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By Bradley Hughes On November 18th 2009, Sudan’s second largest city, Omdurman, played host to a rather unique, last-minute international...

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

As another summer transfer window rolls on, amongst the dazzling and sensational hot properties making moves across Europe, an Italian...

This article is dedicated to Jimmy Burns, the man who inspired me to read and write football, and whom I...

The repackaging of the European Cup and the English First Division at the start of the 1990s had left Scottish...

“United were punished for not taking their chances.” Bleated Robbie Savage in the commentary box. The Welshman was right, of...

By Cameron Pope It is February 2003. I, a five-year-old boy with an irritatingly squeaky voice and chunky pair of...

'In a city of legends, something new is rising. This is Austin FC' Austin, Texas. Famously the birthplace of the...

By Edward Carmine Covid-19 has put a halt to fans attending football matches the world over, but what about those...

On 23rd October 2015, the Etihad Stadium hosted the National Football Museum Hall of Fame. British prime minister David Cameron,...

In Part One of this article, I discussed the relative weight to USA and Brazils ability to topple the European...

The city of Guangzhou, in the People's Republic of China (PRC), hosts an annual 500-year-old tradition. Flowers of all types...

In a month where the Court of Arbitration for Sport threw out Manchester City’s two-year ban from UEFA competition, essentially...

Domestic football has found its home in Europe. Despite football being the global game, the most eyes and talent is...

When you think of the Mexican team C.D Guadalajara, or Chivas as they’re commonly known as, you probably think of...

When recent conversations about how to finish football leagues with fixtures incomplete were going on, there was a lot of...

As COVID-19 continues to lockdown the globe, football is no exception to the changes in reality and society that this...

FIFA describes itself as a non-profit organisation, ‘For the Game. For the World.’ However, with the gap becoming ever bigger...

A black professional athlete from a European country who has performed on the grandest stages in his sport says he...

As four-time winners of the World Cup, possessor of some of the most beautiful shirts in international football history and...

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...

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 MARK KOHN-HEATON Malta is a small island nation in the Mediterranean with a rich culture and a turbulent colonial...

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 MATTHEW CRIST With the news that Amazon will be showing 20 live Premier League games from the 2019/20 season...

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...

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 DAVID VERMAN He galloped towards the enclosing Atalanta defence with inimical force. Having intercepted the ball in his own...

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

BY CRAIG STEPHEN Once again Senegal has lit up a World Cup by slaying the pre-match favourites. The Lions of...

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...

BY CRAIG STEPHEN Given that New Zealand was the first country to give women the vote, it is only apt...

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

BY CRAIG CAMPBELL Outside the Mineirão stadium in Belo Horizonte, the sound of sand bag heavy tears and wailing would feel...

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...

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...