Soccer really is a simple game in a complex world. The year was 2001, and…
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As featured on Guardian Sport There is often talk about the 12th man. Whether that is…
Héctor Gómez had just sent half the Estadio Leóninto into hysteria. His goal for Club Indios de…
As featured on Guardian Sport AS TV BECOMES increasingly saturated by football coverage, there is a…
The odyssey of Rudi Gutendorf, the German who saw genocide, corruption and coached 18 national teams
NOT MANY COACHES in the history of professional football can provide first-hand accounts of genocide,…
We are fortunate to live in an age where the heroic talents who grace the many…
On 22 April 2012, chaos descended from the stands of Genoa’s Stadio Luigi Ferraris. With…
SINCE ITS INCEPTION at the start of 1992-93 season, the Premier League has redefined the global…
When the full-time whistle was blown was blown on the 2014 World Cup final at the…
AT AROUND 4.05PM on July 13, 2013, a deadly silence fell over the Rio Tinto Stadium…
As featured on Guardian Sport WHEN TONY PULIS WAS GIVEN the elbow at the end of…
LET’S TALK about strikers – goalscorers to be precise. The players who make the difficult seem…
Fresh air: emotive words that evoke the notion of a better, cleaner place. A place…
IN JUNE 1969, AROUND THE TIME WHEN THE USA’S CAMPAIGN IN VIETNAM RAGED to epic proportions…
CHRIS SMALLING AND LUKE SHAW WERE THE ONLY TWO ENGLISHMAN STARTING FOR MANCHESTER UNITED in the…
After the passing of Eusébio, who takes his place in the sport’s hall of fame,…
Josef ‘Pepi’ Bican was in a class of his own when it came to goal-scoring. This is the story of his 395 goals in 217 Slavia Prague games
The Darfur region is better known for poverty and the murderous Janjeweed militia, who terrorised and…