Champions Journal, Issue 26

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Champions Journal is a quarterly print magazine and website driven by great writing, eye-catching design, engaging interviews and bold photography – and a love of European football.

Our aim is to offer a fresh perspective on club football’s greatest competition. As well as talking to the stars, we aim to take a wider look at the world beyond the 90 minutes – with features exploring the cities, the culture, the fans, the fashion and the music surrounding the game.

In this issue:

For fans dreaming of one day being able to follow their teams around the continent while competing against the best sides in Europe, one can only imagine what an incredible experience it has been for supporters of newcomers Pafos, Bodø/Glimt, Kairat and Union Saint-Gilloise in the Champions League this season.

In this issue, those dreamers can live vicariously through the wide eyes of Union SG fan reporter Miroslav Miko, who went to every one of the Belgian side’s league phase games and reports back on his European adventure. It was quite a ride, not least hearing Union silence the roar in Istanbul when they beat Galatasaray.

Also in this issue, cover stars Phil Foden and Scott McTominay reveal their love of fishing and fashion respectively, Georgia Stanway talks tattoos and we enjoy a night on the Toon with photographer Julian Finney, whose gallery captures the uniqueness of a matchnight at Newcastle United.

From another era but just as compelling are Roger Mayne’s photographs of kids playing street football in west London in the 1950s, when the European Champion Clubs’ Cup was still in its infancy.