Go west
When record Irish champions Shamrock Rovers host MLS champions LA Galaxy this Saturday, it not only means a return to Tallaght for national icon Robbie Keane. The pre-season fixture has echoes of the summer of ’67, when Rovers took part in a pioneering league in the States. Peter Doyle speaks to Rovers club historian Robert […]
Capital gains
Football in Edinburgh is more than just Hibs and Hearts. While its two main clubs battle to regain top-flight status, just below the league pyramid, unbeaten Edinburgh City look set for a play-off place. Across town, Spartans FC are one game away from a Scottish Cup quarter-final with… Hibs. Peter Doyle reports. For the […]
Football heaven
Due to open on March 2, the Hotel Football overlooking Old Trafford is a brave new concept in soccer-themed accommodation. While clubs as disparate as Reading, Leverkusen and Norwich have hotels as part of their stadium complex, Hotel Football, created by ex-United stars Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville, has been conceived with match day in mind. […]
Lwów revived in Lviv
Lviv hosts Champions League football on February 17 when Bayern Munich take on Shakhtar Donetsk there. The Arena Lviv has become the de facto home ground for Ukraine’s title-holders – but Lviv was also home to pre-war Polish champions Pogon Lwów. Peterjon Cresswell reports on Pogon’s recent revival – in the city known as the cradle of […]
Sheffield
Home of United, Wednesday and world’s oldest club
Eibar
Heavy metal and football heroics in the mountains
Full steam ahead
Fifty years ago, a group of football-mad shipyard welders passed round a tin to buy strips for a team they wanted to build. This year, the team launched by the shipyard that launched the Titanic is embarking on the next leg of an extraordinary football voyage. Peter Doyle meets the dedicated men who steered Harland […]
Brighton & Hove Albion
The Seagulls soaring after first European adventure
Brighton
High roller backs football revival at party mecca