Liberating football travel

Liberating football travel

NAC Breda

Legendary Rat inspires Brabant club a century later

Breda

Brewery town that fuelled a fiery football culture

Larnaca

A port in a storm for Famagusta exiles and reborn AEK

Stand and deliver

Is it safe to stand? ‘Yes,’ says Jon Darch, a campaigner at football grounds across England for the Safe Standing Roadshow. ‘Yes,’ say Celtic, whose new rail seating has revived Celtic Park. ‘Yes please,’ says Roger Groves of the Shrewsbury Town Supporters’ Parliament, behind England’s first safe-standing area being introduced next season. Tony Dawber takes […]

Trondheim

Norway’s Viking capital, home of Euro legends Rosenborg

State of independence

More than 20 years since the World Cup that launched it, ever-expanding MLS seems to be booming. But what about the domestic game as a whole? Can it thrive without promotion-relegation between currently separate leagues? With falling TV ratings and controversy over attendance figures in MLS, Tony Dawber speaks to Jonathan Tannenwald of The Philadelphia […]