The Accidental Groundhopper

Metres from the away turnstiles at Sunderland's Stadium of Light, Bob Stokoe stands forever immortalised as he was when the final whistl...

"Why Glentoran ?" a Linfield fan asks me. "Talk about going from the sublime to the ridiculous." The taxi driver laughs ...

The last time I was in Belfast I shared a plane with the Newcastle United first team squad, watched a young Steve Guppy turn various shades ...

The weekend call-offs came one after another, with the awful, hope-sapping regularity of Conservative gains on election night. Ashington, ...

In 2002, after a full year in Daejeon and seven months of purgatory on the north-eastern edge of Seoul, I moved to Ansan, an industrial town...

For the second Saturday running, my chances of seeing a live game of football were thwarted by the weather. I'd feared as much since fi...