Liberating football travel

Liberating football travel

Fergie time?

Rooted to the bottom of the Scottish League, East Stirlingshire play off on Saturday for an end-of-season reprieve. Ninety minutes from doom, can the club that gave Sir Alex Ferguson his first break in management survive? Tony Dawber speaks to Shire director and supporters’ representative Ian Fleming. For generations, East Stirlingshire FC have appeared as […]

Stramash on smugglers’ coast

With promotion to the Championship at stake, this week Stranraer and Ayr clash for a two-leg play-off on Scotland’s rugged southern shore. Tony Dawber speaks to radio presenter and Blues fan Mike McLean. Derbies come in various shapes and sizes. While the Madrid giants prepare for their cross-city Champions League final, tomorrow night an army […]

Rostov Forest

Rostov and CSKA Moscow are neck-and-neck for the Russian league title. Victory for the provincial underdogs would be a surprising triumph for maverick coach Kurban Berdyev, who worked similar miracles at Rubin Kazan. Andy Potts asks: Are Rostov the new Nottingham Forest? And is Berdyev Russia’s Brian Clough? I first encountered Kurban Berdyev, the mastermind […]

KV Oostende

De Kustboys hit the reef but aim for a quick return

Ostend

Life’s a beach – and a football stadium next to it

Whitehawk FC: Football for all

Tomorrow, a small but oddly significant club plays the first of three games against teams immediately above in the sixth-flight National League South. At stake is a place in the play-offs for the National League. But the rise of Whitehawk FC, a Sussex County side only six years ago, is not just about status and success. […]