The Second Season Syndrome: A myth or reality?
As football evolves with each passing year, the conundrum facing newly promoted teams always...
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Category: Stories
The Magic Cup: Is the Scottish Cup the best cup competition in the world?
The Scottish Cup is solid silver and has been presented to ever cup winner since inception in...
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Rushden and Diamonds: The ambitious team that flew too close to the sun
Embed from Getty Images The English Non-League pyramid at the moment is filled with sides trying...
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When Bedlington Terriers got Rich
In 2012, the BBC broadcasted the documentary Mr Rich and the Terriers. A look into how a...
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Modern-day football doesn’t deserve another Gabriel Batistuta
Calcio may sometimes take criticism for the lack of some aspects that other leagues might have....
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The European Cup Winners’ Cup: Gone but not forgotten?
European football is currently in the midst of its annual winter break from the Champions League...
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Turning defence into attack: How catenaccio attracted the greatest array of attacking talent
Think of one word to describe Italian football. The words ‘boring’ or ‘defensive’ would spring to...
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Netherlands vs Brazil: A World Cup rivalry
The third-place playoff at the World Cup is often seen as an afterthought, a meaningless game...
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Two Promotions in three years : The origins of the ‘team of the eighties’ (part two)
In part two of the series looking at the origins of Crystal Palace’s rise to the ‘team of the...
Read MoreSocial Media: How Twitter and online reviews can damage a perfectly good book launch
I wrote a book. It was about some things that happened. As books tend to be. I never imagined the fuss it would cause. The reaction in some quarters to One Step from Glory, a book built around Tottenham Hotspur’s 2018-19...
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Back Home: An Itch Scratched
As both a new year and decade dawn, it’s back to life and reality for most of us after the...
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The death of the strike partnership
Once, upon a time one of the critical elements to any successful group was its strike partnership....
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