“Today’s modern sport system has lost all traces of social value and gradually is losing anything remotely positive about it. Football in Italy has become a degrading experience and we feel that starting from the bottom we can bring about change and promote a sport which is of a social value. The same is happening in other cities all over Italy.” — From an interesting read on a new club in Italy, Spartak Lecce. (via pitchinvasion)
Against Modern Football
(via svejk1888)
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Sheffield United football graffiti - a railway bridge somewhere in Rotherham
Hooligan graffiti at Sincil Bank - home of Lincoln City (via saggarmakers)
Romanian club Arges Pitesti against Hungary’s Ferencváros in the first round of the UEFA Cup, September 1967.
Eusebio in 1972, about to tuck into a massive, 30th birthday spread.
(via footballarchive)
Sheffield United Clockwork Orange
Terrace culture sticker courtesy of Swinton Blades
(Source: thestateofthings1)
Maybe if the English has taken their compatriot’s advice …
The Magical Magyars who famously beat England 6-3 at Wembley in 1953
An ‘Against Modern Football’ Football
Bring Tradition Back To The Stadium I by ~KristeLynx
Highbury - Arsenal FC
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Football on Copacabana Beach
(image credit - Praia Copacabana Clima Sextafeira Defesa by ~mauropimentel)
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FIFA’s unpopularity with fans is nothing new. Here’s a banner at the 1966 World Cup, hosted by England and when FIFA’s president was English - Sir Stanley Rous. (via pitchinvasion)
(Source: z6.invisionfree.com)