The Accidental Groundhopper

The crowd had built up to four or five dozen by the time I got to Kalevi Stadium. What passed for a ticket office was at the back of the si...

I only realised FS Metta and Valmiera were playing ten minutes before kick-off, and by the time I reached the stadium the visitors were one-...

A twenty-minute walk from the railway station in one of Riga's dodgier neighbourhoods, Daugavas Stadions, the sometime home of Daugava R...

"Football here's like Celtic - Rangers," the Manchester United fan I work with once told me. "The Latvians had FK Riga un...

Deciding not to brave the icy Baltic wind, blowing white-sand straight in from the beach less than a hundred metres away, we watched Liepaja...

The pitch looked more suitable for growing vegetables than playing football, which was just as well given Jurmala's up-and-under style ...

Ventspils Stadions, as I found out later, is the ground where Newcastle didn't play (their UEFA Cup tie was switched to Skonto Stadions ...