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Tag: Football
Torcia Verde – a Unique Pocket of Football and Lisbon
“Sporting Clube de PORTUGAL!!” was something I would get used to having shouted at me…
Ange Postecoglou and the Price of Dogma
Over the past year, the footballing world has received a taste of Ange Postecoglou to…
Kickabouts in Cuba with Diego Maradona
“I’ve always chafed at the comparisons between the two countries.” After four years of friendship…
Breaching the Golden Glass Ceiling: Arsenal and The Invincibles
David Dein and Arsène Wenger first met during the 1988-89 season, a relationship embarked upon…
Imagine Sisyphus Happy – Jurgen Klopp: Part-Manager, Part-Philosopher
As a woman and a professor of philosophy, I have seen football always very differently.…
Manchester United: Like a Rolling Dice
In football, a single game is often too brief a sample of events to draw…
Portuguesa and the Venezuelan Ultra Turned Kidnapper
In 1963, with Real Madrid, FC Porto, and Sao Paulo in Caracas to play in…
The Boehly-Roman Empire: What the New Chelsea Regime Is Missing
I know what you’re thinking: that pun is just taking it too far. You’re right.…
The Richarlison Remontada
It’s no secret that Richarlison struggled at the beginning of his Spurs career. He needed…
How the Korean Public Failed Lee Kang-in
I don’t have enough words to express how disgusted I am at the way South…
The story of Sunday Mba, Nigeria’s unexpected hero at the 2013 Nations Cup
Football has a knack for producing the unlikely, whether in the form of a modest…
Jürgen Klopp Made Us Walk Together
There are some days you just don’t forget. Your first day of university, your first…
Uncle Sam Has Moved Into Town – Football and the USA
Although the age-old trope of Americans not understanding European football still persists to this day,…
Balancing the Cultural Tightrope – A Battle We Underrate
In a world that is becoming more globalized, we’re seeing an increase in players with…
On the feel and functionality of Cole Palmer
A lot of changes have occurred at Chelsea Football Club over the past eighteen months.…
Transported to Another World: The Art of Radio Football Commentary
Time and time again, radio football commentary has engaged me in the game like no…
A Little Bit of Magic: Gabriel Jesus Glues the Arsenal Attack Together
Goals win games. An adage repeated again and again in football at any level. It’s…
Jude Bellingham: an era-defining galactico
When a 17-year-old Jude Bellingham left Birmingham City to join Borussia Dortmund in July of…
Bitcoin football: the story of Real Bedford FC
Football has become the establishment. Thirty years since the publication of Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch,…