Highland fling
It’s tight at the top of the Highland League, where three clubs are currently two points apart. With a place in the Scottish League at stake, Tony Dawber visits leaders Brora, heading to third-placed Formartine United on Easter Saturday. From the remote, windswept Highland village of Brora, a fleet of cars and coaches will be following the […]
Dublin
Ireland’s capital looks to Euro 2028 after 2020 loss
Easter challenge for first World Cup winners
On Good Friday, West Auckland – winners of the first ‘World Cup’ in 1909 – are up against Newton Aycliffe in the Durham Challenge Cup final. Andy Potts visits the club that won football’s first major international silverware in a distant era. Nobody quite knows how an amateur team of coalminers from County Durham ended up […]
D. C. United
Audi Field revives Buzzard Point and Rooney returns
Oldham Athletic
Latics lag in League Two, derby with Rochdale revived
Oldham
Former capital of cotton where Royle once ruled
Troyes AC
French outpost of City’s global football empire
Troyes
Aube Champagne football by the banks of the Seine
Stade Rennais
Breton flagship regularly take on Europe’s best