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  Elversberg join the Bundesliga big boys

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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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