Classic Teams

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

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...

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

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

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

FC Barcelona may carry a certain presence when their name is mentioned, with the number of trophies and star men...

Thirty years! Thank the stars that’s over and I can get back to my life now! In 1990, the year...

There was a certain kind of serendipity about Channel 4 securing the rights to broadcast Serie A in the summer...

Luton Town is a club that has in its relatively recent past polarised opinion like few others and has suffered...

Leeds United under the management of Don Revie were a tremendous side over a decade or so, from the mid-1960s...

In Part One, QPR started the season well with big wins over the likes of Liverpool, Everton and reigning champions...

There have been a number of sporting upsets over the years, especially within the game of football. Leicester City’s jaw-dropping...

There are very few eras in football history than can be summed up by simply combining a manager’s tenure at...

Going into the first-leg of their crucial Libertadores Final tie against heavyweights of Argentina, Boca Juniors, Corinthians were in a...

For many fans of football from Europe, the Club World Cup is an afterthought. It’s a frustrating hindrance in the...

The all-conquering (on the home front, anyway) Manchester City side of 2018-19 became the first in the history of the...

In part two of the series looking at the origins of Crystal Palace’s rise to the ‘team of the eighties’...

Wengerball was special. At its best Wengerball was a pleasure, a joy and rejoiceful to watch. It was more than...

You may be aware of Crystal Palace once labelled as ‘the Team of the Eighties’. It all began in the...

Moussa Sissoko is probably not the first player that jumps into a person’s mind when they hear the phrase “European...

In 1879, with a long sport-less winter looming, a group of players from Scarborough’s cricket club decided that the Northern...

Contrary to the widespread perception of the former East Germany as a villainous state, there were plenty of progressive features...

At the time of writing, Liverpool currently sit atop the peak of English football with 12 wins and one draw...

By its very nature football is defined and decided by singular, unimaginable and individual pieces of sheer brilliance which perhaps...