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“If you want to win, play me. If not, put someone else in.” Real Madrid…
In the end, it was a career of unfulfilled potential, one cruelly defined by injuries.…
The world of football has expanded beyond imagination in the last century. It no longer…
When the final whistle blew on a mild night in Gothenburg’s Ullevi stadium, there was an…
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…