Football referees are programmed as a thick-skinned species. Modern-day officials, whilst trying desperately to prevent multi-millionaire ball kickers from...
Category - Nostalgia
How Manchester United fans must long for the presence and longevity of the greats from their illustrious past. Today, the stark contrast of United’s...
It’s 24 April 1996 and Iceland are playing Estonia in Tallinn. Starring for the visitors is 34-year-old Arnór Guðjohnsen, one of the country’s top...
In the mid-1990s, Middlesbrough had a bright, young manager in Bryan Robson and changed the Premier League landscape with signings such as Juninho and Fabrizio...
Croatia’s ‘Golden Generation’ reached the World Cup final in Russia last year before losing 4-2 to France, with soon-to-be Golden Ball and Ballon d’Or...
At almost every successful club there’s ‘that’ player. He’s the one often closest to the hearts of the fans. Not the best in any particular position...
Freddie Ljungberg joined Arsenal just as the Arsène Wenger French revolution was picking up pace. By the time that the manager had the team’s shape...
If you’re the manager of a Premier League club and your secretary wants to put a call through to you from “George Weah” odds are you’re at least going...
What does £400,000 get you at Manchester City these days? It would just about pay Sergio Aguero’s wages for a couple of weeks, or maybe get you Kevin De...
Featuring the likes of Michael Laudrup and Preben Elkjær, the Danish team at the 1986 World Cup with jet-heeled strikers and elegant midfielders played such a...
