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Dutch Side Trolls Chelsea Fans by Announcing They’ve Signed Kai Havertz
21-year-old German sensation Kai Havertz has been tipped to join Premier League side Chelsea in the wake of Bayer Leverkusen’s Europa League campaign coming to an end. However, Blues fans might have gotten quite the scare when they got wind of Dutch minnows Heracles Almelo welcoming the player with a tweet of his face photoshopped […]
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Roy’s Swedish Revolution, Gunnar Persson
The following article first appeared in Issue Eleven, released in December 2017. How Roy Hodgson transformed the face of the Swedish game Roy Hodgson — young, unknown and unproven — got his first experience of front-line coaching in November 1975 when he was appointed by the Swedish no-hopers Halmstads Bollklubb. A year later he could light […]
Championship Football: Brentford Look Capable of Making Amends for Last Season’s Near Miss
After 116 years at Griffin Park, Brentford will begin the 2020-21 season at their new 17,250 capacity Brentford Community Stadium home. It wasn’t quite the fairytale ending Brentford had hoped for at Griffin Park, with the club narrowly missing out on promotion that would have seen them plying their trade in the top-flight of English […]
The Two Greatest Champions League Matches
There is no doubt that the Champions League is the most competitive and most fun competition to watch when it comes to football. The best teams in Europe come together each year to determine which one is at the very top. Throughout the years, this elite competition has graced us with tons of memorable moments […]
Super Bowl vs Champions League Final
The Super Bowl and Champions League Final are two of the biggest yearly sporting events in the world. So, a comparison between both events does not necessarily mean one is better than the other. Both events attract over fifty thousand live attendees, and viewers in their hundreds of millions every year. Fans of both events […]
Marcus Rashford: Becoming English Football’s Most Likeable Star
Twitter, even so-called “Football Twitter”, can be the most toxic of social media platforms. At times, it’s overwhelming to wade through the anger and vitriol, the partisan politics, the fake news and everything else that makes you type angrily into a keyboard. Indeed, it’s so bad that Amnesty International released a special report on the […]
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The Champions League can often be dominated by the same sides slugging it out against each other year after year, exchanging the trophy between themselves and not allowing anyone else into their elite group. This isn’t always the case though. From time to time, teams with fantastic talent and brilliant coaching staff come together and […]