NOTHING LASTS FOREVER. If a footballer’s legacy to the game is to be summed up…
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Described by Reuters as “bedlam”, a special train was leaving Paddington Station in London, on June…
THE 2015 UEFA EUROPEAN UNDER-21 CHAMPIONSHIPS get underway on June 17 and with the absence of…
As featured on Guardian Sport It all started on a dreary night inside a half-empty, cheerless…
If footballers were like fine wine, maturing with age, then the prestigious Toulon Tournament award for…
IT’S EARLY EVENING on the west coast of Ireland when I pick up the phone to…
In the words of Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle: “Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.” There is no…
FOR THE GENERATION OF FOOTBALL FANATICS FROM WHENCE I CAME, the summer of 2015 will be…
The history of football, like anything that hinges on so many disparate variables converging in one…
FROM TODAY’S STANDPOINT where the media is becoming over-sensationalised and saturated with flashy headlines, vines…
Whether embellished, exaggerated or entirely fabricated, the tale of Carlos Raposo, much like a misheard Chinese whisper, is simply too grand not to pass on
Jeremy Clarkson, the former presenter of Top Gear, was, in 2014, reportedly chased out of Argentina…
BRAZIL CAME TO SWEDEN IN 1958 with a great deal of expectation behind them. It…
In 1989, Pablo Escobar was ranked seventh by Forbes Magazine on the World’s Billionaires List. A…
“We are a nation of 200 million Germans,” wrote Brazilian journalist Fernando Duarte, days before the…
Cast your minds back, if you will, to the summer of 2006. Fresh off the back…
THE BAGS AROUND HIS EYES droop like a weary basset hound. Liver spots creep steadily…
FOOTBALL IS A GIFT to each culture that embraces the sport. Separated by thousands of…