About

Albion Road attempts to be an encyclopedia of the world's football clubs - the meanings of team names, nicknames, the symbolism of club emblems, histories, uniforms, traditions, etc. Everything that makes each club unique. You'll also find profiles of the sport's major countries and leagues as well as articles of general interest to football fans everywhere. It launched on April 28, 2005.

Why Albion Road?

A few years ago, I played in an English fantasy football league with my friend Andreas. He named the league 'Albion Road', a make-believe English stadium or team or place. I've adopted that name on various message boards and thought it would be an appropriate name for this website.

Who is Albion Road?

JEREMY RUETER - Webmaster, Editor in Chief, Manager and everything else in between. Jeremy handles the maintenance of the site and has written virtually all the profiles, layout, researched statistics and a whole lot more you don't even want to know about.

Contributors:

  • WYN GRANT contributes a monthly rundown on the business of football. Wyn runs an excellent on the business side of the game called footballeconomy.com.
  • BILL TURIANSKI provides the football maps that you'll regularly find featured on the site - league, country and competition maps displaying club emblems, stadiums, locations and much more. Bill also runs his own blog called Bill's Sports Maps with much more of the same.
  • CHRIS KETCHAM writes articles about football kits - the good, the bad and the (very) ugly.
  • SCOTT T. SHEPHERD hasn't written in a while now but when he does his focus is on profiling some of the game's great figures.
  • GAVIN FINNEY runs the football absurdity blog Sniffing the Touchline and occasionally offers his insights on the game in England and beyond.
  • MARCELO GUEVARA has only penned one piece for us so far, an epic on his decade and a half supporting the Spanish national team.
  • DAVID POOLE doesn't write nearly enough considering the quality he brings. David runs a groundhopping blog called The Groundhog which I highly recommend.
  • STÉPHANE LIEVENS is our resident expert on Belgian football and produces periodic pieces on the state of the game in that country.

Thanks:

Some people have given me a lot of help on this site, and I want to give you a little recognition. Most of all, Brent Carter for getting me started with the web design help. Also Conor, StSt, Charl, Keith, Alex_K, ganu, Chris K, Fabrizio, Bill, Emre, Graham, Saso, Miles, Jordan and of course my main squeeze Stormy.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 February 2010 22:40