In the second part of our new series looking at football's more interesting sets of brothers, ALL BLUE DAZE recalls the...
This article is from Issue 16 of The Football Pink fanzine which is still available. Details HEREAfter the successes of...
This article first appeared in Issue 15 of The Football PinkALEXIS JAMES poses the question: Who really stands to profit...
BY GARY THACKERHeinz Krügel was born in the small village of Ober-Planitz, near Zwickau on 24th April 1921 in what...
BY JOZEF BRODALAWhen you think of the creation of most football clubs, it seems aeons away. Most of the clubs...
BY ALEX JACKSONIt’s a sunny August afternoon at Gateshead International Stadium, and the native Tynesiders are running rampant in a...
BY GARY THACKERThere’s a poignant inevitability about the fate of the Dutch national team in the World Cups played out...
This article first appeared in Issue 15 of The Football PinkWhen fame and fortune turned to decline and despair, one...
This article first appeared in Issue 12 of The Football PinkIn the build up to the famous Euro 96 game the...
This article originally appeared in Issue 13 of The Football PinkOnce viewed with suspicion and reluctance, the Football League play-offs...
In the first of a new mini-series where we look at English clubs that spent the least amount of years...
This article originally appeared in Issue 14 of The Football PinkKEVIN O’NEILL looks back on St. Mirren’s unlikely Scottish Cup...
This article was originally published by VICE Sports UKBY WILL MAGEEWith the twilight of their first season at the London...
BY LORENZO MALATERRA“Nowadays, football is more and more an industry, less and less a game”.This phrase, written on the main...
This article was originally published by VICE Sports UKBY JIM WEEKS"Whatever the fans want you to do, you should do...
This article originally appeared in issue 13 of The Football Pink. You can subscribe to our quarterly magazine in print via...
This article was originally published by VICE Sports UKBY JIM WEEKSI remember only two things about November 1994 with any...
NICK WELLS takes up the baton in part 7 of our 'Before they were famous' series and focuses on the...
In the first of a new series chronicling the bad old days of some of modern football's most successful clubs, GARY THACKER recalls...
BY DARREN NORTONIt was a wonderful time, being a “Brid Kid” in the early 90’s. Not so much for the...
BY MARK GODFREYThe last few years haven’t been too kind to Blackburn Rovers; Steve Kean’s disastrous tenure in charge of...
BY KEVIN O'NEILLWHEN KV Mechelen, a previously unheralded Belgian side, qualified for the 1987/88 European Cup Winners’ Cup, nobody believed they...
BY ARTHUR O'DEAThere are the tranquilised Fifties,and I am forty. Ought I to regret my seedtime?Robert Lowell, ‘Memories of West...
BY MARK GODFREYIt’s been a week or two now but the shock of England’s humbling defeat at the hands of...
BY MARK GODFREYThe slightly decrepit, rudimentary wooden construction stands, perhaps a little apologetically, behind security ropes, affording it just the...
X STEWARTIn spring 1990, Alexander McQueen, newly graduated from a Masters programme at Central Saint Martins, moved to Milan to...
BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAMFor many Parisians who wish to spend their summer holidays in the south west of France towards the...
This article was first published in August 2015 in Issue 9 of The Football PinkIAN CUSACK debates whether it’s time...
1914-15 was a tumultuous time in Ireland, but amid the backdrop of civil unrest and disharmony, its national team came...
This article originally appeared in Issue 9 of The Football PinkPAUL GRECH looks back to 1920s fascist-regime Italy and an...
This article originally appeared in Issue 9 of The Football PinkSome chairmen fancy themselves as being bigger than the club...
Welcome to the first instalment of our new mini-series on teams who play their football in a country that is not...
BY GLENN BILLINGHAMUpon reflection, there could be two schools of thought regarding the actions of Derek Dougan in January 1976....
This article appears in Issue 8 of The Football PinkFor the first, and possibly only time, an England World Cup...
Next up in our series looking at the clubs who came from nowhere to win European silverware, we turn to...
The third instalment of our unlikely European series focusses on Germany at the turn of the 80s.BY GLENN BILLINGHAMBum-Kun Cha....
In part 2 of our series on unfamiliar clubs having their name etched on European trophies, we look back at...
Long before the days when the Champions League gobbled up all of Europe's footballing attention (and revenue), and the continent's giants...
BY MARK GODFREYThey were the first, but wouldn’t be the last.Former Everton and Manchester City star Joe Royle had been...
BY MARK GODFREYIn my experience, taxi drivers across the world are all very similar. When they have a foreigner in...
BY MARK GODFREYWest Germany 1974. Summer time. The FIFA World Cup. It was a time of change, of things being...
This article appears in Issue 8 of The Football Pink magazine - the Italia '90 25th anniversary edition which you...
BY MARK GODFREYThanks to the patronage of one of this country’s finest ever comic talents, unfashionable Luton Town achieved virtual...
BY MARK GODFREYMay 29th 1985 will go down as one of football’s darkest days. At the Heysel Stadium in Brussels,...
Get Issue 8 of The Football Pink - the Italia '90 25th anniversary special HEREBY RICHARD HALLNostalgia is a term...
BY RAY HARPERAccording to Wikipedia, the Sheffield and Hallamshire Senior Cup is the 4th oldest surviving cup competition in the...
This article originally appeared in Issue 7 of The Football Pink which is available by clicking HEREMore goals than Pele,...
This article is being re-published on The Football Pink courtesy of Iain Duff. You can follow him on Twitter @iainduff...
BY MARK GODFREYTo the English fan, he was an alien; as otherworldly as it could get. Accustomed to a staple...
BY PETER MILESFootball rivalries are endemic across the globe but rarely has a rivalry been so ingrained into a city’s...