The Accidental Groundhopper

" Ooh, heaven is a place on earth ," pumps tinnily through the marshrutka 's speaker system as the bus grinds, bumps, clunks a...

December 17th 1887 was a pivotal day in the history of three of England's biggest clubs.  At St James' Park, home gound of Newcastle...

"The most legendary and influential figure in Southampton's history," the Daily Echo said of Ted Bates.  "The very soul ...

"Now a village with a team," begins Wingate FC's Twitter profile.   A 19 th century mining community whose pit closed as lon...

The last time I was in Odessa, in early 2010, the city's football club were playing in front of a few thousand fans at a two-sided, ope...

Think Istanbul and you think 2,700 years of Greeks, Byzantines and Ottomans, minarets, murder on the Orient Express, the Grand Bazaar and t...

A ten-minute walk from Taksim Square on the European side of the Bosphorus, the İnönü Stadium is home to the black and whites of Beşiktaş, T...