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In late 1949, three men sat at an oak desk flanked by a pair of…
DUTCH FOOTBALL IS CHANGING. Following the dismal qualification campaign for the now mostly-forgotten (everywhere except…
Ireland has always had a challenging relationship with football and a laborious course of acceptance…
It’s the 84th minute of a helter-skelter contest between Shijiazhuang Ever Bright and Jiangsu Suning…
HAVE YOU EVER looked back at your life and wondered, ‘How did I get here?’…
What are the 1980s famous for? Perhaps the rise of Madonna and Michael Jackson in…
It took an unlikely – and expensive – route for Chelsea and Brazil midfielder Willian to reach the very top of club football in England
As featured on Guardian Sport THE BUILD-UP TO THE FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON is…
North America remains the destination of choice for big-name players past their prime looking to…
SYRIAN FORWARD Mahmoud Al-Mawas cuts through two Chinese defenders, caresses the ball away gently from…
A QUICK GOOGLE SEARCH for ‘art and football’ conjures the proverbial mixed bag of results.…
Illustration by Dan Leydon. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram I’M OFTEN ASKED a question…
The World Cup in Russia is seen by most as Argentina’s last opportunity for major…
Mention the name Dundalk to most football fans a year ago and very little would…
It was blatantly uncomfortable, but we simply could not take our eyes off our television…
As featured on Guardian Sport ON 15 SEPTEMBER 2016, the small town of Sassuolo in…
The random and unprovoked memory of some games has the power to make you clench…