Match day at the stadium: stands, turf and floodlights
From a distance football becomes a spectacle of architecture: huge roofs, colourful seats and carefully mown grass.
From a distance football becomes a spectacle of architecture: huge roofs, colourful seats and carefully mown grass.
Harbourside won all 16 of their league matches to earn a place in the second tier, five years after the club fielded its first women's team.
Two goals in the final 20 minutes turned a flat afternoon into one of the Wrens' best away results of the season, and left the National First Division title race wide open.
Coaches ran sessions on six pitches across two days as the club's youth academy held its largest open trials yet, with girls making up almost a third of those who took part.
Patched goalmouths, rusted frames and waterlogged corners will be tackled in a phased programme, with the first 20 sites chosen after residents and local clubs flagged the worst problems.
The city's 3x3 basketball league has more than doubled in size, with games on outdoor courts in five parks and professional players from the Wrenhaven Gulls helping out on the sidelines.
The scraps of land where children once played were never just football pitches. They were classrooms where a generation learned to live together.
What a child learns on their first trip to the stadium says more about football's future than any scoreline.