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The 1994 Caribbean Cup qualification round saw the introduction of the Golden Goal rule by FIFA as a means of...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

BY CRAIG STEPHEN Citizens of a country supporting another team or even the opposition is hardly a new or rare...

BY CRAIG CAMPBELL In nature there's a brutal truth about something beautiful always getting its comeuppance. Whether it's a doe-eyed...

BY CRAIG CAMPBELL The day Euro ‘96 started was the day my dog committed suicide. This is a true story....

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

BY GARY THACKER Let’s be honest, we all love a bit of giant-killing in the FA Cup, don’t we? That...

BY CRAIG STEPHEN Numbed by repetitive failure over more than two decades, I had long resigned myself to neglecting the...

BY CRAIG CAMPBELL If you're British football fan and of a certain age, there's a goal that's bound to be...

As a break from the Fantafrica series, which shall resume next month, Pete Martin recollects watching Liverpool’s famous victory over...

BY CRAIG CAMPBELL It's 1978 and somehow, like a crazed preacher on mescaline, Scotland manager Ally MacLeod has got them...

BY OLLIE McMANUS With the England’s women football team now up to second place in the world and the Women’s...

BY GARY THACKER Going back a few years or so, outlandish results and scoring feats were not that unusual, especially...

In the sixth part of his series, JAMES EVANS examines the evolution of pairs of stadiums across the world; in this instalment we...

BY CRAIG CAMPBELL There's two schools of thought on a man like Frank McAvennie. If you're one of those who...

This article originally appeared in Issue 18 of The Football Pink magazine - 'Hotbeds Volume 1' MARK GODFREY visits Belo...

They may not be world-beaters, but the red and white diamond top of Peru has twice delivered a stab in...

BY CRAIG CAMPBELL My dad had Alzheimer's. Mam always said he had 'wandered' but I couldn't use that phrase without...

BY GARY THACKER England had won the World Cup in 1966 and offered up a more than reasonable defence of...

BY OLLIE McMANUS For many footballers the ultimate goal is to capture the irreplaceable glory of winning, or even just...

BY CRAIG CAMPBELL An away fixture at Grimsby Town. The hinterlands of voodoo Lincolnshire, especially if you're a club with...