No matter which way you look at it, global football in 2016 was dominated by…
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WHEN FABIO CAPELLO TOOK OVER AS ENGLAND MANAGER in succession to Steve McClaren in 2008,…
ANDRÉ SCHÜRRLE EMBARKED ON A POWERFUL, driving run down the left wing, and lifted a…
As featured on Guardian Sport SOME FOOTBALLERS HAVE the privilege of working under gifted tacticians…
With a minute left of the 1996 Champions League final, only one result remained beyond…
If ever there was a time for Harry Redknapp to effusively proclaim a player as…
How did football become the technology-driven, all-encompassing beast it is today? Through Africa’s support of João Havelange and FIFA, of course
THOUSANDS OF SCREAMING FANS awaited the emergence of their heroes from behind the car park…
Clutching false papers and disguised as Russian soldiers while sheltering from the bitter winter on…
Last week Marco van Basten, the legendary Dutch footballer recently-turned FIFA technical director, suggested a…
When the conversation topic turns to footballing legends, those that spring to mind are generally the…
As enigmas go, Álvaro Recoba ranks as high as anyone, possessing a devastating left foot and an attitude that often saw it wasted at Inter
T he Estadio de la Cerámica was the venue, Villarreal versus Barcelona was the match,…
THE EXPLOITS and activities of elite football clubs in the current era are often ruthless,…
THE EYES OF THE FOOTBALL WORLD have been firmly focused on the Far East since…
GORE VIDAL ONCE WROTE: “Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.”…
Recently, I was at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona and my mind couldn’t help but…
WHEN RAMADAN SOBHY’S tame shot trickled through a sea of players in the box and…