The whole of the Shed End at Tannadice held its breath as the ball sailed through the air, Andoni Zubizaretta in the Barcelona goal only watching as the net rustled behind him.…
Helenio Herrera glanced out of the window across the pitches at Internazionale’s training ground in Appiano Gentile, the picturesque venue located 40km north-west of Milan in Como. Life was good for the…
Gigi Meroni: the art-loving wing genius who hit the pinnacle of calcio before his tragic death at 24
Opera was born in Italy at the end of the 16th century and soon spread throughout most of Europe, an art form that has stood the test of time and still holds…
This feature is part of Duology The calm before the storm came at the San Siro with 27 minutes on the clock and the game scoreless. Alessandro Del Piero found himself faced…
The 71-year-old man wept. “Do not do this,” he said, his words barely audible through the tears. “Do not do it.” He stood at the locked gate of the Reggiana headquarters, a…
A lone man sat in the back of the stand, cigarette smoke permeated the air. He laughed to himself as he gazed upon the hapless display in front of him, excited to…
It started with a bang. A brisk December afternoon in 1969 was interrupted when a bomb rocked the Banca Nationale dell Agricoltura in Milan, which left 17 dead and over 80 injured.…
The 17-year-old Brazilian wunderkind sealed the game in the final minute, heading home to give O Seleção its maiden World Cup win in 1958, eight years after the misery at the Maracanã. Pelé was…
THE PANZER DIVISIONS rumbled to a stop as the unmistakable spires of the Kremlin came into view. Finally, the Wehrmacht were within touching distance of the Russian capital. Since the invasion of…
THIS SUMMER MARKS the 40th anniversary of when Argentina first won the World Cup, a triumph shrouded in controversy from a time that cast a shadow over South America’s second largest country.…
IMAGINE MANUEL NEUER plucking the ball out of the air, dropping his shoulder into the onrushing centre-forward, dribbling basketball-style downfield, then rocketing a shot from the halfway line. Bit far-fetched? Back in…
FOR A COUNTRY THAT COULD EASILY NAME A DOZEN PLAYERS in any all-time top 100 players list, Brazil would struggle to include a goalkeeper. Think of Brazilian football and many images come…
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 church were there…