Timeless
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797CSKA Sofia: European football’s slayers of Champions
In the history of Europe’s premier club competition, be it as the European Cup or, more latterly, the Champions League, only one...
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1.3KThe Ballet on Ice: When Manchester City played Tottenham on a sheet of ice
If one were to make a list of football games played under the most extreme conditions, not many games would pop up...
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758Dancing shoes and explosive play: The varied career of ‘Dinamita!’ Joffre Guerrón
If asked to suggest the greatest players to emerge from South America this century, very few, if any, would raise a hand...
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702Seven thousand miles, twelve yards and one small step
On 16 November 2005, in Sydney’s Telstra Stadium, John Aloisi, late of Coventry City and Portsmouth, among many other clubs, but at...
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1.9KThe tragic tale of Roma legend Agostino Di Bartolomei
Any footballer’s career can have many peaks and troughs, almost regardless of the level at which they play. Games won or lost....
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2.7KThe 1971 Cup Winners’ Cup: When Chelsea’s debutants overcame the Old Masters of European football
After winning the FA Cup in 1970, defeating Leeds United in a couple of brutal battles first at Wembley, and then in...
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1.7KChris Nicholl: Own goals, a great goal and the heavy price to pay
There is an indisputable glamour about being a professional footballer in the top ranks of the game. There’s fame, fortune and the...
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4.7KClive Thomas and “the most controversial decision that any referee has ever made”
Back in 1981, Tottenham and Wolverhampton Wanderers played an FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough. It was a game that I happened to...
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2.0KMatthias Sindelar: The exquisite life and mysterious death of Austria’s ‘Papery Man’
On 23 January 1939, Gustav Hartman knocked on the door of his friend’s flat in Vienna. By almost any definition, at the...
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1.2KThe Momentous History of Northern Ireland’s clash with Germany
Northern Ireland enjoyed their first taste of a tournament final in a generation, back in 2016 when they reached the last 16...
