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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...

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...

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...

Bada bing! Here's DAN WILLIAMSON with the next part of our football on TV series, looking back at an often...

Nicking villains, sinking pints and pulling birds; with some time travel thrown in for good measure. Life on Mars was...

The second part of our new series looking at football in fictional TV shows examines The Manageress; almost 30 years...

This article originally appeared in Issue 9 of The Football Pink Not many referees mete out justice on the pitch...

This article originally appeared in Issue 15 of The Football PinkThe legendary Argentine full-back was a hero to millions on...

This article originally appeared in Issue 11 of The Football PinkANDY FULLER sees in the New Year with a bunch...

BY CHRIS SMITHIn the history of modern life, the years 1956-58 can certainly be considered important. Britain invaded Egypt over...

BY RICHARD BEEDIEThe dictionary definition of a ‘cult hero’ is ‘A writer, musician, artist, or other public figure who is...

BY PETER MILESI love football grounds; big or small, grand or rudimentary, I just love them. They are a focal...

This article originally appeared in Issue 8 of The Football Pink - the Italia '90 25th anniversary specialBefore the 1990...

BY SEAN MAKINMarch 2002. The BBC launched their new radio station 6 Music, coal mining in Scotland came to an...

BY MARK GODFREYPeru launched a cross into the Argentine box, looking for an equaliser that would push them closer towards...

BY PETER COATESThe Superclasico between River Plate and Boca Juniors is a fixture in the world football calendar that’s steeped...

This article originally appeared in Issue 7 of The Football Pink which is available by clicking HEREMARK GODFREY takes a...

BY GARY THACKERNacional Medellin defender and Colombia international Andres Escobar Saldariaga was once asked by Gonzalo Medina, a compatriot and...

BY TOMOS KNOXIn July 1995, Montserrat - a small island in the Caribbean - was shrouded in smoke as its...

This article first appeared in Issue 3 of The Football Pink magazine available HERE LAURA JONES examines the roots of...

BY GERARD FARRELLA World Cup in Brazil, it conjures up images in the imagination of the European football fan of...

 BY MARK GODFREYBrazilian footballers get everywhere these days. Look at any top league around the world and the proliferation of...

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...