ONE AFTERNOON IN LEEDS CITY CENTRE in the early 1990s, George Best thought he recognised…
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FOOTBALL IS NO OBJECTIVE SCIENCE. There is no right or wrong way to play it.…
FOOTBALL IS A VICIOUS AND FICKLE BUSINESS where clubs must learn to adapt to survive…
IN ACT 1 OF SHAKESPEARE’S TWELFTH NIGHT, we’re introduced to the character of Orsino, and…
The year 2004 was one of multiple shocks in football. Werder Bremen won the Bundesliga,…
PREENING, POINTING, POSTURING AND PARADING; the managerial theatre played out in top-flight football’s technical areas…
WHEN THE ONES YOU CALL YOUR OWN want nothing to do with you, it can…
KNOWN AS THE CITY OF LILIES, Florence is the ultimate romantic getaway for anyone who…
Almost 3.5 million – that’s the total population of Uruguay, the second smallest nation on…
I have this memory from my childhood that’s still vivid in my mind. It’s some…
In 2017, Real Betis unveiled a bust of former manager Patrick O’Connell at the Estadio…
KNOWN FOR HIS STRING OF ACROBATIC SOMERSAULTS, often resembling Faustino Aspilla’s, Victor Obinna found himself…
This was a story that never seemed to unfold the way onlookers would have expected.…
SMOKE BILLOWED FROM THE PALACIO DE LA MONEDA in the heart of Santiago de Chile…
BACK WHEN I WAS NINE YEARS OLD, we had a family vacation in England. As…
When the best Algerian players in France left Ligue 1 to use football in a quest for Algerian independence, their impact changed history
THE CONFINES OF WHAT MAKES VENICE UNIQUE AS A CITY are seemingly restrictive factors for…
IMAGINE MANUEL NEUER plucking the ball out of the air, dropping his shoulder into the…