Sunday, October 19, 2025

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Can FIFA and UEFA Be Trusted To Stand Up For Domestic Football?

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All football fans should remember the date of October 6th 2025, when UEFA made the most UEFA of decisions, by allowing La Liga and Serie A permission to hold one domestic game overseas during this 2025/26 season, whilst simultaneously making it known that they disapprove of such a move. To clarify, Barcelona will now be allowed to play their 'home' league game against Villarreal, in December, in Miami, a mere 4700 miles away from the Nou Camp, where the game should be played. Meanwhile, AC Milan will 'host' Como in February, with the San Siro being replaced with a venue in Perth, Australia, and just 8500 miles separating the Rossoneri from their usual home.

Women's Euros 2025- Football For The Planet

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Is there a case for saying that Switzerland's hosting of the recent Women's Euros, while not the sort of success La Nati might have hoped for on home soil given they made it as far as the quarter-finals before defeat to losing finalists Spain, actually marked a far bigger win for the environment and indeed the wider footballing community? If you looked beyond what was going on on the pitch, almost as much coverage was given to a commitment to make the tournament sustainable, a change deemed necessary by Doris Keller, tournament director, in an interview with the Travel Smart Campaign-

Rugby Football - Rugby, Blackheath and the Webb Ellis Myth

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With the British and Irish Lions having just concluded a successful and hard-fought tour of Australia, despite losing the third and final Test in the series, we can cross from Down Under to back home at Blackheath FC, a Football Association founder member club which eventually swapped the round ball for its oval cousin… 

Can Bristol City Finally Reach The Premier League?

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The Bristol City display at the M Shed museum

After an ultimately disappointing tilt at the play-offs last season, will the Cider Army be able to march on, following Liam Manning's exit to return closer to home at Norwich. and finally make Bristol home to a Premier League club? It oozes potential as we tick ever closer to the Championship's 2025/26 kick-off, after the aggregate 6-0 defeat by Sheffield United, across two three-goal encounters, ensured it was the Blades who went to Wembley to take on Sunderland for a chance for either to return to the top tier.

Real Scouseidad- or, How John Aldridge Rewrote La Real

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John Aldridge at Real Sociedad

The assertion that the signature of any player can quite literally change the identity of a club is so often hyperbole. However, is there a case for saying John Aldridge's arrival at Real Sociedad in the September of 1989, having found his first-team opportunities at Anfield limited by the emergence of Ian Rush and Peter Beardsley as Kenny Dalglish's preferred front two for Liverpool, did just that?

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