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Can you smell it, folks? That’s the sweet scent of the Premier League season closing in and money being burned...

Written by Jim Keoghan, author of 'How to Run a Football Club: The Story of Our National Game', and 'Punk...

This is the story of an international football match causing an international incident, which had ramifications for many years after....

“Some of these trips we made last a week, it was a holiday. It was different. Different places, different food,...

Right then, folks - get comfortable because we have a lot to get through today. All the rumour-creators are back...

Last time out we opened our series on ‘Falls from Grace” with a look at possibly the Granddaddy of them...

El Maracanazo 1989 refers to an incident when Chilean goalkeeper Roberto Rojas attempted to cheat Brazil out of a place...

A week without actual football has now passed us by because, as ever, we do not count preseason friendlies as...

February 2011 and Ian Holloway brings his Blackpool side to the home of Bristol City. Holloway is pretty much Mr...

“The door opened from the cockpit and a bottle of vodka rolled down the aisle.” If crossing the Iron Curtain...

Well, there goes England’s 100% record in major finals on home turf then. The Euro 2020 adventure is over -...

One can only wonder at the pride a certain Mr and Mrs Charlton must have felt on 30th July 1966...

There's a party goin' on right here A celebration to last throughout the years So bring your good times and...

Some things in football, as in life, are deemed worse than others. For example, Alan Shearer, amongst others, contends there...

Unless you were lucky enough or old enough to be around when the English football team last won something (1966,...

The modern game sees the sands shifting more regularly than ever before and such are its inconsistencies and vagaries that...

Yugoslavia was once a proud footballing nation, a side nicknamed the Brazilians of Europe which appeared in 8 World Cups...

If there’s one thing that you can’t beat in football, it’s a goalkeeper scoring a goal. It’s such a relatively...

World Cup tournaments can provide the punctuation marks to a great player’s football career. However, very few players have managed...

It had been an incredible couple of seasons for Swindon. League Cup winners and promoted to the Second Division in...

This Euro 2020 thing only really gets going on Tuesday, right? The small matter of England, oh so conveniently at...

It’s hard to come by a football shirt without a sponsorship logo blazed across the front of it. These deals...

Every little boy and girl growing up watching football shares a single dream - to one day become a legend...

During a tournament, the presenter will often say we will be going live to the England camp, or any of...

Ah, the joys of England at a major football tournament - how I have missed it. Hot off the heels...

The 1968-69 season was the best Swindon Town supporters had ever known. Their first ever trip to Wembley saw them...

The summer of 1992. I have to admit, my memory of this time is far hazier than of the summer...

So, in Gareth in we trust, right? It didn’t look quite like that after England’s starting XI was leaked online...

It's finally here - Euro 2020. The first major international tournament to be named after the year before it takes...

Towards the end of the 1980s, Ireland qualified for the European Championship and World Cup finals for the first time...

The moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your...

England, England, England - we’ve been here before, haven’t we? Not quite good enough to convince me we might win...

On June 11th, EURO 2020 will kick off with 24 teams battling it out in 51 matches across 11 different...

This series is a look back at Swindon Town’s glory days. We started during the 1968-69 season. Swindon are in...

Flavourly, the award winning online craft beer delivery service has today launched four winning EURO craft beer cases*, allowing you...

On this week's podcast, host Roddy Cairns (@RoddyGCairns) is joined by Pete Spencer (@irishpete67) and Andrew Haines (@AndrewHaines98) to remember...

I used to play clips of 1990s Arsenal players on a loop when I got anxious, when the ghosts in...

This is part two of the glory days of Swindon Town. Three extraordinary seasons where they hit heights never seen...

Well, it wasn’t a bad weekend for west London, was it? A week, let alone a weekend, is a long...

Zinedine Zidane. There can be few names in the modern era which land with such weight on the ears of...

It's been a long time in the making, but we are finally and proudly able to announce the latest issue...

So, finally, we come to the end of our ‘Back to The Eighties’ series in which we have looked at...

You have to applaud Tottenham Hotspur FC, really. They had us going there, I almost thought they were going to...

Once every season, the Football Pink Podcast pauses to reflect on footballing greatness. In this episode, host Roddy Cairns and...

After a short hiatus, our ‘Back to the Eighties' series returns with a look at 1988 - a year which...

Post-1945, football was still reeling from the effects of the Second World War. For many countries, they were still in...

Ah, the business end of the season where we start searching for some remaining business to make the footballing weekends...

If you missed Part 1 of the series, don't forget to take a look here ! As we saw in...

The average football fan is used to rivalries that are played out by two clubs from the same neighbourhood, the...

Premonitions about teenage prodigies in football can throw up wildly varying degrees of accuracy. While some golden boys indeed go...