Europe
TWO DAYS, ONE FOOTBALL SUMMER: German football fan Tom Schmitter goes back in time to a carefree holiday as a youngster
To be honest, at first I thought it was Borussia Monchengladbach’s home shirt from the 2006/07 season. Only when I moved closer to the curved stripes did I realise I was looking at something unknown to me.
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THE DEMISE OF THE LUXURY PLAYER: Simon Baxter pens a eulogy to the lazy geniuses of yesteryear
If there was a patron saint of glorious inefficiency, it was Juan Roman Riquelme.
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DISCOVERING CENTRAL ASIA: Hugo Varley takes a trip to watch football in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan & Kyrgzstan
As I sat on a plane bound for Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent, in October, I...
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THE BIRTH AND GROWTH OF THE EUROPEAN CUP: Mike Miles reflects on 70 years of European football
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ALLEZ LES VERTS! Kevin Quigagne recalls when Saint-Etienne sparked on the European stage
I was ten, and growing up near Paris, when Saint-Etienne embarked on an epic...
