Grounds, Derbies & Devotion

Football happens to places as much as to people. This hub is for the grounds and the grudges: the Maracanã, the Azteca, Camp Nou, De Kuip, the Mestalla, the Vélodrome and St James’ Park, a stadium Newcastle could never separate from itself. There’s even Fenway Park. Then the derbies in Athens, Istanbul and Los Angeles, and closer to home Derby County and Nottingham Forest, who are more like quarrelling siblings. Hajduk Split get a two-part study of devotion. There’s also a love letter to growing up with Real Madrid TV in rural Herefordshire, which is devotion of a more peculiar kind.