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 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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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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Sep 20, 20176 min read
Interview: Josh Bragg on his time in Sweden, Australia and how leaving England helped him enjoy a ca
More than 12,000 kids are currently playing football in the English academy system. Add in grassroots football and that number would...
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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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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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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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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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Jun 12, 20164 min read
Celebrating Diego Milito – a workaholic, a late bloomer and a goalscorer
Argentine striker Diego Milito has recently decided to hang up his boots and call time on a glorious, goal-filled career. Milito is best...
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May 13, 20167 min read
The Story of Adrian Mutu – quality, controversy and what might have been
There’s been many players who failed to live up to their potential. For various reasons, including struggling to cope with fame, a poor...
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Dec 10, 20157 min read
Diego Simeone and the art of being a winner
In an era where most managers, coaches and fans are obsessed with playing styles and philosophies, Atlético Madrid head coach Diego...
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Sep 27, 20156 min read
Dimitar Berbatov – The Tremendous Story of a Genius
Very rarely has a player divided opinion quite like Dimitar Berbatov. Many consider him to be a lazy and overrated luxury player with...
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