Buy low, sell high – the rise of the super scout
Anybody who knows anything about football will tell you that the winning run that Manchester City are on is an astonishing feat. But if...
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Feb 17, 20216 min read
Dalkurd FF and the integrative power of football
Imagine for a moment that Las Vegas was awarded an NBA team. But they’re not like most franchises. They’re named ‘Los Tigres de Las...
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Jan 29, 20217 min read
Wayne Rooney – Relatable, Fallible and Breathtakingly Brilliant
There is a line in Julian Barnes’s masterpiece The Noise of Time, a novel about the splendid Russian-Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich,...
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Oct 23, 20205 min read
Sassuolo, De Zerbi and Trusting Talent
Four games into the season, Sassuolo sit unbeaten in 2nd in the Serie A table, having outscored all teams in the division bar Atalanta....
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Oct 10, 20209 min read
Atalanta, Bergamo and the dream of the Scudetto
The Champions League group stage draw hadn’t even finished when neutral fans across the continent began to share their excitement with...
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Dec 19, 201710 min read
Massimiliano Allegri – a complete coach
Massimiliano Allegri has had a fantastic coaching career to date. Since his first appointment at Aglianese in Italy’s Serie C2 in 2004,...
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Oct 29, 20178 min read
Remembering Sir Alex Ferguson’s final season at Manchester United
“I’m an absolute dinosaur. But what I am, I’m a winner” was Sir Alex Ferguson’s words on Manchester United’s end of the season awards...
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Sep 27, 201710 min read
Dreams, struggles and Shaun Wright-Phillips – the journey of an American footballer
Eddy Prugh is a professional footballer from the United States. It hasn’t always looked as that would be the case though. In this...
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Aug 31, 20176 min read
Marco Borriello – Italy’s ultimate journeyman striker
Italian football have seen it’s fair share of journeymen strikers who move from various clubs, delivering at some while underwhelming at...
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Jul 12, 20178 min read
Remembering “Pazzano” – the deadly duo who reunite in Verona
Between 2008 and 2010, Italian football fans were spellbound by two men’s combination play in the shirts of Sampdoria as the deadly...
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May 28, 20175 min read
Grazie Capitano – Roma fans give Francesco Totti emotional farewell
Francesco Totti’s last ever game for his beloved AS Roma was always going to be an emotional occasion. Still, few probably anticipated...
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May 12, 20177 min read
Adem Ljajić – the story of one of Europe’s most gifted and controversial footballers
Adem Ljajić is one of the most divisive footballers of his generation. After making waves as a wonderkid in his native Serbia at Partizan...
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Apr 21, 20177 min read
Gabi – the grossly underrated general of Simeone’s Atlético Madrid
When this decade comes to its close on New Year’s Eve in December 2019, one of the teams to have defined the decade in football will be...
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Mar 25, 20176 min read
Analysing the goalscoring excellence of Andrea Belotti
Every once in a while, a new young player bursts on to the scene and gains widespread acclaim for their quality and promise. It’s not...
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Mar 1, 20178 min read
Alberto Gilardino – a true Italian bomber
Goals, goals, goals. That must be what Alberto Gilardino thinks of about 90 % of the time he spends awake. When asleep, he definitely...
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Dec 10, 20166 min read
The rise of Sweden – an unprecedented generation of players coming through
Over the last decade in football Sweden has largely been synonymous with Zlatan Ibrahimović. The talismanic striker has conquered country...
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Nov 20, 20165 min read
A night at the Camp Nou – the home of football’s greatest artist
Three weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending Barcelona-Granada at the Camp Nou. That concluded one of my aims of visiting the largest...
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Jul 4, 20166 min read
A career in pictures – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
As part of a new series, we use the power of photography to tell the stories of the greatest and most influential footballers in the...
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Jun 21, 20163 min read
A career in pictures – Ronaldo
As part of a new series, we use the power of photography to tell the stories of the greatest and most influential footballers in the...
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Jun 18, 20163 min read
A career in pictures – Francesco Totti
As part of a new series, we use the power of photography to tell the stories of the greatest and most influential footballers in the...
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