When the final whistle blew on a mild night in Gothenburg’s Ullevi stadium, there was an…
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Señor Dávila blew the final whistle, sending the Balaídos stadium into raptures. Celta Vigo had just…
“I was nine or 10-years-old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a…
He woke up groggily, still half-asleep, and looked around. He recognised the room but was less…
Cuban football is a minor mystery to the outside world. The league is amateur, in…
As the ball squirmed under the arms of DC United goalkeeper David Ousted, the travelling…
The modern football fan can be ruthless, stark and unforgiving. He or she lives in a…
The notoriously predatory Emilio Butrageuño was the dominant figure within Real Madrid’s legendary Quinta del…
It was March 2002 and Liverpool were flying high. As the 2001/02 Premier League season…
“Look at this kid, number 7, on the training pitch. Come and watch him for…
In 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill…
Helenio Herrera glanced out of the window across the pitches at Internazionale’s training ground in…
There is nothing glamorous about him. His body, hunched and taut, is soaked in a different…
In a country where football is one of the most celebrated and passionate in the…
Gareth Bale faces a huge week as he bids to prove that there is life…
In King Lear, when the hapless footman Oswald is tripped up by a duke and…
Chris Waddle, in stark contrast to much of his England career – like Glenn Hoddle – became one of Europe’s finest players at Bernard Tapie’s Marseille
Roughly translated from German, ‘ein kampf zwischen brüdern’ means ‘a struggle between brothers’ and has been used…