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By any football club’s standards, 2020 was a catastrophic year. Pandemic-driven shortfalls caused by the…
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Dennis Bergkamp is my favourite footballer (or organism) of all time. From watching the calm,…
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Forget the Tournaments, Football Is Already Home
Football is obsessed with nostalgia. At no time is this more evident than during international competition wherein football cultures, nationalisms, and emotion blend into a heady liquor which draws in even the…
The Broken Jigsaw: Joachim Low’s Legacy
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FP Data Check: Manchester United Season Review 2020-21
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Arsenal 1970-71: There and Back Again
This week marks fifty years since Arsenal won the league-and-cup double. There is a lot to learn from that season – for the club and fans both.
Case for the Planet: Football Needs to Think
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The dance of the virtuoso: Lessons from the World Cup
A walk through Hungary: Once the axis of football, now a distant admirer
Neymar: Brazil’s little misunderstood genius behind all the theatrics
Neymar at Russia 2018 came out with the reputation of…
Football Beyond the Veil – Saudi Arabian Women’s Silent Revolution
Our editor Anushree Nande talks to Sarah Algashgari, a female…
Diaries from the streets of Bogota: Tickets, Taxis and Millonarios
Santokie Nagulendran roams through the streets of Bogota, talking race,…
Manchester City and NAC Breda: A long-distance relationship
NAC Breda have been average, reaching the highs and lows…
Dulwich Hamlet: The story of a fight to preserve grassroots football in the UK
Lower division football clubs around the UK are having to…
A Footballer’s Purgatory: Truth about the Vitesse-Chelsea Partnership
Unsuspecting Chelsea prospects increasingly find themselves in a place where…
Forget the Tournaments, Football Is Already Home
Football is obsessed with nostalgia. At no time is this…
The Messi vs Ronaldo Debate is the Low-point of Modern Football Conversation
Like the mythological snake, Ouroboros, the self-consuming egos of Cristiano…
Loris Karius, Dazed and Confused: Depression, Sabotage, Toxic Masculinity
The reprehensible reaction to Loris Karius’s howlers highlights the need…
Witnessing Liverpool’s Reclamation of Shankly’s Vision – A front-row view
“For Liverpool it’s been the season of Peter Gabriel, Beautiful…
Brazil and the birth of a footballing culture
Mexico 1970 was Brazil’s coronation as a footballing culture, coming…
In conversation with Osian Roberts, the silent engine of Welsh football
We talk to Osian Roberts, who is currently in charge…
Danny Mills on PEDs, Injections & the Final That Changed His Life
As a youth, Danny Mills went to Norwich City games…
Talking to Ralph Hasenhuettl: RB Leipzig’s very own superhero from the Alps
We talk to Ralph Hasenhuettl, the man from Austria who…