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ON 6 JUNE 2014, Marco Reus’s professional life plunged into darkness. Darkness often touches professional…
ON 15 APRIL 1964, two Northern Irish legends made their national team debuts. One was…
With Real Madrid grabbing the Champions League crown and all of Europe’s domestic leagues over,…
Though disappointingly there is still a paucity of black managers in today’s game, there is…
It was in the second leg of the playoff tie between Benevento and Carpi that George…
Had Wynton Rufer been Italian or German – and not a Kiwi – he would be recognised as one of the greatest goalscorers in modern European football
Football songs seemed to reach a peak in the 1990s. At the start of the…
Combining an old lady, a cottage and a sleeping giant will give you solid foundations…
A 16TH-PLACE finish in Serie A, a run of one win in the last four…
IT’S JUST PAST MIDDAY and I’m already 10 minutes late when I arrive at the Estadio…
IF YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF SÁNDOR KOCSIS, it’s likely that you’re not from Hungary or…
His team fresh off their fifth consecutive win, this one a thrilling 3-2 nail-biter over…
ON 15 APRIL 2017, a packed Stadio Pierluigi Penzo celebrated an occasion now etched forever…
PEP GUARDIOLA made his mark on the football world at Barcelona, first as a player…
ENGLISH TEAMS ARE OFTEN CRITICISED FOR THE LACK OF A SOLID GAME-PLAN. There’s sometimes a…
The pick of the more amusingfootball anecdotes to emerge in recent times was that relayed…
The Round of 16 at the 2009 FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Egypt; the group…