Despite being proud Scots and phenomenal footballers, neither Gerry nor Joe Baker would ever represent their nation at international level
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From being a rock for the Invincibles to marauding runs in Manchester, few siblings have influenced the Premier League like the Tourés
Both proud exponents of their Kosovan heritage, fate would contrive to pit Taulant and Granit Xhaka against one another at Euro 2016
A serial winner and goalscorer for the world’s biggest club, Karim Benzema is a modern legend – and yet he’s still not as good as Olivier Giroud for France
Through the history of football, some kits are associated with disaster. From inadvertent swastikas to one-off disasters, this is the story of eight
It’s been a unique and difficult rise to the top of the women’s game for Chioma Ubogagu, now set to star for Real Madrid. She explained all in an open chat
Still just 25, you be sure Héctor Bellerín will try new things and look to do good in a world so desperately in need of his honest example
Football is littered with catchphrases and clichés. One of the best-known is “it’s not over till the final whistle.” On the face of it, that might sound like a hackneyed statement of…
Sam Kerr and Vivianne Miedema face-off in the Continental Cup final, with each having a contrasting back story of toil. This is how they reached the top
Gnabry’s career thus far has been good and he’s able to better it in the coming years, he is sure to go down as one of the best German talents of his era
Brilliant and beautiful, Mesut Özil’s stunner in the Champions League against Ludogorets in 2016 was the goal that summed up Arsenal in the 2010s
The rarest of talents, at his best Robert Pirès was a joy to behold, often unplayable, and the man Arsène Wenger called Arsenal’s “oil in the engine”
Long before joining Arsenal, Eduardo had overcome a number of challenges, but he rose above them all. Sadly, a horrific leg break would change everything
There are few players who define a generation as adroitly as Thierry Henry, the man who reinvented what it meant to be a striker in England
With Arsenal’s key defender spending time in jail, up against a mighty Liverpool and a two-point deduction, winning the 1990/91 title was anything but easy
What made Dennis Bergkampso special was the magical qualities he had with the ball at his feet, the kind that stopped time, time and again
On the pitch and off it, Arsenal legend Tony Adams remains a champion, a very human champion, and an inspiration to so many
That moutstache. That ponytail. David Seaman was truly iconic. And beyond that, he remains one of English football’s greatest goalkeepers