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Shirsho Dasgupta

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25/10/2017

How a self-imposed stereotype and the Bosman ruling caused the demise of Dutch football

The date is 13 June 2014. It is the 44th minute at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, and the Netherlands are playing defending champions Spain in their first group stage match…

Shirsho Dasgupta 25/10/2017
06/03/2017

How society and politics gave us Catenaccio and Total Football

BENEDIKT TASCHEN’S BOOK ON 1970s FOOTBALL PHOTOGRAPHY is titled The Age of Innocence. An apt title, perhaps – it was the final time when footballers were still at some level “our lads”, clubs…

Shirsho Dasgupta 06/03/2017
25/07/2016

Maverick, Maoist and great pretender: the life and times of Paul Breitner

THE DATE IS 7 July 1974 in a packed Olympiastadion in Munich. With the scoreboard showing 1-0 in favour of the dominant Total Footballers from the Netherlands, Bernd Hölzenbein latches onto the…

Shirsho Dasgupta 25/07/2016
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