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Some debuts will go to plan. Some, though, will go far from the plan that will have initially been set...

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

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

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

Every league needs rivalries to stand out from the average game. These matches are what fans look forward to at...

In his sweeping account of football in Britain, The Game of Our Lives, David Goldblatt describes 'a thick web of...

By Nathan O'Hagan Of all the potential networking opportunities afforded by social media, one particularly niche one that I never...

  My Love For Italian Football. Italian football is known for its revolutionary defensive tactics or catenaccio (the chain), which...

A leader's assistant should be just as influential as the man in charge himself. An assistant should be able to...

The movers move, the shakers shake, the winners rewrite history (New Model Army, High, 2007) Having a teenage son take...

Hoisted onto the shoulders of Brazilian defender Júlio César, Roberto Baggio, captain of Juventus, was the hero. Charging towards their...

While most football fans will be familiar with the iconic Adidas predator boot, which we all sported at one stage,...

Perhaps you think of Sevilla Fútbol Club as one of the top teams in Spain. This may be due to...

A League football is a relatively new concept compared to the top flights of Europe, but many don’t know it...

Ever heard the story about the Glasgow established soccer club that ran into financial calamity and went bankrupt? The club...

http://gty.im/1283203 The English Non-League pyramid at the moment is filled with sides trying to have a go at promotion to...

In the first part of our 18 articles looking back at football in 2018, GARY THACKER examines the rekindled love affair between...

BY TOM EVANS I started watching football the year the game changed forever: 1992 – the birth of the Premier...

BY CIAN MANNING The League of Ireland had been dominated by Dublin clubs; from its establishment in 1921 to the...

A photo essay by David Shaw On a blustery afternoon in February, over 40,000 Eintracht Frankfurt fans entered the Commerzbank-Arena...

BY CRAIG STEPHEN One spring Monday morning, Lokomotiv Plovdiv president, Alexander Tasev, like most football bosses around Europe, sat in...

BY CRAIG CAMPBELL By the time I got to see Billy Whitehurst in the flesh his reputation was diminishing. Like...

BY DAVE LONG England left the pitch after the FIFA World Cup semi-final in Moscow to raucous adulation from their...

This article first appeared in Issue 16 of The Football Pink JOE CARROLL examines the rise of a game that...

Here we are; the last instalment of JAMES EVANS’ series on the evolution of pairs of linked football grounds. To round...

BY SAM FRANCE If you had happened across VfB Stuttgart’s training pitch on an autumn evening in 1948, you may...

BY FERGUS DOWD 'I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a...

BY DAVE LONG Literally in the middle of nowhere, in the grounds of a renovated 17th century castle in the...

By Antun Katalenić Having recorded their first European away win in a decade, Rangers must be feeling pretty good about...

BY DAN WILLIAMSON Follow sport at any level and you will be acutely aware of the difficulties of making it...

BY DAVE LONG May 1997: I’d not long turned 18 and was present at a rain-soaked Saltergate, home of Chesterfield,...

This article originally featured in Issue 19 of The Football Pink In a run-down corner of South London ‘exists’ a...

In light of France's win in the 2018 World Cup final, here's our Issue 20 feature looking at the legacy of their...

BY SAM WILSON It is no lie that politics and football often have their lines blurred; encroaching on the territory...

BY CRAIG STEPHEN It can only be imagined that the trophy room at the Proact Stadium isn’t overburdened with the...

Pete Martin is a traveller, author, journalist and coach. This is the ninth and last in a series of articles adapted and extracted...

BY GARY THACKER Ivan Osim – often popularly known as ‘Ivica Osim’ – was born in Sarajevo in 1941. The...

We have reached instalment number 9 of JAMES EVANS' series on the evolution of pairs of linked football grounds . This...

BY ALEX JACKSON For the sport of association football, the United States of America has long been regarded as the...

This article appears in Issue 18 of The Football Pink MANUEL VETH uncovers the storied history a football city that...

BY FERGUS DOWD Sixteen teams from three confederations qualified for the 1958 World Cup finals; included in that number were...

BY FERGUS DOWD Sixteen teams from three confederations qualified for the 1958 World Cup finals; included in that number were...

BY CHRIS WINDLE In 1969 the majority of the world, certainly the western world, was excited by the prospect of...

This article originally appeared in Issue 19 of The Football Pink In the heart of Amsterdam, two men decided they’d...

Pete Martin is a traveller, author, journalist and coach. This is the eighth in a series of articles adapted and extracted...

This article first appeared in Issue 14 of The Football Pink magazine. Editor MARK GODFREY examines of the history of...

In part eight of his series, JAMES EVANS examines the evolution of pairs of stadiums across the world; in this episode he's in northern...

A photographer from Liverpool has secured a place as a contestant on the popular Sky Arts show Master of Photography....

2018 sees the 80th anniversary of the Basque national team who became a Mexican club side on a tour of...

The beautiful game is set to impress once more this summer when the collective attention of sporting audiences worldwide focuses...