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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...

There is a line in Julian Barnes’s masterpiece The Noise of Time, a novel about the splendid Russian-Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich,...

The Champions League group stage draw hadn’t even finished when neutral fans across the continent began to share their excitement with...

“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...

Eddy Prugh is a professional footballer from the United States. It hasn’t always looked as that would be the case though. In this...

More than 12,000 kids are currently playing football in the English academy system. Add in grassroots football and that number would...

Italian football have seen it’s fair share of journeymen strikers who move from various clubs, delivering at some while underwhelming at...

Between 2008 and 2010, Italian football fans were spellbound by two men’s combination play in the shirts of Sampdoria as the deadly...

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...

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...

Over the last decade in football Sweden has largely been synonymous with Zlatan Ibrahimović. The talismanic striker has conquered country...

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...

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...

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...

Argentine striker Diego Milito has recently decided to hang up his boots and call time on a glorious, goal-filled career. Milito is best...

There’s been many players who failed to live up to their potential. For various reasons, including struggling to cope with fame, a poor...

In an era where most managers, coaches and fans are obsessed with playing styles and philosophies, Atlético Madrid head coach Diego...

Very rarely has a player divided opinion quite like Dimitar Berbatov. Many consider him to be a lazy and overrated luxury player with...