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Sam France

07/07/2017

Sparta and Xerxes: an ancient conflict that lies dormant in Rotterdam

When the monstrous army of Persia trampled over the slaughtered remains of a patchwork Greek force of a few thousand at the mountain pass of Thermopylae in 480BC, it could have been…

Sam France 07/07/2017
23/05/2017

Yasuhiko Okudera: Japanese football’s first overseas pioneer

THERE IS A JAPANESE PHRASE which translates roughly to “the frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean”. A general interpretation is that those who do not experience the world…

Sam France 23/05/2017
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