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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...

In previous instalments, you have been ‘treated’ to the ramblings of a seriously annoyed middle-aged guy suffering from a severe...

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

In a bygone era of football, it was commonplace for up-and-coming football managers to cut their teeth in non-league or...

A few weeks ago I started griping. Griping and shouting at the clouds, you might say. As a slightly grumpy...

Last time out I looked at the old adage that you should never attempt to go back in life. That...

Most of us these days have at one time or another owned a football shirt or two. Currently, kits have...

When Project Restart was authorised, the ‘festival of football’ began. The Premier League carnival negotiated with its broadcasters and the...

There is a saying in life that is as generally true and apt to the world of football as it...

Leeds United's 16-year spell outside the top flight was a tumultuous and often tragic period in their history. Matt Abbott...

To the match-going football fan, a team may, on occasion, appear to be just 11 players out on the field...

You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who would disagree that Liverpool are currently one of the top sides in Europe,...

Football's modern culture is at times laughable at best, particularly when it comes to social media. Truth be told I...

By Cameron Pope When the draw for the second round of Europa League qualification took place in late August at...

For football weirdos like myself, the standard football media landscape isn’t enough in terms of different content. Don’t get me...

Walter Tull; a name that should be echoed throughout football grounds with every player and fan knowing precisely who he...

The Intertoto Cup was never anything other than a bizarre wee competition. Set up in 1961, partly as a way...

Football grounds are the essence of football’s material infrastructure. They matter to us. Our complaints about the soulless ‘blandscape’ of...