A NEW football website has scored with fans.

www.footymad.net is the biggest network of individual football club web sites in Europe.

The site is based in Lancashire and covers a whole range of clubs, from Conference level right up to the Premier League big boys.

Footymad boasts more than 200 sites, and is the most comprehensive source of football facts, figures and fun available on the internet.

The sites are produced by the fans themselves, many of them have been up and running for years and provide an army equipped with local knowledge dedicated editors and reporters.

The home portal not only serves as a gateway to each of the club sites but has a number of great features.

There are some great must read columnists, you can't beat the calibre of Emlyn Hughes, or the antidote to all football bores, Tommy The Doc Docherty.

Not forgetting England Under 21 and Blackburn Rovers star Matt Jansen.

Incorporated into the web site are interactive games, Beat the Ref for all the know-it-all trivia fans and Beat the Manager for those who like a flutter.

Footymad has a massive comprehensive database of results, league tables and club records going back 100 years.

That is an incredible four million records for the statos to pour over, as the content comes from the grassroots level it hits home with the target audience.

In internet terms the site is the biggest, 23 servers dedicated to the site.

All the stats are inter-linked, so if you need to research a particular win-loss record, there is no need to go to both the teams websites because footymad will do it for you.

The site will automatically link you up to their own related site for the information!