These two games will live long in the memory . Real tales of the good, the bad the ugly and ultimately the better. I wanted to get into the heart of one of the Moshi villages for a game . As luck would have it, I bumped into the gentleman that is Donald Machange from t...

“Anarchy ! There are no rules! “ This was the assessment of today’s game by Mads Sørensen, a Danish chap who I’d invited along for the ride today.

In the blazing early afternoon sun, we made our way to Mai Moria Market on the slopes of the magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro....

Women’s football at its best ! This was undoubtedly the best technical display of footy I’ve seen on the whole trip so far ! Under the guidance of their passionate coach Emmanuel Amati, these young women live and breathe football. Women’s football in general is really...

Desperate begging young women in rags carrying babies appear at the taxi window one by one as we near Kampala city centre . Downtown is madness ..motorbikes, traffic and the air is thick with fumes and the need to graft to survive . Tiny shoeless tots hold out their ha...

Bashir Amanya (16) was abandoned by his parents aged 9 and lived on the streets of Entebbe until he was 14. He has swam in Lake Victoria every morning since he can remember and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Entebbe Botanical Gardens we walked through today to g...

2 in a day ! Unheard of ! In what seems typically friendly Ugandan fashion, a couple of the lads who I played a game with earlier today wanted to help me get another game going..turned out to be a cracker. I wondered around the red dusty roads of this district of Ebteb...

Barely had my bleached white hairy big toes touched African soil that we had a game on. Flying out of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Uganda was breathtaking; a vast desert landscape from another planet.

2 hours later and I’d landed in lush green Uganda. My host Bruno k Kato,...

Before visiting my cousin in Greenville, my great friend Neil Murphy and I had tried to get a game going in front of his house. Only 2 people had showed up.

Yesterday all the street came out ! 12 players ...3 teams of 4...calling themselves Unicorn FC, Khaki and the Tro...

Julius Huntley (17)  AKA Nukadakid is a rapper from Niagara Falls, living in a poor part of Greenville. He works as a cashier at the local 2 Chefs fast-food joint and he smiles more than anyone in the world has ever smiled before. More on him later.

I was staying with m...

Folly Beach is a city in Charleston County, South Carolina and has a stunning stretch of coastline of soft, stone grey sand and warm water.

My old mate Neil Murphy from Cumbria (who now lives in South Carolina) took me down there today with his son George and George's p...