Losing My Favourite Game: ‘El Loco Motion’ with Ryan Quinn

As football fans we’re all losers at one time or another. But far from just being another awful thing in a world of never-ending misery, if you look closely you can find the positives in defeat. Perhaps it can spell the end for an unpopular manager, or finally break the spell of a life of […]

Losing My Favourite Game: ‘Talking About Madrid’ with Dan Tracey

Welcome, one and all, to our new feature for the 2019/20 season, Losing My Favourite Game, where football fans from all walks of life come together to wallow in the one thing that unites us all: the pain of defeat. Every week this season, we’ll be asking prominent voices from the world of football and beyond […]

Vile Barrage’s Eurotrip - Episode 10: Russia

For his final assignment of the season, we’ve sent that gammon-faced old rotbag over to Russia to give us a review of the Russian Premier League season, and also offer a guide to some of the cities hosting the forthcoming World Cup. Let’s hope nothing terrible happens to him along the way… “ Hello? Hello?! […]

La Magie De La Coupe

On Tuesday evening the French Cup reaches its conclusion, as Ligue 1 champions and holders Paris Saint Germain take on third tier Les Herbiers. This kind of mismatch is nothing new for the competition, with lower league sides a regular fixture in the final stages. In preparation for the final, we’ve had a look at […]

Lille Dark Age

With Paris St Germain now a matter of weeks away from securing the Ligue 1 title and holding a seventeen point lead over second placed Monaco, attention in France has turned to the race at the bottom of the league. While bottom club Metz have looked odds-on to go down for some time, and last […]

A Day Out At…Hertha Berlin

“Nur nach Hause, nur nach Hause, Nur nach Hause gehn wir nicht!” The full force of the Hertha ultras standing on the Ostkurve of the Olympiastadion could be heard well outside the confines of the historic ground. I should know because, having arrived in plenty of time for my first taste of a live German […]

The Kids are Alle Recht

This summer clubs in the Premier League spunked a record £1.4bn in the transfer market as Uncle Rupert’s magic money tree, fed on the tears of working class football fans earning below the living wage, pumped enormous BACS transfer shaped fruit into the bank accounts of top level football club owners across the country. As […]