Although it’s been rescheduled for 2021, the UEFA European Football Championship has kept its original name, EURO 2020, as well as the teams that are set to compete for the title of the best football nation on the Old Continent. From the moment the qualifying teams were divided into groups, predictions started to appear on […]
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Building The Dream, James Corbett
The following article first appeared in Issue 16, released in March 2016. As the political wrangling continues over Qatar’s World Cup, what’s the reality on the ground? At the edge of an empty man-made lagoon near to the shore of the Arabian Gulf, I count skyscrapers looming from the dust. The road, lined on one […]
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Where Now For Iceland?
"In some ways Iceland has been lucky. Had the country’s banks collapsed a few years earlier than they did in 2008, there would not have been the same level of investment in football and none of this would have been possible. But by then the pitches were already built, the indoor complexes well established, the […]
Closure
"Grant realised that nightmares had tortured his father every night… It had been going on for years. After hearing his father scream that night, Avram vowed that he would find out everything that had happened to his family – and find the lost graves of those relatives who were buried in far-off lands." In Episode […]
Blue Period
"Only two things dominated the lives of any schoolboy growing up in Johannesburg in the late 1970s – sport and girls. Girls were a proposition too various and complicated to contemplate, so we sublimated frantically and played more sport than we were already playing. Scratch soccer games at break-time. Cricket, rugby, touch-rugby. We swam, considered […]
Competition Time
Illustrator Matthew J Wood has created a range of posters celebrating some of England’s most iconic stadiums, both past and present, which we highly recommend that you check out. Thanks to Matthew’s generosity, we also have a very special prize for one lucky reader. If you can answer the question below correctly you’ll be in […]
The Width of a Crossbar, Ben Kosky
What if Poland had scored in the last minute of the final qualifier and England hadn’t made it to Italia 90? Gazza’s tearful night in Turin, Bobby Robson’s redemption and the origin of a national hang-up about penalty shoot-outs – for England football fans, these are the abiding memories of Italia ’90. England’s unexpected run […]
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Champions League of Champions League Winners
The first Champions League final of a new decade takes place this week in unchartered conditions. Yes, Lisbon might have hosted the showpiece twice before but not without a few genuine supporters and thousands of corporate associates, and certainly not in late-August. These finals are often, unsurprisingly, determined by goals. Sometimes maybe good goals, sometimes […]