Last time out I looked at the old adage that you should never attempt to go back in life. That...
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By Conor Turner During our previous articles, we highlighted the story behind Raynes Park Vale, their importance in the community...
Yup, another article about COVID-19 and football. Sorry about that. As with virtually everybody across the globe, my life came...
With Wenger's reign at Arsenal slowing to an uncomfortable decline, Matt Abbott revisits the glory years which saw him make...
With no less than seven promotions to his name, Dave ‘Harry’ Bassett has a record to be proud of. That...
Liverpool won their 18th league title at the end of April 1990. Less than two months later Jordan Henderson was...
The majority of my time during the week is spent on what we call running repair injuries that raise the...
Thirty years! Thank the stars that’s over and I can get back to my life now! In 1990, the year...
Sixteen years of hurt, frustration and misery at Leeds United came to a resounding end in July, with Marcelo Bielsa’s...
The city of La Plata lies just under an hour's drive south from the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. A settlement...
Most film sequels tend not to live up to expectations or are rarely as good as their predecessors. The Inbetweeners...
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...
Last time out I highlighted a few bugbears of mine that have been languishing deep within my footballing soul and...
Dave Bassett has countless stories to tell. They are locked in his vault and each one is always ready to...
If one was to discuss who the greatest player to have graced White Hart Lane across the last decade, a...
The 1970s seem a long time ago now and much has changed in society as well as in the footballing...
In Part One, QPR started the season well with big wins over the likes of Liverpool, Everton and reigning champions...
I'm not sure if it's the medium-term effects of 'lockdown' kicking in, or being 'exiled' overseas, but in recent weeks...
There have been a number of sporting upsets over the years, especially within the game of football. Leicester City’s jaw-dropping...
Raynes Park Vale supporting the #FBB2020 challenge In our last edition, we focused on Raynes Park Vale and their place...
A football scout by the name of Fred O’Donoghue quoted in his book Scouting For Glory “working for a football...
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...
'Don't let it bounce': Raynes Park Vale in the community Raynes Park Vale Football Club have been part of the...
Reigning Ligue 1 champions Lyon looked likely to kick-off their title defence with a routine win against EA Guingamp, but...
For many fans of football from Europe, the Club World Cup is an afterthought. It’s a frustrating hindrance in the...
There are many different ways of getting to know someone. For some, there is no more efficient ice breaker than...
Sir Bobby Robson sadly departed this world in 2009, cruelly cut down by the awful disease that is cancer. His...
Behind the scenes at Raynes Park Vale Last week, we kicked off our non-league journey of the trials and tribulations...
The sun is beginning to set on my first day in Rome and I’m hungry. My wife and I have...
In part one I managed just about to sum up Gerrie Mühren’s career, his brother Arnold will be the focus...
Thursday marked what would have been the start of Euro 2020. Anticipation would have been building with the usual hype...
Dutch football has blessed us with some great footballers, amazingly they also have a strong history in providing great families...
From dramatic dives to calling Chris Smalling Mike, Louis Van Gaal and his time at Manchester United will certainly live...
Forty years ago Graham Roberts was plying his trade at non-league Weymouth when out of the blue Tottenham Hotspur manager,...
It's a fierce footballing rivalry that's been controversial at every turn. England and Argentina, rare intercontinental foes, are hardly two...
He shouldn’t happen to teams like Huddersfield, Jordan Rhodes. The form he found himself in was the stuff that young...
In the summer of 2006 I was 8. Things were simple. School was rubbish (as I kept telling my mum),...
A rebel, a revolutionary, an innovator - all words that are aptly used to describe Barcelona legend, Johan Cruyff. There...
Towards the end of this month, the England and Wales European Championship squads would have gathered fresh from a long...
As far as the traditional fierce rivalries in football go, not many players in the game can claim to be...
The world is currently on lockdown, Covid-19 is wreaking havoc and making a mockery of all the things in society...
I'm in a taxi heading to Buenos Aires airport. Marco, the driver, and I are discussing what Argentinians love to...
Many people argue that there is no rivalry like that between River Plate and Boca Juniors. No football spectacle matches...
The managerial partnership of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor is probably the most well-known of all such collaborations in the...
Long before Charlie Nicholas was sitting here thinking on Sky Sports’ football scores round-up he was a prodigious footballing talent....