ÉRIC SYLVAIN ABIDAL is one of the most decorated French footballers in recent history. A…
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Growing up as a Manchester United fan in the era of the Arsenal Invincibles, I perhaps…
TO SEE AN academy graduate make the step up from the youth ranks to the…
THERE IS AN ADAGE in sport that success is easier to attain than it is…
LINIERS DIDN’T CHANGE much on 1 July 1943. Crowded trains still carried exhausted workers from…
“IN FOUR OR FIVE YEARS, probably nobody will remember that I was Chelsea manager, and…
I’VE HEARD IT SAID that non-football fans are – to paraphrase Bart Simpson – the…
When Herbert Chapman joined Huddersfield, it was a club in disarray. Within a few years, he would set records that are yet to be broken to this day
AT THE AGE of just 19, where Kylian Mbappé will end up is a scary…
Few Irish talents have ever been greater than Liam Whelan, a man who Sir Matt Busby rated as highly as anyone but who perished far soon at the age of 22
THIS SUMMER MARKS the 40th anniversary of when Argentina first won the World Cup, a…
Every good story needs a villain, and who would be a more appropriate subject of…
To many people watching football today, the game cannot be imagined without yellow and red…
It’s around 3pm on Friday. I’m sat at the back of the Insula record shop…
Owing to a knack of scoring late goals, Semih Şentürk is known in Turkey as…
WHEN YOU THINK of Los Angeles, what do you think of? Most would probably name…
GEORGE WEAH IS UNDOUBTEDLY one Africa’s all-time greatest footballers. In a glittering 13-year spell in…
THE DIVISIVE FOOTBALL nomad from Glasgow is back in the Premier League. After a slow…