With the increasing intensity within games in recent times, it can be easy to brand a player who embraces such game state ...

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This part will focus on club competitions in Europe and the rest of the world – after which, there’ll be one more piece to come focusing on the rest of the Millennium season, in particular the last ...

Having only qualified for one World Cup (France 1998), considering the immense talent in their ranks, Jamaica are seen as serial underachievers. Current players include Michail Antonio, Bobby ...

The 2024/25 Premier League season is all but over. There are just a few things left to be confirmed, but for the most part, teams are beginning to wind down and think about their plans for the next ...

2025 brings us another new chapter in the footballing universe: the birth of the new FIFA Club World Cup. The Club World Cup has been a staple of the footballing calendar since 2000 (or 1960 if you ...

An enticing concept has been quietly incubating within English football in recent years: supporter ownership of clubs. While it may be the norm in places such as Germany and Argentina for football ...

Despite a 2-1 defeat at Ternana with a game to go in the 2016/17 season, the Serie B title was SPAL’s if Benevento could beat promotion rivals Frosinone. Fabio Ceravolo struck late for Benevento, and ...

The Irish footballing revolution which is currently being spearheaded by Stephen Kenny, only the second manager to take the Republic of Ireland hotseat having previously coached in the League of ...

Non-league football is very special; it is the roots of Dorking Wanderers. Ever since its creation in 1999, they have had a miraculous rise through the English football pyramid and they will be ...

Many believe that this rise in hooliganism has all stemmed from the events at the Euro 2020 Final at Wembley stadium. Despite a reduced stadium capacity (due to Covid-19 restrictions) more than the ...

British football has a prolonged and uncomfortable history with hooliganism. From 1960 to the 1990s, that destructive culture of criminal behaviour spread dramatically to the extent where violence, ...