Barcelona: More than a club, more than a nation?
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BY STEVEN BELL “If Spain breaks apart, the league breaks apart” Stern words from Spain’s LFP president Javier Tebas, of course referring to Catalonia’s desire
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BY STEVEN BELL “If Spain breaks apart, the league breaks apart” Stern words from Spain’s LFP president Javier Tebas, of course referring to Catalonia’s desire
BY PAUL BREEN Football is a man’s game. Boys will be boys. You’re sick as a parrot one minute because you’ve reached the bottom of
BY GLENN BILLINGHAM Football, and its long and rich history, is littered with magical cup competitions. From the global festival that is the FIFA World
BY KEITH MENARY It’s getting on for midnight and the beers are flowing, the laughs are coming thick and fast and you and your mates
It is fair to say that England have produced something of a mixed bag when it comes to goalkeepers, with even those history will remember
BY GLENN BILLINGHAM Upon reflection, there could be two schools of thought regarding the actions of Derek Dougan in January 1976. Firstly, he could be
This year’s Premier League fairytale team – Bournemouth – are heading into a crucial part of the season knowing they will have to dig in
This article appears in Issue 9 of The Football Pink, available here MARK GODFREY looks at 1985 – the worst of years for English football
BY GLENN BILLINGHAM A perennial nearly club, in a perennial nearly town. Northampton Town FC. Geographically one could argue the town is on the edge of the Midlands, or
BY DAVID MARPLES There is something gloriously evocative about the banner running the length of the North Stand at Villa Park. The sadly missed Brian
BY DAVID MARPLES Sunday 11th October was a very special evening at the City Ground. If you ever want to witness for yourself a living
BY MARK GODFREY For anybody familiar with the tragedy of the Superga air crash in 1949 that wiped out the entire fabled Torino side that
BY GERRY FARRELL It’s a strange situation when the most famous player ever to play for your club didn’t actually do so; but then that’s
BY HARRY DUNFORD Just over a decade ago, Yeovil Town were one of the most famous non-league football clubs, known for their FA Cup giant
BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM Anyone who follows Paul Grech on Twitter will know that he is a passionate fan of Liverpool (his recent purchase of a
BY STEVE MITCHELL In the opening few minutes of Jonny Owen’s new documentary film about the glory years at Nottingham Forest in the late 1970’s,
This article first appeared on Game of the People BY NEIL JENSEN The mid-1930s was a time of growing fear in Europe, indeed the world.
BY MARK GODFREY The season’s least unexpected managerial appointment was made last Friday when Sam Allardyce took up the offer to succeed Dick Advocaat at
BY ROB CONLON “A jockey doesn’t have to have been born a horse.†Not only did Arrigo Sacchi manage AC Milan to back-to-back European Cup
BY KEVIN NOLAN Irish myth and folklore has it that thousands of years ago, Gaelic hero Setanta was running late to a feast in honour
BY DAVID MARPLES Remember when the FA Cup meant something? No – I mean really meant something? It would be all too easy at this
BY SEAN MAKIN We’ve all heard of Liverpool’s European Cup exploits in the 70s and 80s, and that night in Istanbul. We all know about
BY DARREN NORTON Ever sat down to send a tweet, and no matter how hard you try, simply can’t fit in everything you want to
Words by Daniel Magner. Photographs by Tom Sparks With non-league day fast approaching, the once dreaded international break – which is usually a wilderness of
BY ANDRE LEDEZMA Football articulates the imaginary and the real. It would be better to say, football builds a space between the imaginary and the
We’ve only gone and made onto the Football Blogging Awards’ final list of nominees for the 2015 Best Established Blog category! Of course, we would
Next in our series of unlikely European winners, we look at Dinamo Zagreb’s triumph in the old Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM Dinamo Zagreb
We head back behind the Iron Curtain for our next bunch of European Unlikely Lads – East Germany’s FC Magdeburg. BY CHRISTOPH WAGNER The story
Next up in our series looking at the clubs who came from nowhere to win European silverware, we turn to Belgium. BY JACK UNWIN The
The third instalment of our unlikely European series focusses on Germany at the turn of the 80s. BY GLENN BILLINGHAM Bum-Kun Cha. Jurgen Pahl. Friedel
In part 2 of our series on unfamiliar clubs having their name etched on European trophies, we look back at one of the finest teams
Long before the days when the Champions League gobbled up all of Europe’s footballing attention (and revenue), and the continent’s giants dominated the roll of honour
BY SEAN MAKIN March 2002. The BBC launched their new radio station 6 Music, coal mining in Scotland came to an end, the Queen Mother
BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM Franz Beckenbauer was nicknamed The Kaiser simply for being strong, resolute and having an air of competence and respect; every team wanted
BY MICHAEL HUDSON In early September 1899, 111 years before South Africa’s World Cup and with the Boers and Britain manoeuvring back towards war, 16
BY URI LEVY AND RAPHAEL GELLER From the Palestinian national team’s debut at the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia to this summer’s diplomatic effort to
BY MARK GODFREY In my experience, taxi drivers across the world are all very similar. When they have a foreigner in their cab, conversation usually
CHRIS SMITH tells the story of the Austrian visionary and his innovative English contemporary who shaped football for generations that followed. This article appears in
BY PAUL BREEN I’m a poor underdog But tonight I will bark With the great Overdog That romps through the dark. Â [from “Canis Major,” Robert
Tony Higgins, long time friend of The Football Pink, has just released his first self-published e-book, Homage to Murcia: A Season of Football Anarchy, the
BY STEVE MITCHELL The qualifying groups for the 1986 Mexico World Cup had paired Wales and Scotland together once again after the two countries had
The beautiful game is the subject of a new art show that has opened in Norwich. Patterns of Play, a celebration of football art, design
BY DAVID MARPLES There’s no getting around this – essentially, it’s a footballer’s autobiography from the 1970s. In a golden age of football writing in
BY MARK GODFREY They were the first, but wouldn’t be the last. Former Everton and Manchester City star Joe Royle had been in the job
BY CHRIS CLARK In recent times, Transfer Deadline Day has become a major day in the football calendar; it’s probably overtaken the 3rd round of
BY STEVE MITCHELL The great Dutch footballing superstar of the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s Johan Cruyff, has heavily criticised his former club Ajax and the
This article originally appeared in Issue 8 of The Football Pink – the Italia ’90 25th anniversary special Before the 1990 World Cup semi-final between
BY GERRY FARRELL It’s hard to have sympathy for the modern day Premier League footballer. Brash, cosseted, occasionally removed from both the average football fan
BY MARK GODFREY Sir Alex Ferguson, Kenny Dalglish, Jock Stein, Sir Matt Busby, Bob Paisley, Bill Shankly, Brian Clough, Howard Kendall, Don Revie, Sir Bobby
BY HARRY DUNFORD Modern day football is ruled by money. More and more SKY television subscriptions are sold each season, lining the pockets of the
BY STEVEN BELL “If Spain breaks apart, the league breaks apart” Stern words from Spain’s LFP president Javier Tebas, of course referring to Catalonia’s desire
BY PAUL BREEN Football is a man’s game. Boys will be boys. You’re sick as a parrot one minute because you’ve reached the bottom of
BY GLENN BILLINGHAM Football, and its long and rich history, is littered with magical cup competitions. From the global festival that is the FIFA World
BY KEITH MENARY It’s getting on for midnight and the beers are flowing, the laughs are coming thick and fast and you and your mates
It is fair to say that England have produced something of a mixed bag when it comes to goalkeepers, with even those history will remember
BY GLENN BILLINGHAM Upon reflection, there could be two schools of thought regarding the actions of Derek Dougan in January 1976. Firstly, he could be
This year’s Premier League fairytale team – Bournemouth – are heading into a crucial part of the season knowing they will have to dig in
This article appears in Issue 9 of The Football Pink, available here MARK GODFREY looks at 1985 – the worst of years for English football
BY GLENN BILLINGHAM A perennial nearly club, in a perennial nearly town. Northampton Town FC. Geographically one could argue the town is on the edge of the Midlands, or
BY DAVID MARPLES There is something gloriously evocative about the banner running the length of the North Stand at Villa Park. The sadly missed Brian
BY DAVID MARPLES Sunday 11th October was a very special evening at the City Ground. If you ever want to witness for yourself a living
BY MARK GODFREY For anybody familiar with the tragedy of the Superga air crash in 1949 that wiped out the entire fabled Torino side that
BY GERRY FARRELL It’s a strange situation when the most famous player ever to play for your club didn’t actually do so; but then that’s
BY HARRY DUNFORD Just over a decade ago, Yeovil Town were one of the most famous non-league football clubs, known for their FA Cup giant
BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM Anyone who follows Paul Grech on Twitter will know that he is a passionate fan of Liverpool (his recent purchase of a
BY STEVE MITCHELL In the opening few minutes of Jonny Owen’s new documentary film about the glory years at Nottingham Forest in the late 1970’s,
This article first appeared on Game of the People BY NEIL JENSEN The mid-1930s was a time of growing fear in Europe, indeed the world.
BY MARK GODFREY The season’s least unexpected managerial appointment was made last Friday when Sam Allardyce took up the offer to succeed Dick Advocaat at
BY ROB CONLON “A jockey doesn’t have to have been born a horse.†Not only did Arrigo Sacchi manage AC Milan to back-to-back European Cup
BY KEVIN NOLAN Irish myth and folklore has it that thousands of years ago, Gaelic hero Setanta was running late to a feast in honour
BY DAVID MARPLES Remember when the FA Cup meant something? No – I mean really meant something? It would be all too easy at this
BY SEAN MAKIN We’ve all heard of Liverpool’s European Cup exploits in the 70s and 80s, and that night in Istanbul. We all know about
BY DARREN NORTON Ever sat down to send a tweet, and no matter how hard you try, simply can’t fit in everything you want to
Words by Daniel Magner. Photographs by Tom Sparks With non-league day fast approaching, the once dreaded international break – which is usually a wilderness of
BY ANDRE LEDEZMA Football articulates the imaginary and the real. It would be better to say, football builds a space between the imaginary and the
We’ve only gone and made onto the Football Blogging Awards’ final list of nominees for the 2015 Best Established Blog category! Of course, we would
Next in our series of unlikely European winners, we look at Dinamo Zagreb’s triumph in the old Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM Dinamo Zagreb
We head back behind the Iron Curtain for our next bunch of European Unlikely Lads – East Germany’s FC Magdeburg. BY CHRISTOPH WAGNER The story
Next up in our series looking at the clubs who came from nowhere to win European silverware, we turn to Belgium. BY JACK UNWIN The
The third instalment of our unlikely European series focusses on Germany at the turn of the 80s. BY GLENN BILLINGHAM Bum-Kun Cha. Jurgen Pahl. Friedel
In part 2 of our series on unfamiliar clubs having their name etched on European trophies, we look back at one of the finest teams
Long before the days when the Champions League gobbled up all of Europe’s footballing attention (and revenue), and the continent’s giants dominated the roll of honour
BY SEAN MAKIN March 2002. The BBC launched their new radio station 6 Music, coal mining in Scotland came to an end, the Queen Mother
BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM Franz Beckenbauer was nicknamed The Kaiser simply for being strong, resolute and having an air of competence and respect; every team wanted
BY MICHAEL HUDSON In early September 1899, 111 years before South Africa’s World Cup and with the Boers and Britain manoeuvring back towards war, 16
BY URI LEVY AND RAPHAEL GELLER From the Palestinian national team’s debut at the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia to this summer’s diplomatic effort to
BY MARK GODFREY In my experience, taxi drivers across the world are all very similar. When they have a foreigner in their cab, conversation usually
CHRIS SMITH tells the story of the Austrian visionary and his innovative English contemporary who shaped football for generations that followed. This article appears in
BY PAUL BREEN I’m a poor underdog But tonight I will bark With the great Overdog That romps through the dark. Â [from “Canis Major,” Robert
Tony Higgins, long time friend of The Football Pink, has just released his first self-published e-book, Homage to Murcia: A Season of Football Anarchy, the
BY STEVE MITCHELL The qualifying groups for the 1986 Mexico World Cup had paired Wales and Scotland together once again after the two countries had
The beautiful game is the subject of a new art show that has opened in Norwich. Patterns of Play, a celebration of football art, design
BY DAVID MARPLES There’s no getting around this – essentially, it’s a footballer’s autobiography from the 1970s. In a golden age of football writing in
BY MARK GODFREY They were the first, but wouldn’t be the last. Former Everton and Manchester City star Joe Royle had been in the job
BY CHRIS CLARK In recent times, Transfer Deadline Day has become a major day in the football calendar; it’s probably overtaken the 3rd round of
BY STEVE MITCHELL The great Dutch footballing superstar of the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s Johan Cruyff, has heavily criticised his former club Ajax and the
This article originally appeared in Issue 8 of The Football Pink – the Italia ’90 25th anniversary special Before the 1990 World Cup semi-final between
BY GERRY FARRELL It’s hard to have sympathy for the modern day Premier League footballer. Brash, cosseted, occasionally removed from both the average football fan
BY MARK GODFREY Sir Alex Ferguson, Kenny Dalglish, Jock Stein, Sir Matt Busby, Bob Paisley, Bill Shankly, Brian Clough, Howard Kendall, Don Revie, Sir Bobby
BY HARRY DUNFORD Modern day football is ruled by money. More and more SKY television subscriptions are sold each season, lining the pockets of the
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