Timeless
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837When Time Stood Still: The Final Day of the 2011-12 Season
When football fans think back to May 13, 2012, two names will instantly come to mind: Sergio Aguero and Martin Tyler. As...
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1.5KWayne Rooney: Living long enough to see himself become the villain
September 2002, Everton were expected to gallantly fail to stop an Arsenal side who had finished Premier League runners-up the season before,...
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566Costa Rica’s five-week journey into 2014 World Cup glory
When the draw for the 2014 World Cup groups was made on 6 December 2013 at the Costa do Sauípe resort in...
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1.4K800 Days in Turin: Why Carlo Ancelotti Failed At Juventus
As the Juventus players toiled on a waterlogged pitch in Perugia, they knew that the summer holidays had begun for the rest...
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1.1KA rivalry on many levels: Germany Vs Netherlands
The rivalry between the Netherlands and Germany has at times been one of football’s fiercest and most keenly contested. There have been...
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1.1KThe meteoric rise of PFC Ludogorets Razgrad under Kiril Domuschiev
It’s probably an incontrovertible truism that, in modern football, money talks. Some may argue that rather than talk, money actually screams out...
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860When football healed a nation: South Africa’s 1996 AFCON win
When it comes to politics, I could be the lost person in a conversation. It is a subject many people steer clear...
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1.2KClass War: The story of the Buenos Aires Superclásico
Regularly ranked atop the list of most passionate derbies, the Buenos Aires derby, dubbed the Superclásico, is arguably the most intense and...
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1.6KMarcelo Bielsa’s Argentina: Lost chances and broken hearts
Over the last few weeks, Marcelo Bielsa has been in the spotlight over his new role as Leeds United’s manager. A man...
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895Arsenal’s testing four days in May 1980
“If you can meet with triumph and disaster. And treat those two impostors just the same.” Using that particular quote from Kipling...
