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It is the sign of a true footballing great when they are revered long after…
LAND OF MY FATHERS swept through the cold St David’s Day air, the Swansea Male…
FOOTBALL DOESN’T CARE WHERE YOU’VE COME FROM. It doesn’t care how hard you’ve worked, or…
WHEN STEPHEN CONSTANTINE TOOK CHARGE of the Indian national team for the second time, he…
Illustration by Federico Manasse ON THE LAST OCCASION Barcelona announced the acquisition of an expensive…
ON THE HILLY COUNTRYSIDE of Serra Riccò, deep inside the bowels of a parish church,…
WHEN JAMIE HOPCUTT ACCEPTED AN EMAIL INVITATION to an open football trial in December 2011,…
FOOTBALL IS A FLUID GAME. At times at the highest level, it’s a game where…
BRITS ARE OFTEN PERCEIVED as having an island mentality, an insular view of oneself no…
Illustration by Federico Manasse “MY BIGGEST DREAM is to play for the national team, to…
AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL MADE A SEISMIC SHIFT in 2006, moving to a different continent as the…
WHEN AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME in the 1950s, to many, Jimmy Scoular was…
DRUG ABUSE, toad-infested football pitches and almost non-existent funding: the conditions outlined above might not…
NORTHAMPTON IS A perennial middle-of-the-road town. Located almost equidistantly between Birmingham and London, it represents…
A hero of the Wales fans. Chris Coleman had to do things the hard way before finally receiving the credit he deserves as a smart, pragmatic manager
FRENCH CULTURE has always carried an enormous weight of respect. The very foundations of the…
REWIND TO THE TENDER YEARS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM, cast your gaze across the green…