Today, our tifo series swings to Asia for the first time.

We check out Japanese fans at the Nabisco Cup (also known as the J-League Cup) final between Kawasaki Frontale and FC Tokyo, held earlier this week.

This video is a little slow to get going, but there's some gorgeous colour, some impressive banners, and generally well choreographed displays from supporters of both teams.

Click to continue reading...

This week, our new tifo video series has shown displays from supporters in Australia, Northern Ireland and Sweden.

Now we make a short hop to Belgium to take a look at supporters of KV Mechelen, a team who have historically been close to becoming a dominant force in the Belgian league, but who have somehow often fallen short.

Click to continue reading...

Our series on supporter tifo displays on Pitch Invasion jumps from Northern Ireland to Sweden.

Below is a compilation of displays by supporters of AIK (Allmänna Idrottsklubben). AIK were founded in 1891, and after being one of the dominant forces in the early decades of the Swedish league, have only had sporadic success in recent years.

Click to continue reading...

Our new series on Pitch Invasion moves all the way from Australia to Northern Ireland, as we look at the growing ultras culture in the IFA Premiership.

Glentoran are the current champions of the league, and their supporters' group Legion 1882 (which references the year the club was founded) was formed just two years ago.

Click to continue reading...

Note: There is a print link embedded within this post, please visit this post to print it.

Football news from Japan, Northern Ireland and the Premier League in England all feature in this week's good, the bad and the ugly section of languagecaster's football podcast. Click on the links below to find out more on all of these stories.

Click to continue reading...

-
- For seriously cutting-edge, continually-updated, news about QPR and football - and only QPR and football - Visit the growing QPR Report Messageboard (and quasi blog)! All perspectives genuinely welcomed!
- re Adel Taarabt: Previous with him at QPR and at Spurs
- Ex-QPR Leon Jeanne Update
- "On This Day" - Four Year Flashback: Nygaard Signs for QPR and QPR Defeat Iran
- Alan McDonald's Glentoran Crash Out of Europe
- Ex-QPR Youngster Giles Coke Joins Motherwell
- re Accrington Stanley/Player Bans: One Plays for Forest Green Rovers
- Assessing ESPN's Football Coverage
- Tabloid (Star): Maradona to Portsmouth? Click to continue reading...

Glentoran F.C. is a Northern Irish football club, playing in east Belfast. The club, founded in 1882, plays in the IFA Premiership. Glentoran's biggest rivals are Linfield F.C. Linfield and Glentoran are nicknamed Belfast's Big Two, as they have traditionally dominated local football in Northern Ireland since the demise of Belfast Celtic. Click to continue reading...