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Some pieces of commentary end up becoming part of football folklore. Fans of the Norway…
It’s shortly after 9pm on 1 July 2016 and Wales are taking on Belgium in…
THE PAST IS a delicate topic in sport. It is often used to predict the…
When Chile travelled to Brazil to see who would head to Italia 90, few could’ve predicted the things Roberto Rojas would do to make it happen
As much as he’d like to deny it, Harry Redknapp’s reputation as a wheeler-dealer is…
Portuguese, devilishly handsome, full of himself and self-centred. A product of the Sporting Clube de…
“WE’LL SEE BEAUTIFUL days kids, we’ll see sunny days.” This isn’t the kind of song…
WHO CAN IDENTIFY a solid antivirus if not the best of hackers? And who can…
THE YEAR WAS 1993. Across Britain, radio stations juggled the eclectic sounds of Meat Loaf,…
WHAT MAKES A GOOD MANAGER? For some, it’s an innate ability to motivate a group,…
THE NAME Carlos Queiroz provokes disparate sentiments in the minds of supporters of the clubs…
STEPPING OFF THE PLATFORM at the Abando train station and into its main corridor, you…
As featured on Guardian Sport IN A WORLD OF IDENTIKIT PREFABRICATED STADIA, where a club’s…
When Brazilians think of Belo Horizonte, a depressing image and scoreline crosses their mind, especially…
BORN IN THE TOWN of Castellammare di Stabia, beneath the brooding Mount Vesuvius, Fabio Quagliarella…
ANÍBAL RUIZ COULD sense something special within the Paraguay camp. Days before the 2006 World…
At the very last second, the ball whipped inside the whitewashed wooden stanchion, pinging across…

















