Classic Football Film: When Saturday Comes
I’ve just finished watching the 1996 film When Saturday Comes, and I can’t decide if it’s an epic collection of cliches or one of the more down-to-Earth football films I’ve…
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Sheffield United
All About Sheffield United FC
Next Year’s Premier League: Yorkshire Cometh!
As the 2018-19 English football season enters its home stretch, many eyes will turn to the promotion and relegation battles throughout the pyramid of leagues. One thing is already pretty…
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2014 FA Cup Road Trip: Fulham at Sheffield United
In this post from 2014, I describe my first-ever away day in English soccer, when I followed Fulham, my adopted English team, to Sheffield United in the FA Cup. At…
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Back in Sheffield for Another Steel City Derby
Somewhere, in the streets near my hotel, a small band of lads are giving it one last “We are BLAAAADES!” The result is a kind of echoing silence. No “We…
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Me and the Blades: A Sheffield Sensation
There would now appear to be two English clubs where I have come to be known as the Yank with the camera and the blog. All I have ever wanted…
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Agony and Ecstasy:
The 2017 Steel City Derby
Perhaps the reason we go to football games is because we just might have an experience people will talk about for generations. We sit through countless forgettable affairs because someday…
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