With our humble stable of international football websites in place, we have followed up by fulfilling a long-time wish. Now two episodes in, we launched The Stiles Council Podcast earlier this month. If you’re familiar with The Stiles Council you w…
- 83 days ago, 26 Feb 13, 6:07pm -

Our little family of international football websites is, for now, complete. This Christmas we celebrate the addition of our fifth site, which means that our network now covers England, Scotland, Irelands north and south, and Wales. Westgate Street is…
- , 24 Dec 12, 11:59am -

With just one day remaining before the kick-off in the latest round of FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifiers, we are proud to announce that our little network of international football websites is now up to four teams. The Lansdowne Roar is a website dedica…
- , 11 Oct 12, 9:23am -

Our Scotland site, Hamilton Crescent has two new authors. We’d like to welcome Paul Fisher and Shaughan McGuigan to the team, where they’ll be working with Si Furnivall, the editor of the site. Shaughan is a contributor to the Raith Rovers websit…
- , 24 Sep 12, 9:17am -

In addition to our international football websites, TFT Media welcomes two new affiliated podcasts. Aston Villa Review is presented by Chris Nee alongside Steven Green. It is a weekly 30-minute show covering events on and off the field at Villa Park,…
- , 17 Sep 12, 4:30pm -

With qualifying for FIFA World Cup 2014 now underway, two of our sites are now recruiting a new writer each. Ryan and Simon are the editors of our Northern Ireland and Scotland sites and are both on the lookout for a new author to work alongside them…
- , 17 Sep 12, 12:05pm -

‘Fear, Uncertainty and Distrust’ is a phrase with its roots in information technology, but it has become increasingly used elsewhere to describe a culture in which companies play sophisticated – and sometimes less than sophisticated – psychol…
- 2 days ago, 19 May 13, 9:41am -

For those amongst us in our early forties, it’s a disconcerting thought. We have reached an age at which there is a generation gap between us and adults younger than us. A forty-five year-old in 2013 may not feel middle-aged but there is no questio…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 13, 11:51am -

The irony of any rows between the Premier League and the Football League concerning the way in which money be paid in parachute payments should be paid out of the vast reserves of cash that the Premier League now accumulates from the sale of televisi…
- 3 days ago, 18 May 13, 8:25am -

There was considerable praise heaped on BT this week with the news that they will be offering live Premier League football to their broadband subscribers from the start of next season. While it is tempting to consider this to be a loss leader – and…
- 4 days ago, 17 May 13, 9:02am -

Last summer, the arrival of the Olympic games in London meant an unprecedented spike in interest in the women’s game in this country. Although Hope Powell’s team couldn’t get any further than the quarter-finals of the competition, crowds were h…
- 4 days ago, 16 May 13, 6:49pm -

At the end of last season Wolverhampton Wanderers became the first club to be relegated in two successive seasons from the top division of English football on two separate occasions, and while younger supporters continue to scream for the heads of ow…
- 6 days ago, 15 May 13, 6:35am -

- 7 hours ago, 20 May 13, 3:13pm -

- 7 hours ago, 20 May 13, 2:43pm -

- 8 hours ago, 20 May 13, 2:26pm -

- 11 hours ago, 20 May 13, 11:13am -

- 11 hours ago, 20 May 13, 10:52am -

- 12 hours ago, 20 May 13, 10:26am -

Nostalgic reminiscing by Steve Wright, community manager at The Football Week, a new iPad magazine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I4E6eulKZs This goal technically never happened. Or did it? To this day I’m not sure. Beating Liverpool in January 1…
- 87 days ago, 22 Feb 13, 9:01pm -

Arsène Wenger has won the double twice with Arsenal but the fans have now turned. Manchester City are the current Premier League champions and yet criticism of Roberto Mancini is growing. But knocking David Moyes? Now you’re really on dodgy ground…
- 88 days ago, 21 Feb 13, 1:27pm -

by Adam Bate I’m proud to say that I had the pleasure of contributing – albeit in a very small way – to the success of the In Bed With Maradona website. It’s a hell of a place, with regular features from around the world of football that you…
- , 31 Jan 13, 11:48pm -

“The team played as planned,” claimed QPR owner Tony Fernandes on Twitter following his club’s latest defeat, a 1-0 reverse at Stoke last Saturday that left the Hoops with just four points from 11 games and Mark Hughes clinging to his job. But…
- , 14 Nov 12, 11:47am -

Ben Weich writes for the EPL Talk and Soccer Fan Base blogs. You can follow Ben on Twitter @BenWeich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp8QHXtQoIo While there may have been more beautiful goals scored, few have been as remarkable as this one. This was a…
- , 20 Aug 12, 7:34pm -

When Queens Park Rangers’ eager communications department described new signing Park Ji-Sung as a “global phenomenon” it was easy to mock. After all, a quick Google search of the phrase mentions the decline of the honey bee but little of the si…
- , 17 Jul 12, 10:14am -

Pax Barcelona reigns -- but it's a reign, perhaps, more akin to the Roman Empire than Alexander the Great, crushing us into compliance "within a prison of engineered perfection," lacking a human element to fall in love with. "For this consumer there…
- , 29 May 11, 4:30pm -

Just nine years after Wimbledon's club was stolen with the permission of the FA, AFC Wimbledon have finally punched the FA back with promotion to the Football League. But perhaps the sweetest-seeming story in football this year is really the product…
- , 23 May 11, 4:17am -

Prayer and elite sport require the same kind of discipline -- a daily practice that demands perseverance, even when it seems so not worth it. But isn't it absurd to pray for your team to win? "The point lies not in God's partisan enthusiasms or capri…
- , 20 May 11, 4:02am -

Virtually unnoted: The Nigerian women's national team has been purged of all its lesbian players...after which it was featured on FIFA's website for the upcoming Women's World Cup. While male gay athletes stay in the closet, the media's homophobia do…
- , 20 May 11, 4:01am -

The story of the only man to win the European Cup twice for Eastern European sides reads like an Alan Furst novel -- river crossings in fog to avoid border patrols, an unlikely friendship with Ceausescu's son, a 10-year sentence in his native Romania…
- , 19 May 11, 4:02am -

The first MLS Cascadia Derby is over, but not before drawing almost every US fan's (and soccer writer's) attention away from the USWNT-Japan match in Columbus -- indicative of the plummeting fortunes of the US women's game these days in this country,…
- , 18 May 11, 4:02am -

A major piece to follow on the Golden Generation tomorrow but, in the meantime, enjoy some Georgi Kinkladze - what a player!RCM
- 2 hours ago, 20 May 13, 7:44pm -

Isn't the world a better place after a fine FA Cup Final?I love the FA Cup. I always have. I always will. The years in which I came to love football - 1988 to 1991 - had a series of great FA Cup Finals. I've subsequently watched the 1986 final and he…
- 7 days ago, 14 May 13, 7:58am -

Am not a great one for promoting kit and sportswear on the blog but I loved this advert from FC Twente using their legends to promote their new kit!I'd rather like some UK clubs trying the same sort of thing for their kit releases in the future.RCM
- 8 days ago, 12 May 13, 6:37pm -

Football can bring out the strangest of emotions. When Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United won the club's 19th title my over-riding emotion was an odd sort of relief. For years, I had watched an irrepressible genius creep up on my team's record and…
- 9 days ago, 11 May 13, 5:21pm -

The game between Liverpool and Chelsea will be remembered as a Luis Suarez greatest hits performance. It had everything that people will remember about him when he has retired - a handball, a bite, and some sumptuous football.Moreover, in a game of t…
- 11 days ago, 9 May 13, 7:27pm -

Sadly homosexuality in sport is in the news again. One day, I hope, we'll get to the point where a player coming out isn't news. If a player decided to announce his or homosexuality we wouldn't even shrug our shoulders. We wouldn't even notice. We ar…
- 20 days ago, 1 May 13, 8:42am -

Madrid fans are despondent. And delusional. Continue reading →
- 12 hours ago, 20 May 13, 10:35am -

Juan Mata's "Hocus Pocus" is just what soccer needs. Continue reading →
- 5 days ago, 16 May 13, 9:20am -

The soccersphere and its prose can be broken down into nice and neat categories. Continue reading →
- 6 days ago, 15 May 13, 9:24am -

The Glazers got their man in Moyes! Continue reading →
- 8 days ago, 13 May 13, 9:43am -

MLS salaries are low. How long? As long as they can go....at least for new players. Continue reading →
- 12 days ago, 9 May 13, 9:51am -

Some quality soccer links. Continue reading →
- 13 days ago, 8 May 13, 9:30am -

I’d just like to say a massive thank you to all my readers and followers on Twitter who voted for me with Girl On A Terrace in the Football Blogging Awards. Voting has now closed and I am happy to announce that I have been shortlisted for the “Be…
- , 30 Jun 12, 10:26am -

Rochdale fans might already have seen these a while ago, but thought I’d share them with the rest of my readers as I found them all on a CD recently. These were some photos I had taken at Spotland for the Dale Trust – the official Rochdale AFC Su…
- , 15 Jun 12, 11:03am -

Just wanted to share this England top that Carlsberg sent me – love it It’s personalised with my Twitter username on the back, unfortunately it’s a bit big for me being a size 8-10 but it’s a really nice keepsake, so thanks guys! I also got l…
- , 8 Jun 12, 11:37am -

Although my blog is mainly about the lower leagues, I’m actually for once quite looking forward to Euro 2012…there seems to be quite a lot of buzz going around at the moment and coupled with the Queen’s Jubilee I’m feeling rather patriotic!…
- , 28 May 12, 1:28pm -

Just a bit of self promotion here…! If you like what I do and enjoy reading my blog then it would be great if you voted for Girl On A Terrace in the Football Blogging Awards 2012 as Best Female Football Blog. There are two ways that you can vote……
- , 13 May 12, 4:14pm -

You may (or may not!) know that I’ve done pre-season and half season reports about Rochdale for The Guardian website. Well as we come to the end of the 2012/12 season I was once again asked to give me thoughts for their end of season round up. So,…
- , 11 May 12, 1:51pm -

At Stamford BridgeBrendan Rodgers insists Liverpool must no longer look in the rear view mirror - but admits the road ahead to restoration may be a long one.In among the cascade of optimistic messages that have epitomised Rodgers's short time at…
- , 12 Nov 12, 8:45am -

At Etihad StadiumWhen Roberto Mancini's rage against the slow death of Manchester City's Champions League aspirations finally fizzles out, it will be replaced by the recognition of a brutal truth.Mancini was the flesh and blood embodiment of all…
- , 7 Nov 12, 6:56am -

At Old TraffordSir Alex Ferguson was almost wistful as he sounded like a man pining for the dangerous days of flying pizzas in the Old Trafford tunnel.The meeting between Manchester United and Arsenal was once a fixture to count on if you wanted…
- , 3 Nov 12, 9:32pm -

For an hour Stamford Bridge staged a football match to savour. Chelsea and Manchester United spent this time laying out every exhibit to illustrate their potential to be Premier League champions. The scenery was suddenly, uncomfortably, shifted. It…
- , 29 Oct 12, 8:13am -

Manchester City's supply of miracles probably ran out on the day they scored twice in stoppage time to win the Premier League. Roberto Mancini should not expect another to save them in the Champions League.The City manager accepts this is what they…
- , 25 Oct 12, 8:28am -

At Old TraffordLike bookends at either end of Sir Alex Ferguson's evening, Manchester United's manager drove away from Old Trafford to ponder two pressing problems.Finding the solution to one created by the outstanding Javier Hernandez will be a…
- , 24 Oct 12, 7:22am -

I offered them to ITV.com but they weren't interested. I called up Sepp Blatter to see if he fancied using them on his FIFA election campaign literature - to no avail. Here are three football-themed haikus to mark 21 March. No doubt these will come b…
- , 21 Mar 11, 6:56pm -

Back in September, knowing I was visiting New York over Christmas, I decided to investigate whether there would be any sport worth watching while I was there. It turned out that NFL side the New York Giants would be playing the Philadelphia Eagles at…
- , 6 Jan 11, 11:54pm -

Much as it seems as though the ink has only just dried on the FIFA ExCom ballot papers, and the tears have dried on the faces of many England fans (okay, sorry for the melodrama), it's time to come to terms with the fact that in less than eight years…
- , 2 Dec 10, 8:37pm -

Last week I penned some thoughts on the decline of English terrace culture for the superb whoateallthepies.tv. Here it is in full:“You’re not singing any more.” It’s the classic football catcall, the terrace version of cuckolding. The messag…
- , 29 Nov 10, 2:05pm -

Some readers may know that I'm a fairly regular guest on the twofootedtackle podcast. In fact, can I urge you to listen to this week's podcast, featuring myself and French football connoisseur Chris Oakley - which includes subjects as disparate as th…
- , 19 Nov 10, 4:27pm -

A butterfly flaps its wings in Tokyo and a storm rises in California. Or perhaps that should be: a Serbian man dons a balaclava in Genoa, and four Hajduk Split supporters are beaten up in St Petersburg.Eastern European politics is an immensely comple…
- , 21 Oct 10, 3:40pm -

El Clasico, Barcelona and Real Madrid, is one of the biggest games in World football. Richard Fitzpatrick’s books subtitle goes further still, posturing that it is “Football’s Greatest Rivalry”. For some casual fans of Spanish football the fi…
- , 27 Dec 12, 1:53pm -

Collapse of a system Italian football is facing a time of crisis in terms of both financial and sporting performances. Clubs are struggling in the European Cups, they have lost power in the transfer market, and the appeal of the league for foreign in…
- , 31 Oct 12, 11:10am -

While the so-called excruciatingly named “group of death” looked tantalising on paper with 4 great teams together in one group, there is always the possibility that games between big teams can be a little dull – Germany versus Portugal was a pe…
- , 10 Jun 12, 11:13am -

Despite qualifying for the tournament as the winners of Qualification Group H Denmark had been earmarked by many as the whipping boys of Group B – on the basis of having fewer well-known players and Nicklas Bendtner. Indeed, for the first 20 minute…
- , 10 Jun 12, 8:17am -

It’s been a while since any sort of update has happened on here, and for that I apologise profusely. In the mean time Lazio have been busy appointing a new Coach after Edy Reja parted ways with the Rome club. The new man, Vladimir Petkovic, is a re…
- , 6 Jun 12, 9:10pm -

In conjunction with BootifulGame.com we have been working on a little application that is just a little bit of fun for people to play around with. GroundTweet shows you what football ground your followers would fill (or your tweets, if they were peop…
- , 5 Jun 12, 9:14pm -

With the season over and the Stones' promotion dream shattered, thoughts turn to the summer and preparations for another go next season.The post Touring With The Stones; The Dust Settles appeared first on 2nd Yellow.
- 3 days ago, 18 May 13, 8:46am -

Next season, the Premier League is set to receive a bonanza of gargantuan proportions thanks to the latest TV rights deal. The result? Club chairmen with itchy trigger fingers poised over a P45.The post Premier League Manager Roulette appeared first…
- 4 days ago, 16 May 13, 8:20pm -

Gordon Bartlett is one of the longest serving managers in the English pyramid, having spent the past 18 years at Wealdstone, following spells and Hounslow, Southall and Yeading. Here he speaks to Roge Slater about his time in the dugout.The post Five…
- 27 days ago, 23 Apr 13, 7:00pm -

Never let it be said that Roge Slater's main motivation for following his club home and away is the chance to sample delicious cold ales in a variety of locations up and down the country. As Wealdstone face a double header with Bury Town, that's just…
- 34 days ago, 17 Apr 13, 10:00am -

Roge Slater talks to former Blackburn striker Simon Garner, who had a spell at Wealdstone later in his career and who nowadays is involved in the Rovers Trust at a time when the club is in chaos at the hands of Venkys.The post Five Minutes of Your Ti…
- 37 days ago, 14 Apr 13, 9:00am -

The Easter programme combined with the effects of fixture congestion mean Wealdstone face four crucial games in quick succession as they attempt to close on the league leaders. They travel to Margate, face promotion rivals Concord Rangers, a tricky v…
- 45 days ago, 5 Apr 13, 8:29pm -