Football Nomad

The group stages have concluded and we are left with four tasty quarter-finals at the World Cup. The final round of group fixtures were full of excellent matches and lead to a couple of surprising results. The pick of the bunch was England’s 2-0 victory over Japan which, coupled with Germany’s thrilling 4-2 win over [...]

The first truly exhilarating moment of the Women’s World Cup arrived yesterday when Mexican midfielder Monica Ocampo, all 1.56m of her, scampered forward and let fly from distance to rattle home a stunning goal against England. It was a tremendous, audacious strike and one which completely turned this Group B encounter on its head. England [...]

So far the FN:2010 web-documentary has seen Patrick and I travel to London, Munich and Paris. Yet while the compilation videos of our time in each of these cities have given a wonderful impression of how each culture appreciates the game, we have not been able to capture everything that we have wanted in these [...]

A lack of time, a lack of sleep and some seriously exhausting travel has prevented me from providing anything of substance onto the blog over the past couple of days. But that all changes now with the first video of our Football Nomad adventure. All of the footage from the video was taken from London, [...]

After a grueling 26-hour transit from Australia I finally arrived in London yesterday afternoon. Being the good brother/fellow Nomad he is, Patrick was there to greet me, as was another good friend of ours Alana. The rest of the day was spent on the tube and back at Alana’s unpacking and sorting travel things before [...]