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...
Category - Nostalgia
Is there any sweeter sight in football than watching an expertly-taken free kick sail past the keeper and into the back of the net? It’s an exceptionally...
Winston Bogarde is a name that will draw a wry smile from plenty of long-time Premier League fans and an angry sigh from a lot of Chelsea supporters. A man who...
For all of the criticism Sam Allardyce receives for playing defensive football, the team he built during his years at Bolton was one filled with attacking...
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...
There are few players in the game that end up with an actual role named after them, but Claude Makélélé was one such person despite being seen in some eyes...
20 years on from the Dutchman’s arrival at Man United, the defender is still adored to this day. But what made the Rock of Kampen one of the best defenders...
Freddie Ljungberg joined Arsenal just as Arsène Wenger’s French revolution was picking up pace. By the time that the manager had the team’s shape...
Sometimes achieving hero status at a club can take a while. You labour long and hard for a club, offering dedicated service, often playing through injury, and...
With his long flowing blond locks trailing behind him as he set off on one of his runs, Claudio Caniggia took on the image of a stallion in full flight. Power...
Graeme Souness is a name that will conjure up all sorts of images for football fans depending on their age. Some will know him only as the straight-talking...
Alan Shearer aside, not many players have risked incurring the wrath of Sir Alex Ferguson by resisting his overtures to join Manchester United, particularly...
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...
Replacing world-class players is never easy, but that was the task Sir Alex Ferguson faced multiple times throughout his reign at Manchester United. One of the...
The 1994-95 Premier League season saw Blackburn Rovers top the table and pick up the trophy as champions of England. Looking at the club’s current position...
In the middle of their pre-game warm-up, the Inter squad, led by captain Javier Zanetti, all break from their exercises and swarm towards the halfway line...
The year is 2001. Cherno Samba is at Millwall, Maxim Tsigalko is at Dinamo Minsk, and Taribo West is available on a free. We all know the drill. Get the...
When Sir Alex Ferguson signed Robin Van Persie from Arsenal in the summer of 2012, there was a general feeling that he did so for two reasons. The first was in...
English football has been graced by some high-quality imports from the Czech Republic, with Petr Čech, Tomáš Rosický, Milan Baroš and Patrik Berger all...
In the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup in Germany, a certain Japanese midfielder caught the eye of several major European clubs after scoring four goals in five...
A long list of legendary footballers have stepped out onto the turf of Old Trafford, but few ever defined the fighting spirit of the club as dramatically as...