When Kazuyoshi Miura made his professional debut, Diego Maradona had just lifted the World Cup and Margaret Thatcher was still Prime Minister
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AS MODERN FOOTBALL transitions into ever-increasing levels of physicality and tactical fluidity, the ‘fox in…
When I was 15 I moved from my wealthy suburban club to play for a…
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Liverpool star Alan Kennedy was a man of phenomenal deeds who lands somewhere between unlikely legend and joyous cult hero in football history
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“YOU, PLAYERS, who in less than a few hours will be hailed as champions by…