The game’s gone

Exploring the weird and wonderful world of football across FIFA’s 211 member nations –and beyond

FourFourTwo is on a train full of excited Crystal Palace fans, hurtling through the Norwegian countryside. Some already have cans of pre-match beer in front of them, and one is peering out of the wind

After receiving a lifetime ban from his beloved Epsom & Ewell, Salts fanatic Richard Lambert has had to, er, branch out to cheer on the ninth-tier side this season – by climbing a nearby tree that ove

A week is said to be a lifetime in football. That adage has never rung truer than for Morecambe, who across just seven summer days, journeyed from despair to delirium. On Saturday, August 16, most oth

With each Premier League season that has come and gone, a fiendishly difficult quiz question has survived for yet another campaign. Throughout the entire history of England’s top flight, who holds the

Sir Alex Ferguson and yourself grew up in Glasgow’s Govan area around the same time, in the early 1940s… That’s right. Sir Alex went to Govan High School and I went to St Gerard’s, which was very loca