Jack Murray discusses an exciting season ahead for the League of Ireland Premier Division, with a number of clubs holding strong title aspirations.

Gateshead FC are a football club trapped in a situation that threatens their existence and could ultimately lead to their demise, writes Alex Jackson.

Co-editor of BackPageFootball.com. Writes mostly on Premier League and A-League with contributions to other sites including TheFootballSack, InBedWithMaradona and Bloomberg's BSports. Has featured on ...

Sunday, December 21 represented a new low in the tumultuous history of Gateshead FC. The turnout for their National League fixture against Eastleigh was 431. Fewer than 400 of them were home fans. The ...

Up next in the World Famous Player Comparison series is a slightly controversial one. England defenders and definitely not best friends, Rio Ferdinand and John Terry. Two of the best defenders in ...

Gone are the days when April Fools’ Day involved telling a really crappy joke and punching your mate on the arm when they fell hook, line and sinker for whatever yarn you had just spun. The internet ...

Despite a 2-1 defeat at Ternana with a game to go in the 2016/17 season, the Serie B title was SPAL’s if Benevento could beat promotion rivals Frosinone. Fabio Ceravolo struck late for Benevento, and ...

When PSV Eindhoven secured the treble of Dutch League, Dutch Cup and European Cup in May 1988, it was typical of a brief period of unprecedented egalitarianism in the European game. As surprising as ...

The wait is over. The FIFA Club World Cup and their glorified friendlies are over and proper football is back. All over the world, leagues have resumed. Barcelona kick started their La Liga defence ...

With just one week between ties and two weeks before the second qualifying round, it was, by the standards of 1998, a short turnaround that left little time for the clubs themselves, let alone fans, ...

With so much to cover, it feels more appropriate to dissect 1994/95 in two parts. This article will cover the domestic side of the game, with Europe to follow. In 1994/95, the most significant change ...

The first of 11 of these – I’ll cover the period all the way to 1999/00. During this time, seismic changes in every aspect of the game – stadiums, atmosphere, finances, competition structure, fixture ...