Football Nomad

In one of my favourite football blog posts, TwoFootedTackle‘s Jamie Cutteridge asked the question: Is football the new punk? Jamie suggested that as more money is poured into top-tier football the experience of watching live football has become generic, overpriced and to a certain extent, soulless. In an almost subconscious protest, many people are now [...]

The following article was written by Football Nomad reader Carly Melissa as part of the most recent Like A Local Day, which looked at favourite local football stadiums. Carly wins a rather excellent Pelé Sports t-shirt as a thank-you for such a magnificent response. My local stadium is Bluetongue Stadium on the Central Coast in [...]

As a result of my recent travels to Spain — that’s me in the photo above at the Nou Camp — I’ve decided to extend the most recent Like A Local Day for an another week. This means you have an extra week to share a story about your local stadium and win the Pelé [...]

Last week on the first ever Like A Local Day I asked you to share your favourite local football bar. There were some terrific responses — from Sarajevo to Oslo, from Boston to Trencin — but the one that captured my imagination the most was a comment from Teddy in Manchester. He suggested ‘Course You [...]

This article is an edited collection of the best responses from the recent Like A Local Day question that focused on local football bars. I hope it helps to inspire you to travel to far away lands with the strangest of football folk. Please feel encouraged to share your own favourite football bar in the [...]