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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Spanish football is world-renowned for the level of quality and passion; you can really feel the atmosphere at La Liga games and those that have been leave mesmerised. At Valencia the streets around ...

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 ...

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 ...