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In the beginning, there is a field, a ball, some rudimentary goalposts, and some people who love to play football....

We have mourned the passing of some great players in recent times, but none greater than Diego Armando Maradona. Quite...

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

  Every club has its legends - a list of true greats who influenced matters either on or off the...

There’s nothing more mesmerising than a sea of fans all decked out in their club's colours.It’s one of the most...

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

Football in the ’70s was revolutionary. Rinus Michels, the fantastic Dutch coach was showcasing his early version of the ever-developing...

James Bolam: Brazil 1982 One of the beauties of football, but also one of its tragedies is that the best...

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

Last month, Alsager Town hosted Vauxhall Motors in a North West Counties Football League Division One South match. It was...

English football mourned the death of another of its favourite sons this weekend. Reports came in of the sad passing...

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...

For a long time, Auxerre were widely regarded as an example of a side in France that performed above expectations,...

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

In recent seasons, English teams have started to get a stronghold in the European competitions. Which could suggest that the...

Al-Saadi Gaddafi was travelling around Benghazi searching for a solution. National violence had gripped the country for a month: his...

England versus Argentina has become one of the fiercest inter-country footballing rivalries of modern times. There has been a true...

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...

There are two types of legends at a club, ones who leave their legacy on the pitch, the others who...

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

'The thing was BEEEEP John Barnes BEEEEP and Dennis Wise BEEEEP' That sound isn't to cover up Bobby Gould saying...

Football has changed a lot in the past century, with so many changes brought on and off the pitch, it...

By Dom Smith “I was born in Darfur, Sudan. I was 11 years old in 2003, when me and my...

Ring the sirens. The football industry is in chaos and the crisis is urgent. Years of blind negligence and unconvincing...

Less overlapping full-backs, catenaccio and gegenpresse, more punk rock, autonomia and Gramscian theory, this is no ordinary football book. Which...

For the likes of Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City, sportswashing has brought success that their supporters could have only dreamed...

For a number of years, the idea of a European Super League has circulated, a league which would take the...

It was a cold November’s day, and I arrived in Alderley Edge by train, the station located on the edge...

By Bradley Hughes On November 18th 2009, Sudan’s second largest city, Omdurman, played host to a rather unique, last-minute international...

Manchester United missed the 1999/2000 FA Cup having won the competition the previous year. Just one of a potential 558...

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...

With more time on my hands than is either required or healthy during lockdown, I often find myself trawling the...

Notts County – perhaps the second most famous team from either side of the River Trent, the Magpies were one...

As we get older, we more and more often hear people uttering a variation of either, “I thought I had...

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

You’d struggle to find anyone other than misty-eyed Chelsea fans who’d count this as a classic. Nearly a quarter-century on,...

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

Jamie Richard Vardy; the name of one of football’s biggest underdogs who has gone on to accomplish what no one...

For business reasons, I tend to spend a lot of time in Liverpool these days, and a few weeks ago,...

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

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

With a new series of Strictly Come Dancing having started recently, it bought back memories of when John Barnes was...