That Bradford City should be yet again linked with a move away from Valley Parade should come as no surprise. This time, the local council want them to move to a "sports village" at Odsal Stadium, which they will share with local rugby league club Bradford Bulls. Many Bantams supporters, however, are struggling to see what exactly the benefits of moving to Odsal would be to the football club.

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CALL TO ARMS

This is a ‘call to arms' for all you passionate football fans out there – we need you!!

At the end of November we're shooting a very exciting Mastercard Champions League commercial that will recreate what it was like for the fans in the terraces watching the most memorable games in European football over the last ten years.

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Most of you, or perhaps some of you, or maybe none of you, considering what sort of literary pedigree you'd have to rock to come by here every day looking for something resembling wisdom or insight, have heard of the late American author David Foster Wallace's thousand page plus tome, Infinite Jest. Click to continue reading...

"Alright mate, we'll be fine today yeah? No repeats of last week right?" asked a friend of mine on the way to the football on Sunday morning.� "What are you talkin' about? We never have trouble at our football ground" I replied. "Oh, I suppose you didn't hear about what happened to the other Leipzig [. Click to continue reading...

"Alright mate, we'll be fine today yeah? No repeats of last week right?" asked a friend of mine on the way to the football on Sunday morning.� "What are you talkin' about? We never have trouble at our football ground" I replied. "Oh, I suppose you didn't hear about what happened to the other Leipzig [. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham Hotspur revealed plans for a 56,000-seat rebuilding of White Hart Lane this week. An undoubted step forward for Spurs, even if the undulating roof-line is a little unoriginal and redolent of Arsenal's new gaff down the Seven Sisters road.
Ashburton Grove's extra capacity means Arsenal are coining in £3million per game, a revenue stream Spurs at present can only dream of matching. Click to continue reading...

If you could pick any 20 teams to be in the Premier League, which clubs would you pick and why?

To make it harder, you can only pick clubs from the Premier League, Football League and non-league football. And, to make it fun, you can select teams from the Scottish Premier League too, if you like.

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If you are a Bath City fan then yesterday's meeting with Bishop's Cleeve was the most important match of the season. It was not actually the glory of a FA Cup Third Qualifying Round that made it so important, though. What really made it a must win was the prize money: £7,500 was up for grabs for the winner. Click to continue reading...

Somewhere between Leeds and Manchester on the M62 I was able to truly digest my four-day jaunt back to my native land for the third round of the Carling Cup. Working in football in the United States is a great privilege, and in Seattle the advent of Seattle Sounders FC has been a revelation for Major League Soccer.

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The grass at the Cooperage Football ground in Mumbai is set to get greener,thanks to artificial turf (costing between $500,000 to $600,000) sanctioned by the FIFA.
Eric Harrison and Chrisantha Perera, two FIFA officials, visited the ground on Friday morning from Bangalore, along with All India Football Federation (AIFF) outgoing general secretary Alberto Colaco.

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There's something about the new Premier League intro that plays before each game that bothers me. If you haven't seen it, take a minute to watch it first (click the video above). It's definitely a feel good video that illustrates the global appeal of the Premier League from Africa to Asia and other continents.

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A couple of untruths to tuck up in bed:
1) Diving has been around in football since before you or I were born
If it seems more prolific now, that's really little more than a miserable consequence of living in a surveillance society - nothing is hidden from sight, especially inside a modern football ground. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool's new stadium will not be built until the global recession is over and credit becomes available to finance the $800 million project.
The 60,000-seat replacement for Liverpool's historic but crumbling Anfield was due to have opened next year, but the economic downturn forced co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr. Click to continue reading...

Goodison Park, the world's first purpose-built football ground, opened its doors on August 24, 1892. The crowd of 12,000 watched not a game of football, but track and field athletics followed by a fireworks display. The first match was to follow nine days later, when Everton beat Bolton Wanderers 4-2. Click to continue reading...

This piece is the first of a series of articles intended as personal recollections of some of our lost football grounds. Should you wish to contribute to this series, please feel free to email us via the "Contact" page, which is linked at the top of this page. The first piece in this series takes a fond look back at Southbury Road, the late, lamented home of Enfield Football Club.

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Someone left a delightful little welcoming gift outside newly promoted Wolves' Molineux Stadium this morning. A bag that everyone thought was a bomb. Says the Birmingham Mail:

Bomb disposal experts detonated a suspect package after a street outside Molineux football ground in Wolverhampton was closed off today.

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The preview of the sxth round should take many forms, the first one being a homage to Pasi Rautiainen. This Monday's match between Honka and TPS in Tapiola turned into something of a media event, with most of the Finnish under-21 squad presented with roses for their achievement in failing to win a single game or point, and scoring a solitary penalty during their three matches in Sweden.

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It has been 20 years since 96 Liverpool football fans lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster but the tears are still not dry. For people who last their loved ones in a clash of fans on 15th April 1989 at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, the memories still linger on. The match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest for the FA Cup semi-finals remains one of the deadliest football related stadium disaster in the history of International Football.

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I had to think several times before I wrote this post. I couldn't decide whether to write it because it involved another club and not my beloved Arsenal. In the end I decided that Gooners would understand why I have wrote this post.
I watched the Liverpool V Blackburn match yesterday and was genuinely moved by events there. Click to continue reading...

Craven Cottage is one of my favourite Premier League grounds – probably because it doesn't even feel like a Prem ground. It's a proper old Football League-style ground, with no giant screens or rows and rows of corporate boxes.
On a perfectly sunny day in April, with the most in-form team in Europe paying a visit, there was no better place to be than the Cottage on Saturday. Click to continue reading...

: Don Valley Stadium Date: Saturday 20th September 2008, 3.00 pm Competition: League Two Match:   Rotherham 1    Luton 0 HT: 0-0 Att: 4,095                 Rhodes 61   Additional: Entrance: £20.00 Upper Tier £18.00 Lower Programme: £2.50 Hot drinks: Coffee £1.20 Ground PHOTOS of Don Valley Stadium This match was a meet up of members of Shaun Smith's 100 Football Ground club members. Click to continue reading...

When one indulges themselves with such a singular adolescent pastime as watching your local non-league team home and away, it's easy to start believing that you're the only person in the whole world that does this. Non-league crowds are, by and large, old. The average teenage boy turning up at a grubby semi-professional football ground [. Click to continue reading...

September seems likely to see the closure of yet another famous, old North London football ground, as Hendon FC finally prepare to leave Claremont Road after a protracted battle which has seen the club sail close to the brink of receivership several times. At the time of writing, they still don't know when the final [. Click to continue reading...

I'm not exaggerating. It really did.
I was on my way to Monschau with my lover. We are over here in his car which I rarely drive and so I thought I would take the opportunity to enjoy the luxury of driving a Skoda Fabia 1.9 Tdi (if I tell you I drive a 1000cc Yaris you will probably understand why I use the term luxury). Click to continue reading...

The Allianz Arena from the ouside. Art or is it!?
Me (left) and Nick. Dortmund til we die!
Inside the Allianz Arena - large beer hall just out of shot.
The most impressive stadium ever* (*from the outside)
Generali Sportpark home to Spvgg Unterhaching.
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Hartlepool Council have agreed to additional negotiation over the sale of the town's football game ground.

Victoria Park in Clarence Road have been place to Hartlepool United since the baseball baseball club formed in 1908, but the club only rents the council-owned site.

Previous commands to purchase it have got failed, as the council states the country is premier development land.

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Just some of the 6,000 Napoli fans at Empoli.
Me at Empoli FC.
More Empoli v Napoli gubbins.
The Arena Garibaldi home to Pisa Calcio .
Another successful break in to a football ground (Pisa Calcio).
Stadio Artemio Franchi - Fiorentina.
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