Bale would love to finish his career with Real Madrid 10 November 2016 0 comments Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale has admitted that he would love to finish his career at the club after signing […]
10 YEARS ON: LIVORNO’S EUROPEAN ADVENTURE 1 September 2016 0 comments JAMES RICHARDS recalls when an unheralded Italian club punched above their weight… THE Calciopoli scandal of 2006, which showed that […]
UEFA MOVE DAMAGES FOOTBALL 1 September 2016 0 comments CHRIS DUNLAVY says the decision to guarantee four places to Europe’s big leagues in the Champions League is killing off […]
ITAL Y’S NORTH SOUTH DIVIDE 26 May 2016 0 comments JAMES RICHARDS looks at how southern Italy has been starved of success – but why there’s a glimmer of hope […]
LISBON’S LIONS SEEK TO CLAW WAY BACK TO TOP 26 May 2016 0 comments DANNY RUST reports on a Portuguese club hungry to re-establish themselves as the country’s best SPORTING Clube de Portugal are […]
BOLOGNA ARE BACK! 21 April 2016 0 comments JAMES RICHARDS looks at how an Italian club is trying to revive their glory days… Going up: Bologna celebrate promotion […]
FAN-TASTIC-NOT US 21 April 2016 0 comments EDD PAUL says other other countries, notably Germany, have overtaken us in the way they watch their football… FOOTBALL, as […]
THE MANAGERESSES 3 March 2016 0 comments NEIL COTTON takes a look at a small French club daring to do things a little differently… IN CLERMONT-FERRAND, capital […]
RB LEIPZIG – A DIFFERENT ENERGY 21 January 2016 0 comments JAMES RODGERS takes a look at a German team zooming up the divisions and threatening the old status quo EAST […]
SLEEPING GIANTS 15 October 2015 0 comments LIAM FLIN takes a look at some European clubs who are failing to punch their weight after falling on hard […]
HOW CAPTAIN MARVEL SERGEI WON HEARTS 15 October 2015 0 comments DANNY ARMSTRONG takes a look at the career of one of Russia’s best-ever midfielders and leaders… IN 1938, just a […]
HAVE YOU HERD THE ONE ABOUT THE COWS? 3 September 2015 0 comments JAMES RILEY on the unexpected problems he and his friends faced to follow their beloved Southampton into Europe FOR most […]
EURO VISION MUST CHANGE 3 September 2015 0 comments THOMAS SARGENT argues it’s time for pre-qualifying to end the one-sided bore-fests… AS QUALIFICATION matches for Euro 2016 rumble on, […]
A GREEK TRAGEDY 23 July 2015 0 comments NEIL COTTON reports on how Greece’s economic mayhem has also hit the country’s football hard AS THE Greek debt crisis […]
EURO STARS 23 July 2015 0 comments LUKE MASSEY selects his top five players from this summer’s European Under-21 Championships in the Czech Republic So impressive: Sweden’s […]
BATTLE OF THE BELGIANS 21 May 2015 0 comments GRAHAM RUT HERFORD takes a lo ok at the compatriots co mpeting t o be number one in t he […]
GREAT DANES PROBABLY THE BEST DERBY IN EUROPE 9 April 2015 0 comments ADAM MICHIE takes in all the colour and atmosphere of FC Kobenhavn against Brondy IF THINK fierce European derby matches […]
LEGIA WARSAW 22 January 2015 0 comments FIGHTING BACK AGAINST TROUBLEMAKERSRYAN HUBBARD looks at how Poland’s champions are trying to stamp out their biggest problem LEGIA Warsaw […]
COULD A RETURN TO ATLETICO MADRID SEE THE REBIRTH OF EL NINO? 22 January 2015 0 comments DAVE BODYMORE explains why Atletico Madrid is the perfect place for Fernando Torres to recapture the form that once made […]
DISASTROUS DORTMUND 22 January 2015 0 comments DANNY RUST analyses why Jurgen Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund have had an horrendous first half of the season in the Bundesliga […]
HISTORY IN THE MAKING 6 November 2014 0 comments JAMES BENSON looks at Guardiola’s Bayern Munich machine and predicts nothing’s going to stop them for years to come Once […]
PORTGUAL’S HIDDEN GEM 6 November 2014 0 comments DANNY RUST discovers that football fortunes in the south of the country are looking up with Olhanese leading the way […]
MATCH- FIXING AND FAVOURITISM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN 18 September 2014 0 comments TIM CARROLL charts the forgotten years of East German football Dynamo Berlin stadiumWith World Cup success in Brazil, German football […]
BALE MADRID 7 August 2014 0 comments Last summer, Real Madrid made the world record signing of Gareth Bale. LIAM NEWMAN looks back on a highly productive […]
CATCH A GLIMPSE OF THE MAESTRO WHILE YOU CAN 7 August 2014 0 comments JOHN GLYNN pays homage to Andrea Pirlo, the consummate Italian midfielder who has just retired from international football Andrea PirloThe […]
BRING ON THE WORLD CHAMPIONS 7 August 2014 0 comments CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the challenge facing Gibraltar in Euro 2016 – and particularly a PE teacher from Farsley Adam […]
THE RISE OF DIEGO COSTA 22 May 2014 0 comments FROM LAGARTO TO LA LIGAJAMES BENSON traces the background of one of the world’s most sought-after strikers Akin to a […]
GIBRALTAR’S ROCK 22 May 2014 0 comments CAPTAIN CHIPOLINA ON UEFA ACCEPTANCE, MAKING HISTORY AND PLAYING ENGLANDDAN RAWLEY talks to the jubilant islanders about their progresion into […]
CHIEVO 10 April 2014 0 comments FAIRYTALE OF THE FLYING DONKEYSEDD PAUL charts one of the greatest underdog stories in European football Verona“Two households, both alike […]