SUPPOSE YOU'RE IN AN AMSTERDAM COFFEE SHOP and you happen to be sharing a table with a Dutchman big on their football. You talk for a while and come upon the ...
MOST DEFINITIONS OF A GENUINELY WORLD-CLASS CENTRE-FORWARD would assume a minimum of 30 goals per season. Europe’s elite strikers regularly hit that mark year...
FOOTBALL IN INDIA IS GROWING ALL THE TIME. Right now, the place is abuzz with anticipation ahead of the Under-17 World Cup finals which are set to kick off in...
JUST 747 DAYS. That is the time it took Bristol City to travel from a final-day trip to White Hart Lane on 3 May 1980, taking on Tottenham Hotspur in the Firs...
IF ONE WERE TO STEP INTO THE BOOTS OF DIMITAR BERBATOV, the scene would perhaps play out like something from Inception; players sprint at walking pace, their ...
MUNICH, 9 OCTOBER 1999: Germany are playing Turkey in a European Championship qualifier. During the first half, a routine corner is cleared by the visiting de...
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THE HEADLINES THE MORNING AFTER SEEMED HYPERBOLIC, but those that witnessed it knew there ...
YOU MAY BE HARD-PRESSED TO FIND MANY ENGLISH FOOTBALLERS willing to take the plunge and hurl themselves out of their comfort zones via a move to Brazil. While...
FOOTBALL IS A FICKLE WORLD. When a club is doing well, all seems plain sailing, with everyone over the moon. But when the club starts to sink towards the prec...
Uli Hesse is the best-selling author of Tor!, Bayern Munich: Creating A Global Superclub and Alles BVB. He sat down with Jim Hart and Luca Hodges-Ramon to...
ENGLAND HAVEN'T WON THE WORLD CUP SINCE 1966 and doesn’t everyone just know it. It’s been spoken about regularly for years by fans and pundits alike due to foot...
IT IS A TRUE SIGN OF A FOOTBALLING GREAT when they are revered long after they have departed this world. Their legacy transcends barriers, overcomes criticism...
LAND OF MY FATHERS swept through the cold St David's Day air, the Swansea Male Voice Choir sang for one of their own. The crowds outside the Leeds parish chur...
IT WAS A GOAL THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE, the kind of high-level showboatery that’s worth the price of admission alone. On a misty January evening inside t...
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ON THE SMALL SUN-DRENCHED ISLAND OF CYPRUS, nestled between the exotic blue hues of the southern Mediterranean a...
IT IS 8 JULY 1990 IN ROME, and West Germany and Argentina are contesting the World Cup final. The match is a turgid affair in a tournament which on the whole ...
FOOTBALL DOESN'T CARE WHERE YOU'VE COME FROM. It doesn’t care how hard you’ve worked, or how much you deserve a break. It’s a brutal business, unsuited to the...
WHEN STEPHEN CONSTANTINE TOOK CHARGE of the Indian national team for the second time, he found out that Indian football’s elite academy recruited players from...
