While being queer is largely accepted in many cities, there are still plenty of governmental nuances that highly impact the realities for those who identify as LGBTQIA+ living in Europe.
Category: From global issues to untold stories
The Agony and Ecstasy of the Football League Play-Offs
The Game columnist Andy Murray is luxuriating in the best time of the football season. The League play-offs.
How Snooker Tore Up the Rulebook to Dominate Sport and the Music Charts in the 1980s
This year's world championships started on April 16 and will conclude on May 2nd. The Game columnist Andy Murray looks back at the sport’s 1980s heyday when 18.5million people stayed up to watch the 1985 black-ball final.
Figure Skating Costumes for the Olympic Games designed by Vera Wang
Long before becoming a world-renowned fashion designer, Vera Wang dreamed of Olympic figure skating. With her Olympic dream ending in 1968, “I was completely lost. Bereft. I needed to find something else that I could love as much. It turned out to be fashion.”
Newcastle United and football’s curious case of ‘Whataboutery’
The Game columnist Andy Murray looks into how Newcastle United’s Saudi takeover is making fans choose between success and morals.
Pride: Profit or Purpose
As pride month comes to a close today, IMAGO Columnist Sofia Bergmann examines the position of Pride within cities around the world. Dissecting the dichotomy between cities that saw their annual parades return with a vengeance for celebration and recognition, juxtaposed with those met with harsher resistance and new laws actualized setting back LGBTQI+ rights, take a look at the intrinsic meaning of “Pride” from around the world.
GOAL CLICK presents: Storytellers
Each of the following collections was created on film, capturing real fans, clubs, places and cultures. Our friends at Goal Click feature some of their international photo-stories from fans perspectives, giving us a glimpse into their teams, communities and fan culture.
PRIDE Weekend
As Pride Month comes to a close, the last weekend of June is one to celebrate, remember, stand in solidarity and fight for.
FANsided, Words by Andy Murray
The fan is an intrinsic, irreplaceable part of sport. Without the humble observer, elite competition becomes an unrelenting trudge to the bottom line – a sterile pursuit of results and ever-diminishing (or increasing) numbers.
IMAGO Archive: How Euro 2020 Became a Summer Festival
Football fans will have waited 364 days for Euro 2020 to kick off on June 11. Andy Murray wonders why international tournaments offer something different after a domestic season to forget.