Calling all football fans, if you are a football purist hooked on any piece of content related to the beautiful game then you’ve found the website for you.

For the love of the game is a fan made football blog designed for other passionate and addicted football fans. On this site you will be able to follow our groundhopping journey as we plan to travel up and down the lengths and breadths of the country exploring the best and worst football stadia whilst documenting our journey. You will also be able to engage in unique content such as our Alphabet Scorers challenge, as well as our controversial opinions segment and of course blog posts around the beautiful game.

If you love football then you’ll love this website, and you’ll love our journey around the country visiting each stadium.

We are two university students looking to broaden our footballing horizons by visiting as many football grounds within English football as possible, ranging from the glitz and glamour of the Premier League all the way down to the grit of Non-League.

So it is only right you get to know us:

” This year I want to go further. Be in the ground. In the crowd. Listening to every chant, smelling every pie and most of all, watching more brilliant football. “

@HarryClark_

First up is me, Harry Clark. I am 18 years old and for 13 of those years I have followed my football team Yeovil Town. There have been ups and downs with Yeovil, unfortunately they’ve all been down for the last half a decade. I played a lot of football when I was younger and when I eventually found out I wasn’t the next Edgar Davids (the glasses) I turned to watching and writing about the game more.

I must have watched over 300 matches at Huish Park alone and yet it still doesn’t tire me making the hour and a half trip down every other week. However this will come to an end this season as I embark on groundhopping, whilst studying at Southampton Solent University.

I have visited all but two of the 92 Football League grounds after a trip around the grounds in 2017 for charity. This year I want to go further. Be in the ground. In the crowd. Listening to every chant, smelling every pie and most of all, watching more brilliant football.

Football is the greatest sport in the world, with some of the best athletes and I want to say to people when I’m old and grey: ‘Harry Kane?, yeah I watched him bag a hattrick against Villa once, what a player he was!’ You can find me on Twitter @HarryClark_. I mainly tweet depressing stuff about Yeovil or optimistic stuff about Tottenham, never the other way around.

“That is the beauty of the game, the ecstasy that comes into our lives so unexpectedly before leaving without a calling card.”

@Luke_WM

Then there is me Luke, I am a purist looking to get my footballing kick at any given minute of the day. Being a Tottenham fan from Bristol I am no stranger to a long gruelling journey to watch football, having made the 2 hours 45 minute trip up to North London frequently for around 13/14 seasons.

After being baptised into a Tottenham-mad family from almost my first breath, I have experienced the agonising lows and the spine-tingling highs of Tottenham Hotspur. From the silky skills of Luka Modric, the killer-instincts of Harry Kane, the poppadom hands of Heurelho Gomes or the throwing of the shirt from Hossam Ghaly, I wouldn’t change it for a thing.

For me football is about the sounds of the seats clunking as an attack builds, the overpriced and undercooked foods, the sharing of pure passion and emotion with strangers who in spite of ethnicity, wealth or religious beliefs share the same interest and are able to express these feelings for maybe 20 seconds a weekend as the ball crosses that white line, only in football these emotions are normalized and acceptable within our society.

But that is the beauty of the game, the ecstasy that comes into our lives so unexpectedly before leaving without a calling card.

I am a romanticist who watches his football through rose-tinted glasses, whilst some may call me delusional, clueless and many other obscenities, I’d label myself an optimist, but then again everyone has opinions…and you know what they say opinions are like.

If you have enjoyed reading this and would like to keep up to date with all of our content then you can follow our twitter account @4TLOTG where we will be revealing all of our upcoming trips, offering some questionable football opinions and uploading all of the latest content from this website.