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How a life-threatening brain injury and a troubled recovery couldn’t stop an everyday love-affair with football
This feature is a part of Football In Common, a series which explores the stories…
How Lazio’s gun-toting, politically divided misfits won the 1974 Scudetto race
It started with a bang. A brisk December afternoon in 1969 was interrupted when a…
The golden memory of watching Johan Cruyff play football
This feature is a part of Hot Bovril and Cold Terraces, a series looking at…
Why was Michael Carrick so under-appreciated throughout his career?
Since the turn of the century, Manchester United have been one of the defining factors…
Diego Maradona: the managerial diaries
The gathered press waited at the Argentine football headquarters in Buenos Aires ahead of the…
The wizardry of Gianfranco Zola
The thing with being an instantly likeable footballer is that it’s oddly linked with being consigned to relative…
How Málaga went from rags to riches to relegation
Chelsea, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain have set a precedent, whereby clubs bankrolled by wealthy…
How England can build on the positive signs in player development over the past 12 months
This feature is the third in a three-part series looking at why English football struggles…
How 18 months in Japan set Arsène Wenger up for glory at the top
Few of football’s best and brightest managers would ever chance an exotic venture in a…
Jomo Sono: the man who beat death, poverty and institutional racism to become a true footballing icon
Imagine losing one of your parents as a child. Imagine being abandoned by the other…
Three penalties and a goal aged 36 that decided the fate of the brilliant Martín Palermo
By almost any measure you choose to evaluate a player’s worth, Martín Palermo was an…
Robbie Keane’s doomed spell at Internazionale
The summer of 2000 produced two transfer fees that broke and re-broke the world record within…
How Cup Winners’ Cup glory ignited the Ferguson era and rekindled Manchester United’s European obsession
When Mark Robins scored for Manchester United at Nottingham Forest’s County Ground in January 1990,…
How the unforgettable 1999/2000 LaLiga season helped define Spanish football’s era of the underdog
As featured on Guardian Sport Spanish football at the turn of the millennium is nostalgically looked…
The seven goals that had people comparing Afonso Alves to Romário
The Eredivisie has long been a breeding ground for many renowned footballers, with domestic heroes…
The chaos and the charm of Newcastle cult hero Laurent Robert
Capable of the sublime and stupid in equal measure, we celebrate the career of French winger Laurent Robert at Newcastle United.
The revolution that changed Spain and the one yet to arrive in England
This feature is the second in a three-part series looking at why English football…