The Basque country has long held notions of their linguistic, ethnic and historical distinctiveness from the rest of Spain. For a long period, regional autonomy was guaranteed through fueros or a series of laws allowing for independent control and decision-making for the region. This system was wiped out under the constitutional reform of 1876 that...

Have you heard of the stadium where the midfield line lies exactly on the equator, or so it is believed? One of the teams defending the Northern hemisphere, while the other the Southern. Estádio Milton Corrêa, usually known as Zerão, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Macapá, Brazil and is used mostly for football matches. In 1990, the work on...

""Football started as an outlet for the working man because life was so rubbish that he had to go and do something and take his mind off his problems.That something was standing on a miserable terrace somewhere at a ground where there were absolutely no facilities whatsoever.Catching the odd glimpse of a ball in the masses of people. That was...

"" I remember it being a shilling to get into Anfield. As a teenager, it was forty pence.At that time, my dad was earning forty quid a week - fifty if he was lucky. This is one hundred times what I was paying to go the match. My dad was an average working man.Now, a ticket costs fifty pounds. The...