englishman or three in Lille

An Englishman or three in Lille

Oct. 25 | Michael Miles takes us on a Champions league journey across the Channel. LOSC v Inter Milan – October 2011 Lyon have, without doubt, been the most successful French team of the millennium, while Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille remain the country’s...

Jeux Sans Frontières

Jeux Sans Frontières

Aug. 10 | Around six months ago I was made aware of a challenge.  Now I love a challenge, especially one regarding football.  But this one was formed on such a wonderful cause I could do nothing but throw my small website weight behind it. The idea? To visit...

The proudest moment of my life…apart from the birth of my daughter

The proudest moment of my life…apart from the birth of my daughter

Mar. 11 | I may have seen the greatest football match of my life the other week. I have supported Tottenham Hotspur my entire life, not because of any family loyalty and definitely not for any glory but mainly because of the Moss Man figure from Masters of the...

How I broke my European football weekend cherry

How I broke my European football weekend cherry

Mar. 4 | We all remember our first time don’t we? We all look back now with fondness on that first time, the thrill of seeing it all for the first time after years of just looking at pictures in magazines, or dare I say it on the internet. Those mistakes...

Il bello gioco ha giocato in una punta dei rifiuti

Il bello gioco ha giocato in una punta dei rifiuti

Jan. 31 | I’d always planned to end the writing for the book in an unusual destination. The original plan was that England’s visit to Kazakhstan in June would be the final chapter, but with costs rising ovr the thousand pound mark for a day trip I...

Wish You Were Here Part 3 – Too Bloody Right McClown – Zurich and Bern

Wish You Were Here Part 3 – Too Bloody Right McClown – Zurich and Bern

Jun. 13 | For a copy of this post in MP3 format Listen to this episode, go to Podcast at Podbean.com or subscribe at Itunes.com Zurich – 13th June 2008 – Italy v Romania In my years of watching football all around the Europe there are a number of countries...

West Ham’s last European tour – and it wasn’t to Calais on a Booze Cruise

West Ham’s last European tour – and it wasn’t to Calais on a Booze Cruise

Sep. 14 | So for only the second time in 26 years West Ham made it into Europe – whilst I enjoyed the travels in the Intertoto Cup in 2000 to such places as Jokerit in Finland and Heereveen in Holland it wasn’t quite the same as a UEFA Cup run. The...