FOR A CLUB WHOSE LONGEVITY IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL’S TOP DIVISION stands second only to Arsenal, Everton…
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The story of Diego Tristán is an all-too-common tale, one that has beset numerous players across…
THE MENTALITY OF ICELANDIC FOOTBALL PLAYERS is something that foreign managers have often addressed. The number…
As featured on Guardian Sport Pre-tournament training camps have always been a vital ingredient for success…
The 2005/06 season would prove the catalyst for so many changes at Tottenham and Arsenal – but only after an almighty battle between the two
BY THE MIDDLE of September 1941, just three months after Adolf Hitler’s army had invaded…
The Crimean War of the 1850s, World War II and the Arab-Israel Wars in the mid…
NESTLED IN NORTH EAST THAILAND, 400km from the gleaming skyscrapers and tourist traps of Bangkok, at…
IN RECENT YEARS, THERE HAS BEEN A MAJOR CHANGE in the way Icelandic national team stars ply…
In the history of Scottish football, few shocks has as seismic an impact, despite being forgotten, as Berwick’s momentous win over Rangers
When the idiosyncratically brilliant English winger Chris Waddle left his job in a sausage factory to…
Every footballer dreams of lifting the World Cup. Some achieve this goal, and others sit in…
IT HAS BEEN THE MOST UNORTHODOX OF JOURNEYS for Rwanda national team manager Johnny McKinstry as…
THE TIME BEFORE PELÉ, CRUYFF AND CHINAGLIA was a barren one for the North American Soccer…
Since the heady days of Banks, Clemence and Shilton, British football has experienced a regression in the number of goalkeeper at the highest level. We look back over the years.
The first thing that anybody fortunate enough to visit Barcelona’s Camp Nou will notice is…
The story of plastic pitches in English football, their rise, unfair advantages and sweeping controversy from QPR to Oldham and Luton to England.
HIRING LARS LAGERBÄCK HAS BEEN A HUGE PART OF ICELAND’S SUCCESS over the last three years…