tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44222259851651779352024-03-18T04:03:15.400+01:00Pat's Football BlogA BLOG FOR THE, AHEM, DISCERNING FOOTBALL FAN. OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger236125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-91526135690344861612023-12-18T22:59:00.005+01:002023-12-19T21:27:40.480+01:00B-67 BACK ON TOP IN GREENLANDIn a change from recent years, the final stages of the 2023 Greenlandic national championship was held between 10-15 August, not in north-central Greenland, but in the southern town of Qaqortoq, due to local club K-1933 celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. The club, the oldest existing club in the country, actually celebrated its anniversary on 15 June, and it was the first time they had Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-12064081727150233932023-02-01T00:23:00.002+01:002023-02-03T17:44:06.933+01:00PFB ON TOUR - WEST PAPUA 1:1 RAETIAThe long-awaited friendly between West Papua and Raetia, which was postponed twice because of the Corona virus crisis, finally took place at Quick Den Haag's Sportpark de Hanenberg in The Hague on 13 November last. It was the visitors' first game for some time, but West Papua came into this match on the back of a 5:5 draw against TikTok United, a team of social media influencers who they played Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-42147489018341850242022-08-09T12:43:00.007+02:002022-08-09T14:22:40.571+02:00NEVER MIND JESPER GRONKJÆR, MEET SVEND RINGSTEDA fair number of Greenland-born footballers have moved abroad down the years to study, find work or try and carve out a professional career in Denmark. Famous Greenlandic footballers are not exactly ten a penny, however, and the name Jesper Gronkjær crops up every time someone mentions something about the subject, more often than not in an article on the final stages of the country's football Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-41560704562142476772022-08-07T15:50:00.004+02:002022-08-09T12:05:33.541+02:00THE GREENLANDIC NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: THE FIXTURE-LISTThe final stages of this year's Greenlandic national championship will take place this coming week in the northern town of Ilulissat, home of Nagdlúnguak-48, who are this year's designated hosts and, as a result, were exempt from taking part in the qualifying stages. After a couple of tournament featuring ten teams and another with six teams, and last year's tournament being scrapped as a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-86648119875643939302021-05-01T13:27:00.004+02:002021-05-01T13:34:26.590+02:00BONDI NEAL AND QUILP - ABORIGINAL TRAILBLAZERSLife hasn't dealt Australia's indigenous population a fair hand over the past couple of hundred of years or so, and they still find themselves on the bottom rungs of the nation's ladder, facing discrimination, poverty and a lack of opportunity in many areas. Indigenous athletes have found success in a number of sports down the years, but they remain less prevalent than they perhaps should Unknownnoreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-21635883593880661592021-04-04T18:34:00.001+02:002021-04-04T23:08:29.153+02:00CORONA VIRUS TIMES: REAL ALE, HOOLEY AND DODGY JUMPERS <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-71474035970513153992021-02-07T15:30:00.001+01:002021-02-07T15:30:45.755+01:00CORONA VIRUS TIMES: THE KINGS OF TWITTERThe last year or so has brought a great deal of misery, hardship and uncertainty for many people, and it is in large part thanks to the Corona virus. Football has not escaped its clutches, with league of all standards the world over being cancelled or, at best, interrupted. Due to the financial constraints heaped upon them by losing revenue because of the footballing hiatus currently being Unknownnoreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-57167806966519003932021-02-07T00:42:00.002+01:002021-02-07T00:42:48.414+01:00FOOTBALL'S TWILIGHT ZONES: LORD HOWE ISLANDLife
on an island can be difficult, especially on those which are more
isolated than most. They are hard places to get to and travel costs are
often ridiculously high, as is the cost of living. Think of places such
as Saint Helena, which has the most expensive internet service anywhere
in the world, and Tristan da Cunha, the most remote
permanently-inhabited island on Earth. Many of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-56229470958397492082021-02-05T21:28:00.001+01:002021-02-05T21:28:47.794+01:00BIG PLANS AFOOT IN CALIFORNIA, ONE STEP AT A TIMEThe American state of California is renowned for a great many things, but what is slightly less well-known is that it is a traditional hotbed of football, and that the game has been played there since at least the 1890s, when the California Foot Ball League and the Western League came into being. The California State Football Association was founded in 1902, as was the Southern California Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-20432308397890255162021-01-30T19:13:00.002+01:002021-01-30T19:18:13.789+01:00A NEW MAN AT THE HELM IN GREENLAND SAILING ON THE WINDS OF CHANGEThe tentacles of the Coronavirus have reached almost every corner of the world, including Greenland, and ensured that the country's footballers had no national championship to aim for this year. But, the Coronavirus didn't stop the country's governing body, the KAK, appointing a new national manager at the start of August.Morten Rutkjær might not be a household name outside Denmark, but many Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-33359608884347624622021-01-01T23:25:00.000+01:002021-01-01T23:25:08.110+01:00THE PFBBA THINGY RESULTSOver the past few years, the fine art of blogging has been pushed aside by, amongst others, vloggers, podcasters and Instagram accounts all aiming for the general public's attention on social media, and, quite often, the bank-card in the collective wallet as well. The patient, written word has been pushed aside in favour of the perhaps visually more attractive but increasingly breathless, inane Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-33421209637633561312020-12-14T00:36:00.002+01:002020-12-14T00:40:25.891+01:00FOOTBALL RALLIES ROUND TO HELP THE ELDERLY AND VULNERABLE IN ARTSAKHThe past couple of months have seen a conflict break out in the breakaway republic of Artsakh (better known as Nagorno-Karabakh), nestled in the southern Caucasus Mountains between Armenia and Azerbaijan. An Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the days of the USSR, surrounded by Azerbaijan but mostly populated by people of Armenian stock, it broke away from Azerbaijan at the beginning of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-73073977471138255722020-12-10T22:41:00.004+01:002020-12-13T22:43:28.700+01:00THE PAT'S FOOTBALL BLOG BLOGGING AWARDSTen years ago last month, Pat's Football Blog first saw the light of day. A lot has happened in that time. Not much here, admittedly, but in the weird and occasionally world of social media, and not least of all in that tiny corner of social media saved for football blogger. Ten years is a long time in blogging, it would appear; for many and varied reasons, most of the blogs around when PFB was Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-28315820494061168592020-11-22T20:11:00.002+01:002021-03-13T22:13:20.342+01:00HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL IN ZAMBIAIn
a world beset by problems, many of which are currently being caused by
the Corona virus, life goes on as best it can, though for a great many
people living in poverty in various locations across the globe, the
virus only exacerbates their daily grind. One such place is the southern
Zambian city of Livingstone, situated just a couple of miles from the
Zimbabwean border and the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-53349012909697315902020-11-03T02:14:00.000+01:002020-11-03T02:14:18.104+01:00PFB ON TOUR: QUICK : SV OSS '20A warm early autumn afternoon drew the good people of The Hague out of their homes and toward Sportpark Nieuw-Hanenburg, home of HVCV Quick, for their Derde Divisie match against SV Oss '20 on September 20. Both teams had enjoyed an unbeaten start to the season, with Quick gaining four points from their first two matches, while Oss '20 had won both of theirs.Before kick-off, there was an Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-41481425313091864952020-08-10T01:13:00.002+02:002020-09-02T22:29:03.630+02:00CORONA VIRUS TIMES: MADE OF STEEL
As everyone knows, the advent of the Corona virus, COVID-19, call it what you will, has, to some extent, meant a sudden change in behaviour for most people across the world. On a more positive note, it has also led to an explosion of activity on Twitter and an expansion of football knowledge for many, not least of all your correspondent. Many of the world's smaller clubs, teams you most Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-1043794104771843212020-07-11T01:14:00.001+02:002020-07-11T01:14:35.436+02:00GREENLAND - REVIEW OF 2019: N-48 TRIUMPH AT LAST
The concluding stages of the 2019 Greenlandic men's national championship will be remembered for a number of things. To begin with, the tournament was the first to be played under the "Final 6" moniker, which refers to the number of teams competing in the tournament, down four from 2018, when ten teams took part. It was also the first time that the final stages of the national Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-522982105562001532020-05-05T12:54:00.000+02:002020-05-05T12:54:01.825+02:00GREENLAND - REVIEW OF 2019: GSS RETAIN WOMEN'S TITLE
The 2019 Greenlandic women's championship was held in the capital, Nuuk, last August, and took on a new form after the KAK (the Greenlandic FA) decided that it would culminate in a four-team mini-tournament for the first time. This was in part due to the fact that, in recent years, there have been a number of teams taking part in regional championships and teams Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-5030794978594856622020-05-02T00:41:00.006+02:002024-01-03T17:00:11.659+01:00MALTA'S NATIONAL STADIUM: NOT JUST A FOOTBALL GROUND, BUT A POLITICAL BATTLEGROUND
Football has always been a very popular sport in the tiny Mediterranean country of Malta, and the history of the game there goes back to the end of the 19th Century. However, because of the country's size and comparatively large population, space to build football facilities is limited though the number of football pitches is increasing due to a scheme involving the Malta FA, clubs and local Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-80196004810366666282020-04-20T01:28:00.001+02:002020-04-20T01:29:45.092+02:00PFB ON TOUR: LIMBURG IN PICTURES (PART 1)
For many football fans, Dutch football starts and ends with Johan Cruijff, Oranje, Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV. But, there's an awful lot more to it than that, of course. This season, the country's southernmost province, Limburg, has two clubs in the Eredivisie, the highest level of the country's pyramid: VVV Venlo and Fortuna Sittard. But, football is played from north to south in the province, andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-53314069337515342242019-09-08T03:39:00.000+02:002020-04-22T02:39:07.745+02:00GREENLAND - REVIEW OF 2019: B-67 TRIUMPH INDOORS
The 2019 edition of Greenland's Futsal championship was held in late April at Nuuk's Inussivik sports centre, which is becoming the traditional venue for the game in the country, but there was something of a new look to the competition, which was rebranded as the Grønlandbanken Final 6, due to the fact that only six teams took part in this year's tournament.
Two of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-6476943517588849482019-08-04T22:53:00.001+02:002019-08-04T22:53:15.174+02:00THE MEN WHO BROUGHT FOOTBALL TO LUXEMBOURG
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It was a case of "as you were" at the end of the 2018-19 Vatican City league championship, which saw Rappresentitiva OPBG, the team of the Ospedale Pediatrico Bambin Gesù (Bambin Gesù Paediatric Hospital) lift the title for the second year in a row, but it was yet another season which was plagued by controversy almost from the start.
There was a particularly bitter encounter between Musei Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4422225985165177935.post-23820732077845032952019-03-23T12:12:00.003+01:002019-03-25T00:06:11.105+01:00RAETIA RETURN TO INTERNATIONAL ACTION
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It has been a pretty eventful twelve months for sport on the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, to say the least. In April, the island sent a total of nine athletes, competing in swimming, athletics, badminton and shooting, to the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Australia's Gold Coast, and although none of them were in the hunt for medals, athlete Sean Crowie did come close to breaking his own Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0