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There’s a wonderful simplicity that characterises Jermain Defoe’s career: a love of playing and a…
IT MAKES SENSE to start with a record lost and a record gained. On 28 May 2016, in…
German sporting dominance was often viewed with an air of suspicion on the British Isles,…
The tenure of Pep Guardiola at German giants Bayern Munich will be remembered for a number…
EACH PREMIER LEAGUE season provides a stark reminder of the global reach of the English…
It’s fair to say that Englishmen don’t have the best reputation away from home. Overbearing, lobster…
With 404 goals for Hamburg and 43 for the national team, German star Uwe Seeler has every right to be labelled as one of the greatest players of all-time
BORN TO A World Cup-winning father in Mazinho, Thiago and Rafinha Alcántara have been surrounded…
There is nothing new in international teams seeking an edge through claiming talent with even…
I can’t think of a specific watershed moment where the adulation of specific players changed…
It is often the players who seek the elusive who find the ‘what might have been’…
As featured on Guardian Sport As Real Madrid’s Isco squeezed the ball through a helpless…
TURN THE CLOCK BACK to 15 May 2004: Patrick Vieira latches on to an exquisite…
The Eurasian steppe comes to rest at the banks of the Dniester river, a sweeping…
When the news broke in January 2016 that former Everton and Liverpool defender Abel Xavier…
THERE IS NO doubting that FC Porto have been the most dominant Portuguese side of…
IN BRAZIL, perhaps more than in any other country, football is seen as an expression…