CHRIS DUNLAVY says the decision to guarantee four places to Europe’s big leagues in the Champions League is killing off […]

JAMES RICHARDS recalls when an unheralded Italian club punched above their weight… THE Calciopoli scandal of 2006, which showed that […]

JAMES RICHARDS looks at how southern Italy has been starved of success – but why there’s a glimmer of hope […]

DANNY RUST reports on a Portuguese club hungry to re-establish themselves as the country’s best SPORTING Clube de Portugal are […]

EDD PAUL says other other countries, notably Germany, have overtaken us in the way they watch their football… FOOTBALL, as […]

JAMES RICHARDS looks at how an Italian club is trying to revive their glory days… Going up: Bologna celebrate promotion […]

NEIL COTTON takes a look at a small French club daring to do things a little differently… IN CLERMONT-FERRAND, capital […]

JAMES RODGERS takes a look at a German team zooming up the divisions and threatening the old status quo EAST […]

LIAM FLIN takes a look at some European clubs who are failing to punch their weight after falling on hard […]

DANNY ARMSTRONG takes a look at the career of one of Russia’s best-ever midfielders and leaders… IN 1938, just a […]

JAMES RILEY on the unexpected problems he and his friends faced to follow their beloved Southampton into Europe FOR most […]

THOMAS SARGENT argues it’s time for pre-qualifying to end the one-sided bore-fests… AS QUALIFICATION matches for Euro 2016 rumble on, […]

NEIL COTTON reports on how Greece’s economic mayhem has also hit the country’s football hard AS THE Greek debt crisis […]

LUKE MASSEY selects his top five players from this summer’s European Under-21 Championships in the Czech Republic So impressive: Sweden’s […]

GRAHAM RUT HERFORD takes a lo ok at the compatriots co mpeting t o be number one in t he […]

ADAM MICHIE takes in all the colour and atmosphere of FC Kobenhavn against Brondy IF THINK fierce European derby matches […]

DANNY RUST analyses why Jurgen Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund have had an horrendous first half of the season in the Bundesliga […]

FIGHTING BACK AGAINST TROUBLEMAKERSRYAN HUBBARD looks at how Poland’s champions are trying to stamp out their biggest problem LEGIA Warsaw […]

DAVE BODYMORE explains why Atletico Madrid is the perfect place for Fernando Torres to recapture the form that once made […]

JAMES BENSON looks at Guardiola’s Bayern Munich machine and predicts nothing’s going to stop them for years to come Once […]

DANNY RUST discovers that football fortunes in the south of the country are looking up with Olhanese leading the way […]

TIM CARROLL charts the forgotten years of East German football Dynamo Berlin stadiumWith World Cup success in Brazil, German football […]

Last summer, Real Madrid made the world record signing of Gareth Bale. LIAM NEWMAN looks back on a highly productive […]

JOHN GLYNN pays homage to Andrea Pirlo, the consummate Italian midfielder who has just retired from international football Andrea PirloThe […]

CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the challenge facing Gibraltar in Euro 2016 – and particularly a PE teacher from Farsley Adam […]

FROM LAGARTO TO LA LIGAJAMES BENSON traces the background of one of the world’s most sought-after strikers Akin to a […]

CAPTAIN CHIPOLINA ON UEFA ACCEPTANCE, MAKING HISTORY AND PLAYING ENGLANDDAN RAWLEY talks to the jubilant islanders about their progresion into […]

FAIRYTALE OF THE FLYING DONKEYSEDD PAUL charts one of the greatest underdog stories in European football Verona“Two households, both alike […]