Leeds United is arguably one of the biggest club in English football. Currently playing in the Championship, mismanagement has taken the formally top-flight team as low as League 1 in recent years. As a one club city, Elland Road still pulls in a respectable attendance and Leeds are often cited a one the EFL’s greatest sleeping giants. Unlike a lot … Read More
Hammered into Shape
West Ham United are a football club in East London who can trace their routes back to the city’s shipbuilding industry, when they were founded as Thames Ironworks F.C.. The club has the nicknames; ‘the hammers’ in reference to the riveting hammers used in shipbuilding and which appear on the badge, and ‘the irons’ for equally obvious reasons. Since a … Read More
Proud History Unprepared for the Future
Aston Villa is one of the oldest most decorated clubs in England. Based in the Aston area of Birmingham they have played their home games at Villa Park since 1987. They were the founding member of the Football League and one of the original teams in the Premier League. This year has been the culmination of a several year decline … Read More
What’s in a flag
I am a huge fan of flags, I love how the majority of them are constructed from the same basic of colours and shapes. Yet with only slight variations the results are drastically different. Results which not only create a symbol for the country, but quite often symbolise something of the country (I hope that sentence makes sense). This can … Read More