Football Adventures with James Rendall
My football adventures all over the world
An article written for the February or March version of Football Weekends. Ideas for where and how to enjoy calcio. I am sure many readers need no introduction to getaways in some European countries, but maybe Italy has slipped down the pecking order when planning a trip to catch some football abroad. Italian football has … Continue reading Beginners Guide to Italia
A new article, a perhaps long overdue piece on Brescia. It will act as my 51st Football Weekends tale for publication just ahead of Christmas. Don't forget more photographic storytelling on my IG page, Can_chas, feel free to drop in. A hundred kilometres East of Milan, and 70 West of Verona you will find the … Continue reading La Leonessa d’Italia, Brescia
Ancona; A city guide, club history and Marche guide My 50th article for Football Weekends takes me home to Ancona. I am sure I am not alone in becoming interested in certain clubs courtesy of that bastion of yesteryear, Subbuteo and especially the team catalogue that named clubs from elsewhere with the same kit. The … Continue reading Ancona and the Marche
Finally football with crowds, and a double header of FA Cup action for Football Weekends Nine days shy of six months, it was finally game day for me again! No one could have foreseen the devastating impact on all aspects of life when it all came to a halt in March. It certainly put the … Continue reading Black and White Tales from the North East
ARMENIA V BULGARIA, World Cup Qualifier, Yerevan, 11th October 2013 Go East finishes up quite far east, indeed to this date, the furthest East I have ventured in Europe, and only on one solitary occasion when I went to Japan have I been further in this direction thus far. I guess I should be thankfully, … Continue reading Go East- Part 3,Հայաստան
MAKEDONIJA V SCOTLAND, World Cup Qualifier, Skopje 10th September 2013 In continuation of part one in Srbija.(See next article below) Post Burek nibbling, the border formalities were next up as the journey continued into the mostly southerly state of what was once Yugoslavia, bound for the capital, Skopje as we were. Remarkably in the ‘90’s … Continue reading Go East- Part 2, Makedonija
The first of three tales and reflections on games/trips that all happened within a matter of weeks of each other in the autumn of 2013, where all three matches were World Cup Qualifiers, so move over Go West, we are heading East. Part One SRBIJA V HRVATSKA, World Cup Qualifier, Beograd, 6th September 2013 My … Continue reading Go East- Part 1, Srbija
With my 40th article in Football Weekends this month on Pistoiese, it brought to mind the notion that my very first article, published in September 2016 in the 6th edition of the magazine (we forgive the tiny wee editorial error in the original headline), has never been put on my blog. Football Weekends is now … Continue reading Foroyar Forever
Three tales of curious games, with accidental, hilarious and distraught moments mixed in. They all involve relatively tiddly teams from Latvia, Liechtenstein and San Marino, and it seems one such occasion comes along every decade or so! 1/ LATVIA V ISRAEL, 4th June 2011 The king of all the random games I have ever attended … Continue reading Tiddly Tales
If you played football at primary school, do you recall the first colours you donned to play? My first colours were green and black taken from the school crest. We used to play in a striped shirt with this combination, but we went radical one season when the coach/teacher ordered us the Borussia Monchengladbach shirt … Continue reading i Neroverdi di Sassuolo
Football Adventures with James Rendall 
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