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On a warm afternoon at the Santiago Bernabéu in June 2007, David Beckham had played his last game for Real...

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

Republican or nationalist? Castilian or Catalan? Messi or Ronaldo? These are just a few of the inextricable couplets which have...

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...

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

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

Crystal Palace and Brighton hold one of the most peculiar derbies in the country. Separated by almost 50 miles and...

Calcio may sometimes take criticism for the lack of some aspects that other leagues might have. But it should never...

The third-place playoff at the World Cup is often seen as an afterthought, a meaningless game before the much-awaited final....

Having recently entered my thirties, I’ve come to terms with the fact my prime years as a footballer are behind...

Football is very much like fashion. It’s constantly changing, with different philosophies and cultures shaping the game we love. Some...

This article originally featured on taleoftwohalves.uk on May 1st, 2018 What can you say about El Hadji Diouf? The Senegalese...

This article originally featured in The Football Pink fanzine issue 20. The 1958 World Cup is still fondly remembered by...

Guy Pichard is a French photographer who divides his time between his home country and Brazil. We are pleased to...

BY GAVIN BLACKWELLOver the years we have seen medical staff get the headlines in many different circumstances; some positive, others...

REVIEW BY PAUL McPARLAN - @paulmcparlanWhy would anybody be attracted to the concept of writing a history of England’s fraught...

BY CRAIG STEPHENAny observer of the game in Brazil will look at the national obsession through the prism of that...

BY ALEX JACKSONTo much of us in Britain, South America is a mysterious part of the world. For a country...

This article first appeared in Issue 18 of The Football Pink fanzineDAN WILLIAMSON gets under the skin of football in...

This article first appeared in Issue 20 of The Football Pink fanzineIn 1994, he was the best player in the...

BY FERGUS DOWD“Playing football, we didn’t think of deportation or the stress caused by life in the ghetto,” - Czech...

BY PUNEET GORASIAMartin Scorsese – a master of filmmaking – and Arsène Wenger, have much in common. More precisely, the...

GORDON P. McNEIL: A FOOTBALL MANIFESTOThe time has come for football fans to stand up and defend the species Homo...

BY SAIKAT CHAKROBARTYEvery once in a while, there comes a footballing fairytale which makes us believe in the impossible; like...

ALEX BROTHERTON looks at MLS and whether 2018 represented a turning point for the league’s image and profile on a...

BY SAIKAT CHAKROBARTYOn 1 December 1956, at Melbourne’s Olympic Park Stadium, an Indian team lined up against Australia for a...

BY PANOS KOSTOPOULOSThe distance between Rosario, Argentina and Genoa, Italy is just a bit more than 11,000km. Back in 1925,...

On November 12th, two teams from Kolkata's Durbar Sports Academy debuted in the I-League. Both teams are comprised largely of...

In part 5 of our 18 for 18 series looking at different aspects of the game in 2018, JIM KEOGHAN...

BY MARK GODFREY - EDITORI remember the day we got our first video player very clearly. Note I said video...

BY LUCAS GILLARDI was a late convert to the sport sometimes described as “The World Game” in Australia. I had...

BY KAUSTUBH PANDEYThere always seems to be elements of magic and fascination that surround Brazilian football and culture. Not just...

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

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

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

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

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

Picture the scene... Harry Maguire, Leicester and England centre back, gets the call from Gareth Southgate that he has made...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

BY GARY THACKEROver the years, especially since the Second World War, international football has seen a number of teams rise...

BY ESKENDER TAMRATEthiopian football hit a new low in the past few weeks, but the turmoil has only served to...

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

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

We’ve made you wait for part 9 of our 'Football on the small screen' series, but here it is. SEBASTIAN...