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After a resurgent Liverpool’s victory over Bournemouth, Jürgen Klopp was antagonised by one tabloid journalist…
It’s a spring day in 1962 and an almighty rainfall is pouring down on The…
IT’S A RARE THING in football that a player who only appeared 30 times for…
MANY PEOPLE SEE THE DEFINING GOAL of John Barnes’ career as the one he scored…
Be honest, you’ve been there too. Shouting at the telly in frustration and annoyance as…
FOOTBALL ARRIVED QUIETLY ON SPANISH SHORES through British workers employed at the Rio Tinto Mine…
THE STADIO DELLE ALPI was a cold, cavernous, characterless stadium. The architectural monstrosity was designed…
Discussions of pioneering black athletes almost inevitably descend into common tropes about breaking race barriers,…
Although there were still several hours left until the game would actually begin, thousands were…
There was a time when Scotland boasted some of the world’s best players. We rewind back to their memorable adventure at Argentina 78 under the divisive Ally MacLoed, and with the likes of Dalglish, Souness and Robertson amongst their ranks.
Time was that English football clubs were local things owned by local folk, stout yeomen,…
Over the years, several artists have had to wait until after their death to receive…
US Soccer’s concept of professional league divisions is a farce and a red herring, because…
Some of the best football teams in history have fallen just short of World Cup…
If I were to argue that England were the Arsenal of international football, who would…
DATELINE: 20 MARCH 1984. Fernando Torres, the youngest of three siblings, was born in the…
In the long and illustrious history of Scottish football, few wingers were better than John Robertson. We celebrate the unheralded genius who won two European Cups at Nottingham Forest and who Brian Clough jokingly dubbed “the fat bloke on the wing”.