The Fans
Equal access to the beautiful game
Nobody thinks about how disabled people can get equal access to follow and watch their favourite football team –until either they or a member of their family becomes disabled and has to find out the bad news for themselves. Well, it’s not all bad news, some teams have got their act together and some haven’t – despite the fact that there are supposed to be minimum standards of facilities. The problem often comes at away matches when fans in wheelchairs or with other mobility equipment are put with the home fans, often at the opposite end of the field to their own fans and sometimes directly in line with the ball, down at pitch level behind the goal. [Read More...]
The psychology of football fandom
To those outside the ambiance of attraction to the beautiful game the behavior of the more extreme and hardcore members of football fandom will be a complete mystery. But the extreme nature of association with a particular team is not confined to hooligans and those on the extremes. [Read More...]
International Sport
European Football Online – a treasure trove
To be truthful, it’s not just European football which is now massively catered for online – football online coverage is worldwide- and local – any niche market you can think of. There is such a huge amount of resource it’s a wonder that football fans ever have time e to work or sleep – or [...]
Sporting Bodies
FIFA 2012 –Football game sophistication
Football must be one of the if not the most popular sport video game and whether the game player wants to manage a team (with Football Manager software) or play football games there is a great deal online. There are loads of free soccer/football games to play and download – starter games for kids and [...]
Team Games
Football for the disabled –Almost everyone can play football!
There has been a great deal of development in the game of football in order to make the game as accessible as possible to those who want to play it, whatever their disabilities. There have been various changes in the rules to assist those with impairments to be able to play, but the idea is [...]