Journal

Jean Féline (JF) is an Artist who runs the project space Féria; Anaïs Brémond (AB) is a Documentary Filmmaker. They’ve made their lives in Marseille, bars run by friends, evenings outdoors, a city where, as they put it, “our friends became family.”

We invited Ife Ogunjobi, the London-based trumpet player, composer, and producer, to the Futsol studio to talk records, faith and football. Words by Rudi Minto de Wijs and photography by Gift JR Gwambe.

Andrea Ibarra is a football photographer in Mexico City who regularly goes to matches and spends the rest of her time in coffee shops, record stores, bookshops and the ‘tianguis’ flea markets. She is a Club América fan, a love inherited from her father. Mexico City, in her words, “feels like getting lost on purpose.”

This Refugee Week, we’ve partnered with Bloomsbury Football Foundation to raise money for their invaluable work with refugee and asylum-seeking young people across London.

More people were rescued from rooftops than arrested as Arsenal celebrated their first league title in 22 years. What unfolded in North London was a reminder of football’s unique ability to bring people together. Friends of Futsol, Gift JR Gwambe and Rudi Minto de Wijs, collective take on the unity of celebration.  

Our path to biodynamic grower Alfie Nickerson didn’t begin in the perfumed fields of Norfolk but under the jaundiced lights of a seven-a-side pitch in W10, where people pay to run themselves into the astroturf for no glory and scant reward save the small salvation of a cold pint at full-time. Our founder Nico was there every Monday night. Alfie was too.