Category: History
There are football stories where the right approach is to find the emotion, to connect the reader to the human experience of being a supporter, to write with the …
There is a photograph that tells you everything about the Class of 92 before you know a single fact about any of them. Six young men in Manchester United …
There is a specific kind of footballer who makes the game look like it was designed for them and them alone. A player whose relationship with the ball is …
I was a kid when the Invincibles happened. Old enough to understand what was going on but young enough that the full weight of the achievement only settled on …
English football before 1992 and English football after 1992 are two different sports played in the same country by the same people under the same rules. The stadiums are …
Diego Maradona is the only footballer in history who cheated and scored the greatest goal ever played within four minutes of each other and somehow both moments made you …
September 1996. A tall, thin, bespectacled Frenchman walked into Highbury to take charge of Arsenal Football Club and the reaction from English football was one of the most spectacularly …
Before the crash there was the team. I want to start there because the story of Munich is so overwhelming, so heavy with grief and consequence, that it can …
I need to tell you something about my dad before I tell you about the 1999 treble. He is not a Manchester United fan. Never has been. He grew …
My dad cried during Italia 90. He will deny this if you ask him. He will tell you his eyes watered because it was late and he was tired …
