There are two football teams in Mostar, and their relationship is even stranger than that of Rangers and Celtic

29 August 2025, The Tablet

Extra time – a kick in the Balkans

A football match in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Zrinjski Mostar vs Široki Brijeg. We were staying in Mostar for a couple of nights and thought, why not? In truth, my wife would have had more answers to that question than me, but she was game too. Our food took a long time coming and we ended up watching the first half in the restaurant. On television it looked like there was nobody there. When we told an Aussie bloke sitting next to us that we were thinking of going along he said, “You’ll get yourself on TV by the look of it.”

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