Mandela National Stadium, to give it its official name, sits atop Namboole Hill, on the…
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AFTER 66 MINUTES of the last game of the season, Dennis Bergkamp did what he’d…
Cyril Radcliffe was a civil servant who was little known outside British bureaucratic circles before…
THE ROLE OF THE CENTRAL DEFENDER throughout history has almost always focused on the idea…
It’s around 4:20pm on 14 May 1995. The sunlight is beaming across the packed terraces…
This season has seen contrasting fortunes for the two representatives of the second city of…
The boy has wisdom beyond his years. “You learn more about yourself in the tough…
“YES ISCO, I stopped the silliness.” This was Asier Illarramendi’s first return to Anoeta since…
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM. But then an actual snowstorm…
Illustration by Akinyele Lexain Olalekan IT’S JANUARY 2004 and Bolton Wanderers are playing Aston Villa in…
Think of African football and some would cast their minds back to the days of…
As Christian Cueva dribbled towards Diego Barretto’s goal, rounded the Paraguayan goalkeeper and scored Peru’s…
Another round of international fixtures yielded another unsavoury incident in the stands in the Balkans…
IT WAS AT THE ESTADIO AZTECA with a mesmeric swipe of his right boot that…
Despite boasting the largest youth population in the world and a rapidly advancing economy, Indian…
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,…