BY PETER MILES 2012 will always be remembered by many as the year we marvelled at the prodigiously talented Lionel...

This article originally featured in The Football Pink fanzine issue 20. The 1958 World Cup is still fondly remembered by...

BY LUCAS GILLARD In this week of European finals, it’s impossible to ignore the spectre haunting Baku, Madrid, Munich, Manchester,...

And now, the end is near, and so we face, our final podcast.Yes, we have reached the end of the...

Guy Pichard is a French photographer who divides his time between his home country and Brazil. We are pleased to...

BY BIKASH MOHAPATRAFrank de Boer definitely deserved a better send off.It was his sixth season at the helm of affairs...

BY JIM KEOGHANIn the wake of Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur reaching the Champions League Final, the thoughts of their fans...

BY TAPAS IYERWhen mathematician Edward Lorenz ran repeated computer simulation on weather conditions, he made a startling observation. He termed...

BY GAVIN BLACKWELLOver the years we have seen medical staff get the headlines in many different circumstances; some positive, others...

BY ONUR BILGICJuly 9th, 2006. Berlin’s Olympic Stadi­um. The 110th minute of the World Cup final. A short dialogue takes...

We have reached the penultimate episode of the series and the game, and Barry Davies' famous commentary, that inspired the...

BY TOM BLOWSome say in football, winning trophies is everything. But it’s not. The greatest achievement for any footballer is...

BY MARK GODFREYThis article first appeared in Issue 4 of the fantastic long-form Scottish football magazine Nutmeg https://www.nutmegmagazine.co.uk/In the classic...

This article first appeared in Issue 21 of The Football Pink fanzine in late 2018Mesut Özil is a magnet for...

BY CRAIG STEPHENThe European Cup Winners’ Cup reached its expiry date in 1999, with the roll call of champions a...

BY GARETH LLOYDDuring a time of political turmoil, in which the UK remains despairingly divided on notions of what it...

BY GARY THACKERInto the tail-end of the ‘Swinging Sixties’ England thought itself to be the beating heart of world culture....

In this episode, Mark speaks to Justin Walley, who in 2018 guided Matabeleland to the finals of the CONIFA World...

BY ZACH REESThis is not so much a story about the game of football as it is a story of...

Oh I Say! We’ve reached March 1991 and joining Steve and Mark for this episode is comedian, actor and Manchester...

·       Film explores city’s sporting success in the ‘80s amid political and cultural upheaval·       Features interviews with Lord Heseltine, Peter...

BY MATTHEW O’CONNOR-SIMPSONSituated in an affluent suburb of Manchester, West Didsbury and Chorlton are among the most interesting football clubs...

BY BIKASH MOHAPATRAIt’s a strange coincidence.Maybe destiny played a major part.No matter how one perceives or chooses to describe it...

BY ALEX JACKSONThere was something interesting about West Ham United’s dramatic 4-3 victory over Huddersfield Town on March 16th. It...

BY DAVID O’DRISCOLLMy father in law, Sidney Williams, played amateur football to a good standard. He played in the Berlin...

BY NATHAN O’HAGANWalter Smith’s managerial reign at Everton was characterised by dwindling crowds, dour football, and financial constraints as rigid...

This article first appeared in Issue 21 of The Football Pink fanzineGERRY FARRELL looks back at how the UK government...

REVIEW BY PAUL McPARLAN - @paulmcparlanWhy would anybody be attracted to the concept of writing a history of England’s fraught...

BY GARY THACKERIn the 1998-99 season, Middlesbrough were a second-tier club. Relegation had cost them the services of such international...

This article first appeared in Issue 13 of The Football Pink fanzineSTEVE RINGWOOD revisits the days of post-war Europe, propaganda...

February 1991 turned out to be quite a momentous month: The first Gulf War ended; 10 Downing Street was attacked...

BY RICHARD KNIGHTWELLThere's something about the cyclical nature of football. When I was 11, my Dad took me to the...

This article first appeared in Issue 14 of The Football Pink fanzineIn the 1950s, Manchester United had the Busby Babes...

This article first appeared in Issue 15 of The Football Pink fanzineAs the heady days of the 1970s receded to...

This article first appeared in Issue 16 of The Football Pink fanzineAs English football passed from its great depression of...

BY CRAIG STEPHENAny observer of the game in Brazil will look at the national obsession through the prism of that...

BY KAUSTUBH PANDEY The Munich Air Disaster in 1958 brought the city of Manchester to its knees. The tragedy, which...

BY ALEX JACKSONTo much of us in Britain, South America is a mysterious part of the world. For a country...

This article first appeared in Issue 17 of The Football Pink fanzineHARRY COLLINS goes on the trail of a man...

This article first appeared in Issue 18 of The Football Pink fanzineDAN WILLIAMSON gets under the skin of football in...

This article first appeared in Issue 19 of The Football Pink fanzineBefore you can be empowered you need to be...

This article first appeared in Issue 20 of The Football Pink fanzineIn 1994, he was the best player in the...

This article originally appeared in Issue 21 of The Football Pink fanzineRYAN JONES remembers a young man from Wales who...

Welcome back to the Oh I Say! podcast series as we look back at season 1990/91 in English football. The...

BY NATHAN O’HAGANProfessional footballers these days, or those plying their trade in the modern Premier League at least, sometimes come...

REVIEW BY PAUL McPARLAN @paulmcparlanTurkey as a footballing nation has been unforgivably neglected by the soccer literati during the course...

BY FERGUS DOWD“Playing football, we didn’t think of deportation or the stress caused by life in the ghetto,” - Czech...

BY PUNEET GORASIAMartin Scorsese – a master of filmmaking – and Arsène Wenger, have much in common. More precisely, the...

A short film on local Spanish football by Kauri Multimedia www.kaurimultimedia.com Regional football is another world.A million miles away from...

I arrived late at the Albert Camus Bar on George Street on a foul, wet, black Saturday in the first...