In 1911, Mohun Bagan, an all-Indian team from Kolkata, captured the hearts of the nation when…
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On 30 April 1988, one of the most remarkable El Clásico encounters to ever take place…
Denis Bergamini found a dead owl at the training camp the morning of 18 November 1989.…
Reggiolo is a rural cheese farming town in the heartlands of Italy’s north. Famous not only…
THE DATE WAS 3 JUNE 2007 and Ivory Coast had just defeated Madagascar 5-0 to…
It has been four years since I started These Football Times and the landscape of football…
ALTHOUGH THE EACT ORIGINS OF FOOTBALL ARE STILL unclear, the Chinese game of Cuju (or…
FREDDY ADU: rarely has the name of a player with caps for such clubs as Portuguese…
Advertising boardings emblazoned in gaudy print with Sega, Gardner Computers and Lucozade laced the edges of the pitch,…
It’s a moment most dream of but few ever come close to attaining. For a sport…
By the mid-1980s, the landscape of the United Kingdom had become synonymous with mass protests and…
Ottmar Hitzfeld was a genius. A managerial legend and incalculably respected coach, his legacy cannot be…
The Arctic Circle conjures images of bleak, cold, inhospitable landscapes, but also of beauty and…
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High farce in the midst of the projected hosting of a major international football tournament wasn’t…
As featured on Guardian Sport ARRIGO SACCHI INSISTS that his comments were misinterpreted and not racist,…
Chasing a lofted ball high into the October night sky, the player pushed himself hard to…
Sometimes, all you have to do is watch a single play to figure out if someone…