Here is a list of every football/soccer game I’ve seen in the UK. As of April 22, 2018, I have seen 80 games at 54 different clubs, with the home team taking 110 of a possible 240 points. That’s 1.38 points per game, about on pace to finish just above mid-table. At one point in […]
How to Tell When a Town is Going to be Boring
In the process of visiting more than 50 English soccer clubs, I have seen some towns which, aside from this project, I never would have gone to. As I approach a new one, I do a little research on what to do, where to stay and eat, where to look for fans at pre-match pubs, etc. […]
Italian Interruption: Seeing a Game at SS Lazio in Rome
Here is the story of my first foray into the world of Italian football, or calcio. It’s a story whose intensity I could not have imagined, and in fact it’s one I didn’t even see coming. I arrived in Rome exhausted, sleep-deprived and more than a bit discouraged. The month before had been hard, and […]
Stuff America is Better at than England
There is a lot to love about seeing soccer in England. And there are many things the UK is simply better at than the US, when it comes to seeing sports events: the superior atmosphere, the more knowledgeable fans, the smaller and more convenient stadiums, the presence of away fans, far fewer commercial interruptions, and […]
Hull City vs Reading:
I Guess We Have To Do This
By the time I rolled into Hull, everything was pretty much falling apart. The night before in Sheffield, the local derby had been a passionate, loud … nil-nil. Then an alarm in a building near my hotel went off all night, so I got no sleep. The night before that I only had five hours […]
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