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A blog for the, ahem, discerning follower of football. Or something like that. Battering keyboards into submission in support of minnows everywhere.
Two goals in the first 15 minutes saw hosts Orkney on their way in Day 1's evening kick-off game against Frøya in Group C at KGS I, and they added another late on to run out 3:0 winners. They also missed a penalty just before half-time..

#Orkney2025
#IslandGames
#PFBontour
September 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Later on day 1, #Gozo came up against #Shetland in Group B at the KGS ll in Kirkwall. Shetland had more than enough chances to win it, especially in the first half, but the game finished scoreless. A penalty shoot-out was held for placing purposes, which Gozo won 4:3

#Orkney2025
#IslandGames
September 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It's getting on for two months since the 2025 #IslandGames kicked off in #Orkney. So, here's a pictorial look back at the football tournaments for your delectation.

The men's football tournament kicked off on 13 July; first off for PFB, #Bermuda beat #WesternIsles 2:0 at Rendall

#Orkney2025
September 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
PFB interviewed Greenland manager Morten Rutkjær in the wake of CONCACAF rejecting the KAK's membership application. More - much more - here:

patmcguinness.blogspot.com/2025/07/gree...

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#Greenland
#CONCACAF
GREENLAND AND RUTKJÆR SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS, BUT THE BALL ROLLS ON
During the first week of June, Greenland's national football team went on a week-long tour of Denmark and Germany, and played three games ag...
patmcguinness.blogspot.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
RIP brothers Diogo Jota and André Silva, who died in a car accident in Zamora, Spain in the early hours of this morning.

Diogo was a Red, and we loved him.

André was a regular for Liga Portugal 2 club #Penafiel. Best wishes to their family circle, friends and all at both clubs.

🖤😢

#LFC
#YNWA
July 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Yesterday saw a scandalous, craven decision by CONCACAF's powers that be which proves the lie to everything they claim in their branding and mission statement. Those associations who turned their backs on Greenland yesterday should be ashamed:

www.concacaf.com/en/news/conc...

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#Greenland
June 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
RIP the incomparable Brian Glanville, the man who set the benchmark for football journalism, who died last weekend aged 93. I knew his work from four decades of reading World Soccer. He was no fan of the Premier "Greed Is Good" League or Sepp "50 ideas per day, and 51 of them are bad" Blatter.
May 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Last night's Greenlandic Futsal championship semi-final results:

#B67 13:1 #T41

#IT79 3:4 #Nagdlúnguaq48

The two kingpins of Greenlandic football - and Futsal - will face off in yet another final. Ten players scored for B67 in their semi-final win

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#Greenland
#Futsal
May 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
A home defeat for #Malta last night against #Finland, but it was an impressive display, by all accounts. Hope they keep it up (and score a few goals into the bargain!). Rumour has it that Penelope Keith was in charge of the VAR at the Ta'Qali last night.. 😳

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#minnowlove
#WCQ2026
March 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Hard luck to #SanMarino following yesterday's defeat against #Cyprus. However, judging by the stats, they gave it a good go. Although points will be hard to come by in this campaign, I have a feeling they're improving rapidly and may yet surprise somebody..

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#ForzaLaSerenissima
#minnowlove
March 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
#Liechtenstein : #NorthMacedonia and #Moldova : #Norway are on the menu for today. Top that off with a bit of #BrokenwoodMysteries and Saturday is all set up. Anyway, congrats to Konrad Fünfstuck on the new three-year contract and up the Nati! 💙❤️

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#AllesfürdieKrone
#Nati
#minnowlove
#WCQ2026
March 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
News just in, as they say: congratulations to Archivio, who won the 2024 Coppa Vaticano (Coppa Sergio Valci) last night after defeating Dirseco 4:1 in the final 😎👍

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#VaticanCity
#CoppaVaticano
February 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Pat's Football Blog
Wir wollen nicht viele Worte machen: Lasst uns zusammen für die Demokratie einstehen!
"Bildet Banden für die Demokratie".

Illustration: mayca
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Right, squad, everyone is busy looking back at 2024. I'll do that tomorrow (or after midnight), but I'd just like to wish anyone reading this - not that there will be many of you - a happy New Year and may 2025 bring you all that is good.

😎👍⚽️

#HappyNewYear
December 31, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Donald Trump might have a greedy, beady eye on Greenland, but the country's footballers have their eye on associate #CONCACAF membership. Here are three of them sporting the all-new, rather spiffing, national team home kit, supplied by #Hummel

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#Greenland
December 28, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Reposted by Pat's Football Blog
PFB returns with a story on the life and times of Thomas Cranshaw, an Englishman who helped transform Nicaraguan football, but a man whose legacy is all but forgotten there and who is virtually unknown in his native land:

patmcguinness.blogspot.com/2024/12/an-e...

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#Nicaragua
#football
#fútbol
AN ENGLISHMAN IN NICARAGUA: REMEMBERING THOMAS CRANSHAW
The name Thomas Cranshaw will mean virtually nothing to the inhabitants of modern-day England, but, until recently, there was one little cor...
patmcguinness.blogspot.com
December 22, 2024 at 4:20 PM
It's a raw day outside with the temperature hovering around freezing, so grab a cuppa, sit yourself down and peruse this little article on the tiny Wismari staadion, which is found in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and, like Tallinn, is steeped in history:

t.co/v6poG5ojRf

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#PFBontour
#Estonia
https://patmcguinness.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-pictures-wismari-staadion.html?m=1
t.co
December 28, 2024 at 2:12 PM
PFB returns with a story on the life and times of Thomas Cranshaw, an Englishman who helped transform Nicaraguan football, but a man whose legacy is all but forgotten there and who is virtually unknown in his native land:

patmcguinness.blogspot.com/2024/12/an-e...

🇳🇮⚽️

#Nicaragua
#football
#fútbol
AN ENGLISHMAN IN NICARAGUA: REMEMBERING THOMAS CRANSHAW
The name Thomas Cranshaw will mean virtually nothing to the inhabitants of modern-day England, but, until recently, there was one little cor...
patmcguinness.blogspot.com
December 22, 2024 at 4:20 PM
You can f*** right off with that bollocks..
November 19, 2024 at 1:09 PM
When you consider what San Marino have had to put up with over the past 30-odd years - defeat after defeat, scorn and ridicule - their Nations League promotion is no mean feat. Last night was, well, emotional. I'm so happy for them. 😎👍

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#PFBontour
#SanMarino
#historymakers
#ForzaLaSerenissima
November 19, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Morning, all. Buongiorno a tutti..

😗🎵🎶

In case you missed it, San Marino beat Liechtenstein 3:1 away last night to top their Nations League D group and gain promotion to League C. Proof that miracles do happen 😎👍💙

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#PFBontour
#SanMarino
#NationsLeague
#minnowlove
#historymakers
November 19, 2024 at 8:21 AM
This morning's pictorial moment of zen..

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#PFBontour
#Liechtenstein
#Vaduz
November 17, 2024 at 6:04 AM
"Ooh, chemtrails!" 🤭😁

Morning, everybody; here's your #fullmoon photo for today..

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#PFBontour
#Liechtenstein
November 17, 2024 at 5:54 AM
Full moon post, anyone? Here's one I made earlier..
Liechtenstein (well, the Swiss Alps) in the very early morning..

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#PFBontour
#Liechtenstein
November 17, 2024 at 12:11 AM