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The FIFA computer game series has now grown to an incredibly lucrative and, for some, time-consuming franchise. The days when...

During a tournament, the presenter will often say we will be going live to the England camp, or any of...

It wasn't all that long ago when the medical team in all the 92 professional clubs consisted of one full-time...

In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...

In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...

In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...

In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...

In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...

In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...

In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...

By Joe Miller Throughout my time in the beautiful game, I have met some interesting and some not some so...

Join me if you will. It’s time to go back. Way, way back. In 1989/90 I believe I was about...

In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...

When then-Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho became embroiled in an internal row with club doctor Eva Carneiro in the club’s first...

In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...

When Graham Taylor sadly passed away in 2017 the tributes rightly poured in for one of British football’s nice guys....

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Italian football did not enjoy a particularly good reputation. Perceived to be overly defensive...

In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...

In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...

Christmas is a time of celebration and festivities for most people, but not for football managers, player and staff.  It’s...

1982 was the year a small island in the South Atlantic Ocean most people had never heard of hit the...

In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...

One factor of football that remains ever constant like it does when Autumn arrives, temperatures drop, leaves fall off trees,...

In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...

"Has the Doc had a look at him?" "What does the Doc think?" "The doc has arranged for him to...

The history of Italian football is long and colourful, with its heroes writ large. The stories of the game go...

As the decade limped along into its second half, the more things changed the more they stayed the same. As...

Raynes Park Vale are currently restricted to no games during lockdown but are performing well above expectations in the virtual...

By Joe Miller Over the past 42 years that I have been involved in our beautiful game, I have seen...

"Ticket for the final game of World Cup 1974 in Munich, Germany" by marcoverch is licensed under CC BY 2.0...

1987 is a year which has largely been consigned to the wastelands of many people’s memory. It is in many...

We all know how this story ends, the rain pours down upon Wembley stadium, masking the tears of 88,000+ shellshocked...

The F.A. competitions represent the pinnacle of non-league football. Every team can dream of playing at Wembley whilst earning significant...

Being a member of the LMA Coaches Association PFCA I have been able to attend some great coaching clinics and,...

Like so many other years in the nineteen-eighties, 1984 was a mixed one, both in terms of football and society...

The dawn of a new decade found Britain struggling. Seven months earlier, as a direct result of dissatisfaction with rising...

Understanding the dynamics of a football club environment are an essential aspect, discipline and organisation are also important factors in...

Bruce Grobbelaar is the very epitome of the term ‘character’. In a career lasting more than twenty years, thirteen of...

Serious, career-threatening injuries are relatively rare throughout a season at a club, fortunately, but statistics are of no comfort to...

West Ham are and have always been an enigma. Capable of blowing away the fiercest of opponents one week while...

As soon as someone mentions the football team from Naples, everyone thinks of one man. Diego Armando Maradona. He is...

In the late nineteen seventies, a young player from the north-east of England secured what he believed would be his...

"My integrity as a physio was questioned. I was not prepared to allow unfit players to play, putting their career...

In 1983, Brighton and Hove Albion repeated which party trick first performed by Leicester City in 1969? This particular piece...

If ever there was a man to epitomise the expression, ‘Steady Eddie’, it was Don Howe. A more unadventurous player,...

Part Three: The peak, the plummet, the end   When the 21st century started, Deportivo La Coruña had never played...

By Billy Crawford The name of Sepp Herberger is one that is almost unheard of in this country. In Germany,...

Part 2: The quick rise from Champions League debutants to aristocrats 2000/01: Deportivo's Champions League debut Six years after their...

In previous editions of my footballing grumbles, also known as ‘Middle-aged Man Shouting at the Sky’, I have railed against...

Part One: Finally over the line in La Liga Deportivo's gradual rise from mediocrity Just as the 1980s were a...