This article appears in Issue 17 of The Football Pink Fast cars, fast planes and deadly weapons all led one...
This article appears in Issue 16 of The Football Pink which is available HEREMATTHEW CRIST remembers a short-lived and short-loved...
BY FRANCO FICETOLAWhat does it take for a nation to be successful at football? Is it economic wealth? Is it...
BY BEN PINKNEYWe know it as ‘the billion-pound goal’; the goal that assured Chelsea of Champions League football and seduced...
DAN WILLIAMSON is second up in our 'What football means to me' series, and tells the story of his early...
On the night of August 24th, 1963, the great Alfredo Di Stéfano of Real Madrid was kidnapped at gunpoint by...
Pete Martin is a traveller, author, journalist and coach. This is the fourth in a series of articles adapted and extracted...
Pete Martin is a traveller, author, journalist and coach. This is the third in a series of articles adapted and extracted...
Here GERRY FARRELL explores the complex story of the Xhaka brothers - Granit and Taulant - and how one can...
MATT EVANS examines the careers of the Baresi brothers, who encapsulated the rivalry in Milanese football with the younger sibling...
Part 3 of our Sibling Rivalry series looks at the contrasting fortunes of the Hoddles; one had the world at...
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...