Category: History
Football managers are not known for listening to their bodies. The job is relentless, the hours are long, and the pressure never really switches off. For most, health is …
Winning a title is hard. Going an entire season without losing is something only a handful of teams ever manage. Going more than two years without losing a league …
Retirement is the one opponent every footballer loses to in the end. For most, the question is not whether it comes, but what on earth they do with themselves …
Every great dressing room has a story about the day someone stood up to the manager. Most of them end badly for the player. A few become legends because …
Football is very good at building a reputation for a young player and even better at destroying one. A good run in the academy, a big move and a …
There is a specific kind of dread that settles over a stadium when a player gets sent off while their team is winning comfortably. Everyone in the ground knows, …
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 …
