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 → 
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 → 
Photographer Denis Vahey brilliantly captures the matchday atmosphere at Ireland’s World Cup qualifier against Austria in Dublin. Continue reading → 
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 → 
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 → 
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 → 
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 → 
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 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 → 
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.
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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 → 
The history of the women’s game on the island of Ireland is comparatively short, though it has had its moments of controversy, and brilliance, not least in the form of a young Inchicore player who became an Italian sensation, writes Donal Fallon. Continue reading → 
As Canada announces its intentions to bid for the World Cup with the USA and Mexico, from Póg Mo Goal Magazine Issue 3, Devon Rowcliffe examines the pitfalls that face the upcoming Canadian Premier League. Continue reading → 
Ireland host Wales in a crucial World Cup qualifier in the Aviva Stadium on Friday night, and American designer Andy Beller has produced this brilliant design for the next installment in our match-day poster series.
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Brazilian art director Fabrício Fajardo put his imagination to work and created team shirts for famous bands.
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Ahead of Ireland’s monumental World Cup qualifier with Wales, DJ Alli B has released a 2017 remix of iconic Irish football anthem Put Em Under Pressure with a video featuring freestyle football artist Philip Clarke. Continue reading → 
New name, new crest, but a rich history to build on, Cian Manning tells the story of a proud League of Ireland tradition in Waterford. Continue reading → 
The Opel Jersey’s Feargal Brennan examines the Irish fans’ connection to the current crop of international players, and the different aura around Martin O’Neill’s team today. Continue reading → 
In 1996, the IRA exploded a bomb in the centre of Manchester. Years later, former commander of that organisation-turned politician, Martin McGuinness sat down with a Manchester United fanzine to discuss his love for the club. It was a peculiarity probably confined to the north of England and Irish mentality, writes Kevin Brannigan. Continue reading → 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. A new Irish short film produced by the famous Weinstein Company is set for its Irish premiere at the Dublin Film Festival in February. Continue reading → 
Pro Vercelli were a side that dominated Italian football from 1908 until 1922, winning an incredible seven titles across 14 years. In a guest post, as part of their Month of Calcio, The Final Third tell their story. Continue reading → 
With Dalymount Park set to undergo redevelopment, the home of Irish football in its current guise is nearing the end of an era. Bohemian FC are asking supporters to play their part in saying goodbye to the old ground. Continue reading → 
Xabi Alonso is one of the classiest footballers ever to grace the game. He’s played for some of the world’s biggest clubs like Liverpool, Real Madrid, and Bayern Munich and looks set to hang up his boots at the end of this season, but, as Squawka Football explain, it might have all started with a young Xabi’s trip to the Emerald Isle. Continue reading → 
Football clubs which were formed from the employees of factories are commonplace around the world with teams like PSV Eindhoven, and Bayer Leverkusen. Ireland, too can, claim its share of such teams including St. James’s Gate from the home of the world-famous Guinness. Cian Manning tells the story of the first ever winners of the League of Ireland. Continue reading → 
Following on from Dundalk FC: Champ10ns 2014 and last year’s Dundalk FC: The Double 2015, Dundalk FC: Making History is the third book in a series that tells the story of a momentous season for the Lilywhites. Continue reading → 
Noel Feeney brings us a superb design in the latest instalment of our ongoing matchday poster series. With Dundalk’s European high flyers Daryl Horgan and Andy Boyle making the squad to travel to Vienna for Ireland’s next qualifier, the League of Ireland pair will be hoping to go one step further and get some game time against Austria. Continue reading → 
Dublin-based photographer Tom Beary’s unique take on the 2016 SSE Airtricity League season viewed through his camera lens. Continue reading → 
With over 1 million subscribers, COPA90 has become the home of football culture. Travelling the planet to tell the story of football through the fans, they have, as they say themselves, been welcomed into people’s homes, bars, and stadiums, making films that celebrate the greatest game on Earth. They sat down with Póg Mo Goal. Continue reading → 
Póg Mo Goal is a new Irish football magazine focused on considered design and great quality writing from around the world. Pick up your copy or order online now.
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Irish author Alan Gernon’s first book ‘Retired: What Happens to Footballers When the Game’s Up’ has already made the long list for eir Sport Sports Book of the Year and Niall Quinn, who provides the foreword, has called it ‘the most important football book in a long time.’ Here, Alan gives a taster of his work which gives an incredible insight into what happens to players when the curtain comes down on their careers. Continue reading → 
Below the professonal ranks, Denis Kelleher was regarded as one of the finest footballers in Britain. In a remarkable life, the Irishman, capped eight times at amateur level, escaped from Nazi Germany, played for Great Britain at the Olympic Games, and became a folk hero at Barnet. Cian Manning tells his story. Continue reading → 
He was part of one of the greatest teams ever to play the game and scored one of the all time great goals. With the sad passing of Carlos Alberto Torres, here is animator Richard Swarbrick’s brilliant animation of that famous Brazil goal from 1970. Continue reading → 
ESPN have combined football with its American gridiron equivalent to imagine some striking new kits.
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Photographer Denis Vahey brilliantly captures the matchday atmosphere at Ireland’s World Cup qualifier against Georgia in Dublin. Continue reading → 
As Ireland look to get maximum points in Moldova, Richard Seabrooke has produced an amazing design in the latest in our ongoing Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Poster Series. Continue reading → 
Upside down or right side up depending on who you support, Dublin design practice It’s Okay, have produced an amazing design in the latest in our ongoing Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Poster Series. Continue reading → 
The late Con Houlihan was a larger than life figure in Irish culture and journalism. His influence on sports writing was matched by a love for St. Patrick’s Athletic. Cian Manning profiles a literary giant. Continue reading → 
With a new quaification campaign comes a new set of Póg Mo Goal posters and Serbian Graphic Designer Futro has come up with an amazing design to kick off our World Cup 2018 Series. Continue reading → 
Geo Law’s specially commissioned print for Póg Mo Goal. Continue reading → 
Photographer Marcos Muniz documents the Refugees World Cup (or Cup Integration of Refugees), a football championship for displaced communities held in São Paulo, Brazil with representatives from countries around the globe. Continue reading → 
Featuring 40 pages of excellent feature writing and beautiful photography and illustrations from contributors across the globe. Póg Mo Goal issue 3 is now available for pre-order. Continue reading → 
Barely three years after a bloody and violent war of independence, and less than 12 months after a bitter civil war, a football team representing a new Ireland walked out at the Olympic Games in Paris. Cian Manning looks back. Continue reading → 
Once dubbed ‘the world’s coolest club’ Hamburg outfit St. Pauli have drawn admiration again with their latest player tunnel revamp. Continue reading → 
Photographer of football culture Przemek Niciejewski was with the fans of Poland and Germany at their Euro 2016 group stage game in Paris. Continue reading → 
Dublin two-piece electronic group White Collar Boy have released a mix dedicated to Ireland’s European adventure with tracks from the countries in Group E. Continue reading → 
With the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland appearing at a major finals together for the very first time, Discover Ireland have released this stunning promo video to wish the best of luck to both teams on the island. Continue reading → 
ESPN commissioned French artist Florian Nicolle to create 24 posters for each team participating in France. Continue reading → 
Goolbridge is an amazing new football t-shirt brand from Spanish illustrator Jorge Lawerta. With designs featuring the unique style of the Valencia artist it is one for true football culture fans. Continue reading → 
Last month Póg Mo Goal commissioned international and Irish designers to produce a series of match-day posters for the Republic of Ireland’s three group games in France for OFFSIDE a fringe event of the design conference OFFSET and now here are all the amazing match-day posters. Continue reading → 
With the tournament in France fast approaching, Weekend Offender have produced a stunning Euro 2016 collection. Very Limited Edition. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. Continue reading →