On the night of 1 February 2012, 74 people died in the deadliest stadium disaster in African football history. Al-Ahly had just beaten Al-Masry 3–1 in Port Said when the violence began. The gates were locked. The lights went out. Supporters were crushed and killed in the exits.

Egypt was nine months out of a revolution. The Ultras Ahlawy — Al-Ahly's organised supporters — had stood in Tahrir Square and fought the police in the streets. What happened that night has never been fully explained. The Egyptian authorities blamed a riot. Others called it a massacre. The trials lasted years and the questions have never been fully answered.

This is the full story of Port Said — the clubs, the revolution, the night itself, and the reckoning that followed.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Glasgow, a football match stops a city. Not pauses it — stops it. Pubs divide. Families separate. Workplaces go quiet. Celtic versus Rangers is the most intense club rivalry in world football, and it has almost nothing to do with football. It is about Irish Catholic immigrants and Scottish Protestant establishment. About a famine that emptied a country and a city that absorbed the survivors. About identity, belonging, and what happens when two communities share a city for 150 years and never fully agree on what that city means. Between them, Celtic and Rangers have won 111 of the 129 Scottish league championships ever contested. But this episode isn't about the titles. It's about what two football clubs have carried — and what they've cost.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How political prisoners on Robben Island built a democracy from a football league.

Between 1966 and 1991, political prisoners on Robben Island built and ran a competitive football league with a written constitution, trained referees, and a formal appeals process. The men who built it included a future Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa. This is the story of the Makana Football Association — and the direct line from a referee's notebook in a prison cell to the Constitution of a democratic republic.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three matches, one war — El Salvador vs Honduras, 1969.

In June 1969, three World Cup qualifying matches between El Salvador and Honduras preceded four days of armed conflict, thousands of deaths, and a chain of consequences that lasted decades. This is the Football War — what caused it, what happened, and what FIFA did about it. The answer to the last question is nothing.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.