We’re off to a cup final, everyone! Faye Carruthers joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller to discuss the 1988 Littlewoods Challenge Cup Final between Luton Town and Arsenal. Defending champions Arsenal were considered heavy favourites, but Ray Harford’s Luton Town had been performing well in the First Division and were raring for this cup final. […]
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Quiz! Name these multiple European Cup and Champions League winning managers
The holy grail for a manager of a football club is to hold the Champions League trophy in their hands. Or the European Cup if they were born before 1992. To win it once is an achievement in itself but how about two or even three times? You’d be surprised to hear that the list […]
Chile 2 Italy 0, 1962 – Cecilia Lagos
On Greatest Games this week, Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller are joined by Cecilia Lagos to remember the 1962 World Cup group stage tie between hosts, Chile, and two-time World champions, Italy – the ‘Battle of Santiago’. David Coleman’s introduction to the BBC’s broadcast of this game is the stuff of legends – “The game […]
The Other Cup
Now glance at the name “Europa League”. What information does it convey? It’s a league for… the abstract concept of Europe? For women who ride off on divine white bulls? Uefa can’t call the competition what it is, since “The Second-Tier Distribution of Teams as Apportioned by Mathematical Coefficients Cup” lacks a certain Heineken Factor." […]
Quiz! Wembley FA Cup Winners
In this quiz, name the winners of the 86 FA Cup finals to have been hosted at Wembley Stadium since 1922. Let us know how you do on Twitter. PLAY HERE: For more quizzes, head here.
Quiz! European Cup Final Goalscorers
33 players, 7 minutes In this quiz, name every player to have scored more than one European Cup/Champions League final goal. Let us know how you do on Twitter. PLAY HERE: Order our upcoming quarterly – including how escaping Roland Duchâtelet took Charlton to the edge of extinction, how recent handball controversies have made football ask […]
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 […]
Workers Rights, Tony Richardson
The following article first appeared in Issue 39, released in December 2020. The story of the Nepalese labourers building Qatar’s World Cup stadiums. Tribhuvan Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal. November 2018. Football is the icebreaker. It always is. Within seconds of sitting down in departures my neighbour and I have exchanged the basics; who we love, who we […]
Why are Some of the UK’s Football Teams Some of the Most Famous?
Why are the UK’s football teams some of the most well-known no matter where you go in the world? We take a closer look here. Head anywhere in the world and you will be able to start a conversation about football with someone. The beautiful game is loved worldwide, there is no doubt about that, […]
Ronaldo in Moscow – The Blizzard Podcast Episode Ninety Nine
"That 1997-98 Uefa Cup campaign was the last we saw of the ‘pure’ Ronaldo. Nike’s ‘R9’ brand soon sprang into action, forgetting it had a human at its core. The striker changed his Inter shirt number from 10 to 9 and became the greatest commodity in world sport, selling everything from tyres to sunglasses. Rushed […]
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