Whilst Filippo Inzaghi was the more successful striker on the pitch, Simone has more than matched his brother in the dugout
Arriving in 2008 as curly haired teenagers, the enigmatic twins of Rafael and Fábio da Silva would become cult heroes at Old Trafford
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Bolivia have the worst reputation in South American football, but their home in La Paz remains a church of upsets – just ask Diego Maradona and Argentina
When George Raynor retired, he knighted in Sweden but barely remembered in England. But why? After all, he’s the first Englishman to reach a World Cup final
The xG metric might seem snooty at first, but football fans have been inadvertently collecting their own data sets since they first saw a ball kicked
Every sugar-coated pass and madcap dash from the goal that football taught him he could never leave only serve to carve Neuer’s name deeper into stone
At a time when fans are forced to stay away, it will impress upon the incontrovertible truth that the game needs its fans as much as they need it