When European football anoraks look back at the 2015-16 campaign the temptation may well be to…
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MOST FOOTBALL TRIVIA BUFFS AND HISTORIANS you ask will tell you that the transfer of Trevor Francis…
Reminiscing of a time before he became Ireland’s pre-eminent sports writer, Con Houlihan recalled the…
Paul Scholes is arguably the most naturally gifted English midfielder since Paul Gascoigne, but his time…
There may not be a clearer contrast in the career of one man at a club as there is with Graeme Souness at Liverpool, from legend to villain
TEETERING PERILOUSLY close to the swaying trapdoor that is relegation to the Netherlands’ second tier, FC…
Vladimir Putin is already a powerful man, but as he purposefully shook hands with his…
CHINESE FOOTBALL HAS BEEN GRABBING THE HEADLINES RECENTLY, mainly due to the huge transfer fees…
Football fans are often crying out for an icon to lead them towards glory, a rare…
The average attendance at League of Ireland matches in 2014 was just 1,559. In the same…
When Tony Yeboah rocked up in the Premier League in 1995, few knew what to expect. A year later, the Ghanaian had written his name into folklore
WHEN YOU’RE A CHILD AND YOU DREAM OF BEING A FOOTBALLER, you dream of playing…
THERE HAVE BEEN many great goalkeepers in the history of the game. They range from the…
The art of diplomacy, it is said, is to recognise the beliefs, opinions and feelings of…
THE THIRD ROUND OF THE FA CUP is an occasion that footballing romantics savour for a…
It was infamy in Paris. Ginola was distraught, Houllier apoplectic. But the Bulgarians celebrated like never before. For one night only, God was theirs
In an exclusive interview, we talk to the first man to have won the European Cup twice with separate clubs, Miodrag Belodedici
WHEN IT COMES TO LISTING THE GREATEST DEFENDERS OF ALL-TIME, Paolo Maldini is up there…