Muttering tales of dodgy dealings, Italy slunk off defeated, while Sweden and Denmark celebrated together at Euro 2004
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This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Playing full-back for Grimsby Town in the Third Division is a long way from managing England in the European Championship, but that was exactly the…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE When Ukraine met Sweden in their Euro 2012 opener, it was a tale of two sides elevated by their talismanic strikers, Andriy Shevchenko and Zlatan…
When George Raynor retired, he knighted in Sweden but barely remembered in England. But why? After all, he’s the first Englishman to reach a World Cup final
Led by Stuart Baxter, AIK would lift the 1998 Allsvenskan title, scoring just 25 times in 26 games. Baxter and other key men talk that remarkable glory
It was between 2000 and 2010 that Ibrahimović reached a peak he would maintain into the next decade and discovered what kind of man he wanted to be
With Solskjær at the helm, the future looks bright, and perhaps Scandinavian talent can once again lift Manchester United to the apex of European football
If a film is made about Östersunds FK now, it’s difficult to say which genre it would fall under. It doesn’t feel like a fairy tale anymore
One of Europe’s deadliest strikers, the only thing Sweden and Feyenoord hero Ove Kindvall cared about more than scoring goals was his family
It was a tournament that, in theory, had much going for it, but the Royal League, involving clubs from Sweden, Denmark and Norway, was destined to fail
Kevin Walker stands out in Swedish football for more than just his name. A complete midfielder, he is also a pop star of acclaimed success
This feature is part of Virtuoso Occasionally in a footballer’s career you can pinpoint the exact moment the lightbulb went off in the public’s minds. When a fan doubts a player and…
When the camera panned over to Mats Gren on the evening of 1 October 2018 at the Tele2 Arena in Stockholm, IFK Gothenburg’s sporting director held a solid and steely gaze. His…
There were 95 minutes on the clock as Toni Kroos and Marco Reus stood menacingly, eyeing up a last-gasp free-kick for Germany after Jimmy Durmaz had clumsily brought down Timo Werner right…
It is the evening of 14 June 1992 at the Rasunda Stadium in Stockholm. England are playing their final Group A game of Euro 92 against the host nation Sweden, needing a…
One September evening in 1998, Arsène Wenger sat down to watch some of his Arsenal players represent England in their Euro 2000 qualifier against Sweden in Stockholm. David Seaman and Tony Adams…
MANY FOOTBALLERS would give up everything to have a CV even remotely resembling that of 33-year-old defender Nilla Fischer. Apart from the fact that Fischer has just surpassed the rather impressive landmark…
SWEDEN AND ITALY ARE TWO NATIONS separated by both geography and culture. Sweden is a Scandinavian country of just 10 million people where the Vikings once ruled, and where temperatures plunge below…