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Applause ringing around the cauldron that is the Santiago Bernabéu; all you could hear was a generous…
It wasn’t a night Manchester City will remember forever, nor the majority of 17,200 in attendance…
DESPITE THE BEST EFFORTS OF MANY, one’s life cannot entirely revolve around football without being…
“Fuck Betis” boomed the respectable-looking but somewhat eccentric Englishman to his bemused Barcelona players in the Camp…
It was hopeless – Patrick Kluivert was too quick, too aggressive and too alert for AC…
Bobby Robson was what is a known as a true football man. True football men are a…
AS THE PREVIOUS SEASON FADES INTO THE DISTANCE and we embark on a new one,…
Illustration by Charis Tsevis LONG BEFORE THE MODERN GAME became what it is today, an…
THE ISLES OF SCILLY IS AN ARCHIPELAGO lying 28 miles south of Cornwall with five…
ARGUABLY THE MOST ICONIC FOOTBALL PHOTOGRAPH ever taken was snapped nowhere near a football pitch. One…
Sometimes you are so perfectly positioned that a pivotal moment slows down a fraction. Weaving through…
England may have created football, but Brazil made it an art form. Since the arrival…
“I support Serbia.” It was not the answer we were expecting. My colleague and I had…
Bobby Moore – England’s greatest defender – spent his last moments in football in the wilderness of amateur Danish football
NINE THOUSAND MILES separate the Newcastle Stadium in southeast Australia and the Faisal Al-Husseini arena, Palestine’s…
As featured on Guardian Sport In today’s modern climate of highly paid footballers, fans outside of…
Diego Maradona’s relationship with Naples with unlike that of any footballer with a city before or since. Indeed the city will never forget its adopted hero