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World Football Newsletter: A Sat-Nav shocker, Melanesian battles & a one-man away support (opens the original)
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🏴 Sat Nav slip-upSat-Navs have given all of us sore heads at one point or another, but few will come close to the headache that Marcel Barrington had to deal with after turning up at the wrong stadium for an FA Cup match.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="email-input" name="email" tabindex="-1" type="emai
World Football Newsletter: Croatia chaos, Shkupi slide & a unique German derby (opens the original)
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🇭🇷 An unhappy celebration in CroatiaWhat was supposed to be a celebration of a club’s new facilities opening turned sour rather quickly in the Third League of Vinkovci tie between NK Oriolik and NK Meteor. According to Meteor’s social media, the opening of the facilities before kick-off went very smoothly and they proceeded to congratulate the opposition’s president for the club reaching this point.However, Oriolik’s Peter Macura is said to have insulted the child of Meteor’s captain. This was e
Five of football's most unusual trophies (opens the original)
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New CaledoniaHorizon Patho from New Caledonia have just won the 70th edition of the Coupe de Calédonie - the first time a side from the island of Maré has won it - and they celebrated by lifting a genuine work of art.The new Caledonia Cup trophy was launched last year after being sculpted by a member of the Bayes tribe - an indigenous community that live in New Caledonia’s North Province.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</
World Football Newsletter: Murata's miracle, Argentine excellence & Austrian records tumble (opens the original)
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🇸🇲 Murata end their nightmareSS Murata, a team from a civil parish within San Marino, could not have dreamt of a worse season than last year. They managed only one win which came in October, only managed four draws after that and finished the season on -2 points due to ‘administrative irregularities’. The three-time Sammarinese champions may not have been looking forward to the new season after last year’s nightmare.Thanks for reading! Subscri
VfB Krieschow: The German Pokal’s smallest ever team (opens the original)
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A host of minnows were on show in the first round of the DFB-Pokal, Germany’s national cup competition.But the smallest side of all were undoubtedly VfB Krieschow. In fact, the fifth-tier side are from the smallest village to EVER take part in the competition, with only 560 local inhabitants.They bagged a mouth-watering home tie with Mainz because the lower-league team gets home advantage in the DFB-Pokal up until the final in Berlin.There is an amateur pot and a professional pot for the draw, w
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