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In the historic Italian city of Naples, football goes very much beyond the game. This…
When players move to Major League Soccer in the twilight of their career, there’s a common…
As featured on Guardian Sport “I THINK IT’S GOING TO BE FANTASTIC FOR THE LEAGUE.…
On March 4, one of the maddest leagues in the world gets under way again. The…
”Mi amigos” is how Diego Maradona is known to describe them. Ali Bin Nasser and Bogdan…
“I‘m not ready to relax on a beach yet,” quipped Ashley Cole as he signed for…
IT IS THE 1994 WORLD CUP QUARTER-FINAL and Sweden have 13 minutes to find an…
THERE IS AN old Norwegian proverb that goes something along the lines of ‘A friend is…
WHEN VALENTINO MAZZOLA rolled up his sleeves on the pitch, it signalled to the rest of…
When European football anoraks look back at the 2015-16 campaign the temptation may well be to…
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…