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Two years ago, Barawa’s first competitive game ended in misery. Tamil Eelam were just too good…
Brazil, boasting the world’s best playmaker in Zico, the enigmatic Sócrates, Éder, Falcão and Toninho Cerezo – there may never be a greater midfield
Canada is renowned worldwide for many innovations. The zipper, insulin and Trivial Pursuit were all…
As diverse a topic as any within the world of football is whether a player…
As CONIFA members go, Ellan Vannin are already fairly long in the tooth. Approaching their…
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In what many believe may never happen again, the 1958 World Cup was unique for featuring England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
I’m sat in Warsaw waiting for my connection home as part of a five-day odyssey…
“Dad, your record’s gone.” Roy Makaay couldn’t believe it. For four years, his opportunistic strike…
Type ‘Matabeleland’ into any internet search engine and the most immediate results will inevitably exhibit…
Ghana has come to the end of its own golden era in football. Over the…
There was a time towards the turn on the Millennium that clubs in Britain, and…
On 16 July 2017, at the whim of warehouse manager and proud Yorkshireman Phil Hegarty,…
In glorious but fleeting moments, Patrik Berger would show at Liverpool, and for the Czech Republic, why he was one of his era’s finest talents
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It started with a bang. A brisk December afternoon in 1969 was interrupted when a…
Among the slightly lesser-known folk arriving in London from every corner of the globe, intent…