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“SOCCER HAS ARRIVED IN THE UNITED STATES! And it’s here to stay … just look at…
“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Winston Churchill’s famous words in…
IT’S JUST AFTER LUNCHTIME WHEN WE FINALLY GET CHATTING, and Kevin Nicholson seems eager to get…
IMAGINE IF LONDON’S FOOTBALL CLUBS collaborated in European competition. Would a combined side of Chelsea, Arsenal…
NICOLA “COCO” CAMPOLONGO WAS EXECUTED, shot through the head along with his grandfather and an acquaintance.…
As featured on Guardian Sport A FEW WEEKS AGO, THERE WAS A SUDDEN FRISSON OF…
Like so many other nations around the world, Brazilian football was pioneered by the British, namely Thomas Donohoe and Charles William Miller
A CERTAIN ENERGY DRINKS COMPANY ARE NO STRANGERS TO CONTROVERSY. A maiden foray into football ownership,…
Illustration by Soccer Patterns. View more here As the dominant talk in global football centres around…
ON 5 APRIL 2015, Venezuelan painter and sculptor Paul del Río turned a gun on his…
As a shell-shocked Nottingham Forest team trudged off the Anfield pitch that heady April night in…
The year was 1966; the month, November. American singer-songwriter Little Richard had just performed a brief…
ALMOST 550 APPEARANCES, 15 trophies and 25 years of loyal service; José María Gutiérrez Hernández, or ‘Guti’…
It was a wet December night at Stadio San Nicola in 1999 as FC Bari played…
Illustration by Soccer Patterns. View more here Just seven short seasons ago, Palermo were the…
I remember sitting in my British literature class at the clueless age of 16 and reading…
The famous author and journalist Eduardo Galeano once said of Garrincha: “In the entire history of football, no one made more people happy.” That summed up the man who many Brazilians consider as good as Pelé.