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What is the lot of a football club owner in the English Premier League in this day and age?
Well, if you are Abu Dhabi United or Roman Abramovich, then you are in it for the fun and kudos of owning a football club.
Neither of these...
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Written by Graham Fisher. 8 comments
As a child, the summer holidays brought about a family trip to a campsite in Europe. We’d get in the car to travel down to Dover and I would always be wearing my United shirt. After hours and hours of driving, we’d pull in at our designated...
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Written by Scott the Red. 26 comments
When you’re hot, you’re hot… and doesn’t the modern day footballer know it.
A few months ago Robbie Keane pledged his future to Tottenham Hotspur saying “I’m having a summer...
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Written by Andy Greeves. 15 comments
The world’s greatest nation is surprisingly mediocre when it comes to playing the world’s most popular sport. It’s not that they keep losing – far from it. Americans have a winning mentality that automatically...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 133 comments
The show’s over folks, we can all get back to work. If you’ve missed anything, here’s a quick recap of our Euro 2008 coverage:
Written by Soccerlens. 2 comments
Don’t call me Hugo any more. I’m English, don’t you know? So you have to change my name. At school, P.E. teachers insisted on branding me “Steckel”, although I suppose I should just be grateful I escaped that...
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Written by Hugo Steckelmacher. 26 comments
First off, as a sort of disclaimer I would like to start off by conceding that I am by no means an expert on the topic of football fanzines. I have read a few in my time, but have not...
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Written by Hugo Steckelmacher. 4 comments
“You give your life to football and then it often forgets you. Football clubs have a bad habit of taking players in, making the most of them, and then vomiting them up once they’re too old or injured […] That’s...
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Written by Hugo Steckelmacher. 8 comments
The subject of slavery is one that rouses reactions verging from the understandably passionate to the frankly irrational. I can recall with a pang of melancholy the furore issuing from José Mourinho’s assertion that the French Football...
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Written by Hugo Steckelmacher. 6 comments
The globalisation of football is a fact – once that genie got out of the bottle, there is no way on earth, heaven or hell that you could put it back in. Football is now a universal game, and it will continue to grow as the #1 sport around the...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 13 comments
