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How a party in Thailand gave birth to Leicester City's historic title run

A controversial party in Thailand started a domino effect that led to the most incredible story in English football.

Forest Green Rovers and Vermont Green's quest for sustainability

Greenwashing is a marketing strategy which aims at wrongly persuading the public that a company's products or operations are environmentally friendly. It is a form of gaslighting which makes customers believe that by purchasing said company's services they won't harm the planet in any way, but reality is often very different from what the customer may think. One example of this practice was gifted to us by the world's leading plastic polluter, Coca-Cola, which for years has been claiming that it is lessening its plastic waste, with the goal of "getting every bottle back by 2030". As admirable as such claims may be, they are also way too optimistic to be true: they were sued in 2021 for false claims, and in 2024 they were still first in the pollution race by quite some margin, more than doubling the waste produced by second placed PepsiCo. The phenomenon of greenwashing has spread over many industries, including sports. FIFA, which is not a great example of con...

Crystal Palace fans are trying to bring ultras culture to the Premier League

Anyone who as any slight interest in the atmosphere surrounding a football match rather than the action happening on the pitch knows how different the English crowds are compared to the rest of Europe, and even to the rest of the United Kingdom. While the Scottish Premiership can display colorful home stands populated by active fan groups like Aberdeen's Red Ultras, Celtic's Green Brigade, Rangers' Union Bears and many more, the English top tier is pretty dire in terms of noise and colour, with few exceptions. Crystal Palace are the most notable 'exception'. [GQ Magazine] To talk about the atmosphere in English stadiums, we first have to address the Elephant in the room: several laws were introduced from the 1980s onwards to stop hooliganism after a series of incidents involving English fans both in domestic and European matches, in particular the Heysel disaster of 1985. The Football Spectators Act of 1989 introduced football banning orders that could be imposed t...

St. Albans, the club that was denied promotion because of a tree

  St. Albans City FC are a semi-pro club from Hertfordshire that currently compete in the National League South, the sixth tier of English football. They play their home matches at Clarence Park, a Victorian park given to the citizens of St Albans by Sir John Blundell Maple in 1894. The park is famous for its variety of trees and planting that has hosted the club's football ground since its foundation in 1908, and before that St Albans FC's home matches, the original football club, until 1904. Clarence Park, home of St Albans City FC. From stalbanscityfc.com St Albans have, in their history, always played in the lower divisions of English football, playing in the Spartan League and the Herts County League in the early years, then moving to the Athenian League and finally to the Isthmian League for the better part of the 20th century. It was in the 1992-93 season that the club finally had the chance to move up the football pyramid and out of the Isthmian League, when finished se...

Goodison Park, Everton's forever home

Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past few days or don't use social media much, you've surely seen James Tarkowski's thunderous goal that leveled the Merseyside derby, with Everton supporters erupting in joy. From theanalyst.com The frenetic celebrations that followed the equalizer are the only natural consequence, given the fact that a late goal in a derby will always generate complete chaos. But the realization that it would be the last ever goal scored in a derby at Goodison Park played a massive part, allowing the Toffees to close this particular chapter on a high. In case you haven't had a chance to watch Tarkowski's goal, here you go: As we said, the last ever Merseyside derby goal scored at Goodison Park. Everton FC will be moving away from their historic ground and into their new shiny stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock in Vauxhall for the 2025-26 season, leaving Goodison Park to be demolished and turned into flats after serving as a football sta...