My football adventures all over the world
The name AC Bellinzona might ring a bell with the football aficionado of a certain vintage, but you’d be forgiven, especially if you don’t follow Swiss football very closely, of thinking, whatever became of them! Regular readers will know I write with enthusiasm and passion about Italian football, and by virtue you won’t be surprised … Continue reading Bella Zona- Ticino Times
I had never been to Turkey before, but circumstances regarding travel issues for my Russian girlfriend put it firmly on the radar. Visiting a new country is always exciting, especially somewhere as exotic as Turkey, where West meets East. It would be my 52nd country, it wasn’t about to let me down. My only encounters … Continue reading Antal-YA
I finally made it to Terni! More than two years after an aborted trip to the city, courtesy of the pandemic, I promised myself I would still head in that direction thereby honouring my original plan of where I would take in my 200th game outside the UK. In a non Covid world, the 2020 … Continue reading All Terni Tussle
In early April 2022 I finally got to the 200 games watched overseas mark. It has, pretty much like everything else in life, suffered from a pandemic delay. In an ordinary world the 200 would have popped up in March 2020, when a trio of matches were pencilled in for Fano, Perugia and Terni. That … Continue reading Duecento Trasferte
Over the last two pandemic hit season’s, my subscription to Eleven Sports in Italy and with the fabulous catalogue of choice from the entire fixture card of Serie C (third tier) to watch, it became a vital escape from the rigours of keeping loved ones safe, as well as continuing to nurture dreams of a … Continue reading A Ding Dong in Grosseto
If someone had said to me when the final whistle went at the magnificent Stadio Sinigaglia, Como in late January 2020, that it would take 26 months and a few days for me to be watching another game outside the UK, I would have done what the Romanians did to Ceaucescu! That would of course … Continue reading Good Wind blowing
In these uncertain times, the curiosity of a second Scottish Groundhop for 2021/22 was a very welcome addition to the football calendar, particularly as for once the weather Gods were shining upon us. The earlier edition in October had been postponed from March 2020, with the same six home teams hosting games some 18 months … Continue reading Five Go Football Mad in Fife
If you support a club through thick and thin, home and away, I am sure you occasionally come across anomalies where certain clubs seem somewhat lacking from your viewing roster. That aspect can be even more exacerbated in the relatively small world of Scottish football, where if you land in the same league as other … Continue reading The Links of Montrose
Every country still has a few football stadiums that get the punters of a certain vintage misty eyed for the nostalgia of when the game seemed a whole lot less commercially packaged. Sadly, with the vast majority of top sides everywhere these days having shiny, modern venues, you need to trickle down a tier or … Continue reading Ton Up – In Praise of Cappielow
I guess hitting 2,000 games in just under 50 years doesn’t constitute a terribly fast pace to the landmark, and you’d be right. Since my first game in late October 1972 the early years weren’t exactly chokeful of going to games. Indeed, 1972 to 1980 only saw sporadic games, and perhaps some are missing from … Continue reading 2,000 and counting
Football Adventures with James Rendall 
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