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 Women’s World Cup just keeps getting better. No post yesterday, as I spent a large portion of my time collecting a friend from the airport and showing him around Ye Olde Berlin town. As a result, I must make a quick comment on the action from Group D before I focus on what proved [...]

The 2011 Women’s World Cup snuck up on me in the best possible way. It began with a Sunday afternoon spent hanging out in Berlin with my friend Léo. He flicked on the TV, France were playing Nigeria and being both a big football fan and French, he encouraged me to sit down and watch. [...]

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 Berlin Derby is a short film about one of the most unusual derbies in world football, which took place in Berlin between Hertha BSC and FC Union Berlin on February 5, 2010.