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BY KAUSTUBH PANDEY The Munich Air Disaster in 1958 brought the city of Manchester to its knees. The tragedy, which claimed the lives of eight
BY ALEX JACKSON To much of us in Britain, South America is a mysterious part of the world. For a country that once had a
This article first appeared in Issue 17 of The Football Pink fanzine HARRY COLLINS goes on the trail of a man whose career was tragically
This article first appeared in Issue 18 of The Football Pink fanzine DAN WILLIAMSON gets under the skin of football in the vast metropolis of
This article first appeared in Issue 19 of The Football Pink fanzine Before you can be empowered you need to be informed. Raith Rovers fans
This article first appeared in Issue 20 of The Football Pink fanzine In 1994, he was the best player in the world, Italy’s talisman. But
This article originally appeared in Issue 21 of The Football Pink fanzine RYAN JONES remembers a young man from Wales who fought in a foreign
Welcome back to the Oh I Say! podcast series as we look back at season 1990/91 in English football. The year has turned, and to
BY NATHAN O’HAGAN Professional footballers these days, or those plying their trade in the modern Premier League at least, sometimes come across as living in
REVIEW BY PAUL McPARLAN @paulmcparlan Turkey as a footballing nation has been unforgivably neglected by the soccer literati during the course of its rich and
BY FERGUS DOWD “Playing football, we didn’t think of deportation or the stress caused by life in the ghetto,” – Czech novelist and playwright Ivan
BY PUNEET GORASIA Martin Scorsese – a master of filmmaking – and Arsène Wenger, have much in common. More precisely, the two would make an
A short film on local Spanish football by Kauri Multimedia http://www.kaurimultimedia.com Regional football is another world. A million miles away from professional football, the essence
I arrived late at the Albert Camus Bar on George Street on a foul, wet, black Saturday in the first week of March. It was
BY LUCAS GILLARD Football in Berlin is a microcosm of the ethnic, social, political, and historical dystopia that was Germany’s 20th century. This became abundantly
BY GARY THACKER Many pub landlords have stories to tell. They’ve heard thousands and retold them all in any number of different ways. Some are
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This article originally appeared in Issue 21 of the now defunct Football Pink fanzine. With England’s success at the World Cup a not-so-distant memory, BORA
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BY SAIKAT CHAKROBARTY Every once in a while, there comes a footballing fairytale which makes us believe in the impossible; like Leicester City’s Premier League
BY GAVIN BLACKWELL – PHYSIO AT HALESOWEN TOWN FC As the nation prepares to indulge in its annual festival of excess booze, food and presents,
We promise this won’t be a self indulgent farewell post, mainly because we aren’t quite ready to say goodbye completely just yet. However, we do have to announce that
In this Christmas episode Steve and Mark talk to actor, producer and writer Jonny Owen (I Believe in Miracles, Don’t Take Me Home) about his
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CHRIS MARSHALL attempts to answer the question: “Is this the dawning of a new golden era for Scottish Professional Football League and for Scottish football
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BY CONOR KETLEY In recent months, you’d be forgiven for putting the lack of fans in the stands at the Stade Louis II down to
JAMES JOHNSON runs through the runners and riders for the 2018 Ballon d’Or award to see if the Messi/Ronaldo era of dominance is at an
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BY SAIKAT CHAKROBARTY On 1 December 1956, at Melbourne’s Olympic Park Stadium, an Indian team lined up against Australia for a place in the semi-finals
In the tenth part of our 18 for 18 compilation looking back at football in 2018, MATTHEW MATHER remembers the untimely passing of Fiorentina captain
In our monthly look back to season 1990/91, Steve and Mark are joined this time by photographer Stuart Roy Clarke who remembers November 1990 and
PAUL BREEN looks at Liverpool’s reasons to be cheerful after a year that’s seen them become serious and expected title contenders for the first time
BY PANOS KOSTOPOULOS The distance between Rosario, Argentina and Genoa, Italy is just a bit more than 11,000km. Back in 1925, it would take up
2018 has seen the possibility of a breakaway European Super League look increasingly likely. In part 8 of our 18 for 18 series, PAUL McPARLAN
On November 12th, two teams from Kolkata’s Durbar Sports Academy debuted in the I-League. Both teams are comprised largely of the children of sex workers
BY CRAIG STEPHEN Perhaps it was the Lincoln Red Imps’ surprise victory over Celtic in the first leg of a Champions League tie in 2016
In part 7 or our 18 for 18 series, GARY JORDAN looks at an issue that tugged at the hearts and minds of everyone with
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BY DAVE LONG Chelsea, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain are the most famous high-profile clubs to have been taken over, heavily invested in and taken
Here’s MARTIN CLOAKE on the concept of what winning at football means in 2018 in the latest instalment of our 18 for 18 series. The
WRITTEN BY JEFF MARTIN, EDITED BY PETE MARTIN As I had got married and was planning a family, at the ripe old age of 25,
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