The era-defining brilliance of Romário, who redefined the striker role, may have peaked in Barcelona, but it was very much made at PSV
From being a rock for the Invincibles to marauding runs in Manchester, few siblings have influenced the Premier League like the Tourés
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Roger Lemerre’s France squad were somehow contriving to look even more impressive than Aimé Jacquet’s all-conquering crop of two years before, when the French won…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE In a sport that all too rarely rewards goalkeepers with the same headlines it so lavishes upon goalscorers, penalty shootouts go some of the way…
Through the history of football, some kits are associated with disaster. From inadvertent swastikas to one-off disasters, this is the story of eight
A young Neymar with everything to prove against the wily Ronaldinho who’d seen it all – when Santos met Flamengo in 2011, it was a match for the ages
Led by Stuart Baxter, AIK would lift the 1998 Allsvenskan title, scoring just 25 times in 26 games. Baxter and other key men talk that remarkable glory
Between the DFB-Pokal, UEFA Cup and Bundesliga, Werder Bremen and rivals Hamburg would unforgettably face each other four times in 19 days in 2009
“It’s difficult to analyse a match like that and if you try you will be there a very long time,” said Steve Coppell after Portsmouth beat his Reading 7-4
From a Champions League debut aged 18 to captaining Real Madrid and Spain to some of their greatest glories, Iker Casillas has forever been defying the odds
If an animal is left to starve, while those around it eat their fill, it can’t be blamed for biting the hand that enters its cage. Just ask Morientes
Brilliant and beautiful, Mesut Özil’s stunner in the Champions League against Ludogorets in 2016 was the goal that summed up Arsenal in the 2010s
The rarest of talents, at his best Robert Pirès was a joy to behold, often unplayable, and the man Arsène Wenger called Arsenal’s “oil in the engine”
As innate incubators for narrative and drama against which the daily mundanities of life are invited to be forgotten about for two-hourly stretches, as stories are told, stars are born and dreams…
So often the bridesmaid of German football, Bayer Leverkusen have gained the unwanted nickname ‘Neverkusen’ for their multiple trophy near-misses
With Arsenal’s key defender spending time in jail, up against a mighty Liverpool and a two-point deduction, winning the 1990/91 title was anything but easy
Mark Bosnich may look back on his career and wish he’d not let it slip so easily – partly because, at his best, he was a goalkeeper of outstanding quality
That moutstache. That ponytail. David Seaman was truly iconic. And beyond that, he remains one of English football’s greatest goalkeepers