PHOTOGRAPHY: MATT O’SHEA
WORDS: RUPERT CANE

Going behind the scenes at a non-league ground on a matchday is an uplifting experience. Every week, thousands of people up and down the country dedicate their time and love to ensure that their local club brings joy to the community. We visited Kingstonian last month to see it for ourselves…

WORDS: EUAN McTEAR

The Basque and Catalan national teams are not recognised by FIFA or UEFA and only play occasional friendlies, but passions run high whenever their representatives take to the pitch. Recent high-profile games between Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao got Euan McTear thinking…

WORDS: EUAN McTEAR

Relegation is usually a time for mourning, but as Saint Mirren return to the second tier of Scottish football they do so with as many fond memories of the nine years in the top flight as dire ones. One Saints fan reflects on the good, the bad and the Eric Djemba-Djemba deal…

WORDS: DOMINIC BLISS

After seeing their club go under last December, Hereford supporters immediately set their hearts and minds to rebuilding it from scratch. Now back home at Edgar Street, they are almost ready to begin their journey as a new club with fans at the helm from next season. We found out how they managed it

WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY: PRZEMEK NICIEJEWSKI

Following away supporters on the road in European competition can be a colourful hobby for a photographer, so when the hordes of Gladbach travelling fans showed up in sleepy Villarreal, the resulting culture clash was always likely to make for some vibrant images, as our album shows…

WORDS: JOEL SKED

From the outside, it might look as though the last decade has been a dystopian nightmare for Hearts supporters. Tynecastle has been the setting for some of the most bizarre scenes in Scottish football in recent times but one Jambos fan explains why he has been thoroughly entertained by the chaos…

WORDS: GIANCARLO RINALDI

“The Queen of the South will rise up,” we like to say, quoting the line which makes ours The Only Team in the Bible. Yes, there have been long spells of emotional grey skies and the drizzle of depression but, every so often, the warm sunshine of genuine happiness breaks through at Palmerston Park…

EDITOR: MATT HOMER
PRODUCER: NICK GOULDS

Japanese fan culture is an organised passion and being a core supporter of a J.League club involves dedication, love and loyalty. Last year, two amateur English film makers and a local ex-pat journalist were invited to follow Montedio Yamagata fan Syu Oba and discover what his club means to him…

WORDS: MARK GODFREY

When your football team start to match your personal aspirations, it’s an addictive, dizzying concept, as Everton supporters discovered in between 1984 and 1987, but enduring the barren years that followed became a duty that is slowly being rewarded by the the restorative work of Moyes and Martinez…

WORDS: TOM FURNIVAL-ADAMS

It feels like the last 10 or 15 years have been a prolonged psychoanalytic journey for Coventry City supporters, but like a downtrodden prole, the longer the downward trajectory persists, the more I feel emotionally invested in being there when it is eventually arrested – and that is its own reward…