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GOING INTO the game, Aston Villa had suffered three successive defeats and were looking more than…
“I DON’T FEEL pressure … I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the…
This story starts in Valencia, but not where you might expect. The year is 2015…
Few players have split opinion amongst football fans as much as Craig Bellamy. The former…
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MARCEL REIF, the best-known German football commentator in recent decades, published a book in 1996…
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FOR MANY PEOPLE, Spain’s victory in Euro 2008 was an unexpected triumph. For 44 years…
In my previous piece for These Football Times, I quoted a New York Times piece…