I still strongly believe that the PFA's Out of Contract XI should operate like a Pirate XI. They can call out any team in any league and if they beat them they take their place. But they only get 3 chances each season, if they lose all 3 it's season over.

That is a big name signing for Alsager Town.

🇬🇱🏟️ Greenland simply has the most stunning football pitches in the world 🤩

🇬🇱 B-67 have won the 2025 Greenlandic Football Championship! We travelled to the world’s largest island to see the world’s shortest football season back in 2016, when B-67 also won. A truly memorable experience that we will treasure forever 🤩

🇩🇰🌉🇸🇪 FC Copenhagen will today make the shortest international away trip in Champions League history, crossing the Øresund Bridge to face Malmö. At 28km as the crow flies, Copenhagen is closer to the Swedish city than it is to all but two of the 11 other Danish top-tier teams.

📺 NEW VIDEO PODCAST 📺 Europe: 🌉 The Øresund Bridge derby 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Penybont's lost luggage 🇨🇭 Schaffhausen's ferry up the Rhine 🚗 Europe's Satnav-friendliest tie 🇽🇰 The Kosovan Graham Poll Rest of the world: 🇰🇿 A UCL participant near China? 🇬🇱 Haircut breaks in Greenland 🇦🇺

🇲🇭 The Marshall Islands will play their first-ever 11-a-side international football match vs. US Virgin Islands in Springdale, Arkansas today. That leaves Nauru, the world's smallest island nation, as the only country to have never played a senior international football match.

🇳🇷🏝️ The world's smallest island nation Nauru is now the last country on earth to have never played a senior 11v11 official international football match. The Marshall Islands had previously been in the same boat but played their first game against US Virgin Islands yesterday.

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Good to see that a thing having happened before absolutely won’t be a precedent when it comes to other games being played overseas.

The amazing story of Bristol City fan Paul Watson & his adventure of managing the ‘world’s worst international football team’ is winning awards at film festivals around the world. Read more here👇🏼 bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…

It's hard to explain to people on a seemingly normal October day in Gloucestershire that I can't really do things because I'm too nervous about a game in Cape Verde at 5pm.

🇸🇪 WHAT A FAIRYTALE! SWEDISH UNDERDOGS MJÄLLBY, WHO COME FROM A FISHING VILLAGE OF 1,485 PEOPLE, HAVE WON THE ALLSVENSKAN! How have they achieved this feat? What records have they broken along the way? Here are 10 things you need to know about Sweden’s new champions! THREAD 🧵

That may have been the best international break ever. For The Sweeper's Patreon (free to read), I wrote about Curaçao, Haiti, Suriname, Iraq, Bangladesh, Singapore, Senegal, Paraguay, Somalia and the British Virgin Islands. I love international football! patreon.com/posts/from-cur…

Had an amazing time in Palermo for the Paladino d'Oro Sport Film Festival festival where The Soccermen was on. Paladino d'Oro is the oldest sports film festival in the world, running since 1979. Saw loads of great films, met wonderful people, and Palermo is an incredible city. A special experience!

🏆 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴...𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲! 🟡 Featuring clubs Europe-wide who are nicknamed the Canaries in their various languages. 🇧🇪 Sint-Truiden, 🇧🇬 Botev Plovdiv,🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Norwich City, 🇫🇷 Nantes, 🇮🇹 Modena, 🇳🇴 Lillestrøm, 🇵🇹 Estoril Praia, 🇸🇮 Koper, 🇹🇷

At this point Vanuatu United have had more coach resignations (1) than league games (0) in the club’s history.

NEW EPISODE Paul Watson joined us to talk about his various intrepid football adventures around the world - from Mircronesia to San Marino and everything in between. Plus, we of course chatted all things The Sweeper. open.spotify.com/episode/7Jblx0…

🇸🇿 The 'Old Firm Derby' takes place today - but not as you know it: it's Rangers Shiselweni versus Tabankulu Celtics in Eswatini's Premier League! But neither team is expected to win the league as they don't have animals in their name; all but one of the last 21 seasons has been