La Futbolteca

Juventudes verdiblancos racing

Any content creator knows that getting the facts right and doing your research the proper way is both the core of any decent podcast, video or blog entry, but also the hardest variable to control (except the views of course). Reading books is a big investment of your time. Youtube videos do a poor job of referencing original source material. Newspaper articles frequently get the facts wrong. And podcast episodes normally serve to inflate the ego of the hosts, bruh.

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Ultras Aufkleber of the Week – FC Twente

The farmer boys from Enschede gave us an amazing demonstration of Dutch away support when they played and beat SC Telstar back in 2018. In spite of heavy rain, the atmosphere was good and the attendance high, and the Vak P Ultras of Enschede produced a fun and colourful tifo in the away end and were rewarded with 3 points on their way to promotion back to the Eredivisie that season.

FC Twente Ultra Sticker

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We’ll Stink All Day

Hull city vs malaga

We’re late to turn this adventure into a post, but our story of travelling away to watch our beloved Hull City AFC play a pre-season friendly away on the Sunshine Coast was too unorthodox to ignore it. The Brighton and Hove Albion reserves and La Segunda big club Málaga CF were the opponents on the same day in the Marbella Football Center, but last minute plans to travel down from Barcelona without taking time off work made it anything but a conventional away day…..


14:40 – close my laptop with a vague message to my manager about “got somewhere to be” and leave the office quickly.

15:37 – walk through the door of my flat and jump into the shower as quickly as possible knowing I won’t have another chance to do so for 2 full days….

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Guess Who’s Back

Hull city stickers

It has been an odd couple years for us all, and we can surely agree that things are not fully back to normal yet even though they are getting there. Your FBTG editorial team is enjoying the degree to which markets and governmental mandates and initiatives are becoming more predictable, and international travel is becoming increasingly easy. And we celebrated this with our first home game in 3 years.

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