The Wandering Football Fan: St Pauli
Ben Bray plans his weekend breaks to ensure the local team is playing at home. Watching Hamburg’s St Pauli at the Millerntor was one for his bucket list. Continue reading → Ben Bray plans his weekend breaks to ensure the local team is playing at home. Watching Hamburg’s St Pauli at the Millerntor was one for his bucket list. Continue reading → Football is the Last Sacred Ritual of our Time
The quote “Football is the last sacred ritual of our time” from the great Italian film director, Pier Pasolini, pops up all the time in football books. A lot has been written on Pasolini’s love for football in Italian but almost nothing in English. Continue reading → Take the Ball, Pass the Ball
Take the Ball, Pass the Ball: Trailer for documentary on Barcelona’s Guardiola years.
Continue reading → Derby Days Hamburg
Copa 90 return with an excellent in depth look at the Hamburg derby between HSV and St. Pauli in Derby Days Hamburg. Continue reading → A Thinking Man’s Game for High-Flying Ramblers
They pulled off one of the shocks of the season by dumping Dundalk out of the EA Sports Cup. Now as Cobh Ramblers get set for the final, John O’Shea explores the effect Sport Psychologist James Claffey has had on Stephen Henderson’s team as Cork’s second club aim for bigger things. Continue reading → Dundalk FC The Next Chapter
Dundalk FC have released the fourth in a series of videos produced by sponsors Fyffes charting the remarkable story of the club’s achievements in domestic and European competitions. Continue reading → The Bucket List: Episode 1 – Michael
The Ink Factory are doing a fundraising event called The Bucket List in aid of ALONE. Here, Bucket Lister Michael tells how he became an ALONE Ireland Tenant and explains the idea behind his tattoo, based on his favourite football team. Continue reading → The Beautiful Badge
From the very first three lions crudely sewn onto the woollen shirts worn by the England players for the world’s first football international in 1872, to todays multi-million pound brands, The Beautiful Badge brings alive a history of the game like never before. Continue reading → Crest Love #18 – Club Tijuana
One of World Football’s greatest mascots and club badges are featured in this edition of Crest Love. Continue reading → My First Football Shirt: Jason McAteer
The Your First Football Shirt collection is a book by the Football Shirt Collective of 30 interviews and illustrations with footballers such as Alan Shearer and Bob Wilson and fans like BBC’s Dan walker and comedian Josh Widdicombe. Here Ireland star Jason McAteer talks about his first ever shirt, along with his most famous goal in the green jersey. Continue reading → World Cup 2018 Flag Kits
Dublin designer Philip Slattery has created these stunning national flag-inspired football kits in time for the great festival of football in Russia.
Continue reading → World Cup Love Poem
Poet John Cummins sets the scene for the 2018 World Cup on RTE’s The Sport Show Continue reading → Slavery, Racism and Homophobia – The Future of the World Cup
A country of massive population, strong football tradition most notably in its former guise as the UUSR, all the relevant facilities, but still one with numerous question marks over its merits as hosts. Continue reading → Richard Swarbrick’s World Cup 2014 Highlights
With World Cup 2018 getting underway, relive the highlights from four years ago in animator Richard Swarbrick’s unique style. Continue reading → World Cup Failure Won’t Easily Coexist With Russia’s Sense of Self
Epic failure in front of 7.4 billion sets of eyes does not jibe with the traditional Russian sense of self, and just how those two will coexist is one of the most intriguing questions heading into the 2018 World Cup. Continue reading → Sons of Erin: Football and Expressions of Irishness
As Ireland face USA in a friendly in Dublin, New Yorker Eugene O’Driscoll ponders questions of football and national identity. Continue reading → Dreams and songs to sing: Fan and music culture live on at Liverpool
Conor Thompson explores the efforts being made by fan groups to keep the atmosphere and traditions of Liverpool FC alive. Continue reading → Politics & Football: How the World Cup Changed the World
Featured article from Póg Mo Goal Issue 4. From the miracle of Bern lifting West Germany out of the shadow of the war to Didier Drogba’s Ivory Coast bringing conflict to an end, the World Cup has powers politics cannot imitate. Continue reading → Football Shirt Collective Present Your First Football Shirt
Football Shirt Collective present “Your First Football Shirt” – an illustrated collection of stories about first football shirts. Continue reading → Bhoys in the USA
Featured article from Póg Mo Goal Issue 4. The first British team to win the European Cup and their 1966 American tour. Continue reading → Hope and Optimism in Bavaria
Ever heard of Regensburg? Ever heard of the city’s football team? Conor Thompson knew neither the city nor the football team before he went and studied there for a year, and learnt about football in Munich’s shadow. Continue reading → Three Castles Burning: The Failure of Dublin City FC
Featured article from Póg Mo Goal Magazine, Issue 4. Donal Fallon examines Why did defunct League of Ireland club Dublin City FC fail? Continue reading → A Night to Celebrate Ringsend & Dublin’s Football History
An evening to celebrate the history of football in Dublin & Ringsend in The Yacht Tavern on 22nd March at 7.45pm. With speakers on the night; Eoghan Rice, Donal Fallon and Fergus Dowd. As well as a screening of an extended trailer for the upcoming feature-length documentary “Patrick O’Connell – The Man Who saved Barcelona” and A 1975 documentary about Shelbourne FC, “In My Book, You Should Be Ahead.” Continue reading → Don Patricio, the Film
A new film, three years in the making, about Irish footballer Patrick O’Connell who saved FC Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War will premiere in Dublin in April, while also being screened throughout Europe. Continue reading → MLS 2018 Kits
With a new season comes new kits, and MLS has dropped some beauties. A league-wide deal with Adidas means all clubs are supplied by the brand with the three stripes, an agreement which has been extended to 2024. Continue reading → Derry City #backtobrandy
As we are getting back into the swing of things in the 2018 SSE Airtricity League, Derry City have released a brilliant promo video to herald their return to a newly refurbished Brandywell. Continue reading → The Anatomy of Cork City FC
Cian Manning charts the journey from Cork City’s inception and introduction to the League of Ireland to their historic double winning campaign traced in six matches that include fixtures in the league, FAI Cup, UEFA Cup and even the Champions League. Continue reading → Football We Love You
Art of Football have produced their own love letter to football just in time for Valentines Day. Made up of 1600 individual hand drawings, they even managed to get Martin Tyler to commentate, and have been working on the production for around a year and a half. Continue reading → Póg Mo Goal Magazine Issue 4: Out Now
Issue 4 is out now. Featuring 40 pages of excellent feature writing and beautiful photography and illustrations from contributors across the globe. Póg Mo Goal issue 4 is now available to order. Continue reading → If You Like Phibsborough You’ll Love Paris…
On a trip to Paris, Kevin Brannigan takes in a Red Star game, who provide an alternative to the commercialism on show at Parc Des Princes, for locals and tourists alike. Continue reading → Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Playoffs Posters – Ireland V Denmark
It’s do or die in a two legged playoff with Denmark for a place in the World Cup in Russia next summer and Oscar Torrans has produced this beautiful design in the latest of our ongoing Póg Mo Goal Match-day poster series. Continue reading → Capturing the League of Ireland 2017
Dublin-based photographer Tom Beary’s unique take on the 2017 SSE Airtricity League season viewed through his camera lens. Continue reading → Derby of the Eternal Enemies
Photographer of football culture Przemek Niciejewski was with the fans of Olympiakos and Panathinaikos to capture the atmosphere of the Athens Derby. Continue reading → Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Qualifiers Posters – Wales V Ireland
It’s do or die for the Boys in Green tonight as they face off against Wales in the Cardiff City Stadium, in the final game of the World Cup Qualification campaign. In the last of our ongoing match-day poster series we have a classy design from The Sporting Press in the United States. Continue reading → Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Qualifiers Posters – Ireland V Moldova
Ireland host Moldova in the Aviva stadium on Friday night in a crucial World Cup Qualifier. Continue reading → Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Qualifiers Posters – Ireland V Serbia
Designed by Ruben Lyon, a graphic designer from Bremen in Germany who claims Irish roots, we bring you the next installment of the Póg Mo Goal Match-day Poster series for Ireland V Serbia. Continue reading → “The Irish Jersey Means Everything to Me”
The latest video in Three’s #TheCallUp series focuses on Irish super fan Eddie O’Mahony and his incredible national team football jersey collection including one of the most famous Irish football shirts ever. Continue reading → Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Qualifiers Posters – Georgia V Ireland
Donegal Designer Brian MacRory has designed a stunning effort in the latest Póg Mo Goal Matchday Poster series for the upcoming away fixture against Georgia. Continue reading → Taxi for Carey, Everton’s Irish
Merseyside’s blue half has always been a home for Irish footballers. Continue reading → O’Mahony to Maguire – Kilkenny’s Soccer Pioneers
With Sean Maguire named in the provisional Republic of Ireland squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers, if the young Kilkenny man sees game time, he’ll represent a major milestone for the game in his native county. Here, Cian Manning tells the tale of Matt O’Mahoney, Kilkenny’s original footballing flag-bearer. Continue reading → A different kind of Juventus
Why would a team called Juventus sport the colours of their fierce rivals, and what have they got to do with the most beautiful goal from the game’s greatest ever player? Brazilian journalist Bruno Rodrigues takes a trip to Sao Paulo. Continue reading → Photo Blog: Capturing the World Cup, Ireland vs Austria
Photographer Denis Vahey brilliantly captures the matchday atmosphere at Ireland’s World Cup qualifier against Austria in Dublin. Continue reading → Lucas Pratto, a man of (strange) faith
Brazilian side São Paulo’s Lucas Pratto would look more at home on a rugby pitch than a football field but on a journey that’s taken him from South America to Italy and back again, he’s developed some odd superstitions, writes Brazilian journalist Bruno Rodrigues. Continue reading → Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Qualifiers Posters – Ireland V Austria
Graphic Designer Adam Caul brings us a wonderful Subbuteo-inspired graphic for the next in our Póg Mo Goal Matchday Poster Series as the Austrians roll into town for a crucial World Cup Qualifer against Ireland. Continue reading → The Nation Holds Its Breath: Watch the Full Film
On the day of the most important football match in Irish history, an expectant father is torn between witnessing the miracle of childbirth and the miracle of reaching the quarter finals of the World Cup. Now you can watch the new Irish short film, produced by the famous Weinstein Company, in full. Continue reading → Why the Madrid Derby is Bigger than El Clasico
One half of the city of Madrid is preparing for the Champions League final this weekend. In their latest Derby Days, Copa90 travelled to the Spanish capital to witness the last ever fixture between Atletico and Real at the Vicente Calderon. Continue reading → You Boroughs In Green: Football in Irish-America
Ireland’s latest American adventure sees them take on Mexico this week. So, who are these supporters that continually show up in New York when the Irish arrive? What is the status of soccer in the Irish-American community? And when will we see a player born and raised in the United States line out for the Boys in Green? asks Irish New Yorker Eugene O’Driscoll. Continue reading → Crest Love: #17 – Pumas UNAM
Crest Love takes a look at the story of one of World Football’s most unique jerseys and the crest that adorns it. Pumas Unam from Mexico City. Continue reading → Commemorating Superga and Il Grande Torino
ON 4th May, 1949, members of the Grande Torino football squad were among the 31 people who died in the Superga air disaster. Here, Italian football website The Gentlemen Ultra commemorates the tragedy with an extract from the book ‘Erbstein: the triumph and tragedy of football’s forgotten pioneer’, by Dominic Bliss.
Continue reading → Mental Health in Football – The Unseen Battle
Copa90 recently headed to Wembley to talk to members of the newly formed Mental Health Charter about the growing problem of issues with mental health in modern football. Continue reading →