About the author: Subhankar Mondal

Subhankar Mondal is a football journalist based in the UK. He works as a feature writer, website-manager and sub-editor for Goal.com International, as a news and match reporter for Sky Sports and has been published in The Guardian and The Observer as well. A lifelong Spanish football fan, he also follows Serie A and the Premier League closely and has a penchant of going to whichever football match he possibly can. Recently he even went to watch Bristol Rovers in League One in England and regularly attends Wales' international games as a member of the press.