Every couple of weeks I introduce you to an English football club which I assume you (my non-English readers) don’t know much about. In other words, you won’t be reading about Man U or Chelsea in this space. This week we meet a plucky little club from near Birmingham who did something amazing in the last year; they got to, and […]
My English Soccer Tour:
Seeing a Game at Burton Albion FC
Seems to me the soul of English soccer is on the terraces. And it was in Burton-Upon-Trent that I was reminded not only of that fact, but where the game has also gone astray somehow. Stumbling around Birmingham New Street in the morning, waiting for the Nottingham train, I glanced at a paper in a […]
English Soccer Travels:
What to See and Do in Burton-Upon-Trent
I have designated a new rule for my English soccer travels: that if all you know about a place is what Wikipedia or TripAdvisor tell you, then you don’t know anything about it, and you need to go there. I will call it the Huddersfield Rule, after having a defining such experience there on a […]