Lost In Time Futbol

Belfast, as capital city of Northern Ireland, has for centuries been plagued with tensions between the Protestant Unionist and the Catholic Republicans. Such a tricky cohabitation has seen the city become theatre of plenty of violent incidents, political unrest and deeply rooted hatred between the two factions, creating a similar environment to that of Glasgow, which has seen Celtic and Rangers grow into one of the most notable pair of rivals on the planet. As it does to this day in Glasgow, football also played a role in Belfast, partly taking inspiration from its Scottish counterpart. In 1891, four years after the founding of Celtic FC, the Catholics in Northern Ireland founded a club of their own and named it Belfast Celtic, adopting the same name and colours of the Scottish side. The Celtic mural in Belfast [sky.com] Quickly becoming a pillar of the Catholic communities of west Belfast, the club started achieving success at the turn of the century, winning its first league title in...

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 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...

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...

The empire on which the sun never sets is a well known phrase used to describes empires so large that it's always daytime on at least a small part of it. It was the case of the British Empire, which got so big that it had dominions over every single continent on the planet. The idiom, however, describe well enough the concept of an empire that is incredibly large in terms of longitude , so on the east-west axis. What about the latitude ? I have no clue, and the British Empire is not a thing anymore, but the United Kingdom still covers a large amount of land and islands and Shetland, or the Shetland Islands, is the northernmost part of it. This archipelago of about 100 islands, only 16 of which are inhabitated, sits in the middle of the North Sea, between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It hosts a population of 23,020 people, most of which live on Mainland , Shetland's biggest island. Because of it's position clear winter nights sometimes allow the sight of the northe...

Rangers Football Club need no introduction. 55 Scottish league titles, 34 Scottish Cup titles, 28 Scottish League Cup titles, one Cup Winners' Cup title, and one half of the Old Firm, possibly the most famous city rivalry in the world.   The Teddy Bears are a giant club, but this status couldn't prevent their fall when financial issues came knocking in 2012. But let's take a step back to the beginning. May 2011 saw Rangers win the league title by just one point over arch-rivals Celtic and former owner David Murray sell 85.3% of the club to Craig Whyte's Wavetower Limited for just one pound. The following summer Rangers legend and all-time topscorer Ally McCoist, whose spell as a player saw him take part in 416 matches and score 251 times, was appointed as manager after having served for four years as an assistant manager at the club. McCoist was appointed with the task of qualifying for UEFA competitions in order to secure vital income that would keep the club's fi...