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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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 ...

Former Championship manager Neil Warnock stated: There’s no other league in the world where the bottom club can beat the top club on a regular basis. Warnock continued – “In most leagues now, you ...

There were gasps in the room when auctioneer Ian Whyte brought down his gavel on Lot 382. At €5,100 the three medals won by Cork Hibernians centre-forward Tony Marsden had not only blown away the ...

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 ...

After almost a century of existence, by the mid 1980s and into the early 1990s, football was in crisis. After the golden post-war era of the 1950s and 60s, the game started to enter a decline in the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The change was evident as early as July, when the first qualifying round of the 1997/98 Champions League was played. It was the first time that a second qualifying round was introduced for this ...

During the first three seasons that I’ve covered so far, there were a few developments that were bubbling under the surface, all to spill out in the summer of 1992. The first, and I did touch on it ...