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offthepitchshu
Jan 12, 20222 min read
Racism concern amongst majority of football fans.
62 percent of football fans in the UK say they are concerned about witnessing racist abuse at a game. A survey conducted on racism in the...
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offthepitchshu
Jan 12, 20222 min read
Homophobia rife amongst terraces.
Seventy percent of football fans who have attended a match have heard or witnessed homophobia on the terraces. The homophobic abuse that...
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offthepitchshu
Jan 12, 20222 min read
Multi-million pound football museum set for Sheffield.
A worldwide sports brand has released plans to introduce a football museum which will create 200 jobs in the heart of the city centre....
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offthepitchshu
Jan 12, 20222 min read
Surge in Women's Football ahead of home Euro 2022 campaign
South Yorkshire is once again set to be the home of football with the arrival of the 2022 European Championships. Rotherham United’s New...
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offthepitchshu
Jan 12, 20222 min read
FA needs to 'invest more' to reach disability football target.
Just 4.5% of people with disabilities play football, that’s fewer than the 5.9% that play golf. The Football Association has pledged to...
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offthepitchshu
Jan 5, 20222 min read
West Stand to re-open
Barnsley Football Club to re-open its west stand just three months after closing to ensure the protection of all supporters. Barnsley...
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offthepitchshu
Jan 4, 20222 min read
Sunday League Survival
Sunday league team Kexborough Chiefs survive as a club despite COVID wiping out revenue streams. The team from Barnsley were dangerously...
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offthepitchshu
Jan 4, 20221 min read
Hallam FC- 2nd Oldest Team, Worlds Oldest Ground
Hallam FC is recognised as the second oldest team in the world, created just after a team close by in Sheffield FC. Hallam do however...
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offthepitchshu
Jan 4, 20222 min read
Football Is a Collectors Game
Many fans of the beautiful game are keen collectors of kits, either those of the team they support, or of any team from around the globe....
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Jan 4, 20220 min read
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offthepitchshu
Jan 4, 20222 min read
The new wave of content creation in sport.
Sport and football related content is forever expanding; from games, to analysis, to normal people giving their opinions on the beautiful...
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offthepitchshu
Jan 4, 20222 min read
The rebuild of Macclesfield Football Club
Macclesfield Town were expelled from the National League four days before the start of the 2020/21 season. Now, under new management and...
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offthepitchshu
Jan 4, 20222 min read
Women and football: 7 achievements you may have missed in 2020/21
When reflecting on 2020/2021, it can be easy to feel defeated by the looming feeling of negligence that may have been sparked by the...
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offthepitchshu
Jan 4, 20222 min read
Football and the gender pay gap
As it is with most industries in the UK, the sporting world has a significant pay gap between genders, with football having one of the...
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offthepitchshu
Jan 3, 20224 min read
The passion behind a kit collector
As many of us already know, football kits can be sold for more than we would expect. With the cost of an authentic Arsenal shirt reaching...
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offthepitchshu
Jan 3, 20225 min read
Growing up as a female football player: Sam Rostron
29 years on from establishing a Women’s Football Committee to run women’s football games in the UK, it seems that football is more...
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offthepitchshu
Dec 14, 20213 min read
The trend of 'pie-rating' at football games
With lifted restrictions, many people have found themselves back at football games, slipping back into their personal game rituals....
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offthepitchshu
Dec 2, 20212 min read
Abuse at Sunday League level football.
The institutions of English football begin from the roots of the football pyramid, however due to the vast amount of verbal abuse...
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offthepitchshu
Oct 15, 20212 min read
It’s all gone south (and east) at Oakwell
Fans forced to give up their seat and move to the south or east stand at Barnsley FC’s ground as iconic west strand is shut due to...
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offthepitchshu
Oct 15, 20212 min read
Seriousness of Sunday league football
Across the football pyramid the level of talent and commitment varies massively, from elite level football down to grass roots. I caught...
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