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ONE OF THE great misfortunes of being a professional athlete is that your biggest failures…
CHASING THE BALL DOWN THE LEFT FLANK, Kanu steals it from Chelsea right-back Albert Ferrer…
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player; That struts and frets his hour upon the…
“So, when are Norway playing again? Tomorrow?” The waiter at La Coupole, a beautiful restaurant…
MUCH OF WHAT makes football the engrossing game that it is are the stories of…
IT WAS 23 JANUARY 2004 and Manchester United had finally got their man. Over £12…
ASK CHAIRMEN, MANAGERS AND FANS to provide their opinion on football agents (or intermediaries as…
Percentages are a major aspect of what makes today’s game so intriguing. Statistics engines, cultivated…
Football, in a broader sense, is a sport of tug of war between the needs…
Few football stories in recent years can match that of Evian Thonan Gaillard, the tiny club purchased by Danone who fell as quickly as they rose
AS I SAT watching the Iceland under-17 national side at Egilshöll – a massive indoor football…
Football in its contemporary format is one dominated by the development of the superstar. With…
In an age of continuous footballing progress, it’s fair to say that the game has…
Somewhere along the line, the beautiful game was corrupted. Perhaps it happened early on, the…
‘Boring James Milner’: as nicknames go, it’s not the worst dished out in England over…
Consistently punching above their weight against the behemoths of the time, Bobby Robson’s Ipswich Town were the epitome of sustainability and invention
Back before the days of Twitter and smart phones, there was a time when I…