Nothing and everything: Why I love football
No one knows for sure why so many people love football. Football is a mixture of nothing and...
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Euro 2004’s ‘other’ underdog story: The story of Latvia’s golden summer
By Bradley Hughes On June 15th 2004, the Czech Republic were lining up to play Group D’s opening...
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Defying the odds: What is the greatest underdog story in football?
There is just something about an underdog story that resonates with us and makes us feel compelled...
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A Greek Tragedy in three parts: Koriopolis in the summer of 2011
When recent conversations about how to finish football leagues with fixtures incomplete were going...
Read MoreWhen Scotland won the World Cup: Rose Reilly and a “wee lassie’s” fight to play.
“I’d have went to the moon”, she said, with a steely, sincere gaze. “If they’d played football there, I’d have went”. It’s 2019 and the Scotland women’s football team is on the verge of a big ‘first’. In just a few...
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Backroom and boot room: The importance of a tight-knit team
A football scout by the name of Fred O’Donoghue quoted in his book Scouting For Glory “working for...
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A football empire: When Liverpool ruled all
On 26th May 1989, Anfield prepared itself for one of the most climactic final day showdowns in...
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Herrera’s Inter: Innovation and the desire to win
There are very few eras in football history than can be summed up by simply combining a manager’s...
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The aftermath of Calciopoli: Redemption in Turin
Since the 1930s Turin’s Juventus have also been considered one of the beautiful game’s...
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Euro 2000: The summer I fell in love with football
Two years after the disappointment of Saint-Etienne in 1998, the nine-year-old version of myself...
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Spain vs Yugoslavia at Euro 2000: The maddest international of the century
It was Mark Twain who said the truth is stranger than fiction. His argument was that while fiction...
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“The game’s gone soft”: Are the days of blood and thunder leadership in football over?
The phrase ‘blood and thunder’ is not one that was created by the footballing world, but rather...
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