This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE When Ukraine met Sweden in their Euro 2012 opener, it was a tale of two sides elevated by their talismanic strikers, Andriy Shevchenko and Zlatan…
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Football has changed dramatically in the two decades since Andriy Shevchenko burst onto the scene, but his legacy remains unblemished
This feature is part of Virtuoso There are plenty more intimidating arenas on planet football than the Camp Nou. An iconic stadium that, despite its illustrious history, has often been compared to…
This feature is part of Duology “Yorke, he’s skipped through, it’s Dwight Yorke! He’s brought down by Peruzzi … Cole will finish it off, full speed ahead Barcelona!” As Clive Tyldesley delivered…
As pioneers in football go, few rank higher than Valeriy Lobanovskyi. Influencing the game’s greatest managers long after he began his 30-year odyssey on the touchline, his success with Dynamo Kyiv –…
MONACO’S EXHILARATING RUN to the Champions League semi-finals in 2017 was as thrilling as it was tinged by a shade of sadness, given Leonardo Jardim’s brilliant team looked certain to be pulled…
Although of late there has been a trend for a single striker to be the norm at many of the bigger clubs – Kane, Drogba, Agüero, Costa, Torres and Lukaku immediately come…
Hit and miss: that’s an honest way to describe Chelsea’s history with forwards in the Premier League. For every Didier Drogba, there have been a couple of Adrian Mutus on the books…
Illustration by Danilo Costa at Artworks Vexel. See more here “PEOPLE CONTINUED TO GO TO WORK AND GO ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS. There was no panic. For days the press and television would…