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FC Winterthur: A Swiss Football Story

Church Bells, Cow Bells, and Hell’s Bells The Catholic Church of Saint Peter & Paul dates from the 11th century and is located close to the FC Winterthur stadium. Those who installed the first church bells calling people to worship, couldn’t have envisaged that some 500 years later FC Winterthur – their new noisy neighbours

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Fußball-Europameisterschaft der Frauen 2025

This summer I travelled through Switzerland on a family holiday. During this time the Cymru (Wales) women’s football team played at their first ever major championships.  I hope you enjoy some of the snapshots from the Swiss tournament which documents and celebrates some of the Cymru fans and football team’s participation in the 2025 Euros.

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Swiss Fussball: FC Winterthur v FC Zurich

On a Swiss summer’s afternoon, 8,400 fans packed into the Stadion Schutzenwiese in Winterthur. Here the home town fans welcomed their noisy neighbours FC Zurich. Winterthur and Zurich are separated by approximately 20 kilometres and a well-run train service. The two teams have also been a league apart for many years until Winterthur’s promotion to

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Rugby Nation: Our Side lives Side by Side

The above title and graphic ‘Our Side lives Side by Side’ relates to how – as a consequence of an industrial past – even today, the majority of Welsh rugby teams, players and supporters, live side by side in closely-knit communities across South and South/West Wales. Industrial and social change The discovery of coal in

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Cricket Nations: The Global & The Local

I’ve followed cricket since I was a child. My earliest recollections being confused by my dad watching a game on television that – despite it being in full flow – he said neither team could win. Years later I encountered similar confusion when American friends attempted to fathom how a five day international match could

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Finally! The Finals!!

A Welsh World Cup Adventure in 64 Pictures Introduction The following images are a selection of the photos which I took either in Wales just before the men’s football World Cup, or in Qatar, during the tournament itself.   I’ve featured 64 photos – one for each year Wales waited for our moment in the

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