This feature is part of Virtuoso The feelings. They’re what I remember most when I remember Dennis Bergkamp. The feelings of wonder, with every billowing chip and defence-melting through ball. The feelings…
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This feature is part of Virtuoso “Genius is digging yourself out of the hole in which you sometimes find yourself. It’s learning from your failures that makes you succeed.” Eric Cantona’s words…
This feature is part of Virtuoso Diane Umpleby was there in 1986 when Middlesbrough nearly died. She’s been to Ayresome Park and the Riverside. She’s followed them into Europe, twice, she’s seen…
This feature is part of Virtuoso The year is 1994 and the late-August sun gleams down on the Anfield pitch as Liverpool lock horns with a powerfully-constructed Arsenal side. On the day,…
This feature is part of Virtuoso Like many footballing institutions, Arsenal are not without their fair share of adulated alumni; an array of impenetrable defenders, a collection of tantalisingly talented midfield maestros…
This feature is part of Virtuoso The instructions from coach Jim Ryan were simple: the game’s buried, take it easy, we don’t need any more goals. That was in the 72nd minute,…
This feature is part of Virtuoso The birth of the Premier League acted as a new beginning for Manchester United as Alex Ferguson’s fledgelings finally come of age, setting about crafting an…
This feature is part of Virtuoso Dimitar Berbatov was an often polarising figure when adorned in the red of Manchester United. Loved eternally for his passion towards the club, the cause and…
This feature is part of Virtuoso Before becoming the poster club for cataclysmic financial mismanagement, Leeds United were good. Very good. Just after the turn of the millennium, David O’Leary’s band of…
The opening goal set a hypnotically frantic tone. Captivatingly familiar for a derby game. Quality’s void filled with the excruciating knowledge that something is always about to happen. In clearing a David Unsworth…
In football’s most potentially divisive moment, could a utopia of sorts possibly be found? The growing shadow of a European Super League is gradually creeping across the sport, with the gap between…
Despite injuries wrecking the latter stages of his career, Kompany has overcome so much to stake a place as one of Manchester City’s greatest players
In March 2010, Barcelona travelled to Arsenal for the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final between the two sides. Goalless at half-time, the game was dominated by the Spanish giants, the…
Glenn Murray shouldn’t be anywhere near the England squad: that’s narrative of the everyday football fan on Twitter, Reddit and any other social media site you can find. However, those who disregard…
Football is a simple game. Besides perhaps the offside rule, which may be complicated to an outsider who doesn’t watch the game, the rules are pretty self-explanatory. You learn these from the…
Once considered one of the world’s best young players, Anderson now finds himself in Turkey’s second tier with his career out of control
One look at the psychedelic maelstrom of noise and colour was enough to convince me to turn back at once. As our train pulled into Zürich Hauptbahnhof, the sight of thousands of techno-house enthusiasts crowding…
John Fashanu is a tough man, and a tough man with a big smile is a dangerous man. John Fashanu is a dangerous man, a man that Phil Tufnell says is “two…