Category: History
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 …
There is a specific kind of cruelty in football that does not get talked about nearly enough. You have agreed personal terms. The fee is done. The clubs have …
My grandad saw George Best play. Not on television. Not on a highlights reel. In person. At Old Trafford, in the flesh, close enough to see the way he …
I want to start with a moment from the semi final against England that I do not think I will ever forget. The eighty fifth minute. England leading 1-0. …
There are footballers who win trophies. There are footballers who win awards. There are footballers who accumulate statistics that survive long after the memories of the matches that produced …
