This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE National allegiance and patriotism are simple concepts for many people. They are born and bred in one country, then go on to live there throughout…
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As Schalke grew into one of German football’s early powers, migrants from modern-day Poland would stream into Gelsenkirchen – and become legends
Though it seldom finds use on the nation’s streets or in the homes of those who reside in Poland, there is a poignant turn of phrase belonging to the eastern European country that…
JERZY DUDEK WILL FOREVER BE A LEGEND ON MERSEYSIDE. His heroics in Istanbul have gone down in footballing folklore, and that crazy night is rightly remembered as the zenith of his long…
Illustration by Federico Manasse The 1982 World Cup may just have boasted more great teams, players and matches than any other since. Champions Italy, the brilliant France of Platini, Giresse and Tigana,…
Poland is a proud country with a rich and compelling history, especially when it comes to football, and the 1970s and 80s were its golden period. The names behind it are well known…
JANUARY 21, 2006, was a miserable day for Portsmouth Football Club. Pompey travelled to St Andrew’s to play Birmingham City, who were a point and a place below the south coast side…
When on 15 June 2016 Polonia Warsaw sealed their promotion to the II Liga, the third tier of the domestic football pyramid, following a 2-1 aggregate defeat of Górnik Wałbrzych in the…
THE TIME BEFORE PELÉ, CRUYFF AND CHINAGLIA was a barren one for the North American Soccer League, or NASL to you and me. Born in 1968 following a merger between the United Soccer…
This feature is part of A World of Ultras VOCAL IN THE STANDS, brutish on the battlefield, rebellious against the institutes; Legia and its Teddy Boys ’95 clan boast all the ingredients…