Liberating football travel

Liberating football travel

Paris FC

PSG predecessors knocking on the door of Ligue 1

Whatever happened to Lyn Oslo?

With another European night at White Hart Lane, Peterjon Cresswell visits one of Tottenham’s old opponents, recently revived Lyn Oslo. David Cassidy was top of the charts and Martin Chivers was scoring hat-tricks when Spurs played the runners-up from the Norwegian league in the UEFA Cup in September 1972. But ask anyone of a certain […]

Molde FK

2022 champions so far enjoying life after Solksjaer

Molde

Jazz capital becomes Norway’s football one, too

Zenica: the Dragons’ lair

When Wales last qualified for a major finals in 1958, it involved a trip to Tel-Aviv and the Ramat Gan Stadium. On Saturday, the setting for Wales to make history is a run-down steel town in the heart of Bosnia: Zenica. Set some 70km north-west of Sarajevo, Zenica is a former industrial hub that has […]

Borussia are back

Peterjon Cresswell meets Martin Gipp of the Fanprojekt for Borussia Mönchengladbach, in the Champions League for the first time since many in the FanHaus can remember. Borussia Mönchengladbach. If any club team sums up the free-flowing, Total Football era of the 1970s, it’s this one, created by Hennes Weisweiler, the coach who nurtured the likes […]

Walsall FC

Bonser era ends with Saddlers stranded in League Two

Walsall

Where saddles were made and Saddlers were formed

The miracle of Darmstadt

Saved from insolvency in 2008, populist SV Darmstadt 98 pulled themselves up to gain promotion to the Bundesliga in 2015. On Saturday, their mainly terraced Merck-Stadion hosts champions Bayern Munich. Peterjon Cresswell visits Darmstadt and speaks to Adeline With of the local Fanprojekt. This week, on the eve of the visit of Bayern Munich, a new […]