Graeme Souness doesn’t spend much time at Galatasaray but is “extremely proud and pleased that people remember me for doing what I did”
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For the first time in four decades, Beşiktaş, Fenerbahce or Galatasaray aren’t playing in Europe. What has gone wrong for Turkey’s Big Three?
After how unpredictable 2020 has proved, surely lightning cannot strike Demirspor and their anti-establishment fans a tenth time?
For Kocaelispor supporters, their team is so much more than just a football club. As they say here, “love does not have a league”
Ba, Clichy, Škrtel and co may have just been crowned champions, but Turkish football is so much more than a vacation for ageing stars
Outside Turkey, the maverick talent of Ibrahim Yattara remains a well-kept secret – but he was just as dazzling as Europe’s best
Few clubs are as obsessed with continental competition as Galatasaray. To understand why, you need to delve into the very essence of the footballing goliath
Jay-Jay Okocha’s time at Fenerbahçe may have been brief and trophyless, but he remains one of the club’s most gifted players of all
Once considered the world’s best midfielder, Wesley Sneijder would head to Galatasaray aged 28 and become a legend at the club
One of Turkey’s premier clubs, Trabzonspor have won trophies in the past but have lost out in recent times, partly due to capital bias
Despite struggling for motivation in China, Didier Drogba would return to Europe at Galatasaray and instantly become a hero for the fans
As Moestafa El Kabir loops over Harun Tekin to make it 3-0 to Ankaragücü, on the touchline Philip Cocu surely knows. An audible wall of boos ring around the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium,…
Football is an astonishingly straightforward game. Goals win matches, with those who score on a regular basis revered in the highest sense. The names of Frank Lampard, Ian Rush and Thierry Henry…
Every footballer reaches a time when they must make the difficult decision to hang up their boots and retire. Some choose to go out on top, leaving memories only of their greatness,…
The closest Turkish Süper Lig title race in years came to a familiar conclusion in May 2018. Central to Galatasaray being crowned champions was the appointment of Fatih Terim for a fourth…
Canada is renowned worldwide for many innovations. The zipper, insulin and Trivial Pursuit were all born in Canada. Sport also has a deep history in the nation. Canadian physician James Naismith invented…
On the penultimate day of the Turkish 1. Lig season, a scoreboard in the western city of Manisa reads 0-3. It is a familiar sight for the fans of Manisaspor, once a…
THE MOMENT IS FAMOUS NOW. On a humid June evening in 2002, seconds before the final whistle of a pulsating opening match in Group C, the Fevernova World Cup ball sailed through…